I spent the past year building a Video Synth for iOS

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…It’s called Chromatose. With it you can make generative visuals in real-time with modulation, audio-reactivity, and HD video output.

It pairs really well with Elektron gear b/c it supports MIDI IN to control 8 macro knobs. I tested it with my Digitakt and it’s super smooth over USB or with a wireless Bluetooth dongle.

Coming from a music/synth/modular background, I built it with a similar UX design language, so I think it’ll be intuitive for everyone in the Elektronauts community.

Official release is planned for end of June. If you’d like early access, the public beta starts next week - there are still a few spots left. You can signup on the website www.chromatose.app

You can see it in action in this quick-start video.

I hope you like it. I am a solo indie developer and this is my passion project. So I’ll read every message. I’m really looking forward to your feedback!

PS: There will always be a free un-crippled version without ads - no signup required.

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Very cool, good luck with this!

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Good luck and look forward to its release

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Also I forgot to mention…
I’m looking for a variety of styles of sample-cleared royalty-free music for use in future YouTube tutorials. Artist credits will live forever in the video and YouTube description. If you’ve got some beats and you want to collab, DM me with some samples!

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Looks epic! Would love to throw some tunes your way; I’ll DM you.

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…very nice…and a great name…chromatose can come a long way, i’d say…

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Nice!
Actually I don’t see how to DM here. Maybe it’s not possible. Can drop me a line here:

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This looks amazing!

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Oh hell yeah this looks super cool.
Have you figured out what you’re going to charge for it? (please don’t say subscription it’ll make me cry)

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I sent a DM! Hopefully the notification lighting up with steer you in the right direction. Cheers :stuck_out_tongue:

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Thanks for the feedback. You’ve inspired my first FAQ :wink:

Final pricing will be announced next week.

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Just to follow-up…

Chromatose is now publicly available in the App Store and free to download.
I’d love to hear your feedback.

https://get.chromatose.app

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Meanwhile, 30 years ago:

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I just want to put an old iPad next to my record player and run this constantly

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But Winamp/Milkdrop was neither interactive nor portable nor could users create their own visuals from scratch :wink:

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I would hope this stuff is more advanced 30 years onwards.

But to be fair, many of the Winamp vizualization plugins were interactive, e.g. Jeff Minter’s VLM or Cthugha (both of which had earlier interactive standalone versions), and Milkdrop allowed for a degree of authoring presets (even combining two presets in later versions).

In terms of portablility, well, I sometimes schlepped a PC with cthugha to my gigs. Was a bit bigger that the Atari that ran the sequencer :wink:

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Really cool, I think there is a gap on modern M processor Ipads for audioreactive visualization apps. I’m using Imaginando VS sometimes. Would love to see Touchdesigner on Ipad, but probably this will never happen.

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Hey! Haven’t tested yet, but regardless of that I wanted to say congratulations on the release here. Looks like a hell of a nice job.

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There’s another quickstart video on Presets & Performance View

Just played around with the app, GUI is great, really simple to use, and I wasn’t able to max out the CPU on my iPad so far. Looking forward to testing it with a MIDI controller later.

I was amazed to see the export format is text-based.

@hekuli does the app respond to program changes so that I can change presets on the fly? It looks like preset switching is definitely fast enough for that?

Also I’m curious, in the In-App purchase screen it says monetization is only allowed for the Pro Version (for €120 per year)? Setting aside the discussion for the legal basis for enforcing this limitation, would that imply that I can’t use the Standard Version (€60 per year) to project any visuals on a paid gig?

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Thanks for the feedback! Glad you like it so far.

does the app respond to program changes so that I can change presets on the fly?

Not yet, but this is one of the features at the top of the roadmap as well as other enhancements to the Performance Mode.

would that imply that I can’t use the Standard Version (€60 per year) to project any visuals on a paid gig?

Yes, technically that is how the license is structured. Full details are in the EULA here.

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