Droneo will bathe your ears with rich polyphonic textures!
Droneo is a synthesizer which drones with various timbres and precise intonations that blur the distinction between tones, timbres and chords. Its drone is great for meditation, centering, and calming, walking and biking, but also can be set up for discordant noise and insect-like buzzing and chirping.
Some App store reviews:
"Composers delight"
This is a truly beautiful little app, and should not be missed by any musicians or dabblers into minimalist or drone based composition. It produces a wide variety of mesmerising drone based tones, all customisable by the user. I have been exporting the audio straight into Logic via a midi keyboard and the results are fantastic. The creative possibilities presented by the iPhone continue to astound me! I highly recommend this app.
-- Australian App Store comment
The most forward thinking music app I have seen.
This app allows me to deal with ratios in sound. Most other music apps are limited to equal temperament. Thank you Mr. Lowengard for taking a step forward in musical thinking, and giving us the chance to experience music in a new way via your app, Droneo!
-- by mike uhler
With Droneo, you can create surprisingly rich, motion filled drones which change over time in a controlled way.
Quietly nested in your earbuds or blasted though your stack of amps, Droneo fills your droning needs!
Droneo is a relative of one of my other iPhone Apps, SrutiBox.
Droneo uses 8 voices ("reeds") which can be precisely and individually tuned, randomly detuned,
chorused, and modulated. The relative pitch and volume of each reed can be set individually, making for a wide variety of drones.
These "reeds" use various timbres suitable for drones, including vocal-like timbres and evolving, dynamically generated timbres.
The settings for all the reeds, timbres, modulations, volume levels and tunings (called a "Droneo voice") can be recalled with a button press.
Droneo can also be used as a pitch source for instrument tuning purposes, or as an aid for learning the difference between Just and Equal Tempered intervals. The settings for all the intervals can be visualized and manipulated using
a special "Tone spiral" interface.
Droneo is also an excellent way to play with the way chords fuse into timbres -- which is why there's such a heavy emphasis on interval specification.
You can get a feel for how certain timbres fit "naturally" in certain frequency ranges, and how tunings and timbres and chords intertwine.
To summarize, a Droneo voice is made of these parts:
- Each voice is made of up to 8 "reeds".
-Each reed is set to a certain interval based on a single frequency, the "base frequency".
There are many ways to specify that interval and frequency.
- The intervals can be perturbed with a slight amount of randomization.
- Each reed can "churn" (alternate) between two sets of amplitudes and timbres.
- Each reed can also have a chorus effect put on it.
- Some of the timbres change their harmonic content while they are playing (Evolving timbres).
- A master volume control is used to scale the entire sound.
Want to know more? Go to the Droneo support page at
http://www.jhhl.net/iPhone/Droneo for more information, contact info, and videos!
also: visit my iPhone App Facebook group for starting discussions etc!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=150360054839 V 1.2 is brewing, stay tuned!
Yappler-Tags: musical-instrument,synthesizer,meditation,education
What's New In This Version?
1.2 adds a number of features:
- more timbres and a new way to organize them! Including new evolving Chants and Analog-like waves.
- import/export to the clipboard: lets you share and edit and generate Droneo Voices.
- droneo:// URI scheme launches Droneo and loads a hosted clipboard-formatted voice
- base frequency is fine tunable
