Appmuse

About 1/8 the power or Gadget but this is far more approachable and fun. The sound is pretty decent, you get two MS-10's, a vocoder and a pretty limited drum machine with an extremely simplified sequencer. Fx per part and master fx. I find myself using this on my commute to work and on lunch breaks and stuff while using Gadget with my controller when I have more time to flesh something more intricate out. But this is fantastic and brings nostalgia of the old DS version. It'd be great to see it in Gadget someday. Show more

Get this now. So many things you can do with this. Synths vocoder automation and much more. Very stable you won't regret it

Great music app. It has a lot in common with KORG DS10plus on the Nintendo DS/DSi. I do wish the percussions in iDS10 could do notation similar to DS10plus, specifically the tom and generically labeled "percussion", but that's minor. The single bothersome thing to me is when editing in song mode, if you set channel muting up but then need to reorganize the pattern scenes it erases the channel mute setups for any scene you edit. I also don't like how the legato settings do this same behaviors. Aside from not being able to set scene muting for scenes that haven't been assigned a pattern in song mode, there is nothing else I would want the software to change that I can think of. iDS10 is awesomely powerful, and is the sole reason I got an iPad. Show more

I have the tendency to get far too many apps and I hesitated with this, not because of the cost (same price as lunch out), but thought it would just be another thing I felt bad if it weren't used often. I've been absolutely hooked since it was opened for the first time. It's playful yet POWERFUL. Like all the Korg stuff it sounds stellar. Korg has been absolutely on point these pat several years so I have to take a couple minutes to applaud their staff and their ability to both innovative and draw from their archives to consistently impress in every way. Show more

NO MIDI.....WTW? ITZ A RIP OFF WITHOUT IT!!!???? COME ON KORG.....

This app is definitely fun, and the synth, and vocoder engines are very powerful. The capabilities of sound design are great too. My major complaint are definitely the drums. They don't have their own independent fx processor, and they don't have kaoss pad support. If the did you would be able to make much more complex, and glitchy drums. They just seem a bit too basic. My other complaint is the IDS-10 doesn't support WIST if we could sync two IDS-10's it would definitely be much more fun for live on the fly jams. If Korg can make these things possible I will give the app 5 stars Show more

With the 2.0 update making this a universal app, I think iDS-10 is a 5-star app. Really, everything from Korg on iOS is terrific. That being said, Korg Gadget (recently made universal also) kind of supersedes the functionality and sound quality of iDS-10 in every meaningful way. Still, iDS-10 has some great sounds, cool sequencing functionality, and arguably the best vocoder on iOS. Show more

Being a big fan of the DS-10 since back when it first came out I was very excited to see it come to the ios (especially since I don't really lug around my old DS these days). For the most part it works great and even has a really cool Voice Synthesizer/Vocoder feature! My only complaint, and it's actually a pretty big complaint, is the drums. Instead of like the old DS-10 were you would use the actual MS-10 synthesizer to create each drum sound, here it gives you an 808 style drum synthesizer, which is much less versatile and inspiring. Korg, if your reading this, please please please give me the option to use the old DS-10 style drums and I will give this a full 5 star rating! Show more

iPad 4 not compatible ? Why not?

But I wish it had MIDI out. ?

This would be awesome if you could use an external keyboard.

But the iPhone screen is much too small for precision composition- why doesn't it work on iPad mini?! there should be a bigger disclaimer. I wish I could ask for my money back so I could save up for a newer iPad : Show more

No need for me to rave about this app, I love it and it's predecessor DS-10+. However, Korg needs to add WiST support so I can jam along with my Volcas. Also, there needs to be an export option so I can dump tracks to GarageBand and Moog Filtatron. With these improvements I'd be 100% happy, right now I feel it's a great app but lost alone on a desert island... Show more

It sounds pretty good, you can program pretty much as much as you can, but there's no MIDI, and to me that's s major drawback, I wish Korg would have a midi option even if it's an app purchase, but that's my only complain about this app.... Show more

I own the ins-20 and I wish the ims 20 had the song and pattern organization this app has. It is crazy how much you can do with this. A couple things I would like to see if being able to move the patterns in a song because once you have everything down your locked in. powerful and original, very nice Korg! Show more

Could use better sharing options, but the inter-app audio, Bluetooth headphone and audio bus support are very very welcome. The 4 stars is driven by the audio quality and having more than 1 synth unlike the iMS-20 on ipad that has only 1 synth (that is more powerful/flexible) Show more

Korg Gadget has a usable UI, base it on that but this is just a mess.

Overall this is a very cool mobile groovebox- the sounds are great and very flexible, and the voice synth is a lot of fun. But without any way to export audio, it's just a toy for now. Hopefully Korg will add the "export to Ableton Live project" feature from iKaossilator and Gadget. Show more

It's been difficult to find a good groovebox style app for iOS. Not that they don't exist, but rare to find one that feels as comfortable to work with as the iDS-10. Great dual osc subtractive synth, with signal routing, filter envelope, effects section per device. Drum synthesis, voice synthesis(!), step automation, fantastic. One of the few all-in-one composition tools that comes close to nanoloop's usability. If there's anything I'd like to see, besides core audio and midi(as other reviewers have mentioned) it would be something like the "active step" option that makes the Korg Volcas built-in sequencers so much fun to work with. I feel that could make the iDS-10 patterns much much deeper. To be clear I don't mean overall pattern length, rather arbitrary pattern lengths per instruments, i.e. Drum =16 steps, synth2 =15 steps, synth1 = 12 steps, etc. If I could have another wish, it would be for more options in the routing section. Such as sending a single source to multiple destinations. And/or maybe a multiplier option at each destination input, to halve or double the frequency received. Overall I love this app Show more

Even getting this app at half the cost. At the moment It is useless without midi, inter app and audio bus. Hoping for an update with at least the inter app feature soon. If not I will be deleting the app and calling it a waste if money.. even at half the cost. No way I would pay the full amount for this app that does not support inter app or midi. Please update soon! Show more