“Unique sounds like syrup with dirt kicked into it. If Bootsy Collins, Roger Troutman and Daft Punk would have met up in Studio 54 to create a soft-synth, for sure something like Unique would have come out of it…” Sound & Recording Mag Unique was made for fun and vibes: Analogue sound, intense modulation and a killer set of features, delivering an amazing sonic spectrum that’s full of character: Classy sounds, powerful, warm… sometimes gritty. Each of the 2 oscillators offers a selection of 5 waveforms: sawtooth and pulse waves are here, along with noise, triple saw and triple FM waves. There's also an additional sub-oscillator strapped into the master section for added oomph. The internal controllers will bring in the dynamics: an LFO and an envelope, there's a recordable XY field & a sequencer. Use these to modulate any knob – a simple long tap will do. The sound springs to life when it hits the filter section. Needless to say, analogue high-pass, low-pass and band-pass varieties are in place, along with a comb filter. Standards aside, the actual intention behind this project, the Vowel Filter, also became its outstanding feature: string together two or four vowel formants and play them back in a multitude of ways. Once you’ve built your sound, there’s tons of sound polish in two chained multi-effect units. Features • Sawtooth, Triple Saw, Pulse, Triple FM, Noise with tonal Filter, Sub Sine • 5 Filters with 5 Modulators each • Duophone Arpeggiator • Vowel Filter • Two Effect Sections • Audio Unit v3 • Ableton Link Kit • MIDI Learn & Host Automation • 300 groovy presets by various artists
Kinda broken
Can’t save new presets. Edit: Saving presets work but can't assign any of the controllers to a parameter because you can't long press any parameter dial. I am on iOS 16.3.1. Still a great sounding synth.
Works Great For Me
It seems like people think the more complex a synth is the better. That may be true if you’re into endless tweaking for sound design. Been there, done that. Nowadays I just want to make songs without spending a lot of time tweaking. So I choose a preset that sounds good to me, tweak it a little and the next thing I know inspiration strikes. That’s Unique for me. No issues with performance in NS2 either. Sugar Bytes stuff is always good!
Broken
Can’t save new presets.
iPhone X issues
I really want to love this synth. It sounds great, looks gorgeous. But it’s barely usable on an iPhone X. The iPhone’s slide bar thing gets in the way, and the whole synth is shifted in a bizarre way on the screen. Most other synths handle the iPhone X just fine. Also a bummer that they don’t have a dedicated iPad version. There’s so much promise and great thought put into the design but it looks like iOS support is an afterthought.
Very Nice Synth
Thanks for the update! Looks great in AUM and BeatMaker 3 now!
Latency And App Crashes
Not worth having on my iPhone 6 or IPad Air 2.
Ugh!
Back to square one on iPhone X.
• Fixed preset browser issue
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