AudioKit FM Player 2: DX Synth 4+

Classic DX7 Sounds

AudioKit Pro

    • 4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
    • £9.99

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Description

NOTE: Do *NOT* Get this app. This app has been replaced with KING OF FM – a new app with the sounds of the original FM Player. Plus KING OF FM is Free! :)

FM Player has been replaced with our new app: King of FM. We recommend you download "King of FM" instead, it has much better AUv3 support, and is more stable. Plus, you can use it on your iPhone or Silicon Mac.

Beautiful iPad instrument featuring classic famous 80s FM Synth, EP, and FM Tine sounds. Featured by Apple.
Trusted by over 100,000+ musicians worldwide!

"BEST APPS OF 2017" - Electronic Musician Magazine
"BEST iOS APPS – 2017" - Audio News Room (ANR)

“Presets sound authentically like the original hardware”
– Electronic Musician Magazine

FM Player 2 is the secret weapon for major musicians and grammy-winning producers. Now, you can have all these award-winning sounds on your iPad.

AWESOME FEATURES:
• Faithful multi-sampled recordings of famous classic presets from original retro 80s FM Synthesizers
• Stand-alone iPad Synth, plus IAA & Audiobus
• Basic AUv3 Plugin support. We're working on upgrading Audio Unit support.
• Vintage Arp & 16-Step Sequencer
• 200+ presets and 150+ multi-sampled PCMs included!
• NEW Vintage Stereo Phaser Effect
• 1+ Gigabyte of sounds, compressed to under 300mb!
• Dual layers per voice. KeyboardSplits. Morph between sounds
• Full ADSR Envelopes for each Layer
• 3 LFOs. Fun Routings. LFOs can modify other LFOs.
• NEW FX: Vintage Chorus, Flanger, Amp Simulator, and more
• Beautiful Reverb, Auto Pan, Bit Crush, Stereo Fatten, and more!
• MIDI in (Play with a MIDI Keyboard)
• Analog Tape Style Ping-Pong Delay
• Mono glide & legato modes
• Dual Independent Filters per layer
• Tempo-sync controls & Ableton Link

• GREAT for playing Live with a Keyboard: MIDI Mod Wheel, Pitch Wheel, Program Change, Velocity sensitive sounds, and Sustain Pedal support already added

• All Knobs have MIDI Learn!

NOTE: This app is amazing as a live instrument controlled with a MIDI Keyboard. The main Electric Piano and Full Tines sounds have 20+ layers for maximum expressiveness.

MEDIA REVIEWS:

“Sounds LUSH and Awesome!”
– The Sound Test Room

"FM Player proves the iPad can be a great sounding, viable synth."
- MATRIXSYNTH.com

"Sounds FANTASTIC!"
- Ask.Audio

"The sound quality is incredible! Absolutely amazing!"
- IOSoundDesign, AudioBus Forum

"Truly sounds like the real deal! DX7 is all about the EPs for me...and this one nails it!" - David A., AudioBus Forum

"So crisp and clean. I had a few 80/90’s flashbacks on some of those presets. Very cool!" – Eros, AudioBus Forum

+ We are all volunteers, we do not get paid anything to make this app. We would be humbled if you checked it out. 100% of proceeds go to support the AudioKit open-source project.

• Official Video:
https://vimeo.com/244897673/

*** Optimized for newer iPads for best performance.
Note: App may not work on older iPad 4 devices.

• Source Code to make your own app available free: http://audiokitpro.com/fmplayer

* This app has no official affiliation with Yamaha or the DX7 or DX7II. FM Player is an open-source project to bring the joy of music making to the world. We appreciate Yamaha's beautiful instruments.

** This app has no official endorsement with any artist or producer named in the description (including Herbie Hancock, Jay-Z, Drake, etc). We are humbled they have used our apps. They have received no payment or otherwise compensation for using our apps. :)

Thank you!

What’s New

Version 2.6.2

+ New app, KING OF FM released. It has all the sounds of FM Player. Grab it in the App Store. It works *MUCH* better as an AUv3.
+ More iOS 16 bug fixes

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
1.2K Ratings

1.2K Ratings

Svetlovska ,

Best preset tweakable FM synth out there updated - for free!

Building on the already impressive FM, FM2 brings loads more to the party, and a great deal of user customisability, making for something that lets you carve your own mix of digital sounds out of the basic rompler design a darn sight easier than getting good original results programming an actual DX.

I still prefer the ridiculously affordable KQ Dixie app for downloading, using, and tweaking the wealth of (often duplicated, frequently naff) free DX Sysex patches out there, particularly for the odder FX and atmosphere sounds - search for ‘ Dexed cart 1.0’, your one stop shop for literally thousands of sounds, just about all of them, in fact, and use an app like Document to open these directly in KQD on your iPad using ‘Open In’ without going near a computer - but for your actually musical pianos, basses, synths, and bells, this has all the bases covered, and then some, what with the layering, FX and all. Everything Audiokit has done so far, paid and free, has been utterly awesome. I love it.

Madyetmellow ,

Oooooh yes! 5 easy stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ + 1 ⭐️

Great sounding synth and a nice, nostalgic blast from the past. I would’ve given this 5 stars had I paid for it. The fact it’s totally free compelled me to write a review in support of their app. The sound is made from pure 80’s love and very easy to tweak. These developers deserve loads of praise for giving this to us for free especially considering it sounds better than some premium priced synth apps. They get my love and tub of hair gel. If they did bring out iap’s I would gladly pay seeing how generous you are giving us all this for free. Did I mention it’s free?. Oh go on then...... It’s free!

What are you waiting for?. Download it ffs

Thank you devs ❤️❤️❤️

GadgetDetective ,

Really miss the short-lived, but excellent Distortion knob

This is a lovely app, which has the added bonus of being free; however! I really miss the very short-lived, but excellent Distortion knob. Why introduce it, only to completely remove it days later? If anyone doesn’t like the sound it makes, just don’t use it, no need to deny it to those of us who loved it! In addition, I don’t really care for the overdrive knob that replaced it today! PLEASE bring back the distortion knob. I loved the way it transformed the basic sounds, giving rise to some amazingly usable sounds. By all means the Overdrive knob if you have space for both.
This is the first time I have been moved to write an app review, such is the strength of my feeling on the loss of this excellent Distortion control. Please take heed and bring it back.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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