LayR-Multi Timbral Synthesizer

Автору этого замечательного синтезатора хорошо было бы заранее известить пользователя, что для загрузки пресетов нужно однократно открыть приложение в standalone режиме для настройки движка и загрузки пресетов; я же открывал сразу в AUv3 хостах и удивлялся, — где же пресеты?

A seriously great Synth, I love it! A soundscape creator’s dream.

I still have a long way to go to fully explore what LayR has to offer, so other reviews will give you a more detailed sense of what it is. But, what I want to emphasise is how musically inspiring this is - everything I make (however good it is) has a musical character that is very different to what I create using other tools. Much of this is down to its clever sequencer, but is also aided by a great sound library. I’d love it if it had some kind of song mode structure to link sequences together, but really I do have other tools to do that, and to expect more is just me being greedy. Thoroughly recommended.

This synth sounds amazing but on my iPad 7 I can only get two instances of it into Cubasis and three into AUM before the crackling and popping starts. Author, Please test this yourself.

Ha! Do you want people to make music? Or click and play? This is awful

Sounds good but the interface just confuses me more than anything else.. I get on better with other apps..

This sounds amazing with so much potential for shaping and creating sounds......but much like the Factory synth, it is hobbled by audio stutters and bugs when using as an audio extension; out of nowhere the app (whilst used in a DAW) will crash, or stutter, or even cause the whole track to malfunction in a non pleasing way. Used as inter-app audio the app won’t even load up and crashes immediately. I’m by no means a pro, but I need things to work consistently better than this and I don’t believe it’s much to ask for when paying the best part of £25 for an app. Has to be a refund I’m afraid which is a real shame, maybe I’ll revisit this at a later date. Please sort out the software issues. Please!!

Wow the sounds out of this are incredible. It’s deep but you are getting your money’s worth out of this. It’s breaking my brain thinking about how they got this doing what it does.

Whoever gave this 2* is not understanding this. I use Omnisphere in desktop which is the power synth to beat them all. This is similar but without the immense parameters of Omnisphere...which isn’t surprising because it eats CPU on a powerful PC so an iPad would likely melt. So the LayR people have done a fantastic job. Beautiful GUI, if a little cluttered for my liking. Could do with some FX IAPs to get the synth engines morphing with some unsynth sounds. Brilliant though. Love it.

I was a bit cautious at first to get this as I've bought a few lemons in the past. But... LayR is undoubtably one of the finest iOS synthesisers on the App Store. I’m struck by its elegant UI and deep layering capabilities. Initially I thought that there would have to be a catch with the sheer number of layers possible, but the sound quality is there and with some functionality that takes it beyond just another synth. It also has an astonishing level of polyphony to be utilised. It has has audio-rate modulation up to 10khz which is absolutely awesome for FM sounds. It also has a pseudo sample and hold LFO with slew rate. This gets it into very interesting soundscape territory. It’s early days but I think LayR has an extremely wide sweet spot for analog sounds. If there’s an achilles heel to to all this power and layRing, it's that it pretty complex and I'm not sure when I'm going to find the time to sit down and really get stuck in. Luckily there are some excellent sound banks included which makes it totally useful without being a synth programmer. If I was to ask for more, I'd like to be able to adjust the lfo rates with other mod sources - maybe this can be done but I haven't found it yet. I think it would benefit from some IAP effects or wavetable generator. I'd also like to used/drive the step arp/sequencer with other AUs but when I tried I was getting some stuck notes. But if nothing ever gets added it is complete as is.