Snare Drum Model vs 2099 Techno

Snare Drum Model turns your iPhone into a responsive physical instrument. There are no recorded drum samples and no collection of canned hits. Every sound begins from silence and is synthesized in real time, responding to how and where you touch the screen. Strike the center of the head for a full, focused body. Move toward the edge to excite brighter, asymmetric overtones. Drag across the membrane to produce a roll, or use the brush for a broad, textured sweep made from multiple modeled bristle contacts. Leave a finger on the head to damp its vibration at that exact point. Tap the visible metal hoop for a separate rim voice with its own short, hard collision response. Choose between five physically modeled drums: piccolo, steel, wood, marching, and field. These are not sample sets or simple equalizer presets. Each configuration changes the behavior of the heads, shell, hoop, air volume, resonance, and snare wires. The piccolo is compact and quick; steel is bright and cutting; wood is warmer and more restrained; marching projects with a taut, disciplined voice; and field offers a deeper body with a longer response. Play with a stick, brush, rod, mallet, or hand. Each striker has a different contact size, hardness, force curve, and interaction with the membrane. A stick delivers a fast attack and bright rim crack. Rods spread their energy across multiple narrow contacts. The mallet produces a broader, softer impact without disappearing beneath the harder voices. Hand strikes are rounder and less metallic, while the brush has both a distinct tap and a continuous friction response as it moves over the coated head. Eight independently twistable tuning pegs surround the batter head. Instead of reducing tuning to a single global pitch control, every peg changes the local tension near its position. Uneven tuning can split, shift, and color the membrane’s resonant modes, just as it does on a physical drum. Tighten opposite pegs evenly for a controlled response, or deliberately unbalance the head to find rougher, more complex tones. The snare mechanism is equally playable. Adjust wire tension from loose and rattling to tight and articulate. Change the modeled snare-band width from one to six inches, altering the number and distribution of wires in contact with the resonant head rather than merely changing the volume of a noise layer. Use the throw-off to disengage the wires completely and hear the drum’s heads and shell on their own. A fixed internal damper presses against the upper edge of the membrane. Its pressure changes the local decay and modal response, and its visible contact shadow follows the amount of damping being applied. Open it for a freer, longer ring or bring it inward to shorten the head without muting the entire instrument. Each of the five drum types remembers its own setup. Tuning-peg positions, damper pressure, wire tension, snare-band width, and throw-off state are retained independently, both when switching between drums and when returning to the app later. You can build five distinct instruments instead of repeatedly recreating one shared configuration. Under the surface, two coupled circular membrane models interact with shell resonances, contact noise, wire damping, and position-dependent mode shapes. The metal hoop remains separate from the playable head, and different strikers excite it with appropriately different hardness and brightness. A limiter completes the signal path while preserving the immediate dynamics of touch. Snare Drum Model is intentionally direct: one playable surface, a focused set of physical controls, and no sequencer or transport between you and the instrument. Put on headphones or connect your iPhone to a larger system, choose a drum and a striker, tune the pegs, set the wires, and play. Snare Drum Model is the second in a family of fifteen single-instrument apps. Each one is designed around touch, physical behavior, and sound generated entirely on the device.

2099 Techno writes complete tracks. Press generate and you get 76 bars with an intro, builds, two main sections, a breakdown and an outro, played by a virtual-analog engine and a 909-style drum machine. Bass, acid, stabs, pad, a lead line and the kit, through a dub delay, chorus and reverb. Nothing is sampled. Every note is made on the fly and no two tracks come out the same. The music comes from chaos maths. Three Lorenz attractors shape the melody, the rhythm and the mood. Three separate logistic maps run underneath the drums, the bass and the acid line, so they wander independently: turn the logistic control down and the hats and perc repeat every bar, turn it up and they never do. Chaos on its own is noise, so a small model filters it. It gets rewarded for consonant intervals and rehearses two hundred notes over the changes before it writes anything. The CHAOS / TASTE slider decides how much say each one gets. Eight styles, and they are properly different. Detroit rolls an off-beat bass under syncopated stabs. Dub Techno holds one chord for four bars and lets the delay do the work. Acid runs a 303 line with slides and accents. Hard pushes past 140 with a Reese bass and the drive up. Minimal takes most of it away. Every track is built from its seed. Write the seed down and you can have that exact track again, note for note, whenever you want it. You can play over it, too. The pads are the notes of the track's key rather than a piano keyboard, so nothing you touch is wrong, and the sixteen-step lane runs in time with the track and follows your host. Both play any part you like: bass, acid, stabs, pad or lead, through that part's sound and out on its MIDI channel. Choose which sections the lane plays in - just the breakdown, say - and preview it on its own without starting the track. Turn on RADIO and it keeps playing, picking a new key, mode, style, sound kit and tempo for each track. You also get: • 8 styles, 6 dark modes, 12 keys, tempo and density • Two-oscillator analog voice with sub, noise, resonant filter and glide • 22 presets and 9 sound kits, from Warehouse to Game Boy, plus random patch • Six-part mixer, dub delay, chorus, plate reverb and a global sweep filter • A PLAY panel: pads in the track's own key, and a 16-step lane with accent and slide, running in time with the track and only in the sections you pick • MIDI in, so your keyboard plays whichever part you have selected • MIDI export: six tracks, one per part • Live spectrum, waveform and a view of the chaos engine at work Two Audio Units, an instrument and a MIDI processor. Each part sends on its own MIDI channel, drums on 10, so one instance can drive six instruments. The MIDI version passes your keyboard through instead of swallowing it. Both follow your host's tempo and transport. One install registers both. The app is free and nothing in it is held back. Using the Audio Units inside other apps is a one-time purchase, and each AUv3 session plays for two minutes first so you can try them properly.