Virtual ANS 3

🇺🇸 United States
Alexander Zolotov  | 
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App Age
6y 6m
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Last Update
Oct 03, 2025

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4.93
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Virtual ANS is a software simulator of the unique Russian synthesizer ANS - photoelectronic musical instrument created by Evgeny Murzin from 1938 to 1958. The ANS made it possible to draw music in the form of a spectrogram (sonogram), without live instruments and performers. It was used by Stanislav Kreichi, Alfred Schnittke, Edward Artemiev and other Soviet composers in their experimental works. You can also hear the sound of the ANS in Andrei Tarkovsky's movies Solaris, The Mirror, Stalker. The simulator extends the capabilities of the original instrument. Now it's a full-featured graphics editor where you can convert sound into an image, load and play pictures, draw microtonal/spectral music and create some unusual deep atmospheric sounds. This app is for everyone who loves experiments and is looking for something new. Key features: * unlimited number of pure tone generators; * powerful sonogram editor - you can draw the spectrum and play it at the same time; * any sound (from a WAV file or a Microphone/Line-in) can be converted to image (sonogram) and vice versa; * support for MIDI devices; * polyphonic synth mode with MIDI mapping; * supported file formats: WAV (only uncompressed PCM), PNG, JPEG, GIF; * Audio Unit Extension (AUv3), Audiobus; * many new features compared to version 2.3; see the full list: https://warmplace.ru/soft/ans/changelog.txt Homepage, user manual and versions for other systems: https://warmplace.ru/soft/ans}
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Some Latest Reviews

GBRRRL
04 May, 2025
5
it took me a while to form a cohesive project with this, i'll admit. however, once I did, it was incredibly satisfying. i'd like to conclude that the best usage for this app is forming unique soundscape with a darker sci-fi appeal. making use of all the tools—unique brushes, different gradients, and otherwise—you can make quite a bit of complex tracks with an otherwise "simple" interface.
Cosmo Welfare
11 Apr, 2025
5
Macht Spaß, die Sounds sind gut für Ambient Musik.
Eriptron
18 Dec, 2024
5
Update: Oh my gosh, you really don’t know much about iOS! Use hot-key’s how? With what keyboard? iOS doesn’t have a control key nor an escape key. Are you saying I need to buy an external keyboard since iOS only opens it’s virtual keyboard when in a text field? Rescaling the Font isn’t designed correctly. You’re using a reference point on the right side of the letter so as you increase the Font size, the note labels go off screen to the left. Looks sloppy. It wouldn’t be so bad if you weren’t charging customers again for virtually the same product, it really is just an update, and giving us ‘beta ware’ on top of it. Tell us so in the app’s description. I found an app to created a PDF of you online manual since you were too lazy to do that for your customers. —- I can’t close the synth controls (which are WAY to small, unnecessarily). It won’t toggle off. Touching outside of the control window won’t close it like other windows do. The synth controls for ADSR and volume do not work. User manual should be available as a PDF, not just a web page. Why is it so hard for developers to get through their heads that not everybody always has excess to the Internet! The app’s manual says VA3 will crash if you attempt to load the wrong type of wave file! It should never crash. That’s just bad coding. The manual says that Start/Stop AU doesn’t work yet. And actually, the manual is foe Windows and Macs. The developer just inserted a few lines for the iOS version, leaving all the Windows/Mac Hot-keys! My gosh it only would take 10 minutes to revise the manual for iOS. How disappointing. 5-stars to 1-star. —- I still have/use version 2.3b so when I saw the enhanced version, I bought it, again. 🤓 It’s has always been the only music app that drawing forms by your finger really worked. I know, other apps have the feature but they usually impossible to really draw waves accurately. Virtual ANS 3 is perfect to go along with Mood, Spacecraft and OuttaBass. I still do not use SunVox as it’s an eye test, the text is too small to deal with.
ansonort
31 May, 2024
5
All of this developer’s apps are fantastic. This is absolutely priceless for emulating those “Forbidden Planet” vibes. There is nothing else like it on the App Store.
Mgoomt
30 Sep, 2023
5
It’s just cool and fun to play with! I’ve been enjoying capturing live video of my virtual ANS sessions and layering the videos with live Theremin performance.
TommyT~
12 Mar, 2023
4
If you would have added an import feature that automatically pixelate/granulate a photo and placed it on the grid. Your face would make music. We could add to the image or erase. Any photo could make music… If you would have included this feature you would be very rich by now. Unfortunate, that you have abandoned this potentially fabulous app. PS, I’m really surprised you missed this concept!
suomynona
02 Apr, 2021
4
Wer Metasynth noch kennt, der wird sich schnell zurechtfinden. Allerdings kann Virtual Ans 3 noch nicht alle Tricks, die Metasynth kann. So fehlt zb eine Quantisierungsmöglichkeit auf musikalisch sinnvolle Tonleitern oder einige andere Effekte oder die Möglichkeit anhand der Farbe die Stereoposition zu bestimmen. Es gibt also noch Potential. Trotzdem hat man mit der App Spaß und es ist eine schöner Zeitvertreib.
userinnorway
11 Feb, 2021
4
Import of some audio files makes app crash. Wish app could output midi in addition to audio files. The scaling is completely off. The frequency for key is totally wrong with custom scaling in project settings. Lowest frequency setting for new project does not work. Scaling image so it is playable/ audible is basically impossible. Scaling totally off also with timing and project settings. And several other problems ...
LMT 70
12 Dec, 2020
5
Great app again. Nature oscillator, spectrum gem are really good too. Thank you very much mr Alexander Zolotov Keep up your great work.

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.93
Voted: 202
App Store Link:
Price: 5.99 $
Website:
Email: -
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Categories: Music, Photo & Video
Size: 30MB
App Age: 6 years 6 months
Release Date: Jun 03, 2019
Last Update: Oct 03, 2025
Version: 3.0.4
Version history
3.0.4
Oct 03, 2025
* improved quality of export to 32-bit WAV; * when loading JPEG, the orientation of the image is now taken into account; * new files: projects/swamp.ans, synths/air.ans; * bug fixes.
3.0.3
Oct 23, 2023
* iOS 11 support has been dropped; now the minimum is 12; * now you can load audio files in the following formats: WAV (PCM, uncompressed), AIFF (PCM, uncompressed), OGG (Vorbis), MP3, FLAC; * auto-repeat in the virtual (on-screen) text keyboard; * bug fixes.
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