MegaCurtisBig 4+

The Strange Agency LLC

Designed for iPad

    • 2.0 • 3 Ratings
    • £4.99

iPad Screenshots

Description

Turn any recording into a synthesizer! Now with support for Audiobus and MIDI.

MegaCurtisBig uses an unusual hybrid of wavetable and granular synthesis to create tones and timbres quite apart from the standard FM or subtractive synthesis fare. Add this app to your arsenal to create sounds you simply cannot squeeze out of any other synth, no matter how much you’ve twiddled its knobs.

Create a synthesizer from any recording, with endless tweaking possibilities. Play the sound forward, backward, or even at a single point! Unlike scratching a record, pitch doesn’t depend on how quickly you move through the recording.

You can load sounds through iTunes, record directly with your iPad, or paste audio from other applications. Try it with speech, singing, synths, jackhammers, or birds. Mangle your recordings or create soft, gentle textures.

What does MegaCurtis have that the old Curtis doesn't?

Smoother Grains • Makes the glitch a little less glitchy and makes the synth a little more tonal
Overlap Control • Successive grains can overlap for still more smoothness
More LFOs • Modulate position, pitch, volume, and overlap
Keyboard Scales • Set the keyboard to a musical scale for easier playability
Four Voices • Play chords

What does MegaCurtisBig add to MegaCurtis?

Audiobus Support • Our number one request
Interapp Audio • Courtesy of Audiobus
Still Smoother Grains • Yes, a bit more massage for a smoother sound
Filter Per Voice • Each voice now has its own lowpass filter
Filter Envelopes • Why independent filters? Because envelopes
User Presets • Save your work
Reverb • Makes everything sound better
Expressive Keyboard • Velocity on the y-axis, i.e. touch keys higher or lower for volume control
Cleaner Interface • Specifically tailored for the iPad
Folded Faders™ • More on this below

What's up with these weird square knobs?

The Folded Faders™ let you dial in 4096 steps of fine control in the space of 128 retina pixels. Instead of emulating a physical fader, which would only give you a maximum of 128 steps of control in the space provided, we've folded up the fader to lend you much more finesse. Move it slowly, and you can fine tune things in tiny increments, or move it quickly to easily make larger adjustments. It takes some getting used to, but ultimately you get far more control.

Coarse Control • Drag quickly
Fine Control • Drag slowly
Dual Axis • Drag left/right or up/down, whichever is more convenient

What’s New

Version 1.4.3

Fixes grain envelope and overlap calculations.

Ratings and Reviews

2.0 out of 5
3 Ratings

3 Ratings

Svetlovska ,

Audiobus compatibility misleading - avoid

As a fan of all things granular and experimental, I liked the look of this devs apps for their sideways take on sound manipulation, so when I saw Megacurtis Big had been updated to AudioBus compatibility, I took the plunge. Big mistake.

It technically does load into AudioBus, but if you thought that meant you could use that to route it into AUM, think again. Can’t be done.

Also, the app remains very crashy on my IPad Air 2018 running the current IPad OS 14.3; the interface is fiddly, and when it works, it operates, at best, as a minor subset of some of the functionality offered by the vastly superior Samplr.

If the dev manages to get proper IAA compatibility working, then I will revise this review, but for now, this is too much money for very little useful app. Avoid.

TheWightGuy ,

Innovative and still improving

Already getting interesting results from this innovative app. Next update would love to see the following; State saving under AudioBus, automatic restoration of last state/ loaded file in-app, Ableton Link support, and BIGGER CONTROLS. At the moment they text is way too small for comfortable use. The space is there, please use it!

Nic

Pinback ,

Useless

Bought this at the discount price but still feel like I've been fleeced. The UI is unintuitive, and results are often very unmusical. It always ends up sounding the same, which shouldn't be the case with this kind of synthesis! Also, MIDI integration is appalling. Go for Samplr instead.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

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

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