iDensity

A superb app for graular textures. Hardware synths are an absolute joy to use, however when it comes to granular synthesis, the options are very bare. Apesoft has given us the answer, all praises due! As another reviewer stated, I too desired a midi note on/off option, and then i found the app iPulsaret -bingo! If your seeking to take a plunge into granular synthesis i highly recommend both of these apps.

When in standalone mode (or IAA), you get 6 windows to load your audio files. When you load up like 2 or more audio files that’s when the magic begins to happen and you can create really unique ambient scapes. I think it might be possible to “play” it somehow as an instrument, but I find it works best with longer audio files creating continuous motion. It’s pretty much perfect in what it does and how it does it. Beautiful UI and very pleasant controls. When you load it in your dDAW as AUv3, you just get a single window. Well you can run multiple instances in AUv3, so you can basically have more of them, and save them all, along with your project. Still, I prefer to use IAA mode because you just have all the audio files in front of you to tweak, and adjust individually to get the “unified” sound. NOTE: when you tap in the top right corner, you’ll see an icon labeled “Samplers in presets”. Make sure this is enabled if you want to load your saved project as it were when you saved it. Otherwise it’ll load preset of the tweaks, but leave whatever audio samples you got currently loaded. Both options have their place, but can be confusing if you don’t know about this. This is definitely a solid 5-star app. Only one request, please make presets alphabetical. There’s a way to rearrange them, but there’s really no point in doing this extra management when we can just group them “naturally” in alphabetical order. Also please load the existing project name into the Save As. It helps *a lot* when saving successively. Oh, and the same request for ApeMatrix please!! Love your unique apps, thanks for making them!

Apesoft apps are released incredible, and only grow in power over time. That said, I believe there is lacking function in iDensity which it's performance interface would benefit from for. IDensity is missing independent midi note control over the pitch of each of the 6 streams. As it stands now, control of pitch is controllable by everything under the sun EXCEPT a midi note # (there is a global midi note and channel selection, but nothing for each independent stream's pitch keyboard). I was thinking about leaving 4 stars, but there is nothing wrong with the app as it stands now, but it seems a curious omission not to be able to control something with a keyboard ..which is represented on screen with a keyboard (pitch). Ideally midi note # and channel select would be available as a modifier/controller, or be configurable under settings. Fantastic app, and a big user of Apesoft's Granulr suite.