Caustic

Specifically created for music aficionados and song creators, Caustic comes with a generous set of tools ready to assist them in generating original sounds and addictive beats. With a look that will most probably seem familiar to DJs, it enables users to build their own rack and modify songs in real-time.

At first launch, Caustic welcomes you with a short tutorial that explains basic usage, even though instructions are also provided in each screen. And if that is not enough to get you started, you can discover the potential of this application by watching a few online video tutorials.

Caustic features MIDI recording and brings to the table a rich collection of powerful editors that enable you to tamper with the sound as the song plays. The mixing and editing controls are intuitive and easy to handle, consisting of a plethora of knobs, buttons and virtual keyboards that will make you feel like in a real recording studio.

Caustic enables you to combine different racks and tamper with a wide range of settings to build your song note by note. It delivers different kinds of synthesizers (analog synthesizer - Subsynth , multi-sample wave synthesizer - PCMSynth, harmonic table pad synthesizer - PadSynth, equation solver synthesizer - 8BitSynth, DX-style FM synthesizer - FMSynth, string modeling synthesizer - KSSynth, mono synthesizer - BassLine), including a fully configurable one (Modular), as well as a beatboxes and a drum machine, a tonewheel organ and a 8-band harmonic vocoder.

It integrates a sound mixing tool with delay and reverb effects, sound mastering options, a built-in equalizer to adjust bass and frequency, a limiter and a song sequencer. Thanks to the built-in effects collection you can alter the sound using distortion, audio compression, chorus effects and various other tools.

Caustic is in its essence, an audio synthesizer, but it comes with an assortment of functions and controls, that turns it into a powerful song builder with lots of potential. Its options are intuitive and easy to use, thus allowing the composer to focus on the creation process, rather than learning about specific controls. It adopts a look that can also be used on touch-screen devices, allowing audio mixing, mastering and studio editing in real-time.