auGEN X

Name: auGEN X
Price: 9.99 USD
Rating: 4.5 (11 reviews)
Author: auDSPr

Expressive AudioGenerator AUv3

$9.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

11 Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Music
Developer

auDSPr
Language

EN
+ 8 More
Size

59.7
MB

auGEN X Version 1.2 is a FREE Upgrade for current users. Adds support for automation recording in Logic Pro for iPad. auGEN X bridges the creative musical world of artists with the exacting scientific world of audio engineers. What started as a precision audio test utility has grown into a fun experimental sound design instrument. On one end use auGEN X to help set up, test, calibrate, and optimize your audio system. On the other use it to create a wide variety of interesting sounds. auGEN X has a full-featured audio oscillator, a high quality noise generator, and an impulse generator. The simple yet powerful user interface is designed for fast, precise, intuitive control over your signals. auGEN X works both as a Stand-Alone App and as an AUv3 Audio Unit Extension responding to MIDI In and BPM Sync from Hosts. I started making this app because as an audio electronics engineer I could not find a single audio generator that does everything that I require AND is an AUv3 Audio Unit. auGEN X has expanded into a musical tool for exploring and learning sound design. Our goal is for auGEN X to be an Essential in your audio toolbox. We hope you enjoy it and we’re excited to hear the cool things that you do with auGEN X! "I really see this app becoming a standard and a must have component in one's iOS audio app arsenal." - Paul Henry, Paul Henry Pro Audio FEATURES - Oscillator - 3 Modes: Fixed, Frequency or Level Sweep - 4 Wave Shapes: Sine, Triangle, Rectangle, & Saw - Tri & Rect have a Duty Cycle control (1.0% to 99.0%) - Tri, Saw, & Rect are alias-suppressed yielding virtually alias-free performance at musical fundamental frequencies - 10 to 20,480 Hz extended audio frequency range (great for testing subwoofers!) - Full-featured Frequency or Level Sweep with 5 Types, settable Direction, & selectable Repeat or 1-Shot Mode - Sweep Period has a wicked wide range from 1/10,000th of a second to 100 seconds and can alternatively be set as a Sweep Rate in Hz or BPM - Wide sweep range allows for FM & AM style sounds - Noise Generator - 2 Modes: Fixed or Level Sweep - White or Pink Noise - Pink Noise conforms to SMPTE Standard 2095-1:2015 Calibration Reference Wideband Digital Pink Noise Signal - Impulse Generator (useful for checking reverb algorithms) - Impulse Width can be set in samples - AUv3 Audio Unit Extension or Stand-Alone App - Verified to work great in AUv3 Hosts such as GarageBand, Cubasis, AUM, apeMatrix, BeatMaker 3, & Auria Pro - As a Stand-Alone App audio is sent to iPad's built-in speakers, Headphone/Line Out, or to any iOS-compatible USB audio interface connected to the Lightning jack APPLICATIONS - Creative experimental sound design - Sound effects for film, TV, & games - Great chiptune style sounds - Synthesize sirens or alarms - Test, characterize audio equipment - Set up or dial in a home theater - Tune car audio systems - Test subwoofers - Hearing tests - Ear training - Vibration analysis SPECIFICATIONS - Audio signal path uses state of the art Double Precision 64-bit Floating Point for maximum accuracy - Stereo out - Selectable Pan Laws include Linear & Constant Power Panning - Supports 44.1, 48, 88.2, & 96 kHz sample rates - User Guide embedded in App - no internet connection required to read it SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS - Compatible with iOS 9.0 & up (iPad 2, iPad mini (1st Generation), & up) - Support way back to iOS 9 means auGEN X works on every iPad model (except the very first iPad). Breathe new life into your old iPad by using auGEN X to make it a dedicated, precision audio source. - AUv3 Audio Unit Extensions require iPad 4, iPad mini 2, and up - 88.2 & 96 kHz sample rate require iOS-compatible USB audio interface connected to the Lightning jack Watch demos & tutorials on auDSPr's YouTube channel. Subscribe on YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCRZm2cKWVJVfK-l9zrnMeFg Like Us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/AUDSPr-1392948064183211 Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/auDSPr Keep your ears and eyes open for more upcoming auDSPr audio apps!

Ratings & Reviews

4.5

out of 5

11 Ratings

Waveform Precision Toolkit
12/18/2018

polarpaul
This is a great app for sound design. You can exercise precise control over the waveforms it generates and use them as fodder for your modular synthesis explorations. Combine this app with FAC Envolver to generate useful evolving MIDI sequences to trigger and control other apps. Great for use in apeMatrix where you can modulate the parameters which opens up all sorts of possibilities.The pan, volume, sweep, and impulse controls plus being able to choose different waveforms along with their frequency range and sweep characteristics are very useful.The in app manual details the app’s functionality.

Developer Response
Thank you @polarpaul for auDSPr’s first ever App Store review! And 5 stars at that! I’ll remember this forever. I’m finding that auGEN X, FAC Envolver, and apeMatrix are a nice combination. Make some cool sounds, my friend! - Dave Simpao, auDSPr
Waveform Precision Toolkit
12/18/2018

polarpaul

This is a great app for sound design. You can exercise precise control over the waveforms it generates and use them as fodder for your modular synthesis explorations. Combine this app with FAC Envolver to generate useful evolving MIDI sequences to trigger and control other apps. Great for use in apeMatrix where you can modulate the parameters which opens up all sorts of possibilities.The pan, volume, sweep, and impulse controls plus being able to choose different waveforms along with their frequency range and sweep characteristics are very useful.The in app manual details the app’s functionality.
Developer Response 12/19/2018
Thank you @polarpaul for auDSPr’s first ever App Store review! And 5 stars at that! I’ll remember this forever. I’m finding that auGEN X, FAC Envolver, and apeMatrix are a nice combination. Make some cool sounds, my friend! - Dave Simpao, auDSPr
Some sliders not committing to new values in AU instances
04/09/2023

Obis11
So I’m having issues with this app running as an audiounit. I use cubasis 3 almost exclusively if that is useful info. While triggering auGEN x and adjusting parameters the adjustments will not commit. For example, moving a slider from 143 Hz to 87 Hz immediately jumps back to 143 Hz. Every time auGEN x is triggered the changes that I have made to certain parameters will not stay at the adjusted level. Other that that I like the concept of this app, some of the parameters are slightly cryptic to me. This is sort a strange phenomenon to me because I feel like I am a well seasoned synth tweaker. It’s kind of rare for me to not feel like I understand what is going on with parameters in synth apps. I think I have figured it out and the manual is very good but the icons don’t imply the association’s with the functions to me. ‘Fixed’ ‘Freq Sweep’ and ‘Level Sweep’ are my main issue. This in no way takes away from the app, the only real problem is some of the sliders jumping and unable to commit to new values running as an audiounit.

Developer Response
Hi Obis11,Thanks using auGEN X and thanks for the detailed review. As for the parameters resetting to their original values, you wouldn’t by any chance have any Cubasis 3 automations on them? This would certainly jump them back. Or if you have a MIDI Program Change or Bank Change message, this would also cause parameters to change value. If it’s not one of these, please e-mail us at support@auDSPr.com and we’ll be happy to help figure out what’s going on here.As for the parameter names not sounding so “synthy”, it’s because auGEN X started life as a piece of test equipment so maybe this is why they might sound “testy” instead. Zoinks!Cheers!auDSPr
Some sliders not committing to new values in AU instances
04/09/2023

Obis11

So I’m having issues with this app running as an audiounit. I use cubasis 3 almost exclusively if that is useful info. While triggering auGEN x and adjusting parameters the adjustments will not commit. For example, moving a slider from 143 Hz to 87 Hz immediately jumps back to 143 Hz. Every time auGEN x is triggered the changes that I have made to certain parameters will not stay at the adjusted level. Other that that I like the concept of this app, some of the parameters are slightly cryptic to me. This is sort a strange phenomenon to me because I feel like I am a well seasoned synth tweaker. It’s kind of rare for me to not feel like I understand what is going on with parameters in synth apps. I think I have figured it out and the manual is very good but the icons don’t imply the association’s with the functions to me. ‘Fixed’ ‘Freq Sweep’ and ‘Level Sweep’ are my main issue. This in no way takes away from the app, the only real problem is some of the sliders jumping and unable to commit to new values running as an audiounit.
Developer Response 04/11/2023
Hi Obis11,Thanks using auGEN X and thanks for the detailed review. As for the parameters resetting to their original values, you wouldn’t by any chance have any Cubasis 3 automations on them? This would certainly jump them back. Or if you have a MIDI Program Change or Bank Change message, this would also cause parameters to change value. If it’s not one of these, please e-mail us at support@auDSPr.com and we’ll be happy to help figure out what’s going on here.As for the parameter names not sounding so “synthy”, it’s because auGEN X started life as a piece of test equipment so maybe this is why they might sound “testy” instead. Zoinks!Cheers!auDSPr
Delia Derbyshire and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Legitimate Child
Mar 16

Philowerx
I feel like I’m Delia Derbyshire and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s legitimate child set loose with more noise/sine wave tone generators than logically imaginable with this AUv3 plugin inside AUM. Thank you so very much. Would it be possible to allow setting way past 104.858 seconds LFO rate please? 10 minutes would be welcomed.
Delia Derbyshire and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Legitimate Child
Mar 16

Philowerx

I feel like I’m Delia Derbyshire and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s legitimate child set loose with more noise/sine wave tone generators than logically imaginable with this AUv3 plugin inside AUM. Thank you so very much. Would it be possible to allow setting way past 104.858 seconds LFO rate please? 10 minutes would be welcomed.
Complete waste of money
08/23/2020

Dr. Sidney Gottlieb
Only “works” as an Audio Unit Extension in GarageBand. Does not work with Inter-App Audio.Now for the bad news. Can only be used on one track per song. Now for the blunt truth. This app crashes more than any audio app I have ever used.What’s more, it is insanely-overpriced (especially considering that it is, essentially, nonfunctional).Really crummy of the developer to market this as a “cool thing to make weird noises with” [paraphrase] in GarageBand when it is, in reality, an expensive, poorly-made, poorly-designed nightmare.

Developer Response
We’re sorry you’re not happy with auGEN X. Please e-mail us at support@auDSPr.com and so we attempt to help you.auGEN X does not support Inter-App Audio - we never claimed that it did. As for working as an Audio Unit Extension, numerous people have posted videos using auGEN X in AUM, apeMatrix, and Cubasis. Check out our website for examples. For our App Store demo video, we used 5 instances of auGEN X in Cubasis.Please share your crash information with us, so we can understand your issues. It’s curious because we have not heard complaints of crashes from anyone else.Cheers?David SimpaoauDSPr
Complete waste of money
08/23/2020

Dr. Sidney Gottlieb

Only “works” as an Audio Unit Extension in GarageBand. Does not work with Inter-App Audio.Now for the bad news. Can only be used on one track per song. Now for the blunt truth. This app crashes more than any audio app I have ever used.What’s more, it is insanely-overpriced (especially considering that it is, essentially, nonfunctional).Really crummy of the developer to market this as a “cool thing to make weird noises with” [paraphrase] in GarageBand when it is, in reality, an expensive, poorly-made, poorly-designed nightmare.
Developer Response 08/27/2020
We’re sorry you’re not happy with auGEN X. Please e-mail us at support@auDSPr.com and so we attempt to help you.auGEN X does not support Inter-App Audio - we never claimed that it did. As for working as an Audio Unit Extension, numerous people have posted videos using auGEN X in AUM, apeMatrix, and Cubasis. Check out our website for examples. For our App Store demo video, we used 5 instances of auGEN X in Cubasis.Please share your crash information with us, so we can understand your issues. It’s curious because we have not heard complaints of crashes from anyone else.Cheers?David SimpaoauDSPr

Version 1.2 is a FREE Upgrade for current users New features for Stand-Alone Mode + Core MIDI - control auGEN X from your connected MIDI hardware + Settings Page: Preferred Sample Rate & Buffer Size - optimize auGEN X performance for your device + Added support for automation recording in Logic Pro for iPad + Onscreen Number Keypads now support input from Hardware Keyboards (iPad)

Version 1.2 Jan 30

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Seller: Nemesis Technology, Inc.
Size: 59.7 MB
Category: Music
Compatibility: Requires iOS 9.0 or later.

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