apeCsound vs Q BIT Crusher

apeCsound brings the full power of Csound 7, one of the most complete sound synthesis and signal processing languages ever created, inside your music apps. Write or paste any Csound orchestra, press Apply, and apeCsound turns it into an Audio Unit (AUv3) instrument or effect you can play, record and automate in GarageBand, Logic Pro for iPad, AUM, Cubasis, Loopy Pro and any other AUv3 host. It also runs as a standalone app. THE CSOUND ENGINE, BUILT IN Csound 7 is embedded in the app: nothing else to install Thousands of opcodes: oscillators, filters, physical models, granular, spectral (pvs), FM, waveguides, reverbs, delays, OSC and much more Process live audio from the host as an effect, or play it as a MIDI instrument Audio channels follow the host layout automatically Host transport available to your code as control channels: tempo, play/stop, position, time signature PARAMETERS YOUR HOST CAN AUTOMATE Describe sliders, switches, menus and XY pads directly in your .csd file apeCsound builds the control panel for you and exposes every parameter (176 in all) to the host for automation and MIDI learn Values are read in Csound with a simple chnget; chnset writes them back and moves the controls Organise the panel in collapsible groups with a comment in the code Snapshots: save, recall, rename and overwrite complete sets of values, stored with the session Undo and redo for every change, with one shared history LIVE CODING Evaluate sends the selection, the current instrument block or a single line to the running engine, without recompiling: redefine an instrument while it plays, change a global value, trigger a score event A dedicated Evaluate line for one-liners such as "i 2 0 1" SEE WHAT YOUR CODE IS DOING Monitor: every value written with chnset appears as a meter, a multi-bar card or a text line, with dB scale and history on request Channels: a diagnostic list of every channel the engine knows, with type, direction, value and who writes it; channels that nobody writes are flagged and can be mapped to a parameter in one tap Graphs: function tables and display signals drawn live, redrawn whenever a table changes Console: all Csound messages and errors, with errors marked on the line in the editor A CODE EDITOR MADE FOR CSOUND Syntax highlighting with dark and light themes, line numbers and adjustable text size Opcode completion that inserts the complete syntax, with outputs and optional arguments, in classic or modern (functional) style Jump between arguments with Tab Inline help bar showing the syntax of the opcode under the cursor, or the error on that line Find and replace, comment/uncomment, smart indentation Designed for touch: native-style selection handles, magnifier, edit menu and long-press caret navigation Built-in link to the Csound reference manual SESSIONS AND FILES Open and save standard .csd files from Files, iCloud Drive or any document provider Your code, parameters and snapshots are saved with the host project Start from a ready-made template, a blank session or one of nearly 200 included examples Import Cabbage and CsoundQt files: their widgets become parameters, their meters and displays show up in the Monitor ACCESSIBILITY Fully usable with VoiceOver: named controls, real menus, an accessible code editor and XY pad, complete keyboard navigation Whether you are a sound designer, a composer, a teacher or a student, apeCsound turns your iPad and iPhone into a complete Csound workstation that lives inside your favourite music apps.

Q BIT is a bit crusher with a time hold, now on your iPhone and iPad. The crusher gives your sound its grit. HOLD grabs slices of your track and holds them, on your song's tempo or at its own pace. Q BIT does more than lower the quality of a sound. It reshapes the signal itself, giving it the character and musicality of a retro sound chip while keeping it relevant to modern production: a way to make digital reduction playable. HOLD is the heart of Q BIT. At every grab, a slice of your track plays as it is; then the hold freezes its end and sustains it until the next grab. On a held note it sounds like a tremolo or a pulse; on drums, like a rhythm of short hits and held tones. SEGMENT sets how much of each slice plays before the hold takes over, and in Sync a green arc on its ring shows the settings that keep every hit of the last bars intact. Use it as an AUv3 plug-in in your favorite host (Logic Pro for iPad, GarageBand, AUM, Cubasis and more) or as a standalone app processing live sound from your microphone or an audio interface. KEY FEATURES: - Four crusher models, each showing only its own controls: Linear, flexible bit crushing where you set the bit depth and the sample rate; SP-1200, a punchy, gritty drum-sampler character with a softer top end; M.93, a vintage digital-delay character, clean on quiet sounds and gritty on loud ones; ZX Spectrum 128, a coarse, retro home-computer character - BITS from 24 down to 2 bit and RATE from your session rate down to 2 kHz (Linear) - MULTIPLY 1x, 2x, 4x or 8x (M.93): each step darker and grainier - CHANNELS (ZX Spectrum 128): Mono, like the original, or Stereo, a chip for each side - HOLD: Off, Free (1 to 16 grabs a second) or Sync (1/4 to 1/32, straight, dotted or triplet, on your host's tempo) - INPUT drives the crusher, MIX blends your dry track back in, OUTPUT sets the final level, and the INPUT / OUTPUT Link switch in the menu changes the drive while keeping the level - MATCH holds the output at the loudness of bypass while you adjust the controls, so you judge the sound, not the volume - The display shows your sound as it plays, the sound going in and the stepped sound coming out, with the OUT and IN peak levels one above the other - Type a value: tap the readout of HOLD RATE, SEGMENT, INPUT, MIX or OUTPUT - Mono and stereo - 33 factory presets in six folders (Drums, Extreme, Lo-Fi Machines, Rhythm, Synths and Keys, Vocals and Samples), with descriptions, tags, search and favorites - A/B slots with copy - Made for touch: the help shows while you touch a control, and a long press opens the preset and folder menus - Preset import and export through Files - Full parameter automation in AUv3 hosts All audio is processed on your device. No account, no data collection, no internet connection required. Q BIT is not affiliated with, and is not endorsed by, the makers of the machines its models follow. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.