CURTIS - anyone used this?

[oldlibmike]

I recently bought the very WEIRD formant synthesizer - CURTIS from Strange Agency.
Just curious if anyone has used this in any compositions yet?

You sort of set a range and it does granular synthesize on any sound file by chopping up the sounds and reassembling them. Not sure exactly how to work this into anything yet but it is cool if not useful...

- Mike

[blortblort]

Hi Mike!
I've used both IPhone versions of Curtis and from what I understand, theyre very stripped down versions of the IPad product. I have most of The Strange Agency's other apps...Slice is incredible. All of their apps are ridiculously cool for creating samples...just hook up your outputs to computer's DAW and open the Pandora's Box...of course, that's the way I treat most iOS music apps since they are really ...."sandboxy" by their own nature

[oldlibmike]

Thanks for the reply. I am experimenting more with it and with the right wave forms I can actually get something resembling "notes" out of its keyboard. Guess it will be mainly for ambient pieces. Its certainly "out there" as far as synthesis goes!

[blortblort]

Thanks for the reply. I am experimenting more with it and with the right wave forms I can actually get something resembling "notes" out of its keyboard. Guess it will be mainly for ambient pieces. Its certainly "out there" as far as synthesis goes!

ya...I'm sure it is...that'll be one of my first purchases if/when I cross into IPad land...you may want to look at SynthX for more convential synth sound/layout?
it's IPad only, but I've heard only good stuff about it and really love the sounds and the appearance of the layout on what youtube vids I've seen.

[oldlibmike]

Yeah I have that one. I suffer a bit from synth-ADD on the iPad (see my blog http://whitherwalter.blogspot.com).

SynthX is very cool - an ARP engine with the interfaces of Mugician, Morphwiz and keyboards. Surprisingly, it lacks a metronome of all things - makes it a bit of a challenge to record and use it.

[telferfledge]

Hi,

I have a tune in did in Curtis at the link below. I think the app has a lot of potential if only I could figure out the nuances. The track I did made use of the scratch features, I couldn't get any meaningful noises from the keyboard part of the app but I suspect I am just not understanding how it works!

http://soundcloud.com/user6331865/parqticles-1

David

[wakax]

As granular on ipad - i prefere anytime Sylo Synth.
http://www.wooji-juice.com/products/sylo-synth/
i got Curtis also but it's not that cool ... it's output sounds mostly the same - small "glitchy & no envelope" grains. ( and i tried a lot )
maybe they will develop further because now it's expensive and not very usable.

Also check Jasuto on ipad. the sampler module has a granular mode.

These are the only 3 granular related tools on ipad so far i guess.

[oldlibmike]

Thanks for the replies! I have had minimal success getting interesting sounds out of Curtis but I will check out Jasuto Pro more. I have it and was unaware that it had granular synthesis built in. When using Jasuto I feel like I am sitting in front of an early Moog with a handful of patch cables and no manual

[blortblort]

Thanks for the replies! I have had minimal success getting interesting sounds out of Curtis but I will check out Jasuto Pro more. I have it and was unaware that it had granular synthesis built in. When using Jasuto I feel like I am sitting in front of an early Moog with a handful of patch cables and no manual

Really do know what you mean... But I'd venture to say that if fella was only allowed 2 iOS music apps, one could not do much better than a jasuto pro/sunvox combo;)