Appmuse

Although I feel the gui is a little too travely... This synthesizer is inspiring Surreal And reminds me a bit of the roland vsynth mixed with a bit of absynth ...but dont get confused it is its own device. If you design sound, work on movie atmospheres, horror sound design, sci fi ...well welcome aboard! Show more

had this for a few days now. already making sound/music (which is the point) with some very cool sounds. caveats (room for improvement): 1. layout of the pages (scrolling to get to x/y pad) makes this less conducive to live performance than i would like. let me explain. to load a sounds, you have to be on the far-left page, to get to the x/y pads and wheels you have to go to the far-right page. in my opinion, it would be better to have the patch load/select page and pad/wheels pages directly next to each other and have the programming pages as pop-up pages. this would make it easier to do this stuff on the fly. 2. it would be nice to have an indication (a dot or something) of where you are on the x/y pad. 3. the auto reset on the pads doesn't really seem to take you back to the original setting (least ways for me it doesn't). makes performance a little trickier. all in all, i was really excited when i saw this reviewed and picked it up right then. there is some great stuff in here, so don't be put off by my caveats . . . just hoping this feedback helps improve an already stellar ipad synth Show more

Hard to put this thing down. The UI is wonderous and contains an incredible depth of control without losing the user in a dungeon of fiddly lists. The approach to sound shaping really makes other apps look 2D. This thing is at least 4D. See the fine reviews from Sonic Touch #6, discchord, and Touch Producer, then buy it and smile. Thanks Wooji! Show more

Was a little on the fence about Grain Science; this update got it a star .5 boost from me.

...it didn't hang when unpacking samples off Dropbox. I should be able to cancel an unpack rather than watch it grind forever. I tried closing the app by double clicking the home button and relaunching, but the app reopened and was still in unpack mode. Grrrr. All I could do was delete the app and reinstall, which is pretty shoddy. I can see lots of potential, but until I can load samples in without hang, it's almost a waste of $10. But, I guess they already have my money now. :) Show more

Just bought it. Sound is descent. One thing right off I noticed is once you get to the last screen, of which there are 11, to get back to the first screen you have to go back through all the screens in linear reverse order. Needs to wrap from first to last and last to first otherwise live performing can get cumbersome. Sometimes there is audio noise when switching instruments and there is always audio noise switching instruments if you are playing a note when switching instruments. That is a serious problem. I find the 11 screens unworkable unless you plan not to change anything while performing. Try going from Grain Unit 1 to either performance pads and back without missing a beat. Now as a "sound lab" it can definitely make some really intriguing sounds but as a performing instrument I can't see this filling the bill very often. Show more