Happy 5-Year Anniversary, miniSynth!

Five years ago, we released the very first synthesizer for the App Store: miniSynth! To celebrate, we're having a HUGE 24-hour sale - each of our apps is over 50% off! Plus miniSynth 2, our updated version of the original miniSynth, is FREE!

We'd like to thank all our supporters over the past 5 years: from those who have been around since Day 1 (like Palm Sounds) to our newer friends (like Sunsine Audio). And a big thanks to all our users, whether you downloaded miniSynth 5 years ago or just discovered Magellan yesterday. We couldn't do it without all your support!

What's next? We have a great new music creation project we're working on. We hope to have it out this fall, and really believe you're going to love it!

You know you want to watch our original miniSynth 1.0 video from all the way back in 2008...

What's New? (or How We Spent Our Summer Vacation)

Hi Everyone!

We've been working hard all summer long to bring you Magellan 3.0. And it's here! Right now! With inter-app audio! And iOS 7 compatibility! Exciting!

Here's a quick list of some of the new features:

• Inter-App Audio: use Magellan 3.0 as an instrument plugin with Inter-App Audio compatible hosts 
• Completely updated & tested for iOS 7! 

New, more powerful MIDI framework we designed from ground up, with features including: 
• Faster MIDI I/O handling 
• Inter-App Audio MIDI support 
• Keyboard splitting with settable split in channel, left/right out note ranges, learn & invert 
• Improved MIDI-UI interaction 
• Import/Export Magellan MIDI CC Maps 
• Individual MIDI Out channels for the synth engines 
• Individual MIDI In on/off toggles for the synth engines 


Many improvements and new features, including: 
• Master FX mix 
• Increased max polyphony to 10 per-engine for iPad 2 or newer 
• Envelope curve selection for VCA and FM envelopes 
• Extended octave range for Osc 3 with key tracking off 
• Direct one-touch access to either synth engine's control panels, arp or chordmaker 
• Continuously settable filters tracking 
• 59 new modulation outlets for the XY-pad and the modwheels 
• Presets now save BPM data 
• BPM Lock feature: specifies if you want BPM data to be loaded with a preset 
• Bounce whole sequences or individual patterns to audio via Song Library -> Export 
• Adjustable touch-velocity sensitivity 
• Preset & Bank renaming 
• A new free preset bank ("Boleskine") 
• Target-foreground-synth mode for the XY-pad 
• One-touch waveform selection 
• Continuously adjustable knob response: set to "Fine" to make precise adjustments to a knob-controlled parameter 
• Many other UI improvements 


Introducing In-App Purchasing (iOS 6 or later): 
• New professional preset packs available for purchase within Magellan's Store 
• Atlantic - 65 new presets from Yonac Inc. 
• The Explorer Series from Sunsine Audio - available as individual 64 preset packs or one bundle of 192 presets 

• Updates to latest Audiobus & Sonoma SDKs 
• Many other improvements

Pretty cool, eh? And to celebrate, we've put Magellan on sale for a limited time, now 33% off! 

Galileo Screenshots and Selected Specs

Galileo Organ features a virtual-analog design that generates and processes tonewheel (or transistor, depending on the setting) signals. We will follow with a more comprehensive list of specs, but here are some highlights:

• 32-bit DSP

• Three individually configurable manuals, each with own drawbars

• 11 organ types. The organ types include tonewheel engines with unique tonal characteristics, harmonic leakage, etc. as well as multiple transistor engines.

• Scanner Chorus & Vibrato emulation

• 48-voice total polyphony

• Percussion module w/ 2 attack algorithms

• Adjustable key click, tone wheel & drawbar leakage, brilliance, attack/release; togglable bass foldback

• Rotary cabinet simulation w/ 3 cabinet types, brake & speed toggles, adjustable fast & slow mode rates, drum-to-horn balance, rotor acceleration and stereo mic separation

• Virtual-Tube preamp w/ asymmetric-clipping "Class A" topology. Parameters include gain, blend, a classic lows-mids-highs tonestack with selectable mids focus for an "American" or "British" tube tone.

• 4 types of Wah-Wah with adjustable sweep range & emphasis

• Autowah module w/ 5 sweep curves, 3 follow modes, velocity tracking, settable rate, phase and bpm syncing

• Ring Modulator / Tremolo with fast & slow modes and adjustable depth

• Delay, Reverb & configurable FX signal path

• Arpeggiator with dedicated note buffer for each manual

• Comprehensive MIDI implementation with three IO channels, keyboard splitting, program changes, sustain & expression pedal support

• MIDI Learn w/ over 130 control destinations

• Over 240 factory presets, including a bank produced by Sunsine Audio

• Create & share unlimited banks and presets

• Built-in tapedeck with recording, audio sharing, copy/paste

• Touch velocity recognition

• Scale keyboard mode w/ over 50 musical scales and selectable key.

• Can be used in the Audiobus input or FX slot

Galileo - Professional Organ Emulator for the iPad

Hey Gang!

We're excited to announce our new app, the Galileo Organ! Galileo is the first professional organ emulator available for iOS!

Below is a sound set of some short samples from Galileo. Stay tuned for more awesome goodies the next few days! Galileo will be available in the App Store on Monday, June 10th.