Tako Kick vs Roboto AUv3 Singing Synth

What if an octopus could play drums? Tako Kick is an eight-voice generative drum machine excelling in musical polyrhythms. Shape each voice independently, tuning its rhythm and sound across a range of synthesized kits. Build evolving grooves with pattern, density, pitch, accents, and feel controls. Explore each kit’s timbre, and add movement with built-in modulation sources. Keep rhythm and sound independent in each voice's left and right columns - change the timbre without affecting the beat, or change both at once. Performance controls allow interactive mixing/soloing/muting, and global control over drum assignments and pitch. Save and share complete presets to recall your rhythm, tuning, modulation, kit, and mix settings. Presets can be dynamically loaded for another element of in-time performance. Play Tako Kick standalone on iPhone and iPad, or load it as an AUv3 instrument in AUM and other compatible hosts. Sync to the host and use it with MIDI. Tako Kick is a tactile rhythm instrument for finding grooves. Use it to practice drums, get ideas, make beats, or just to have fun.

Write a melody, type a word on each note, and Roboto sings it. A synthesized singing voice with ten presets, automation curves, WAV and MIDI export. AUv3 and standalone. Roboto is a singing voice synthesizer. Write a melody in the piano roll, type a word on each note, and Roboto sings it. No samples are used: the voice comes from a glottal pulse source, five formant resonators and shaped noise for the consonants. An animated robot face follows the voice with its LED eyes and mouth, next to a live waveform and the lyrics lit in time. PIANO ROLL AND LYRICS • Draw the melody in the piano roll and type a word on each note • A note named + sings the next syllable of the previous word • English words are turned into phonemes by built-in rules and a word list • Phonemes can be typed directly, for example S-T-R-IY-T • Select notes with a box, then move, duplicate, cut, copy and paste them • A note named - keeps singing the vowel before it at a new pitch • 23 built-in songs to try, in every language TEXT TAB • The whole song as text, one entry per note in the form word:note:beats • Type a song from scratch or paste one in LANGUAGES • Sings in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Finnish, Swedish, Italian and Portuguese • Spelling rules for each language and vowels measured from native speakers VOICE • Ten voice presets: Default, Robot, Soprano, Bass, Child, Whisper, Choir, Opera, Giant, Alien • Transpose and tempo, with optional sync to the host • Glide: how fast the pitch slides between legato notes • Vibrato depth and rate, jitter and breath • Consonant level and length • Formant shift (vocal tract size) and formant bandwidth • Reverb and double track • Sliders show their value on the thumb, and above your finger while you drag AUTOMATION • Curves along the song for volume, pitch bend, vibrato depth, breath, formant shift and chorus • Curve points snap to the grid and are sized for touch • All voice parameters can be automated by the host MIDI • Keys from C1 upwards sing from the matching bar for as long as they are held • Keys on MIDI channel 2 change the sung pitch live without changing the words, sliding between keys at the Glide speed • Controllers drive volume, vibrato, breath, formant shift and chorus • Bluetooth MIDI in the standalone app EXPORT • WAV audio • MIDI file with notes, lyrics, tempo and the curves as controllers AUv3 + STANDALONE Run Roboto as a standalone app on iPhone and iPad, or as an AUv3 instrument inside any AUv3 host.