It's official -- Moog Music announced the Filtatron app, a real-time audio effects engine and studio tool for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Apps are some of the best selling products out there right now, and Moog Music wants in.

What drives Filtatron and gives it the warm, thick character of Moog instruments is a modeled Moog Ladder Filter that musically shapes the sounds supplied by the Filtatron app's onboard oscillator, sampler, and line / microphone input. In addition to its sound-shaping tools, the app features multi-touch pads that make for an intuitive performance interface and provide hands-on control of all major parameters.

Filtatron comes with ready-to-use presets and loopable samples; a soft sampler to record and play your own sounds; and an effects module with Delay and Amp controls that provide tones ranging from warm analog overdrive to extreme distortion.

Moog Music Filtatron app features:

• Moog Ladder Filter: 4 pole resonant Moog Ladder Filter with Lowpass and Highpass modes and adjustable cutoff and resonance parameters
• Oscillator: a high-resolution, alias-free DSP oscillator with sawtooth and square waveforms and adjustable frequency from 0.3 Hz to 2 kHz
• LFO: five waveforms: sine, ramp, sawtooth, square, sample, and hold with crossfade and morph between adjacent LFO shapes
• Envelope Follower uses the volume envelope of sound inputs to sweep the filter, with controls for amount and speed
• Amp and Delay FX modules: Amp provides warm, smooth overdrive with feedback control, while Delay can be modulated by its own LFO (with rate and depth controls); delay time is interpolated smoothly for analog-style delay time tweaks
• File sharing: move audio files back and forth between the Filtatron and your computer
• Audio Copy and Audio Paste enables sharing audio between the Filtatron and other compatible apps
• Built-in email function allows you to share presets with other Filtatron users
• Record and playback: all audio processed in stereo, 16-bit, 44.1 kHz resolution
• Record samples up to 10 MB
• Playback control can be adjusted from double-speed playback all the way down through zero to double-speed reverse

About the app, company president Mike Adams comments, "Filtatron represents the first time that the signature Moog sound is available outside of a high-end, hand-made Moog synthesizer. This powerful app extends the studio capabilities of traditional Moog users, and also provides music enthusiasts and Moog fans a fantastic way to create and share their personalized presets."

How much will this cost, you ask? Moog Music will be releasing Filtatron for iPhone and iPod Touch on October 18, 2010 for $4.99. For more information, visit moogmusic.com.