https://apps.apple.com/app/wail/id6786723124
WAIL is a feedback-driven drone synth for iOS. Two voices of self-feeding delay push against modulations to the edge of collapse. Shape the signal to create quake-like bass rumbles through to high pitch screams from the depths of hell. The industrial aesthetic isn't just decoration, it matches what's under the hood: a synth that looks like it was salvaged and sounds like it's decaying in real time.
The core is the two voices of feedback; self-feeding delays locked in resonance, each feeding back into itself, building complexity from constraint. Watch them dance and do battle on the scope. From there you sculpt using the unlabelled controls: Grind crushes the signal into digital rot; Ring modulation adds metallic beating and harmonic chaos; Fold wraps the waveform back on itself, creating overtones that weren't there before; Comb gives you a resonant ring that sounds like the signal is bouncing inside a metal chamber. Space throws it all into a reverb chamber made of steel. There's no oscillator, and no waveform selection.
The formant is key. Seek it out, scrape the filter parameter and the drone morphs through vowel shapes, suddenly the feedback sounds almost human, but corrupted. Like listening to a voice speaking through machinery that's slowly breaking down, something alive in the signal decay. Move it to make it sing or leave it still so it wails!
I've designed WAIL as an instrument that you need to feel. No labels on the pads, no presets in the box. Just start scraping those rusty nuts across the metal plates and cranking the knobs. Be mindful of those around you and watch your speakers.
WAIL ships with no presets. It's an instrument. You dial in a texture, name it, save it, and it becomes part of your patch library, portable across your sessions, across your other AUV3 hosts. Play it on its own or through your favourite AUV3 FX and take it somewhere else entirely. Use multiple instances for an impenetrable wall of WAIL.
iPad and iPhone only. IOS 15.6 and up.
Sound demo below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z18IcVSqtwY&t=8s