Outsidify is Bastl Instruments’ first app that lets you experiment with feedback on your iPhone using the internal microphone and speaker.
Bastl Instruments has released numerous fascinating experimental-flavored instruments, effects, and modules over the last ten years. Everything is in hardware form. For their 10th birthday, Vaclav and its developer team are exploring new areas with their first app for iOS.
Outsidify is not a Synthesizer nor an effect processor. It’s a unique sonic environment for feedback generation built around the iPhone’s good internal microphone and speaker system.
Outsidify
A virtual analog Synthesizer app from Bastl? No, that wasn’t to be expected. It must be something special and explorative if it is an app. Outsidify is precisely this. It’s simple but also ingenious.
It is based on classic feedback generated by the microphone and speaker. Something that singers want to avoid becomes the concept of the entire app. Outsidify is an app that allows you to have fun with feedback. A user-friendly interface invites you to be that.
The app consists of a delay, feedback with tone and amount morphing, a player, and a recorder section. And it’s simple to use
Go to the player section, load a sample or a track, and play it back via the iPhone speaker. You can capture this with the built-in recorder, including the feedback effect. There is no processor to mangle this. However, you can do it yourself. Take your fingers and create movements by opening and closing the speaker grid. Or use your mouth as a resonant filter or place your iPhone in a resonating object.
The ability to load recordings from the recorder directly back into the player means you can experiment endlessly. Also neat, the player has a playback speed control, allowing you to manipulate the feedback effect. With the built-in delay, you can add some rhythmic elements to the sounds.
Outsidify also can capture impulse responses of any space you can fit your iPhone. This is a brilliant idea. So you can make bizarre reverbs from cups, etc. So your iPhone becomes a portable IR capture device.
First Impression
A beautiful app that Bastl Instruments has created here. They didn’t code a massive engine but just took what the iPhone already has and built around a fascinating new app for exploration.
An Android version is not available. This is due to the fact that the conditions for making audio production apps are still not optimal: audio latencies, no uniform audio drivers (no Core Audio-like), every smartphone developer cooks his own driver soup and thus Bastl cannot test 500+ different smartphones.
Outsidify by Bastl Instruments is available now for $5,99/$6,99 on iPhones with iOS 15.2+
More information here: AppStore
interesting ideas but I can already do that with my iphone in a miriad of ways
How for example :)?
With aum, for example, all you have to do is to choose the mic input and speaker output, and then insert fx of your choice in the middle.
oh i see.thanks 🙂