Testere

What it does

A supersaw synth whose voice stacks seven sawtooth oscillators. Instead of editing each one, you set a curve shape and a spread amount and the app distributes detune, phase, waveshape and stereo position across the stack. Each oscillator has its own level, a sine sub sits underneath, and a filter, envelope, LFO, arpeggiator and ping-pong delay finish the chain.

In the demo

Jade puts a limiter after it in AUM, then drops every oscillator level to zero and raises them one by one so the stack builds up in the ear. She works through detune, phase and flavor spread, points the LFO at the flavor center, sweeps the filter with its rise and fall, runs the factory presets, and closes by layering four instances into a slow soundscape.

Worth knowing

It does one thing, and it gets loud and distorted quickly, which is why Jade keeps a limiter in front of the output the whole way through. Anyone after a general synth with several oscillator types is looking at the wrong app.