Pitch Destroyer vs Pixelsynth

Pitch Destroyer is a creative pitch effect that tears apart incoming melodies and rebuilds them into unpredictable, harmonized fragments. Instead of simply shifting pitch or adding harmony, Pitch Destroyer continuously captures pieces of your performance and launches them into new musical directions. Notes leap across octaves, fifths, pentatonic shapes, chromatic runs, and broken interval patterns while remaining surprisingly playable. The result is somewhere between a rogue arpeggiator, a fragmented harmonizer, and an improvising musical partner. From subtle ghost notes to complete melodic collapse, Pitch Destroyer transforms vocals, guitars, synths, basses, leads, pads, and samples into evolving streams of controlled chaos. Destroy the melody. Keep the music. Features • Creates rogue melodic fragments from incoming audio • Seven musical interval modes • Tempo-aware fragment generation • Dynamic pitch jumping and melodic mutation • Layered fragment voices for evolving textures • From subtle harmonization to complete melodic destruction Controls Destroy Controls how aggressively Pitch Destroyer breaks apart your melody. Range Sets how far generated fragments may jump in pitch. Density Controls how frequently new melodic fragments are created. Mode Selects the musical interval behavior: Octave Fifths Minor Major Pentatonic Chromatic Broken Chaos Controls randomness, timing variation, and melodic unpredictability. Glue Blends generated fragments into the original performance for smoother or more separated results. Mix Adjusts the balance between the original signal and the destroyed output.

Make a sound in seconds—and shape it while it plays. Pixelsynth turns taps, drags, melodies, and chords into a colorful instrument you can understand by watching it. Everything you play lives on one screen. Touch a note and start exploring. FROM THE DEVELOPER OF PIXELBOOP Pixelsynth is a new visual instrument from the maker of Pixelboop. Both apps share a love of playful grids, immediate feedback, and musical ideas that begin with one touch. PLAY FIRST. LEARN BY WATCHING. Sixteen pads invite you to find a melody, hold a chord, or strum across the screen. Notes light up as you play, and every sound control moves in front of you. You can see what each gesture is doing while you hear the result. SHAPE THE SOUND LIVE • Switch waveforms to change the character of your sound. • Sweep the filter from bright and open to soft and focused. • Shape attack, decay, sustain, and release for crisp plucks, swelling notes, and long tails. • Add motion with LFO, repeating echoes with delay, and depth with reverb. Each control is a colorful tank. Touch higher or lower inside it to set the value directly. Values in the upper half stay where you leave them; notes in the lower half drain away after you lift. It feels immediate because the picture and the sound follow the same gesture. MADE TO BE SEEN Created by a Deaf musician, Pixelsynth treats visual feedback as part of the instrument. The entire musical surface is drawn on a 40 by 24 pixel grid—just 960 pixels—so every control stays visible and every change has a visual response. PLAY IT YOUR WAY Open Pixelsynth as a standalone instrument on iPhone or iPad, or load the included AUv3 instrument in a compatible iOS music host. Your host can send MIDI notes and save the instrument state with your project. A compatible host is available separately. FREE TO EXPLORE No account. No in-app purchases. No third-party ads. The instrument works offline. The standalone app may occasionally show developer news or an introduction to Pixelboop, which you can close immediately. Pixelsynth does not track you or collect the music you play. Open it. Touch a note. See where it takes you.