VOSC Visual Particle Synth 4+

Duncan Holby

Designed for iPad

    • $4.99

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Description

VOSC is best understood as a visual analogue of a traditional sound synthesizer. The medium of synthesis, rather than sound waves, is a vast quantity of on screen particles. By manipulating the size, shape, and frequency of the oscillators, an endless variety of moving patterns and textures can be created.

A primary mechanism at work in VOSC is the phenomenon of visual harmony as explored by the computer graphics pioneer and visual artist John Whitney in the mid 20th century. The oscillators of VOSC operate in accordance with Whitney's principle of differential motion, giving rise to harmonic resonances as their frequencies move across whole ratios.

What’s New

Version 2.0.1

2.0.1 - Fixes for some older devices

Version 2.0 is a complete app rewrite using a new graphics engine, enabling greater performance and functionality.

New features include:

- New additive and multiplicative blend modes
- New oscillator waveform
- Variable particle size and shape
- Granular color and resolution controls
- Patch thumbnail image previews
- 40 new factory patches

Please note that due to the extent of changes in this major release, patches saved using Version 1 are not compatible with Version 2 and will not be available after updating.

Ratings and Reviews

4.5 out of 5
26 Ratings

26 Ratings

ErikSF999 ,

still losing hours of my life to this app

Of all the particle generating apps I have on my iPad, this one is one that stays when others have to be taken off to open disk space. Even though you can only use two colors at a time and there is not much in the way of direct touch interaction with the fields once set up, I consistently lost many hours over the last three years to tweaking the oscillator parameters that determine everything about this app.

The combinations are practically infinite, and it is surprising how quickly one parameter change will make a sinuous figure coalesce out of absolute noise! And each oscillator can be modulated, so you can set it up and then stare at the screen for hours.

Better than weed. Very very nerdy weed.

highlikeafly ,

beautiful, but ..

Of ALL the apps i own of this variety (EVERY ONE REALLY) this one stands out above the rest. its beautiful, organic, leaves a lot of room for personal tweaking, so on and so forth. i spend an significant time with it, and i deem it time well spent. My only issue is that it only runs on my phone, my pads will show the opening screen then blank out into nothing. yes my pads r recent enough and up to date. i was really hoping to contact the developer directly and skip this route altogether, but i don’t see a way, despite him having a nice enough website theres no method of contact. Can u pls look into this, i want the magic Large, not contained just on my phone screen. THX THX THX 🙏

Neguscat ,

Incredible visuals!

I’m very surprised that there are no reviews of this yet… This app is phenomenal. It’s got some amazingly trance-inducing capabilities. Very configurable; one can start from scratch, develop personalized patterns, and there are incredible presets that can be modified according to taste. Foreground and background colors can be changed. Dot density and shape can be changed. Getting screenshots of the patterning is a great thing to do, because you can add the resulting video as layers in something like LumaFusion, After Effects, Imaginando VS, etc. Very highly recommended!

App Privacy

The developer, Duncan Holby, 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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