Cycle - Time Lag Accumulator 4+
Meditative Synthesizer
Coda Labs Incorporated
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- Free
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Description
Cycle is a time lag accumulator - a musical system that repeats the notes you play over and over until they gradually fade into silence. It's a simple but very powerful idea, allowing you easily create fascinating and often unexpected sonic textures.
Cycle can be a delightful meditative experience. The system naturally lends itself well to long and slowly evolving musical ideas, which encourages you to slow down and listen carefully as notes gradually fade in and out.
Cycle can also be a great starting point for creating ambient music. Cycle features easy recording and exporting to both wav and midi files, as well as Inter-App Audio (IAA) and Audiobus support. Easily Airdrop or email recordings to your computer, and use them right away in your favorite DAW.
Features:
- 12 sound options. Samples by @electronisounds.
- 3 octave MIDI keyboard
- Inter-App Audio (IAA) and Audiobus support
- Controllable tempo
- Controllable reverb wet/dry mix
- Built-in metronome
- 5 colors
Comments or suggestions?
Send me an email at daniel@codalabs.io!
What’s New
Version 1.31
New year, new Cycle. This update includes:
- NEW 3-octave scrolling keyboard
- NEW metronome
- NEW lock mode
- Bug fixes and performance enhancements
Ratings and Reviews
Simple free midi/wav creator app with a *lot* of potential
As a fan of Dark Ambient soundscaping, I was intrigued by this free apps ability to create evolving, decaying layers of looped sound, exportable as wav or midi files, and the inbuilt preset synth has enough variation to make the results usable in AUM Fileplayer or other more complex environments as is. However, I would gladly pony up actual cash for all or some of the following:
Midi in for proper keyboard triggering (the in app ‘keyboard’ is a bit shonky)
Proper real time Midi out with cc control for more interactive control of the generated sequences.
Proper tempo indication and syncing to external apps.
Beyond that, the opportunities to mess with the created loops whilst running (eg volume, filter, modulation), and to control rates of fade, to ‘freeze’ some loops whilst letting others fade at variable rates etc, would all be immense, and take a niche thing into true usability. Here’s hoping...
Interesting idea.
There is potential here. If it were possible to add the following features, I’d happily drop a few quid for the Pro version as an IAP. 1. Indication of what tempo I’d being used. 2. Midi out to use sounds from other apps. 3. Add Link to sync with other apps, and 4. What key is in use. Keep up the good work!
Nic
What Svetlovska said...
But already a lot of possible uses for this, and as it's for free I feel churlish for taking a star off now :( Take it as gentle encouragement!
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Information
- Provider
- Coda Labs Incorporated
- Size
- 32.9 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2018 Daniel Kuntz
- Price
- Free