The waiting is over. Wolfgang Palm announced today the official release of the new PPG Infinite Synthesizer.
Available here: PPG Infinite
Infinite is not a wavetable Synthesizer like others but more an instrument with a new type of synthesis (something between a Synthesizer and Re-Synthesizer) that goes behind the thinking of WT. The main difference between this technique and the classical wavetable synthesis is that sound designers can define the frequencies of the overtones totally freely and each partial wave can have than an arbitrary frequency. Beside this, this new app also includes a new way how to work with a noise generator. In Infinite, you can build any kind of noise source from different noise timbres. With this new thinking, Wolfgang Palm offers sound designers a much larger spectrum of sonic possibilities and eliminate the limits of wavetable synthesis.
PPG Infinite includes also two morphing X/Y controllers where not only sound designers but also musicians can bring new sonic elements in few seconds to existing sounds. With a simple finger move in the Morpher controller, you can transform the timbre of a existing preset in a complete new ones. An additional import WTS and TCS files features from the best known iPad Synthesizers WaveGenerator and WaveMapper offers sound lovers even more possibilities to experiment with timbres. If you have both older synth instruments from Wolfgang Palm on your iPad , you will have a lot of fun with Infinite.
To achieve more sonic variations, Wolfgang Palm doesn’t stop with these both morphing function and implemented also a Molder, a function that acts as a filter where you can deform the tonal and noise signal spectrally. It’s a Time-Varying filter and can be used as more classical filter but also as very deep sound design function. With an additional import function, it’s possible to increase the number of different Molder character by importing own utterances from the PPG Phonem Synthesizer.
This is only a part of what you can do with Infinite Synthesizer. Beside this first page, it also includes a very deep edit pages where you can edit each individual sine of your chosen spectrum. 10 envelopes and 4 LFO’s gives you enough modulation options and to refine the sounds, it includes also an excellent sounding delay, reverb and distortion effect. Not to forget, Infinite is a standalone app but includes also a AUv3 extension.
Have a look at my first PPG Infinite Synthesizer sound demo
First Impression
I had the chance to check out the new PPG Infinite Synthesizer already before the official release and I can say: I love it. If you see the video, please excuse for my error. Infinite is not a wavetable synth. This happened because I always equate Wavetable synthesis with Wolfgang Palm and also the internal Sine edit page is very similar to a classic wavetable edit page. Please ignore the wavetable name in the video.
As usual for all Wolfgang Palm apps, the sound quality is excellent. The sonic possibilities range from crystal digital to analog sounding sounds.With Infinite, you can not only design some classic bread & butter sounds but also very interesting experimental presets with a lot of modulation. The deep modulation matrix is here a perfect playground for designing such sounds. If you are not a user of the PPG WaveGenerator, WaveMapper or Phonem apps and you think these apps doesn’t fit in your sound palette, I recommend honestly not to buy this app because the sound character goes in the same direction but with far more sound design options. But if you love the other apps, I can say that this app is a must have and will make you happy again for long time.
Compared to the previous apps, the interface and workflow of Infinite is better solved in my opinion. Phonem is fantastic sounding Synthesizer but is quite complicated to used. Infinite is here more easy-to-use and offers a better to understand concept. The initial version comes directly with AUv3 what is an amazing feature in my opinion. It doesn’t include all the features of the standalone app but the essential ones you need to play with it. Only downside for me, the app doesn’t feature an arpeggiator or sequencer.
In overall, the new PPG Infinite Synthesizer is an amazing new high-end iOS instrument. Wolfgang Palm shows again how beautiful and massive Synthesizers on iOS can sound. Especially, I’m happy to see again such new digital Synthesizer concepts with a new technology inside. I love analog / virtual analog synths but it’s always great to see such refreshing synth concepts. 20€ for an iOS Synthesizer is a lot of money but for this high-end technology, it’s nothing. In my opinion, these 20€ are good invested money in new high-end instrument. The investment in a great souding IOS synth is always better than in three decent and normal synths.
Here is a second sound demo of the new PPG Infinite Synthesizer
Key Features:
- New system which can synthesize harmonic and inharmonic sounds
- Morpher – X/Y controller which morphes 5 user selectable sine resources
- Noiser – X/Y controller morphing 3 noise resources and performing modulations
- Molder – acts as a digital filter with any amaginable filter sweeps
- Two detail editor pages for the Sine resources featuring a 3D display
- Import WTS and TCS files from the iPad WaveGenerator and WaveMapper
- Import Phonem utterances and use them in the Infinite Molder
- Versatile matrix system – allowing 16 sources to control 40 parameters
- 10 Envelopes, for control of filter sweeps, waveform, noise and many modulations
- 4 LFOs which can be freely routed via the matrix
- Delay/Reverb effect
- Overdrive/Distortion effect
- A/B compare your edited sounds
- AU extension – run multiple Infinite instances in AU hosts
- IAA – inter-app audio support
- Audiobus 2 with statesaving
- Export audio to AudioShare
- Preset browser with new listing filters
- Directly accessible context help for each module
- Freely configurable schematic keypads
- 4 Keypads play modes: Poly, Mono, Legato and Multitrigger
- 4 MIDI modes: Omni, Poly, Mono, and Voice-Per-Channel
Available here: PPG Infinite
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