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I'm looking for an app that is playable by sliding your finger(s) on the screen, where this produces a continuous pitch-changing tone. I'm a keyboard player and do want to use this for the standard Western scale, so some similarity to a piano keyboard would be nice, for familarity's sake.

Animoog does this polyphonically. Geosynth (and the other Morphwiz etc family) also. The problem is, I want to do this with, preferably, a standard-ish VA sound engine, but I would like to have available at least a couple or three oscillators.

Also helpful would be the "pitch locking" features like Animoog and Geosynth have, where if you are not perfectly accurate, the synth "migrates" your pitch to the one it believes you are trying to create, although you are still able to do vibrato my rocking your finger side to side.

So far I've got Animoog, Geosynth, Bebot, Cantor, SynthX, and NLog pro. I can't quite get where I want.

I like the performance interface of Geo the best, actually, but the synth engine is not at all what I want. I have tried using it to control the others, but it only "kind of" works, is glitchy, some notes are generated at wrong pitches, etc.

The NLog engine I like, but I haven't figured out how to do polyphonic "sliding" on it yet. Am I missing something?

Any other options I'm overlooking? Phil999 suggested a few in another thread, I looked at most of them briefly (Orphion, SynthX, TC11, Soundprism, Konkreet performer, Selina). Some quite interesting, but not what I'm looking for. Well, I did purchase SynthX, and it gets close, but it doesn't seem to do the vibrato thing well).

Thanks for any further input.

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Synthecaster immediately springs to mind; love this app:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/synthec ... 67086?mt=8

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Thor, PPGWG(oh it's wavetable.. then Nave as well)...and a lot more..

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Magellan seems to be what you are looking for:

3 oscillators
"Pitch locking"
"Glissando-Glide Slider" to gradually go from step-changing-pitch, to continuous-changing-pitch.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PdILGrGpll

Hope this helps you,
Mario

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