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Jasuto app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 8944 ratings )
Music Education Entertainment
Developer: Christopher Wolfe
4.99 USD
Current version: 1.8.1, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 28 Dec 2009
App size: 50.98 Mb

[ACCOLADES]

- Featured in Apples staff favorites!
- Reviewed in Computer Music magazine and received a 9/10!

[DESCRIPTION]

Jasuto is the worlds first (and most powerful) modular synthesizer for the iDevices.

Jasuto allows you to visually construct your own synths/effects, and use them to make sequences all on your device! With the addition of a fully-featured sampler you can now record/resample/edit, and even create entirely new samples by drawing right in the app.

Jasuto uses the relative position of nodes and their connections to control the sound. So the scene not only represents the synthesis structure, but also a custom multi-touch control surface. Motion can be recorded per node giving you rich, flexible automation.

Connections can be created automatically by simply dragging nodes around, or manually. Each wire can be double-tapped to allow even more control of each connection.

Jasuto comes installed with 75+ modules as well as 200+ pre-loaded scenes and samples. Each of the modules have been hand-optimized for your devices CPU, allowing you to create extremely complex scenes.

[NOTABLE FEATURES]

- Anti-aliased oscillators with hard-sync, FM, PWM, PM
- Analog style filters (ap, lp, hp, bp, ladder emulation)
- Signal control (compressor, limiter, gate, follower)
- Zoomable sampler editor with several loop modes (normal, 1 shot, ping, granular)
- ADSR envelope editor
- Multipage/octave sequencer
- Tape style analog delay
- Reverb, phaser, several waveshapers
- Resample/record the current playback
- Audio copy via the pasteboard
- Incoming OSC and MIDI for notes and CCs
- Audiobus support (input, effect & output source)
- Completely compatible with iOS7
- Updated UI graphics
- Universal device and Retina support
- A shiny new manual
- Added background audio support
- Low latency audio (256 samples)
- Sample sharing through SoundCloud
- Dropbox syncing of samples/scenes
- High Fidelity (Hi-Fi) Audio

[WEBSITE]

http://www.jasuto.com

Pros and cons of Jasuto app for iPhone and iPad

Jasuto app good for

Excellent and flexible modular synthesizer with a lot of features! But hey Chistopher, where are you? Add Audiobus and the fifth star is yours!
This is a very polished, great sounding instrument/sequencer/sampler with an innovative and intuitive interface that allows the creation of absolutely amazing soundscapes by composing scenes with a multitude of modules and connecting them to each other. In one sentence, this is the offspring of PD/Max and reactables. Well worth the money, an absolute must have! Thanks a lot for this awesome piece of software ^w instrument!
Some similarities to software like Plogue Bidule, its the only one of its kind on iOS, and compatible with all 3 devices! Incredible sonic possibilities!
The new version is awesome. Midi support is coming next also. This is one synth you dont want to miss. Plenty of sound possibilities with synthesis, sampling, effect.
What power! What possibilities! Thanks. Awesome work. Experiments! Lots to learn for sure, but that equals lots of fun. Really really good job on this app. Thanks again
I have not written a review in a long time. This amazing modular/effects synth deserves it! I dont know about ios8, but the MIDI works great with ios7.1.2! This is a masterful application. WARNING, there is a learning curve. Persevere with patience and this will be extremely rewarding!

Some bad moments

There are some amazing sounding samples of other peoples work on this app in the communal music section… well actually just one guy… I forget his name. But If I can ever figure this app out Ill post some creations too! its really complicated, confusing and without any kind of comprehensive manual its next to impossible to make sounds approaching music. Theres better apps out there for this kind of thing, Ive found some, saved me a lot of time trying to figure this one out.
loved this amazing synth for years... havent seen update in while has this been left for dead??
I love this app, its def a 5 star & incred value, BUT if u update it, why do u add COPY &hav the audacity to say,"of enuf ppl request PASTE function Ill add it"? WTF?! YES! Its worthless to me w/o Paste. Add it and Ill pop this back to 5stars. Geesh, get a clue!
This app will not load. The intro screen flashes and then nothing at all. Do not buy. Frustrating. Absolute failure of an app. I wish I could rate it at zero stars. One star is too high for an app that does not work. BUYER BEWARE
I am running ios 3.2.2 on my iPad. This was just made into a universal app. Correct? Why does it crash after about half a second if the Jasuto logo coming on screen? Further more. It worked great before the last two updates. Frustrating. Yes I have rebooted my iPad and done a hard reset. This is getting ridiculous. Please fix this bug.
This thing was amazing before the update, now it will only initialize the load screen, then crash back to home screen, this is sad, I guess Ill uninstall it and reload the unupdated version.