Plasma Sound
Beautiful music instrument inspired by the Theremin, Continuum, Keyboard and Sequencer. Touch the screen and a note is generated. It's X-Axis (left-to-right) is pitch, which is designated by note and octave markings. It's Y-Axis (up-and-down) is up to you to control! Plasma Sound is incredibly configurable. Pick the note range, the waveform, cutoff, delay, tremolo, vibrato and more! You can even select between continuous mode (theremin-like), quantize mode (keyboard-like), and a hybrid.
Plasma Sound applies the same principals to the Sequencer to give you even more music creation abilities! Select a note to activate it, and drag up and down to select it's Y-value, controlling the same thing that the Y-Axis controls in the Keyboard section. Immediately you get an incredibly dynamic and versatile sequencer.
This app is known to have problems with older/lower end phones. The original Droid is known to work (just barely), but phones with lower specs will most likely run in to problems. Please don't leave a bad comment if your phone doesn't work; it's an intense app, intended for tablets (although an honest effort is put in to supporting older phones, I promise).
On top of all that is a beautiful visual based off of MSAFluid, The sound is generated by libpd.
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Please let me know of any bugs or errors you encounter! In addition, if you have any feature requests, let me know. Feel free to email me or post on the XDA thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17498254 This is my instrument for my band, Shy Guy Says, http://shyguysays.com (check us out!), so I'm incredibly concerned about stability and ease of use!
The source for this program is at: https://github.com/rjmarsan/PlasmaSound
Category : Music & Audio
Reviews (29)
This app is a really cool and usable instrument. It has a visual scale grid and options to lock the pitch to the nearest half step or only lock when you first touch (then slides while you keep your finger down). You can set the lowest and highest note and the pitch range is huge. The tone is decent: typical therimin tone but with options for sine wave, square wave ect. Has presets. You can turn off the visual effects. Ad free do I'm definitely donating.
I think this is really good too! The only downside is the time needed to practice using this app to gain experience in using it in trying to arrive at personally favourable and predictable outcomes in using it, but it is a lot of fun experimenting while trying to arrive at this situation! Think it must have enormous creative potential once one has reached that stage and is free and without any adds too. A very valuable app. Brent Collins.
Pretty much exactly what it says it is. I haven't found an export option yet, but I use it as a live instrument into Audacity, and eventually into my LMMS build. Still exploring the options. Simple and super lightweight, with a unique sound.
awesomeness! It's not Cubase and I don't expect it to be :) its fun and makes some great sounds many thanks for the share/cares 2 things that are really buggin me though - your donate link isn't working and can we have an Invert Y axis, long press style? blue shift vs red shift color indicator? (no shift really, physics, you know what I mean) less important - i want more options in the sequencer, but, its sleek no bloat, so I can't say what exactly - just my 2 bits - cheers
A blast of an app, I have had a lot of fun using it as I am not in the least a musician of any kind or have any kind of musical aptitude, this app makes me sound terrific. ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Amazing. unique not complicated to get started.take some time it is a real instrument you can use for songs or parts we plan to use this in our band here and their for parts as we get better with it. Free.no ads I seen yet. Great app . Thank you whoever made this
So far this is a very cool app. I havent had nearly enough time with it yet to post a comment worthy enough to meet the standards an app this clean and beautiful should deserve. Also, such little time too, I felt it was important not to diminish the true value of a full five stars by over-doing it and shooting the moon just the same. Tho i must admit, 25 more minutes using this app would almost certainly have been enough to warrant the fifth.
I haven't gotten super deep into using this as an instrument yet, but I'm jazzed at the potential of a synth app with decent texture and in-app sequencer. Looks great so far.
I think this is really great. Not at all overly complicated to run right away and a seemingly infinate in the degree of subtelty in sound manipulation. Dark and cold gulf between the tendrals of galaxy clusters
Very playable and expressive. Really opens up your musical ear, yet easy to learn thanks to the line grid. Could use more robust controls.
I would love it, and it would be my preferred theremin like app, except the lower notes are too quiet and can barely be heard. Not my devices, as other similar apps sound fine.
Seems like a really good software synth, lots of options, it will take a lot of tikering ro explore all the possibilities.
Super fun sound toy, inspirational even. With some experimentation, you can even make a decent waterphone sound.
Lots of fun, and you can save files. It's a go-to for instant weird background audio.
Seems great soo far.. Makes some awesome drone noise.. Haven't fully got my head around the total functionality of it, but it seems to have scope to be really useful to me in the future. Thanks
Take an old phone and load it up with fun music apps like this. This truly is an amazing electronic instrument. Use this with a loop pedal and have a blast...
Amazing app. It helps me to create soundtracks for the films and podcasts I make. Thanks a lot !
a very great theramin-like synth that is held back by a lack of an audio export function beyond SoundCloud Upload.
Simple app for a Theremin -type sound or sequenced loops that recall some of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's pieces from the 1960s. Have fun!
I love this app, but it keeps telling me that it's for an older android version?? 🤔 i see no more updates so I'm a bit confused. Other than that it brings me hours of fun :)
Multi-finger touchscreen expression allows continuous flow of sounds, creating a mesmerizing experimental music which you can record and playback for meditation or tai chi..
great sound, like a 70s yamaha synth, the sequencer is groovy, you can SAVE PATTERNS. For a free app its magnificent. kudos to the developer.
OUTSTANDING! but can the recorded files be found to edit/play? if so, please let us know where... if not, still 5 stars because its awesome!
BUY IT U'LL LOVE IT. BECAUSE WHEN YOU CALL A BUSINESS & GET PUT ON HOLD, OPEN THIS APP & PLAY ALONG WITH THE ELEVATOR MUSIC. I WONDER IF THEY HEAR YOU PLAYING. 🤓 HILARIOUS !!! WORTH EVERY PENNY.
I have a phone ringtone like no one else. I have a toy of entertainment as well as a musical instrument. In my wildest dreams I never thought I could afford to own a synthesizer.
Good app, but sometimes the sound is a bit crackly and doesn't flow.
Such a piece of beautiful machinery, all for free. Thanks very much to the creators
fun toy but i managed to get it to bug out in less then 10 minutes, big sad. i wanted a theramin kinda.
This app, to my mind, is one of the best, and in the general, as well as the specific. Very uncomplicated, very unyeilding, very uncompromising. The app manages to fit in all the essential parts of music. Yet be utterly unintimidating, never counterintuitive, and utterly reliable. A real gem, free and add-free. If you were looking for one music making app, either by issues of storage space, or because of keeping things simple, or that you don't have the liberty of time for your compositions