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 +Ten years ago, 2013, I was working heavily on VividTracker. It took about a year to develop the first version of VividTracker, so I guess that I had a kind of working app at that time. It would still be half a year before I could actually release it.
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 +VividShaper is my next app after VividTracker. It is not a stand-alone app like VividTracker, but an AUv3 wavetable synthesiser plugin that you load in a hosting app like Garageband, AUM, Logic, or Ableton Live. 
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 +The unique thing with VividShaper is that you get to program your own wave tables using the built in Lua programming language. Each wave table is 128 samples long, a common length in some hardware synthesisers such as Dave Smith's Evolver and the legendary Prophet VS synth. Your Lua-code will get called many times per second (for instance 50 times, depending on host playback speed and buffer size), and at each run you can reshape the wave.
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 +I thought it would take less time to create this plugin, but I just had too many ideas for it. I had a version running already in late 2020, then called VividWaves, but it was a very simple mono-synth with just one oscillator. It could still give some very interesting sounds, but didn't sound that "fat". Some years later, and a PhD defence in between that took most of my time actually, I am now very close to release VividShaper.
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 +VividShaper has eight generators (allowing you to play up to eight notes at a time) and eight oscillators per generator (each oscillator with its own unique wavetable, volume, and panning).
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 +Also, it will be released both for iOS and macOS and it will have support for iCloud, which means you can save a patch running VividShaper in Ableton Live and then pick up your patch in AUM on your iPhone.
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