Description
The is an emulation of an esoteric German synth known as the BME 700, very few in existence and using a unique dual filter design, one tracking the envelope and one resonating at a fixed frequency. The envelopes are also interesting, there are two A/R or A/S/R that can be mixed to create ADSR and other ingenious combinations.The app has a step sequencer which can drive some riffs out of these unique oscillators and filters, it supports output recording including to Ringtones, pressure sensitive touch screens, X/Y accelerometer for pitch and mod wheel, multitouch and zooming interface facilities. The original was a monophonic instrument however the emulator can operate as a polyphonic (duophonic) synth via multitouch when it is enabled. The interface has options for fat-finger, analogue filters and rich oscillators however these will consume extra CPU cycles. The interface also has a full piano keyboard setting.
Interface zooming can be done either with the trackball (Nexus/HTC have them) or enable multitouch via the menu then tap the screen with two fingers at the same time - this will zoom the interface in/out. If you tap with two fingers but keep them held you can move the screen around. This kind of helps out with the dense graphics.
Patches are saved on the SD card along with factory sounds, there is an export and import option to exchange patches.
The emulator will, per default, attempt to run with a set of options that will give reasonable quality and the lowest possible latency/lag. The quality of the audio can be tuned with the menu options however the lowest possible latency for pretty much all Android devices is currently 42ms, on my HTC Desire it is 70ms. If you understand what this means then the value might seem quite high but the app is still a lot of fun.
Tested on HTC Desire/2.2, Emulator hires and lowres. The BME700 is one of a family of emulators.
Twitter @bristolaudio
tekrytor
Feb 1, 2012 9:50:13 PM
Nice emulation! Works well on myTouch G4, aka HTC Glacier.
r
Jan 8, 2012 2:41:31 AM
Fun All the synth apps are fun but this one is for making japanese dirt bike sounds .about everything I do sounds like a motorcycle
dithering
Nov 27, 2011 2:23:21 PM
Glitchy keyboard, had the app for sometime and no improvement... Good concept but this let's it down
Remo
Oct 16, 2011 8:48:40 PM
What can I do? It's not working for me. Loads, but the phone soon turns to homescreen. Settings are available.
Theron
May 11, 2011 8:58:49 PM
Would be quite fun if it worked. 7 tries to download and still defective. I even got rid of a bunch of other apps to free up mem. Needs debugging!
John
Mar 21, 2011 12:29:09 PM
Very cool. Well worth it. How about a Pro-One or a MS-10/20?
Nate
Mar 13, 2011 5:18:34 AM
Very interesting - similar to devs other synths, but this one isnt a well known synth so bonus points and 5 stars
PoLLo
Mar 7, 2011 8:27:28 PM
The same as axxe. Glitchy keyboard and 96ms buffer size on galaxy tab. Otherwise I'd put 5 stars and buy it again! Kee up the good work!
Sergio
Mar 4, 2011 7:47:35 AM
Cool very coldwave