Roxsyn Guitar Synthesizer 4+

Metamorphic Synth for Guitar

Yonac Inc.

    • 3.9 • 25 Ratings
    • £19.99

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Description

Introducing a revolutionary new way to turn your guitar or bass into a fully featured polyphonic synth: Roxsyn, the world’s first metamorphic guitar synthesizer. Expressive, fast and responsive to every nuance, it is a league apart from all other guitar synths to date.

Unhappy with cold and temperamental guitar-to-MIDI synths that dominate the market, we developed a completely new approach to guitar synthesis. Our all-original technology synthesizes your guitar directly, without the use of MIDI notes. Rescued from being a poor keyboard substitute, your guitar suddenly becomes an integral part of the synth. It's alive!

There is no pitch tracking involved. There are no pitch estimation errors, octave glitches, or garbled chords. There is no over-complicated G2M between your guitar and synth to destroy everything human about your playing. Instead, Roxsyn’s metamorphic sound generation technology retains all the personality of your sound: vibrato, slides, bends, dynamics, even extended technique. The result is a polyphonic synthesizer that is as fast and accurate as it is richly expressive.

No need for special MIDI pickups or hardware, either: just plug into your favorite Lightning/USB audio interface, and start synthing!

::Powerful Synth Engine::

Roxsyn’s big synth heart is its three metamorphic signal generators (AKA oscillators). Each generator offers 5 unique waveforms, and has a 4+ octave range to cover a wide spectrum of frequencies. They also feature stereo panning, and can route into either of Roxsyn’s dual filter banks. You can even dial in your guitar directly into the synth engine for even bigger sounds.

::Dual Filter Banks::

Each containing four custom virtual-analog filter types and dedicated envelopes, the filter banks help sculpt the synth generators in countless new ways. The envelopes are specially designed for the guitar, and are driven by a fully adjustable automatic trigger generator controlled by your playing dynamics. Envelopes offer original features like finite-duration sustain stages, as well as the ability to receive or ignore trigger-off messages. They can also be triggered externally via MIDI controllers like an expression pedal.

An additonal envelope controls the amplitude of the signal, giving you even more options in creating synth sounds.

::Arpeggiator::

Instantly transform sustained guitar notes into fast (or slow), complex patterns with Roxsyn’s powerful yet easy to use arp. There are 8 stepping algorithms to choose from, as well as settable note value, swing, and note repeats. You can even route the arp to any combination of the 3 voice generators — enabling you to layer a non-arpeggiated sound with an arp pattern. What's more, the arp can send trigger signals into any of Roxsyn’s 4 envelopes, and even reset the LFOs. So it’s also a handy rhythmic / trance tool as well!

::Modulation & FX::

Roxsyn’s user friendly modulation matrix lets you manipulate parameters (pitch, amplitude, filters, etc) using its two LFOs and mod envelope. Add subtle vibrato, even glide simulation, or go full-on berserk. LFOs each have 9 waveforms, and feature beat syncing. Each matrix row can take LFOs or the mod envelope as a modulator or control, and can even use external control sources.

And if you like your synths on the spicy side, Roxsyn comes with top-notch stereo FX specially developed to evoke extra synthiness: Powerful algorithmic reverb with the sound of countless rooms, phasing, modulating, 2-channel delay, and graphic EQ.

::Pro Features::

500+ factory presets with bass, lead, pad, arp sounds & more. Easily create & share your own presets. Audio Unit v3, Ableton Link. Native 64-bit processing at up to 96kHz. 160+ MIDI controllable parameters; MIDI learn & map save/share; tapedeck (in the standalone app), so you can record, loop & share your ideas on the go, and many more handy features.

What’s New

Version 1.2

• Increases robustness of the MIDI implementation
• Other improvements & fixes

Ratings and Reviews

3.9 out of 5
25 Ratings

25 Ratings

Xen Reflex ,

Amazing !

I have been playing with this for an hour and already am completely in love with it. Transforms your guitar or bass into a massive range of synth tones and types, complete with arpeggiator, FX, tape recorder. And it all works with no discernible latency. I am already working out how to incorporate this into my live rig, and it certainly gives far more flexibility in your ability to shape the sound than, for example, the EHX SYN9 or other pedals. Thank you. This is what I have been after for while now and takes me one step further to a full live rig based only on my iPad. Look forward to more from this company.

WikiChris ,

Exactly what was needed

I’ve previously owned a Boss SY-300 and now have an EHX synth 9 which are real pedals that are the closest to what this app does. I am now going to sell them because this app is that good. £20 is a bargain given it works. Those other pedals are very expensive. I use a Spanish guitar with a pre amp system so that could be responsible for some of the patches not working well but adjustments can be made. Very happy. Polyphonic and really big usable sounds.

SugaMouth ,

Incredible app!

With a bit of tweaking, you can coax some amazing sounds out of this. I rarely use presets on my synths, but had a blast just trawling through the ones provided.
The real fun comes when you cook up your own sounds though. If I had to nitpick, the “oscillators” are a bit limiting. I’d love to see an update that improved on this section. But as it stands this is easily the most successful implementation of a Guitar synth on iOS.

App Privacy

The developer, Yonac Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

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

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