Freethe: Sustain & Drone AUv3
Muddlegeist Music iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
Freethe: Sustain & Drone AUv3 is a free Music app for iPhone and iPad by Muddlegeist. Requires iOS 26.0. Updated October 4, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 9 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 4
- 2026 · v1.3
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About Freethe: Sustain & Drone AUv3
Freethe catches the sound that just happened and holds it — stretching a fleeting moment into a living, evolving drone. Make a sound, tap the canvas, and it freezes into a sustained texture you can shape with your fingers. Inspired by a classic sustain pedal and rebuilt as a modern granular instrument, Freethe gives every frozen "grab" its own place on a pan/volume canvas and its own character: • Cloud — overlapping grains scatter the capture into a soft, shifting haze. • Loop — a seamless read head holds a clean, steady sustain. • Spectral — additive resynthesis turns the moment into a shimmering, tuned pad. Grab as many sounds as you like, drag them around the stereo field, and layer them into slowly breathing soundscapes. A live scope traces the incoming signal behind the canvas, so you can feel the sound before you freeze it. FEATURES • Three distinct freeze modes: Cloud, Loop, and Spectral • Multi-touch canvas — grab and move several drones at once • Per-grab control: position/scrub, drift, loop window, spectral shimmer and width • Split any grab into its other two modes with a single tap • Global tempo with tap-tempo and tempo-synced attack/release • Full MIDI mapping — trigger grabs and drive every control from a controller • Choose your input device, monitor the dry signal, or freeze from an audio file • Also ships as an Audio Unit (AUv3) plug-in for Logic Pro, GarageBand, AUM and more FREE TO PLAY, ONE-TIME UNLOCK Play generously for free with up to three grabs in all three modes. A single purchase — no subscription — unlocks the full pool of eight grabs plus the power features (MIDI mapping, Split-into-modes, presets, and audio-file input). Yours forever. PRIVACY Freethe processes all audio on your device. Nothing is recorded, uploaded, or shared, and there are no accounts, ads, or tracking.
What’s new
Version 1.3 · Updated October 4, 2026
Spectral now holds its pitch. Switching a captured sound between Cloud, Loop and Spectral could shift its tuning by as much as a seventh of a semitone. It doesn't any more. Shape the spectral pad Tilt leans it onto its fundamental or opens up its top. Harmonics thins it from a full bank down to a single pure tone. Shimmer can now stack a fifth as well as an octave, or both. None of them change how loud the pad is, so you can hunt for a sound without chasing it on the fader. Position stays a cloud At the extreme ends of its travel, Position used to collapse the grain cloud into a buzz. Now it stays a texture wherever you put it. The plugin The Pad view's panel finally has room: every window button is reachable, and the character pad grows with the window. In Sliders view each card says which window it belongs to and wears that window's colour, the mixer sits in even rows, and Cloud's controls no longer run off the bottom of a maximised window. Double tap any control — a fader included — to put it back to its default. New: Poly and Solo. In Solo, starting a window releases whatever else is sounding, so eight windows play as one changing voice rather than a chord that only grows. Host tempo sync is now free in the plugin. The unlock buys the other six windows and MIDI control.
App privacy
The developer, Muddlegeist, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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