Pixelsynth vs Roboto AUv3 Singing Synth

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.

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.