Saucillator

Green Noise

About this app

Create and play your own custom synthesizers and instruments!

Inspired by the Korg Kaossilator and Moog synthesizers, Saucillator transforms mobile devices into a platform for creating and playing digital synthesizers. Users use the touchscreen to manipulate oscillators and effects, and can also do live-looping and recording. Our goal is to be beginner friendly while at the same time offering all the deep, complex features traditional synth users love.

A multi track looper and beat generator are available to create synth loops and synchronize a beat/click track alongside it. Loops can be modified, toggled, and added as you're playing.

Users are able to play custom modular synthesizers using the x-y axes of the touchscreen. The x-axis corresponds to amplitude (volume) and the y-axis corresponds to frequency (pitch). Playback can also be looped, recorded, and EQed using a Parametric EQ.

On top of performing, users are able to create their own custom synthesizers, which consist of a custom timbre and user-defined effects. A variety of timbres are included: Sine, Square, Saw, Pulse, Noise, Theremin, "Singing Saw", "Electric Eel", and "Starslide" (among many more). These, as well as any user-created synths, can be mixed and matched at different harmonics, amplitudes, and phases to create custom sounds.

Each synth has customizable fx parameters as well, including Envelope (ADSR - attack & release), Vibrato LFO (rate & depth), Tremolo, Delay, Distortion, Parametric EQ, and Note Lag (Portamento). We also include a Filter (low-pass, highpass, bandpass) that can be modulated using an Envelope or LFO.

Custom synthesizers can be exported and shared with friends.

Other abilities:
-Choose scale: Pentatonic, Major, Minor, Blues, or Chromatic (among others).
-Choose the base note for the pad.
-Control the grid size.
-Record to disk.
-Live visualization of waveforms.
-Play synths with external midi controllers

Special thanks to Garrett Langley (http://dribbble.com/glangley) for helping with design and general usability.

Saucillator. I think it's the sauce, boss!

Ratings and reviews

Wow! I woke up in the middle of the night and decided to record a dream of mine but accidentally hit this app in a sleepy haze. I have had this app for many years and have always downloaded it on my phones despite not being updated all that time. I am not a musician but I love the calmness and peace of mind when I interact with this app (or at least how I configured the output). it puts me in a meditative state and for that I much appreciate it. Glad to see it get an update!

Lots of fun, sounds great & pretty useful as a musical instrument. A reverb & maybe some other effects would be useful. It would also be useful to be able to minimise the synth's settings & use just the keyboard pad in portrait mode, and thus increase the note range. The looper is useful addition but can be tricky to use. I found it hard to record the initial loop without gaps at the start & end. To overcome this I recorded an initial blank loop of the length I wanted & then added the actual

I had this installed a very long time ago and was impressed. Today by chance I put it on a newer phone and wow! I was very pleasantly surprised. I could spend hours on this dreaming I'm in 1968 inventing my first electronic machine. The new layout and features are great - you can now literally invent your own sounds - which is exactly what I wanted. If you want that kind of sound from the early days of synthesizers this is the app. I can't wait to see where this goes. Thanks so much!

What’s new

- MIDI controller support! You can now play your Saucillator synths via external midi controllers (e.g. USB).