Soup Granular 4+

Quantum Sound

The Strange Agency LLC

Designed for iPad

    • 3.3 • 12 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

iPad Screenshots

Description

Retro Future

Inspired by the oil can delays of the 60s and our previous granular explorations, Curtis™ and Spunk™, Soup brings you a virtual magnetic fluid that you can record onto, slosh around, and play back from. You can use it as a unique delay effect or more like a granular synthesizer, concocting your own wholly novel sounds.

Quantum Sound

Soup breaks up recordings into individual sound quanta with which you can interact as if they made up an audio fluid. They can be played linearly or randomly, forward, backward, or even sideways. They can, moreover, be stirred together, giving a whole new meaning to mixing sound.


Sounds Touching

Not only is this an extremely visual audio experience, it’s terrifically tactile as well. With support for multi-touch, Soup lets you get in there and mangle the fluid in a way that’s simply not possible with knobs and faders.


Audio Palette

Soup will let you paint with sound. You can record external sounds through the microphone or import WAV files, slathering sound over the virtual fluid. Then your fingers can become play heads, reading back the sounds from any position, or multiple positions at once.

What’s New

Version 1.3.1

Adds in-app purchase.

Ratings and Reviews

3.3 out of 5
12 Ratings

12 Ratings

Hamachi chop chop ,

Fun, but Needs updating

Just purchased this, knowing it is stand alone only, with no connectivity to other apps, because I’m granular addicted, lol.
I think it is a really clever idea.
But I was disappointed to find that it won’t send sound to my Bluetooth devices.
Also am having regular crashes, when loading files, and pressing play.
Sometimes it recovers, and starts playing, sometimes not.
Would be nice if it had more than one playback head.
Another feature I would like to see in an update, is the ability to apply modulation to some/all of the controls.
Also midi learn, so midi from other apps, or external hardware, could control the app’s functions.
As far as cpu usage goes, iPad hardware has come a long way, since this app was released.
Is there no way to optimize the software performance, so it is less stress on system resources, and could connect to other music apps?
I suspect that this app is now abandonedware, as there have been no updates for a few years.
It’s a shame, as the idea has a lot of potential.

A. Designer ,

Working again on 13.5.1

Thanks for fixing your baby. Things can get interesting again!

(old panic review follows)

Help! Doesn't work on 13.3

It's an awesome app, but it is completely broken by iOS 13. It won't even start on 3rd gen Pro running 13.3 - it just force quits. I've owned all of the Strange Agency apps, and most of them sadly died in the 32 bit app purge. This one should be fine, though, but it isn't. It was very expensive, and it won't even start.

UPDATE: iOS 13.5.1 app is still dead in the water. Don't buy it if you're running anything past iOS 12.

polarpaul ,

Great Granular Glitchy Goodness

If you enjoy mangling your audio, this is the app for you. The last update restored the ability to import files. The ability to record and export your recordings from within the app allows you to use them somewhere else.

App Privacy

The developer, The Strange Agency LLC, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

No Details Provided

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