Particle Chimes: Ambient Synth

A real instrument designed for creating your own personal soundtrack. Play it, tune it, let it evolve. Free to play; single purchase unlocks everything.

Particle Chimes is an instrument for your iPhone and iPad designed to be touched, with sounds ranging from gentle strings to glass bells to cathedral organs. Press Auto and start an evolving melody in the key of your choice. Select visualizations like ink swirls, starfields, or koi ponds to match your mood. Play notes or strum the performance ribbon to create a wide range of tones. It's easy to capture your performances with high resolution audio and video exports to share with friends. Set the sleep timer to relax and drift off to your own personal lullaby, or keep it playing for focus time. Connect the app to your TV or projector and create your own personal interactive art installation.

Particle Chimes is a generative synthesizer for iPhone and iPad. The sound is the real Rings physical-modeling resonator and Clouds granular engine, the same open-source Mutable Instruments algorithms inside two of the most-loved Eurorack modules ever built. Play with the built-in performance ribbon or with external keyboards and sequencers within your favorite AUv3 host such as GarageBand or AUM.

THE RIBBON Drag across the textured ribbon and notes ring out in whatever scale and tuning you've set: 23 scales from pentatonic to Hungarian minor, tunings from standard 12-tone to Just, Pythagorean, and Bohlen-Pierce, or your own imported .scl file. Hold a note and scrub to pull it into a granular cloud. Use the built in effects like reverb and delay to add depth to any patch.

AUTO Turn on AUTO and Particle Chimes will begin playing a unique evolving melody: a Turing-machine sequencer, an arpeggiator, and a slow drift generator all help to create soundscapes that don't become repetitive.

MANY WAYS TO SEE THE SOUND Every visualizer skin is drawn live from what's actually playing. Five are free to start, including Signal Flow, a living schematic that shows you how the instrument works underneath. The rest open up with Studio.

USE IT IN YOUR HOST Particle Chimes loads as an instrument plugin (AUv3) in AUM, Loopy Pro, and Logic for iPad. Play it from a MIDI keyboard or a host piano roll, parameters exposed for automation and MIDI learn, locked to your host's tempo.

FREE TO PLAY, ONE UNLOCK The full resonator, the full granular engine, reverb, AUTO sequencers, five visualizer skins, MIDI, and the AUv3 are included in the free version. One purchase unlocks Studio: the full editing surface for both engines, a tempo-syncable ping-pong delay, a sleep timer that fades the whole mix to silence, your own saved presets, recording and exporting a performance as video, and every visualizer skin. No subscription.

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