Tessera Sequenced Resonator vs irio pro

Tessera is a tuned resonator. Play a drum loop, a guitar, a vocal, or a field recording into it, and it blooms that sound into twelve pitched voices that ring, shimmer, and decay in tune. At its core are twelve parallel resonators, each locked to a note of a chord or scale you choose. Whatever you feed them excites those voices, so a single hit becomes a lush chord, a sustained pad, or a slowly evolving cloud. Pick a root and a scale, from majors and minors through ninths, elevenths, whole tone, and chromatic, and the whole instrument retunes at once. Choose from eleven resonator models: plucked strings, struck bells, singing bowls, glass, membranes, tuned bars, plates, and hollow tubes. Shape each one with decay, damping, brightness, and stereo spread, moving from tight and percussive to vast and cathedral-like. Five motion engines decide how the voices arrive: Contour spreads them into shimmering, arpeggiated waves. SEQ steps each voice through its own rhythmic pattern. Strum rakes across the chord like fingers on strings. Arp cycles the voices one note at a time. Swarm lets them weave and drift around a moving center. Any of it can lock to your host tempo, so rhythmic patches stay in time. Play Tessera three ways: leave MIDI off and let the resonators sound on their own tuning, key them live from a keyboard, or gate them with held chords. Balance the effect with the dry and wet mix, blur the tails with the diffusion stage, and add motion with the built-in vibrato LFO. Microtonal tunings are supported for the pitch-obsessed. One hundred factory presets get you going, from plucks and drones to bells, rhythmic sequences, strummed chords, arpeggios, and dark cinematic textures. Tessera runs as an AUv3 plug-in inside your favorite host, and as a standalone app.

irio pro is a complete guitar rig / modular effects rig for iPhone, iPad and Apple Silicon Mac, built around a high-end NAM player. Add amps, cabinets, pedals and effects, connect them in any order, and play it all live from the perform page. It is easy to start with and as deep as you need it to be. It runs on its own or as an AUv3 plugin in your DAW, and it works just as well for bass, synths, vocals or any other audio. GUITAR / AMP - NAM (Neural Amp Modeler) player: A2, standard and nano models, one-tap input calibration to your interface, phase switch, dual mono - Cab section with IR loading, noise gate, 3-band EQ, high and low cut - Dual-cab IR blender with alignment scope - Drives and fuzzes - rosa: audio to MIDI converter - Chromatic tuner EFFECTS - 8 delays and 6 reverbs, among them a spring reverb with one to four springs and two classic digital reverbs of the 1980s in one module - Convolution for delays, reverbs and cabs - Chorus, flanger, pitch vibrato, photocell vibe, wah, ring modulator - Pitch shifting - Compressors - Noise gate - Parametric EQ with live analyzer - 8-voice synth - Analog guitar synthesizer after a classic 1980 unit, played from a normal guitar cable ROUTING / ENGINE - Free routing, any order - Multi-channel in and out - Instances limited only by CPU - Live metering on every connection - Patch-wide tempo - Hosts other AUv3 effects - Hosts AUv3 instruments - Block cards, 40+ DSP blocks - Engine blocks as modules on the main canvas - Folders: part of the rig in a card with a canvas, ports, shortcuts and memories of its own - Linked modules: modules of one kind that share every setting, with one badge colour per group - Any one-in one-out module can run as dual mono: a second pair of pins, one set of controls MODULATION - Three modifier types: LFO, envelope follower, hand-drawn LFO - Route a modifier to almost any control - One modifier to many targets, each with its own range - LFO rates and delay times lock to the tempo PERFORM - 8 scenes per preset - Perform page with multiple pad banks - Pads trigger presets, scenes, module memories, stomps, module switches (Stop, Freeze, Kill Dry), A/B, tap tempo, looper and player transport - Pads are momentary or latching, groupable, in 16 colors - Multi-pads: one pad controls several targets - XY pads - 4 assignable knobs - Shortcuts: switches and knobs assignable to any control - MIDI learn on every control - Host automation in AUv3 (AUTO slots) - Saveable perform layouts TOOLS - 4-track looper - Take recorder - Audio file player - Metronome with speed trainer - Whole-system backup - Mirror: a second iPhone or iPad shows and controls the device on your interface, canvas and perform page alike - Share a whole setup between your devices over Wi-Fi - Sync: both devices get every preset, memory and file either one has - Dark or light appearance Free version, no time limit: NAM player, morph drive, gyre mod, irio delay, irio verb, 3-band EQ, noise gate, audio player, metronome, global tempo. Free 5-day trial of everything, once per Apple ID, started when you choose. Pro Complete unlocks all modules. One purchase, no subscription, at any time. More at iriopro.com