Caustic 3

Single Cell Software

About this app

Caustic 3 is a music creation tool inspired by rack-mount synthesizers / samplers rigs.
Everything is real-time and optimized for mobile devices.

Create your rack by adding up to 14 machines from a choice of:
* Subsynth - Virtual analog subtractive synthesizer
* PCMSynth - Multi-sample wave synthesizer
* BassLine - 303-like monosynth
* BeatBox - 8-channel sampling drum machine
* PadSynth - Harmonic table pad synthesizer
* 8BitSynth - 8bit equation solver synthesizer
* Modular - Fully configurable and routable synthesizer
* Organ - Hammond-like tonewheel organ with rotary speaker
* Vocoder - 8-band harmonic vocoder
* FMSynth - DX-style 3-operator fm synthesizer
* KSSynth - Karplus-Strong string modeling synth
* SawSynth - Supersaw-type polysynth (new!)

The app also includes:
* Effects rack supporting 2 effects per machine. (20 effect types)
* Mixer desk with global Delay/Reverb effects
* Master section with parametric EQ and limiter
* Song sequencer

Supports automation on most controls and includes powerful editors for modifying recorded automation curves.

All files are stored on the user-accessible storage, and users can supply their own WAV files for use in the PCMSynth, BeatBox, and Vocoder.
Supports all uncompressed WAV files (8-16-24-32bit, any sampling rate).
The PCMSynth can also load SoundFont files (.sf2), SFZ and FL Studio mobile instruments (.instr, .ZIP)


Class-compliant USB MIDI controllers can be connected via USB OTG cable on devices running at least Android 3.2 and supporting USB host mode.


See the in-app help section for tutorial videos and full online manual.

This is a demo version of Caustic. There is no time limit in demo mode but save/export are disabled. The app will automatically save your current song between sessions.

Unlock the full version buy purchasing the "Caustic Unlock Key" (sold separate). The full version enables song saving as well as exporting to WAV, Ogg and MIDI.
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.singlecellsoftware.caustickey

There is also a FREE (full version) PC version available for download on the product website.
Come visit http://www.singlecellsoftware.com to download more presets, share your tracks and hear what others are creating with Caustic.


Permissions:
- Record Audio: The app supports recording your own samples.
- Storage read/write: All samples and songs are stored on your device and can be accessed via USB.
- Full network access: To launch the (optional) FTP server, nothing else.
- In-app billing: To restore purchases for those who bought during v1.0. There are no other purchases other than the unlock key app.

If you have any problems, write me via the developer email or visit http://www.singlecellsoftware.com
SingleCellSoftware is one person working part-time, please keep that in mind...

Ratings and reviews

Great music composition app. There's a lot of function comparable to go studio and the like. Can be overwhelming if you're new, but if you're familiar with other software, this will be pretty easy to interface. It's pretty intuitive, though there are a few hardware conflicts on lower end devices and there is no developer support. There's a mass of sound packs free and for purchase, as well as vocal/midi input support.For a free, I can't has no cheeseburger better! Thank you developers!

of the multitude available for android, I love the ease of use this daw offers; especially at the price point. The only gripe I have is how the app runs with my new phone. I can't access separate folders to find and use custom samples anymore... could you find that bug and fix it, or do I need to try my luck with downloading older versions?

This app, all in all, is splendid. I'm only giving it 4 stars because I've had weird glitches within the projects. One of them is when you try to skip from one place on the song sequencer to the next place, it just freezes, making some awful screech. And sometimes when you try to move the bar to rid the freezing, it just continues to screech. I don't understand why its doing that when the song sequencer had worked before. Please fix this sometime in the near future so I can rate 5 stars.

What's new

New machine: SawSynth (Polyphonic supersaw-type synth)

New "melody helper" to lock keyboards to scales
Support for more time signatures (3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4) from the song page and in pattern editors.
Tool to create new PCMSynth instruments by merging your rack.
Keyable BPM.

4 New effects

Stereo support for PCMSynth, Beatbox and Modular machine input

Wave Editor now supports stereo, pitchshift/timestretch, bpm detection and more.

New loop and stem export options