Hey iPad musicians! Audio Damage just unlocked their biggest development achievement on iOS. They released today Axon 2 for iPad, the best known FM drum Synthesizer with the sequencer driven by artificial intelligence. The synth engine is based on seven individual FM-based percussion voices. Each voice is triggered by its attendant neuron that is based on a two operator FM voices that offer musicians a versatile range of percussion sounds. On top they feature additional FM and AM busses that all voice send to and receive from. Each voice sound generator goes than in a high-pass filter, distortion circuit and white noise generator that allows you to design a big variety of sounds.
Amazing to see this innovative drum Synthesizer on iPad. It’s not the easiest to understand drum Synthesizer but one of the craziest and experimental ones. 5.99$ is an absolute no-brainer for this powerful app. Important to know is that the developer warn users of the iPad Mini because the user interface can be difficult to use due of the size. Beside this, the developer also warn users of the ModStep sequencer. If you want to use this app as AUv3 inside Modstep, the AUv3 sequencer will not work here but they will work on a fix of this problem. He recommend to use Axon 2 in the IAA version inside Modstep in the meantime.
Available here: Audio Damage Axon 2
Axon 2 is a drum synth driven by artificial intelligence. (Well, “intelligence” might be a strong word. Artificial something-or-other.) An experimental instrument, Axon uses a modified artificial neural network as a sequencer, and features seven FM-based percussion voices, that are really a single 18-operator FM voice. If that sounds weird, you ain’t seen nothing yet. It is surprisingly intuitive once you get the knack of it, and is capable of all-new, complex rhythms that repeat in surprising ways. It often gets referenced as a “random sequence generator,” but there is nothing random in Axon; it is entirely determinative.
The sequencer features seven “neurons” that trigger a voice and send a pulse when they have received a predetermined number of pulses. You can wire the output of any neuron to the input of any other (with built-in loop detection to prevent runaway feedback), and in this manner pre-program the artificial neural network without having to go through a “learning” phase.The seven individual drum voices, each triggered by its attendant neuron, are 2-operator FM voices in a configuration to best make percussion sounds, with additional FM and AM busses that all voices send to and receive from. Each voice has a HPF, distortion circuit, and white noise generator to provide a full range of percussion-oriented voicing individually, while interacting with each other in new and unique ways.
Features
- Artificial Neural Network sequencer features seven neurons, and is easily programmed to create strange new repeating rhythms.
- Seven FM percussion voices that also buss together to create a single monolithic complex percussion Synthesizer.
- Full mixer with pan, level, mute, and solo on each voice.
- Built-in stereo delay with X/Y pad control over feedback and filter frequency, for live playability.
- MIDI input, including Bluetooth MIDI, for driving Axon from DAW and hardware sequencers, and Virtual MIDI Output (standalone only) for driving other software with the Axon sequencer.
- Inter-App Audio, including transport synchronization, in standalone mode.
- Internal transport for non-synchronized playback.
- Resizable vector-based user interface.
- Drawn reciprocation dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration.
- XML-based cross-platform, human-readable preset system, with copy/paste, for easy transferring of your own presets and third-party offerings.
Audio Damage Axon 2 is now available for $5.99 USD from the Apple App Store
Available here: Audio Damage Axon 2
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