Rob Jackson’s ANALOGySAW is a new, easy-to-use, super-saw synthesizer app and AUv3 plugin for iOS and macOS.
New soft synths hit the market every month, not just as VST plugins, but also on iOS. Many of them try to offer users as many features as possible. More is better, that’s the motto of most of them. I don’t always find that to be the case. Less is more can be just as good.
Rob Jackson approaches iOS app development differently. Instead of cramming as much as possible into one app, Rob’s apps are very focused while remaining very easy to use. That’s also the case of its new Synthesizer ANALOGySAW.
Rob Jackson ANALOGySAW
Like Rob Jackson’s other synthesizers, the new ANALOGySAW is very focused on a few features. This also applies to the UI—no frills, just very basic.
ANALOGySAW is a new Synthesizer for iOS and macOS that pays tribute to the super saw digital synths from the 1990s, such as the Roland JP-8000/JP-8080.
However, it’s not an emulation of these, but it has its own characteristics, including the old-school virtual analog warmth and some new additions.
At its core is a 10-voice VA engine featuring up to five unison sawtooth wave oscillators per voice, with detune, drift, and stereo spread options.
Unlike the original ’90s synths, the number of unison oscillators is continuously variable between one and five, allowing for some interesting “in-between” sounds not available on other synths.
Then, it also offers the option to randomly modulate the tuning drift of the voice oscillators and modulation LFOs. This is intended to recreate the character of the former virtual analog synths.
Alongside this, it houses a 24dB “ladder” filter with cutoff and resonance controls, as well as an ADSR envelope. On a second UI page, you can find a modulation engine with dedicated LFOs for pitch and filter modulation, plus a filter envelope.
Rob Jackson ANALOGySAW also has full MIDI support and responds to mod wheel, expression/volume, sustain, all notes off, and pitch-bend (+/- 2 semitones).
First Impression
Another beautiful, super-affordable Synthesizer app/plugin from Rob Jackson, showing that it doesn’t always have to be everything. Less is more can be just as inspiring.
Rob Jackson ANALOGySAW is available now for $2,99/2,99€. It runs as a standalone and AUv3 plugin on macOS (native Apple Silicon + Intel) and iOS (iPads, iPhone).
More information here: App Store
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