Relic Waves

This is an outstanding follow up to Fractal Bits, which is also outstanding! Excellent creator - please support him! Dan in Wales

These mind-boggling sounds remind me of so many things - the opening scenes of Alien before the crew awaken, Rob Zombie intros, 1950s sci-fi, arcane steampunk machines… I can play with it for hours, and I can’t stop including these snippets in my own original music. Possibly the best £1.99 I’ve ever spent.

I was instantly captivated by Fractal Bits which is just so inspiring for creating unique percussion sounds (and layers) …such a creative, original and innovative concept and insanely addictive in its immediacy for discovering and exploring new ideas! Naturally, once bitten… I yearned for more of this incredible fractal sound generation goodness… and Zolotov has thrown down the gauntlet with the release of Relic Waves; which extends this concept into the realm of noises, pads and FX! Unique, a beautiful GUI, incredible sound development potential and the inclusion of an envelope generator adds an exciting new dimension …so good!

I have found this app to be amazing sounding and very easy to use. I would love to see an update with all the reclic apps to be able to save directly to a Wav. file on all devices into a folder. Would make this a much a more useful app. Thanks for all the amazing work you do Alexander.

This thing is amazing. I guess you can use it as an instrument… but i suggest you not be lazy and export the samples and load them into a capable sampler, you’ll be happy you did. Some of the noise samples are really really really good for making hihats and cymbals, I can’t believe I’m even giving away this tip for free but there ya go. yes a lot of these sounds are definitely usable on thier own, but really shine when you start pitching, filtering and layering them, you could maybe bring a synth along for the fun and use the samples to augment your synth sound and vice versa. For instance, a lot of the noise samples have a pitched component, that’s just begging to be layered up with a synth pad or some other samples youve gotten from this. On iOS you have the sampler from VirSyn (sorry I forget the name) and there might be others capable of getting complex but I don’t know them if so, theres too many to name on pc but I usually use either the Renoise sampler or SunVox or Bitwig’s sampler/grid. If you’re lucky enough to have one i suggest using a soundblaster live sound card in a seperate computer as a hardware sampler so you can use the analog filters, and you can get VERY complex with it Vienna lets you layer/split and nest in any want and you can use all 132 channels if you want! It’s only limited by your skills as a sound designer at that point, if you use these samples alongside some PADSynth samples I promise you you’ll make the most mindlowing pads and atmospheres you ever heard.

im constantly surprised by the usable results i get from this one. a must have for anyone working in drone or ambient music and beyond. would reall love to be able to change the volume of individual slots: maybe hold tap a slot with one finger then adjust the volume parameter with another finger? also really with the same for transporting individual slots. you can do it then sustain (hold) that slot but then the transpose is reset if you reload the app.. hope we can see some features like that down the road! otherwise this app is amazing!

Alex Zolotov continues to make the oddest and yet most interesting apps on the market. This one is no different. If you like unique sounds in a weird interface and a crazy deep music ecosystem, this is as good a place to start as any.

This is exactly what I was hoping for, throw it on a track in Drambo and sequence away. A million random blip, bloops and hdv7$3omfo*xh+3gdu at your fingertips!

I use sunvox and PixiTracker most days, but I use fractal bits daily. Relic waves is great in every way that fractal bits is. All I can say is “more please.” I will probably be using relic waves daily. I would love to see more apps like this one. Keep making them and I’ll keep buying them.

If you’re into something different this is it!