Magellan Jr app for iPhone and iPad
Magellan Jr is the bold new professional analog modeling synthesizer for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Modeled after its acclaimed big brother, Magellan for iPad, you can now create powerful music wherever you go. With extensive MIDI capabilities and near-zero latency, Magellan Jr is a fierce live-performance machine.
Complete with a full FX rack, three oscillators, dual filters, multiple unison stages, extensive modulation matrix, arpeggiator, and a polyphonic step-sequencer - the aural possibilities with Magellan Jr are infinite! Magellan Jr and Magellan are completely compatible: presets, sequences and sound recordings are easily interchangeable.
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Synth ///
• 3 oscillators w/selectable waveforms
• Osc unison stage w/ adjustable detune & width, up to 12 simultaneous wave generators for super-saw type effects
• Realtime PWM Modulation for osc 1 & 2
• FM module w/ dedicated blend, ADSR envelope & contour
• Oscillator 2>1 ring mod
• Noise generator w/ adjustable tone
• VCA ADSR envelope
• Separate voice unison stage w/ settable stereo spread, detune
• Dual Keyboards
• Dual Touch Pad controls w/ settable key & scale, adjustable glide & individual voice parameterization
• Polyphonic, Monophonic, Poly/Mono Legato operation modes
• Glide
• Matrixpad modulation w/ configurable x/y destinations and optional snapback
• Realtime oscilloscope displaying output signal (iPhone 4S and later)
• Audio backgrounding
• Tap tempo
• 10 voice polyphony (5 voice for iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4)
Filters ///
• 2 filter banks, configurable in series or parallel
• Dedicated ADSR envelope for each bank; selectable envelope curve, adjustable contour
• 11 Filter types for each bank:
• "Magellan" 24dB Resonant Low Pass
• "Victor" 24dB Resonant Low/High/Band Pass
• "Voyvoda" 12dB Low/High/Band Pass
• Formant, Comb, All-Pass, Notch filters
Modulation ///
• Dual LFOs
• 3 freely assignable destinations per LFO
• Dedicated amp setting for each LFO destination
• 3 reset modes
• Adjustable phase & delay
• Frequency tracking & BPM Sync
Arp ///
• 10 arp patterns; Settable note value & gate; swing
• 6 octaving modes, plus settable note and octave repeats
Sequencer ///
• Analog inspired 16/32 step polyphonic sequencer
• 8 track poly output per pattern in 16-step, 4 track poly out in 32-step "link" mode
• Settable pitch, velocity, gate, octave per step
• 6 stepping algorithms
• Swing
• Timeline for creating song length sequences w/ patterns
• Import/Export song files containing sequences
Chordmaker ///
• Create/save chord progressions, played by pressing a single key
FX ///
• Comprehensive FX rack w/ adjustable flow order. FX include Equalizer, Compressor, Reverb, Stereo Delay w/ BPM sync, Phaser, Chorus, Flanger, Waveshaper/Distortion, Bitcrusher, Sonic Expander
Recording & Sharing ///
• Built in tape deck for recording app audio
• Metronome
• Export/Import audio files via email, WiFi, Intua or Sonoma Audio Copy/Paste
• SoundCloud
Connectivity & MIDI ///
• Use as Audiobus input or FX processor
• Inter-App Audio Instrument or FX
• CoreMIDI & Virtual MIDI with In & Out ports
• Control Magellan w/ external MIDI controllers
• MIDI Out w/ settable channel or omni
• MIDI Learn w/ over 250 control destinations
• Save MIDI CC maps
• Sync w/ external MIDI clocks to control sequencer & arp
• WIST
Presets ///
• SPAWN artificial intelligence algorithm for generating countless new presets with a single touch
• Over 300 factory presets
• 2 banks & a song by Sunsine Audio
• A bank by New Wave Presets
Requirements ///
• iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, or later
Pros and cons of Magellan Jr app for iPhone and iPad
Magellan Jr app good for
...good. well designed. good sound. a lot of nice features.
update: now 6 stars - spawn automatic preset creation is just awesome.
Great synth. Amazing layout, great sound, randomizer for creating new random synths.
The only bone I hate to pick is that unfortunately a lot of the synths sound really similar. I feel like theres a lot more limitation in terms of sounds that can be achieved on this. Have not been able to recreate synth sounds Ive easily made in nanostudio or sunrizer. All the synths sound very aggressive and saw based (even on other waveforms). Same goes for pre-made presets.
If yonac added a little more sonic variety this would probably be the best ios synth for iPhone.
Also lfo amounts are rediculous for pitch modulation. Setting the amount of osc pitch at anything above 1-3% they sound rediculous. Please fix and add more variety.
Sync mods or maybe other waveforms beside the basic four would be nice. Theres just nowhere near the amount of sonic variety that sunrizer has (but they discontinued it)
I love this synth. Its not sample based, mind you, but a great realization of an analog synth on iOS.
The only thing is they need to charge a lot more for this. Yonac is ripping itself off by charging this insane, bargain-busting price. Raise the price to $400 please!!!
Just simply a very well thought out synth package. A pleasure to use and to listen to.
...good. well designed. good sound. a lot of nice features.
update: now 6 stars - spawn automatic preset creation is just awesome.
This thing sounds great! Very powerful synth!
The only option Id like to see is a quantize on the tape deck recorder.
Awesome job!
Some bad moments
Magellan is the best full-featured synthesizer on the iPad. Now, it is the best full-featured synthesizer on the iPhone. And after a few minutes of playing with this app, it is definitely a very well-done port to the iPhones 5s 4 inch screen. I am very impressed and look forward to creating music in a more mobile environment with this instrument!
This app has a lot of really awesome sounds and tweaking. By far its the best Ive used for creating music, my issue is sound bank 5-10 isnt working on my iPod touch... Idk if it needs an update or is anyone else having this problem? Please fix if possible, I would like to use this app to its full potential.
I got to say that Yonac really puts out some very good Synth, and Magellan Jr. is another wonderful app that to me surpasses most synth apps I have now. Right off the bat this baby puts out some great sounds and the UI is very good for the lil brother version. Copy/paste as well as other features you would expect from a music app are present and works very well. Excellent app and is well worth the intro purchase ($1.99).
For Synthstation 25 owners,
The Midi Bridge app is the go to for playing core midi apps like Magellan Jr. Put it to the test with Magellan after my purchase and it works great! Ive been using Midi Bridge by Audeionic for over a year and has not let me down when I want to access my core midi apps.
Exceptional update. Audiobus support, new fx. And a lot more. There are some really good synths in the app store. Magellan is right up there with the best of the best. Outstanding synth, great company/developers!
The presets are very nice sounding, very easy to use.
Only thing I would like would be an offline user manual.
Ive purchased and mucked with just about every iOS synth available. There are so many incredible instruments to choose from, but each has a fatal flaw of one sort or another with respect to workflow, and this creates tension in the creative process that is not always pleasant.
I now require simplicity - fewer apps in the production chain, higher quality sounds, playability, good sequencing, copy/paste, etc. Magellan delivers. Its the only dedicated synth remaining on my device, and that says a lot given the phenomenal competition.
Now, please provide an optional graphical interface without faux wood. :)
Magellan has become one of my favorite synths for iPad. Its got a rich sound, with lots of power and flexibility. Once I saw -- or rather, heard -- what it could do on the iPad, I of course wanted it for my iPod Touch, which goes places that my iPad never does (the office, the car, various pockets).With this app, that dream is realized. The only major feature that got left behind in the translation from big screen to small is synth layering -- the iPad version can do two timbres, with separate effects -- but everything else is here, including the sound, in a well-designed package. Im particulary impressed by how usable the keyboard and touchpad are. The larger screens on the new 5G models are a help, but actually playing notes on these little devices is always going to be tricky. Yonac seems to have thought of everything. Theres a lot to explore here, but have a look, in particular, at the touchpad and the chord matrix. Together, these two features will help you to maximize the expressiveness of the small-screen interface.
I have noticed one bug: the arpeggiator works on my iPod Touch 5G, but not the 4G.
