SynthMaster 2 - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

KV331 Audio is proud to announce the availability of their award winning software synthesizer SynthMaster 2.9 on iOS platform. As being the first app developed using KV331 Audio’s new cross-platform UI framework, SynthMaster 2 runs as a standalone app or AUv3 plugin on iPads with iOS 11 and above.

SynthMaster 2 supports native resolutions of various iPad devices. User interfaces are provided for 9.7, 11 and 12.9 inch iPads in 4 different skins (Blue, White, Dark, Proto). Separate interfaces are provided for the AudioUnit plugin as well.

SynthMaster 2 comes with 1000 factory presets designed by world class sound designers such as BigTone, Nori Ubukata, NatLife and Yuli Yolo. Thanks to the comprehensive preset browsing features, users can easily filter presets by author name, bank name, instrument type or preset name and find the sounds that they are looking for.

There’s also an IAP Shop, which lets users purchase additional sounds:

1. "Desktop Presets Upgrade": This IAP adds all factory presets in SynthMaster 2.9, increasing the total preset count to 2000.
2. "All Expansions Bundle": This IAP adds all current 38 SynthMaster preset expansion banks.

Sound Engine:

At the heart of SynthMaster 2’s powerful sound engine lies its oscillators, modulators, and filters.

Oscillators:

The oscillators can operate in 4 different modes to generate sound:

1. In Basic mode, the oscillator plays single cycle waveforms or samples. With the Oscillator Unison turned on, up to 8 voices per oscillator can be played.
2. In Additive mode, 8 Basic oscillators can be stacked up to create richer tones.
3. In Wavetable mode, the oscillator can play wavetables with up to 256 frames.
4. In Vector mode, 4 Basic oscillators are mixed in 2 dimensions.

Modulators:

Modulators are simply basic oscillators that can be added to other oscillators or modulate other oscillators’ or modulators’ phases. By connecting modulators to other oscillators or modulators, complex FM tones can be synthesized.

Importing Wave Files into SynthMaster:

While designing sounds, users can easily import wave files into SynthMaster 2. SynthMaster 2 can categorize those files into waveforms, wavetables or multi samples and import them accordingly.

Filters:

Once the sound is generated by the oscillators it goes through SynthMaster’s filters, which can operate in 6 different categories: Digital, VAnalog, Ladder, Diode Ladder, State Variable and Bite.

Custom distortion can be applied before or after the filters as well.

Modulation Architecture:

SynthMaster 2 features a comprehensive modulation architecture with a wide range of modulation sources:

1. MIDI controls
2. Macros controls
3. 4 ADSR envelopes per layer
4. 4 Multisegmented envelopes per payer
5. 4 LFOs per layer
6. 4 Sequencers per layer
7. 4 Keyscalers per layer

There’s real-time visual feedback that lets users see how modulation sources and targets are changing when a note is being played. This is extremely helpful when designing sounds with SynthMaster 2.

New modulations can be created easily by dragging and dropping a modulation source onto a knob or slider control.

Users can easily see which controls are modulated by a modulation source by clicking on that source. Controls that are being modulated by that source will display modulation amounts. By long pressing a control, the modulation amount can be edited without the need to go through the mod matrix.

Arp/Sequencer:

SynthMaster features a comprehensive arpeggiator / sequencer with 32 steps. Users can easily create sequences by recording steps one by one.

Effects:

Each of the 2 layers in SynthMaster has 5 insert effect slots. 13 different types of effects can be instantiated in any of those slots. There are also 2 global effect send busses which can be used to create more complex effect routings.

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In-Apps

Japan Vintage

£4.99

All Expansions Bundle

£69.99

BigTone Analog Basics

£4.99

NU Sounds of the World

£4.99

Desktop Presets Upgrade

£9.99

Historical Synth Giants Vol.1

£4.99

Historical Synth Giants Vol.2

£4.99

Dawn of Electronic Music Vol.1

£4.99

Dawn of Electronic Music Vol.2

£4.99

Dawn of Electronic Music Vol.3

£4.99

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User Rating

4.76 out of 5

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Great sounding IOS synth, but…

This is my favourite IOS synth for sound and deep programming. There a cloud sync feature to sync presets between VST and IOS…. And then they blow it all by breaking Logic Pro round-trip functionality. When you open a Logic Project it can’t find SynthMaster 2. Every other app at least opens in Logic but not this one. It ends up being such a pain I just don’t use it any more, which is a real shame. If everyone else can do this KV331, so can you…. Come on!

Absolutely stunned by the high performance of this synthesiser

I’ve been shopping around for sometime for a quality synthesiser to use as an (AUv3) plugin on Logic Pro for iPad. I misguidedly first downloaded a £20 app that has received a lot of hype in 2024. Unfortunately it was so unstable as an AUv3 plugin I quickly got a refund from Apple and with a more careful approach decided to purchase SynthMaster 2. Todate I’ve had no issues with stability in Logic Pro on the iPad and I’m continually stunned by the awesome power of this quality product. A big thank you to KV331 for such a fantastic and powerful AUv3 plugin. TM

Great

Still one of the best synths on iOS.

The most useful synth on iOS 👌

Over the years I have collected dozens and dozens of synth apps (all the latest) on my iPad which I use in Cubasis3, but out of all of them Synthmaster 2 is the most used and useful synth for every category of sound required, whether it be all out electronic to jazz, blues or rock tracks - SM2 fits the bill and is my preferred go to app.

iOS16.5 cured Lost Midi Mappings issue

Since iPadOS16.5 update, the midi learn mappings in SM2 have remained in place to this day, now I can rely on this fine synth for live work 🙂👍 23rd Feb. This app has a brilliant sound but unfortunately it is so unreliable when it comes to Midi Learn….it constantly forgets what it has learned, and preset organisation is a complete waste of time if you intend using Midi Bank/Program Change messaging in your projects, you will discover the wrong presets are being called up unexpectedly…..a massive constant bug! Money not well spent I’m afraid ☹️

Amazing but…

It’s a great app but unfortunately it doesn’t work properly in Logic Pro for iPad. It’s crashing continuously and automation doesn’t work. Hopefully the developer will fix this issues soon. Till then 4 stars because I can’t use it anymore because I love Logic Pro for iPad.

Sounds great but far too unreliable to use!

This app has a brilliant sound but unfortunately it is so unreliable when it comes to Midi Learn….it constantly forgets what it has learned, and preset organisation is a complete waste of time if you intend using Midi Bank/Program Change messaging in your projects, you will discover the wrong presets are being called up unexpectedly…..a massive constant bug! Money not well spent I’m afraid ☹️ 28th July This latest v1.0.14 update has now put everything right and made SM2 a mighty powerful clean sounding synth 👍 1st July I am pleased to write that the latest update v1.0.12 has now fixed the problems listed below. A big thumbs up to the developers for their quick response 👍 24 June. Just updated app to v1.0.11 and all presets have become low-fi and sound muffled, the export/import midi mappings feature in preset menu has been removed. I’m sure this will soon get fixed, but if you rely on SM2 like I do, then I suggest you wait until v1.0.12 update is released. MAY. Update v1.0.10 has now made SM2 so much more reliable. MIDI Mappings can now be exported and then imported if any midi learn parameters disappear - I had to close SM2 after importing mappings, then relaunch it for import to take affect, but also remembering to note the selected preset first - SM2 will revert to default preset on relaunch. All parameters can now also be successfully automated (in Cubasis 3). Sound creation is now endless and effortless, just superb. 👌

Trouble getting Art Rock Basics pack

SynthMaster 2 is a marvellous place to be… buy it now!!! Well worth the money!! 🙂

No longer scales correctly

As AUv3 in Cubasis 3, please fix

Crashed twice in 2 minutes

Amazing synth, but when switching wave tables and retuning them voices, it just gives up and crashes. Please look into it. Cheers, keep up the great work kv’s

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