Audulus Brings Mobile Modular Synthesis to iPhone

In philosophy, a first principle is a basic, foundational proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption. In mathematics, first principles are referred to as axioms or postulates. In the mobile modular music processing app Audulus, first principles are the core of sound design.

Created and designed by software engineer W. Taylor Holliday, Audulus is a minimal, colorful, and downright attractive modular synthesis app for Mac, iPad, and now iPhone.

Modularity is an age-old concept: combine two discrete elements to create a whole that is the sum of its parts. The functionality of a modular system is defined by the pieces that it comprises, and this concept need not be analog to be instilled with the same spirit that made such technologies so limitless and fun.

With Audulus on iPhone, modular audio is reinvented for musicians on the go, in an app that allows the user to create his or her sounds from the ground up. As with all technological innovations, especially those dealing with such “building block” structures, design is at the core of Audulus’s functionality. Easy to use and easier to look at, the app takes inspiration from the elements of programming applications such as Pure Data and Max, and outfits them to be quite appealing, even to an onlooker on the subway.

Audulus comes stocked with standard synth features, such as oscillators, ADSR, and filters; production tools including a 4-channel mixer, crossfade, and level meter; as well as MIDI control, preset saving, and integration with the new Audiobus 2.

Audulus for iPhone and iPad is available on the iTunes store and an AudioUnit beta version has just been released for Mac.