Starnight Keys

Starnight Keys is a complete instrument for iPad: a library of sampled sounds, three synthesis engines, and a sampler that turns your own recordings into playable instruments. Built for playing live, not for looking at. ■ THE LIBRARY 19 sampled instruments with up to 8 velocity layers: concert, salon and studio grands, uprights, reed and string electric pianos, three historical harpsichords, chamber strings, solo violin, harp, pizzicato and tremolo. With string resonance, hammer noise, damper and pedal noise — the details that make a piano sound alive. ■ THREE SYNTHESIS ENGINES Subtractive, with alias-free oscillators, a state variable filter with drive, unison and analogue drift. Four-operator FM with eight algorithms. Additive with 32 partials, inharmonicity, spectral evolution and a drawbar view. 22 factory presets, every one editable parameter by parameter. ■ FOUR SLOTS, SPLIT AND…