J.F.N.

At least Kurzweil are using FPGAs, no idea if Roland still are in with ASIC stuff, I doubt it.

"Refund on its way..."

Opsix, Modwave, Wavestate, KingKorg, as new modules?

Now with the M platform iPads indeed!

I guess the more powerful the off the shelf ARM platforms become, the more powerful machines of this type, software in the box, we will see. It seems KORG are no longer doing any internal work on processing platforms, so for a successor to Kronos worth talking about they will have to up their ARM game quite a bit.

Just initiated my refund request, made me think, why didn't they just use the Audiokit framework, there's everything included, just working straight up!

I also own and occasionally use AUM, however, this standalone version is not working as expected from a standalone version midi instrument.

It's funny because it's true...

Very close to a potential success, but no.

This goes for a refund request first thing tomorrow, here's their weird reply I got when asking about controlling Tremolo with modulation, and regarding playing in the background: "We will probably not add MIDI learn in the standalone. If you use any host/DAW on iOS you can then control all parameters easily. Apple doesn't like app that generates sound in the background with a device connected. If it's something that generates sound on its own, they may like it." They have no clue it seems...

If you are talking about the big brands, yeah, stuck, look at Korg, the last 3-4 years re-hash of EVERYTHING over and over again, boooring, the most interesting they've churned out is the *Logue synths, where of they killed the master piece, the Prologue, which if it was due to not meeting their sales expectations, then imho was their own fault trying to sell it as a polyphonic analogue instead of teaching potential users about how amazing the Multi Oscillator concept is, did anyone say Positioning, not at Korg obviously... And yeah, not innovation per se, mixing digital with analog, but very well done wtih an open SDK for creating own pieces of software to put in there... Yamaha, where shall I start... They take the safe road and probably make quite a bunch of safe money on that, anyone said Toyota? Roland, well, they've done good with their multiplatform strategy, some interesting stuff going on there, though synthesis wise, no cigar, even if I do like the fact that they have implemented a pretty smart way of adapting your hardware to your own needs with their software/plugouts, or whatever other platform (boutique) one chooses. Kurzweil, looking forward to their next iteration, though I got a feeling it's not going to be rocket science, more of the Yamaha strategy, well designed workhorses, revamped for another 5-10 years on the market. And Clavia/Nord, looks to me they have found a loyal customer base to churn out new iterations too as well, seems the Nord Wave 2 was their last "monster" of sort that kind of stood out, will be interesting to see if anything interesting pops up there in the near future as well.. But for everything else, well, there's a LOT going on, around the more commercial brands, I'm a fan of Modal, and the ASM machines are not boring either, waiting with excitement on Novation to see what their next strike will be, time for a successor to the PEAK/Summit platform soon, and also, Erica synths are doing some very nice stuff too!

I can imagine indeed! I've only used twins, and a musicman top with a 2x12 cab, for Rhodes/Clavinet back in my heydays, never owned a wurly, but yeah, for sure emulations/samplebased stuff can def benefit from some grunge like that too!

I sometimes run my Rhodes/Wurlitzer sounds through a POD HD Pro, got a bunch of update packs in it with bass amps, Roland JC, etc. and of course bunch of pedal emulations etc. as well.

Herbie? As the Duke and Chick are no longer with us, and they claim Legendary, could be Stevie too though.

Well, I do have some nice libs with gronk settings both for Rhodes and Wurly that are quite dirty, if you want them to be...

I'm thinking about doing that too, it also made me do a quick inventory of the Wurlitzer sounds un my PC3, I would definitely say I'm covered without this app, BUT, I do enjoy having good instruments on the iPad as well.

Our lousy team 🇸🇪 didn't make it (to nobody's surprise), so I will wait until the group plays are done before diving into it.

Bit of a pity, it sounds very nice! Obviously they managed to implement cc 64...

Oh, I thought we were talking about the Wurly!

Any leads you want to share?

Just gave it a whurl 🤪 here, and I am also wondering about settings, such as playing in the background, MIDI, and I couldn't get the tremolo to react on anything MIDI cc either, and in preferences there's only Siri & Search as well, feels like the iOS standalone is not finished baking yet.

Woohooo!! "...also as AUv3 and Standalone on the App Store." Excellent! (Just grabbed it, 14.99€, fabulous!!)

Stunning!!

Hehe, cool to hear about all Tico Tico experiences, that tune has really got some track records!!