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Caustic

Multi-platform, mobile-focused music creation app with practically everything needed for electronic music. Created by Single Cell Software

Freemium
Mac
Windows
Linux
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
iPad
Wine
Discontinued

Caustic is a music creation tool inspired by rack-mount synthesizers / samplers rigs. Everything is real-time and optimized for mobile devices.

Create your rack by adding up to 14 machines from a choice of:
* Subsynth - Virtual analog subtractive synthesizer
* PCMSynth - Multi-sample wave synthesizer
* BassLine - 303-like monosynth
* BeatBox - 8-channel sampling drum machine
* PadSynth - Harmonic table pad synthesizer
* 8BitSynth - 8bit equation solver synthesizer
* Modular - Fully configurable and routable synthesizer
* Organ - Hammond-like tonewheel organ with rotary speaker
* Vocoder - 8-band harmonic vocoder
* FMSynth - DX-style 3-operator fm synthesizer
* KSSynth - Karplus-Strong string modeling synth... More Info »

The app also includes:
* Effects rack supporting 2 effects per machine. (16 effect types)
* Mixer desk with global Delay/Reverb effects
* Master section with parametric EQ and limiter
* Song sequencer

Caustic is listed in

The best free DAWs, Cross-Platform apps, Audiography, Music Comp, and Make music on the go

Link to official Caustic site

Official Website

Pricing Information

One time purchase (perpetual license)

Features

Audio Recording Beat bassline Beat maker Loops MIDI keyboard input Mix Music Music Composer Piano Roll Plug-in support Add a feature

Category

Tags

Discontinued music-sequencer

Caustic was added by CaptainHindsight in Apr 2012 and the latest update was made in Nov 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Aug 2020. It's possible to update the information on Caustic or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Caustic 3 app overview

Rise Up - Created in Caustic

SubSynth machine

PCMSynth machine

BassLine editor

Caustic is discontinued

The program is no longer updated. Last version, 3.2.0, released in February 2017, can be still downloaded from the official website.

MORE APP INFO Official website

Reviews 2

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