Vascular vs BambooSilk

Vascular is a canvas-based electroacoustic instrument. Create sound generators and processors by touching the canvas, then connect them to build the signal path. Moving a node changes its stereo position, while each node provides its own synthesis, processing, modulation and rhythmic controls. FEATURES - 55 synthesis families, including subtractive, FM, additive, granular, spectral, physical modelling, wavetable, wave-terrain, pulsar and stochastic synthesis. - 3 macrosynths, complete synthesizers in a single node: resurgent (2 scenes, 3 oscillators, 2 filters, effects), bayarea, a West Coast voice, and poundhard, an FM drum voice from kicks to industrial percussion. - A complete DX7 implementation. - Holos, a special node that combines elements and parameters from other nodes to create a new semi-modular synthesizer instantly. - A sample player for loading your own loops, with time-stretching, forward and reverse playback, stuttering, splicing and tape-style manipulation derived from classic electroacoustic techniques. - Sampled acoustic instruments that generate melodic loops in the session's tonal key. - Drum synthesis, a 303, a 16-oscillator supersaw and live granular processing. - Microphone input for processing external sound. - 71 processors, including filters, distortion, delays, combs, phasing, diffusion, reverb, spectral freezing, convolution, pitch tracking, harmony, vocoding, spectral delays, tape loops and broken-media effects. - Host your own AUv3 instruments, effects and MIDI plugins as nodes on the canvas, their settings kept with your sessions (in-app purchase). - 7 controllers that play or move other nodes: a melodic sequencer with a piano-roll editor; an arpeggiator that turns a single arpeggio into a fugue across up to 6 voices; a drum machine with fills and breaks; a shift register; bouncing cars whose collisions are notes; a Game of Life swept by a playhead; and an LFO controller with 3 LFOs on each of up to 6 nodes. - Kick side chains with adjustable depth, and a master bus compressor. - An effects sequencer with 4 lanes of any processor, each with its own length. - A randomizer that creates whole patches, transforms what is on the canvas, expands it or dismantles it, and deals or removes LFOs, gates and motifs. - A padlock on every parameter, keeping it out of reach of the randomizer and every LFO. - Mute and solo: tap a node to mute it, hold it to hear it alone with its chain. - Angiogenesis, which moves nodes, rewires connections, adds processors and changes their parameters automatically. It never removes your voices, cuts a controller's connections or modifies microphone nodes. - Adjustable mutation rate and automatic adaptation to the processing capacity of the device. - A shared session clock with tap tempo and an independent clock division for each rhythmic source. - 27 scales from 4 musical traditions, plus microtonal tunings imported from Scala files. - Guided paths for restricting generators and processors to a selected musical territory. - A searchable palette, in alphabetical order, with favourites. - Rebalance, which spreads the outputs evenly across the whole stereo field. - A multilayer gesture looper. - 32 pattern slots with adjustable morphing between complete instrument states. - Sessions that store the network, settings and tonal key together. - 48 levels of undo and redo. - Recording, playback, renaming and sharing of takes. - A transport that stops active sound sources while allowing effect tails to decay naturally. AUV3 Vascular also runs as an AUv3 instrument in AUM, Loopy Pro, Logic and other compatible hosts, and follows the host's tempo and transport. The interface runs full-screen in landscape orientation and is operated directly with your fingers. The main buttons remain along the top of the display, away from the hand interacting with the canvas.

Play 12 traditional Chinese instruments, record a phrase, shape your audio, and continue in a compatible AUv3 host. A breath moves through bamboo. A fingertip wakes a silk string. Bronze rings, a drum answers, and a melody begins. BambooSilk was created for that first musical moment—when an idea is still small, immediate, and alive. Touch the instrument, follow the phrase, record it, then carry it into a larger production without leaving its character behind. FROM ONE TOUCH TO TWELVE INSTRUMENTS Open the app and begin playing. Twelve traditional Chinese instruments are arranged in four families: • Strings: Guqin, Guzheng, Yangqin • Winds: Dizi, Xiao, Suona • Plucked: Pipa, Zhongruan, Sanxian • Percussion: Tanggu, Bianzhong, Paigu Each instrument has its own performance surface. Play multiple notes at once, move between techniques, change octave, and capture a take directly from the portrait interface. Connect a USB MIDI keyboard or pair a Bluetooth MIDI controller to play the selected instrument with velocity, sustain, and pitch bend. A quiet Guqin phrase, a bright Dizi line, a rapid Pipa figure, or the pulse of Paigu can all begin beneath your fingers. LET A RECORDING FIND ITS SPACE Sometimes the story begins outside the app. Import a WAV, AIFF, M4A, or MP3 recording from Files and see it unfold across the waveform. Scrub to the exact moment, listen before and after, then shape warmth, tone, stereo width, echo, resonance, and wet/dry balance until the performance sits naturally in its own space. Your installed AUv3 audio effects can join the same workspace. Scan compatible effects, switch plug-ins, compare with bypass, open a plug-in’s native interface, or use a generic parameter view when needed. TAKE BAMBOOSILK INTO YOUR HOST The standalone app is only the beginning. Three included AUv3 tools let the same musical language continue inside a compatible production host. BambooSilk Effect Give an audio track warmth, tonal shape, stereo space, echo, and a natural tail. Ducking keeps the original performance clear while the effect returns between phrases. Parameters support host automation, preset recall, Mix Lock, A/B comparison, bypass, and state restoration. BambooSilk Instruments Perform all 12 included Chinese instrument timbres from MIDI. It supports 16-voice polyphony, sustain, pitch bend, performance techniques, and an on-screen audition keyboard. Use the MIDI modulation wheel for expressive vibrato on Dizi, Xiao, and Suona. BambooSilk MIDI Scales Turn incoming notes toward Gong, Shang, Jue, Zhi, or Yu pentatonic modes. Choose the root and target instrument, then shape transpose, quantize strength, velocity, timing, variation, and note probability. The chosen instrument can travel downstream through MIDI Program Change. A COMPLETE PATH FOR A MUSICAL IDEA Begin with touch. Save the performance. Refine a recording. Then continue arranging and automating in compatible hosts such as GarageBand, Logic Pro, Cubasis, and AUM. AUv3 availability and routing options depend on the host. An interactive in-app guide helps you get started with touch performance, USB/Bluetooth MIDI, audio polishing, and plug-ins. From bamboo breath to silk resonance, BambooSilk gives traditional colors a place in a modern music workflow. Supports English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and French.