4Pockets has introduced Oscidia, a new AUv3 wavetable synthesizer for iOS.
Oscidia offers a wide range of features and oscillator types, allowing it to produce a vast variety of sounds. Oscidia has 3 oscillators per voice, and each oscillator can be a different wavetable.
Oscidia also supports 5 filter types, which support 12/24dB modes and morphable LP/BP/HP filter modes, which can be automated from the Mod Matrix or via the Sequencer.
The built-in sequencer allows up to 3 simultaneous ARPs to play at the same time. Each ARP can directly control the 3 oscillator levels independently per step, as well as the pitch, filter morph, cutoff frequency, probability, gate, note repeat and ties. This allows for some really complex rhythms to be created that are not tied to pitch.
Features:
- 3 Oscillators Per Voice.
- Support for Wavetable and Additive synthesis.
- WaveTable supports Morph and Warp (Phase Distortion) features.
- 4 LFOs Per Voice.
- 5 Filter types with 12/24-bit slopes and morphable LP/BP/HP.
- 4 ADSR (Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release ) or FEG (Fluid Envelope Generators).
- Wave Folding is available for basic waveforms such as SINE and TRIANGLE.
- OSC Sync.
- XMod & Ring Mod (on osc1 & osc2).
- Additive Synthesis for glass, metallic and bell like tones.
- Build in Sequencer (with 3 independent ARPs).
- Mod Matrix.
- MPE Mode.
- Internal Effects – reverb, delay, chorus, Haas, and Phaser effects.
- Drag and Drop for import and export presets and wavetables.
- Built0-in Help Manual
Pricing and Availability:
Oscidia is available now for $14.99 USD.
I just picked it up. 4Pockets definitely outdid themselves (himself?) on this one.
The UI is quite tiny on an iPhone, but still works surprisingly well. Took me a while to figure out how to swipe up the left or right edge to expose the LFO/Env/Matrix/FX stuff in the lower pane. After that it was smooth sailing.
The Mod Matrix is limited in that it doesn’t offer much external MIDI control options. Only Note, Velocity, Bend, Mod Wheel, CC74, and Aftertouch; so you can’t map any CC, nor release velocity to anything. It has +/- depth, but no response curves. I can’t tell what kind of realtime control you have over envelopes. But give what it is, and the options it does provide, you can make good things happen! The fact that I’m even talking about that level of detail with the mod matrix means that it’s a pretty well designed feature.
It’s a nice synth to work with. I wish the Amp and Filter envelopes had the FEG option, but they might be assignable in the matrix.
Great plugin 🙂
Something you forgot to mention in your article and headline is that this plugin is also macOS compatible
Beautiful sounds from this.
Sadly I don’t have any iOS devices