Sampler · arp · step sequencer · free beta

ADNS SPACE

A one-shot sampler you play on an X-Y pad. Load a short sound, then click and drag: left to right picks the note in your key and scale, bottom to top picks the speed, and the arpeggiator plays it in time. The sequencer plays its own notes, up to 64 steps, with parameter locks for the effects. Made for deep, trippy, raw, hypnotic techno. It's a standalone Mac app: record takes and drag them into your DAW, or export them as WAV. How ADNS SPACE works

Download for Mac macOS 13 or later
ADNS SPACE: the X-Y pad on the left, then the LFOs and envelopes, then the effect strips with the saturator below them, and the arpeggiator and 64-step sequencer along the bottom.

X-Y pad

Pitch on one axis, arp speed on the other. Hold keeps it playing when you let go.

Ten effects

Filter, two EQs, shifter, phaser-flanger, grain delay, reverb, auto pan, Corpus resonators and filter delay. Drag them into any order. A saturator comes last.

Six LFOs

Map any knob, or the pad itself, and let it move on its own.

Two envelopes

Move up to four knobs on every note or every pad touch.

64-step sequencer

A note on every step, and parameter locks: any effect knob or switch can change on any step, and delay and reverb locks ring out.

Record & export

Every take is saved with its moves. Drag a take into your DAW, or export a 24-bit WAV, or re-render with a new sound.

Undo & redo

Step back through every knob, map and sequencer change, and forward again. Cmd+Z works too.

Changelog

2.3.0

  • Feature A Samples menu next to Load, with ten samples that come with the app, so there's something to play straight away.
  • Feature AIFF samples load (as Logic exports them). A file that can't be read says so in the sample strip, and the sample you had stays.
  • Change Deleting a take asks first, in its row: "Delete take 03?" with Delete and Cancel. Enter deletes, Esc cancels.
  • Change The sequencer's button reads Play and Stop instead of ▶ and ■.
  • Change While Hold keeps the arp going, its button reads Stop. One click stops the arp and turns Hold off.

2.2.0

  • Feature Settings now lets you choose the audio output and channel pair, sample rate and buffer size.
  • Feature MIDI settings: choose input and output ports, follow MIDI clock tempo and transport, set the channel and sync offset, and learn knob controls. The arp and sequencer can send notes to a MIDI output.
  • Feature Drag a take by its name into a DAW, the Finder or a sampler to drop in its WAV file.
  • Feature Reset one effect to its defaults. Its on/off state, step locks, and LFO and envelope maps stay as they are.
  • Change Audio and MIDI settings are remembered. MIDI Learn turns off when you close Settings.

2.1.0

  • Feature Undo and Redo in the top bar, or Cmd+Z and Shift+Cmd+Z: up to 10,000 steps back through knobs, switches, LFO and envelope settings and maps, and the sequencer. A knob drag or a slide across steps is one step.
  • Feature VOL in the Out box: a main volume for your speakers, from 0 dB down to off. Takes and downloads stay at full level, and the app remembers it.
  • Feature The switches inside an effect can be locked to a step too: Corpus units 1–3 On, the Filter delay lines' On and Filt, and Inv on the Phaser-Flanger and Auto pan.
  • Fix Delay and reverb locks ring out: a lock on the Filter delay, Space, Grain delay or Corpus sets how much of that step goes in, and its echoes or tail carry on after the step. Before, a locked Filter delay step was often silent.
  • Change Gate goes from 0 to 200% of a step, with a full step in the middle of the knob and Ring only at the very top, so turning it down changes the sound smoothly. Older takes re-render as they were.
  • Fix Unmapping an LFO also removes its maps on steps. An LFO mapped only on steps shows it, with its ×.
  • Change Releases in the top bar is now Download page, and the top bar says free beta.
  • Change Feedback is for bug reports and emails support[at]adnsaudio.com.

2.0.1

  • Change ADNS SPACE is signed and notarized by Apple, so the download opens with a double-click. No more Open Anyway.
  • Change Updates only install when they come from the same developer.

2.0.0

  • Feature The window is 1400 × 780. Effects are strips in sound order, and you can drag them to reorder.
  • Feature EQ 2, Corpus and a three-line Filter delay. A Saturator is always last. Its Dry/Wet starts at 0, and every effect starts dry.
  • Feature Two envelopes under the LFOs. They start off. Mapping a knob turns that envelope on. Each can move up to four knobs on a note or a pad touch.
  • Feature Command-click selects several steps. A lock, including an effect's on/off, is written to every selected step. An LFO mapped in Lock lives on those steps.
  • Change Knobs, BPM and steps use a hand cursor: open to grab, closed while you drag. Hover a control to read what it does.
  • Change The green zoom button stays hidden. The window stays a fixed size.
  • Fix A knob at zero no longer flashes a lit arc, and its label and value stay on one line.

1.3.2

  • Change The green window button is hidden. The window stays a fixed size. Close and minimize still work.
  • Fix An effect turned on for a sequencer lock plays only on that locked step. Unlocked steps and the X-Y pad stay as they were.
  • Change The interface fonts are included in the app, so it looks the same without a network connection.

1.3.1

  • Feature The green window button enters full screen and returns to the fixed size. Close and minimize still work.
  • Fix A no-drag area keeps the window buttons clickable.
  • Feature Releases in the top bar opens the download page.
  • Feature Each take has a waveform you can click to play from that point.
  • Feature Feedback opens an email.
  • Feature The app checks for an update when you come back to it.
  • Change The drag cursor is smaller.
  • Change Takes sit one per row, and the saved count is gone.

1.3.0

  • Feature Slide across sequencer steps to switch them. Clear Steps and Clear Locks ask first and work separately.
  • Change The Mac window is a fixed 1400 × 700 and cannot be resized.
  • Feature Knobs, BPM and steps use a drag cursor with the app logo.
  • Feature An already-open app looks for an update every 10 minutes and notifies even when its window is in front.
  • Fix Update checks use the renamed public download page, so a new version can be found.

1.2.0

  • Fix After the first Open Anyway, the copy in Applications drops the download mark. Opening it from the disk image asks again, and so does a newly downloaded copy.
  • Feature The app fills the window, with no black bars, and scales down to fit a small one.
  • Change The window buttons sit in the top bar, which you drag the window by.
  • Feature The app checks for a new version and can install it. macOS can still ask you to allow the new version. Saved takes are kept.
  • Feature Support is available in the app's top bar.
  • Change Export WAV is gone from the top bar. Each take has its own download.
  • Change Six takes show at once in two columns, beside a fixed-width waveform.
  • Change Clearer sample length, a smaller output meter with a limiter light, and an LFO hint that fits.
  • Fix The top bar shows the real version.

1.1

  • Feature The Mac app is available to download. It works on macOS 13 or later.
  • Fix Export WAV keeps the audio until the Save dialog is done.