Music Technology
This $6 iOS Synth Listens to the Room and Grows Its Own Wavetables
Valery Mironov's Sentient, released September 12 for $5.99, is an AUv3 and standalone synth for iOS and macOS whose wavetables aren't shipped with it. A neural network listens to everyday sound and builds them, and the interface exposes the learning itself — learning rate and neighbor influence are both drag gestures over a visible grid of neurons.