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Feel the summer breeze with Futulele, the only digital Ukulele you'll ever need! It looks amazing (Retina graphics), sounds awesome, offers fully automatic play modes, great interface and even can be extended via the optional Futulele Remote app. Absolutely suitable for ukulele novices, but brings a lot of fun even to experienced ukulele players!
This is the ukulele app that can be seen on Apple's advertising materials for iPad & iPad Mini!
+ Futulele is now UNIVERSAL, with separate versions for iPhone and iPad.
+ "This is a really brilliant app" - CultOfMac
+ "It is almost as crazy as it is just plain awesome." - 148Apps
+ "None can quite compete with Futulele’s impeccable design." - AppAdvice
+ "It's certainly the slickest ukelele app." - The Verge
+ "Futulele is a should buy because it’s so well designed" - AppleNApps
+ Also seen on NBC, Mashable, BoingBoing, Engadget, Gizmodo and many other news sources!
Futulele is simply the best-sounding Uke synthesizer in the world. The CrystalClear 4.0 sound engine works with 72 highest-quality Ukulele string samples, combining and tweaking them on the fly to deliver fantastic Ukulele experience. Futulele detects your strumming speed and alters the sound accordignly. The engine is also capable of detecting the current output mode (speaker/headphones) and making the ukulele instument sound perfect under every occassion. If that was not enough, there are 4 customizable FX: Grand Stereo Reverb, 3-Band EQ, Lush Chorus, Tape Delay.
Fully automatic playing is possible, just hold the Automatic button and enjoy the results! There are 15 strumming patterns available, which can be changed in the Options menu. Recording is a blast and takes only one tap. Futulele records to .WAV which can later be converted to .M4A via the built-in File Manager and found in the iTunes File Sharing.
Futulele comes with 10 pre-defined ukulele songs, and you can easily create an infinite number of your own. Up to 12 chords can be used per chord set. There are 132 possible chords in total, more than enough for any ukelele song!
One of the most remarkable features of this digital Uke is that it can be operated with the iPhone (iPod Touch) and the iPad simultaneously, in a way that has never been introduced before. On the iPhone, you'll need to install Futulele Remote app (available separately).
It is not a secret that many iPad owners also have an iPhone, so Futulele is an excellent and innovative reason to get the best musical juices flowing out of both. A special guitar-shaped case holds the two devices, making it possible to select the chord on the iPhone and strum along the iPad screen, just as on a regular ukulele. Changing a chord requires only one tap, and the strumming technique is easy and convenient. No external wires or hardware accessories are needed, since the devices use Bluetooth or Wi-Fi (selected automatically) for communicating.
FEATURES (v. 2.3)
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+ The best-sounding digital Ukulele/Ukelele synth
+ Very easy to play! No music background needed!
+ Universal app for iPhone and iPad
+ CrystalClear 4.0 Sound Engine with 72 MultiSamples
+ Strings respond to the speed of strumming!
+ 2 ukulele sound sets: Classic and Studio
+ Gorgeous Retina graphics (fully optimized for the new iPad)
+ 4 Side-Buttons for FingerPicking with Pitch Bend
+ Automatic Strumming mode with 15 Patterns
+ 132 Possible ukelele Chords
+ 15 Pre-Defined Chord Sets
+ Create you own ukulele chord sets easily
+ Record to .WAV & .MID, convert to .M4A
+ 4 FX: Grand Stereo Reverb, 3-Band EQ, Lush Chorus, Tape Delay
+ Can be extended via separate Futulele Remote app for iPhone/iPod Touch. Make your own cyber-ukulele!
+ FUTULELE REMOTE app is AVAILABLE for FREE (iPhone/iPod Touch)
+ Audiobus support!
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Attack Softener is an effect that fades the beginning of each note you play to remove the attack transient. This allows you to make synth-like sounds with almost any instrument (guitar, bass, piano, etc.)
HOW DOES IT WORK?
It functions similarly to a transient shaper. Unlike a transient shaper though, it can bring the volume of attack sounds down to near zero quickly enough to silence the pick sound of an electric guitar in very fast music.
WHAT IS IT USED FOR?
It works with any instrument but we really like to use it with electric guitar. We recommend the following effect chain: Guitar -> Attack Softener -> Compressor -> Reverb. The combination of the attack softener and compressor is especially nice because the compressor keeps the volume balanced when playing clean solos but heavy compression intensifies the pick click noise, making it inappropriate for many styles of music. With the Attack Softener placed before the compressor you can get a nice, even clean solo tone that doesn't have punchy hard pick sounds. This allows you to play solos with a clean tone, where normally you would have to use distortion or overdrive to get sustain, now you can get that distorted "light touch" feel without the harshness of distortion.
MORE TECHNICAL EXPLANATION OF HOW IT WORKS
A transient shaper creates two volume envelopes. One rises immediately and falls slowly; the other rises slowly and falls slowly. The difference between these two envelopes indicates how far the volume should be reduced to silence the attack. However, changing the volume very quickly usually causes noise in the sound because of volume changes that happen naturally during the sustain part of the notes. This plugin is different from ordinary transient shapers because it combines several new methods to help it differentiate between real attack transients and other volume changes, and it uses dynamic filters that adjust the response time to ensure that it can respond quickly without introducing audible clicking sounds when the volume changes.
IS THERE ANY OTHER EFFECT LIKE THIS OR IS IT SOMETHING NEW?
EHX makes a pedal called Attack / Decay that does something similar. There are several other pedals that also do swell effects. All of them are designed for long fades and slow playing except the EHX one, which can operate faster by separating each new note onto its own audio channel using spectral processing. That spectral note separation distorts the tone signficiantly. This Attack Softener plugin is the only effect we are aware of that handles fast picking while preserving the original tone of the instrument.
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Attack Softener
January 3, 2025