WoodSynth

Watched Doug from infamous sound test room had to get it sounds lovely and appears to be very light on cpu. I will update as I get more use but I know Maple Syrup Studio is trustworthy for updates and bug fixes. I own a few of their effects apps and the level of detail that goes into these are superb.

Great sound being able to combine all the available oscillators and layers together. The app can get deep but all the editing is 1 click away with a few minor exceptions being 2 clicks away. The sequencer is pretty straight forward but makes getting ideas out very quick. It can get fairly cpu intensive if you start piling up the layers but the quality of the patches and sounds I’ve got out of it so far make it worth it. As a note, it’s pretty efficient if you are creating more simple patches

The preset browser is pretty non-functional. Instead of showing a list, you have to open up folders in your files to load presets manually. There appears to be an egregiously overlooked update not being addressed. I’ve written to developer but have yet to receive any response.

This really is a lovely synth, you can tell the developer cares about their work. It is constantly being improved and new features are a regular event lately. To me it sounds a step above the rest.

One can get into all sorts of mischief with this instrument. The continued development work on the synth convinced me to buy a bundle of Wood tools. That kind of effort deserves support, particularly when the results sound as good as this synthesizer does.