Nature - Oscillator

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Alexander Zolotov’s apps are a joy to use, and I have been doing so for years. The pixelated retro GUIs of his keystone apps are a welcome and refreshing - and somewhat comforting for us older folks - change from the sleek GUIs of Moog, Korg, and Sugar Bytes’s counterparts (nothing against them, though). The necessary learning curve isn’t too steep, and almost presents a challenge to being able to use them to create music, which makes them fun as well. Among them is Nature, which takes full advantage of the brand new dimension offered by mobile devices for sound crafting and music-making. Nature uses photo-input and interprets it into neat atonal and chaotic sounds that can be manipulated, agitated, modulated, and mitigated by the built-in oscillator. Its only failing, and the most frequent thing I find myself criticizing, is its lack of AUv3/Audiobus/Inter-app support (as of July 2023, the time of this writing). Even though you can record your creations in realtime, being able to patch Nature through vocoder programs to be able to make wild modulations live would be an unprecedented development potentially leading to entirely new avenues to sounds never heard before. I hope this becomes a standard in a future update. In the meantime, don’t forget to check out Zolotov’s other killer apps SunVox, Fractal Bits, and PixelWave.

I dig this app and pretty much everything by this developer. I would love to see something like this that can output midi, too. Thanks and cheers!

Nature is a little jewel of synthesis using environmental input (camera). It is fun and easy to use with a delightful range of sounds generated. The record function lets you port samples to other uses. Zolotov is a genius.

I love this app, but since iOS 11 it appears positioned incorrectly once it is launched and only shows up in half of the screen. Is a fix or update on the way? Update: thanks for the quick response - looking forward to the update. A great developer, Virtual ANS is also a fav.

I love what this app does. It puts different sound filters over the viewer in order to "interpret" the image across the spectrum in different ways. You can then record the sound and paste it wherever you want. EXCELLENT for samples and weirdness. However, I would like to be able to take the picture as well, and load it into virtual ANS without having to go through an IP. That feature would make it 5 stars.

Record doesn't work with iOS8? No AudioCopy, AudioShare, DropBox support? A total waste of time and money.

This app has a lot of potential! I recorded lots of the sounds I got on my phone, threw them into Ableton and further processed the sound into something that I can use for a song. I think it's cool to say that "this sound came from the TV in my hotel in Florida".

Thanks for another great one, A-!