Patch Base is a very handy iPad application that offers a lot of editors for vintage as well as modern Synthesizers. The developer updated this weekend the application to version 2.8.4 and includes an editor for the new Roland Boutique D-05 Synthesizer. A very interesting editor especially for people who don’t like the small buttons and the menu diving of the recent Boutique Synthesizer. With this new editor, you have access to all D-05’s parameters and on top, you can import existing D-05, D-50 and D-550 patches.
Beside the new D-05 editor, it now includes rewritten editors for the Nord Lead 2 and Lead 2X Synthesizers.. They have now a cleaner look and some important bugs are fixed. The price model for individual editors is a bit expensive in my opinion but super fair when you have multiple supported Synthesizers. If you more than one Synthesizers, you can upgrade to the full access bundle where you receive every actual editor as well as all new future releases.
Available here: Patch Base
Here is an explication why the developer created this new Roland D-05 editor
Some people who are more intimately familiar with the D-05 and the D-50 have asked why I’m releasing a D-05 editor, when the D-50 editor works with the D-05? There is a couple of reasons why:
- Support. My approach with Patch Base is a “one synth, one editor” approach, meaning that even though some synthesizers have identical, or nearly identical, MIDI implementations as others, I plan to release a separate editor for each synth. I take this approach because sometimes there are small differences between synthesizers that can make supporting both of them in one editor a hassle. Also, this way adding new features to one editor later doesn’t have to cause potential bugs with the other. It just keeps things simpler.
- To make it clear that Patch Base supports the D-05. Even though the D-50 editor will work with the D-05, the majority of people don’t know this. Offering a D-05-specific editor makes this clear.
This approach is not about charging someone twice for the same thing. If you have the D-50 editor, feel free to use it with the D-05 editor! Just know that I’m not going to officially support that. Down the road, it might turn out that there are hidden features in the D-05, or Roland releases newer firmware that adds features, you never know. And I want to make it easy for me to add support for those changes, without affecting D-50 editor users. Thanks for your understanding!
Features of Patch Base
Patch Editor
- Edit all voice parameters using intuitive touch-based controls
- Changes are sent in real-time to your synth
- Create random patches as starting points for new sounds
- Create from an init patch as a blank canvas
Patch Librarian
- Save patches you create on your iPad
- Organize them into folders
- Turn on iCloud for automatic backup and desktop syncing with iCloud Drive
- Import sysex patch files via iCloud or other apps on your iPad
The new Patch Base D-05 editor is now available via an in-app-purchase for $19.99 USD and full access with all editors & future new releases is available for $59.99 USD. The Patch Base app is available for free from the Apple App Store.
Available here: Patch Base
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