Synth App Reviews

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This app is GREAT!! And when u use it 4 kompa!!! Whoosh

Got this app to help me learn music theory, particularly major and minor scale construction. It's been just what I wanted it to be: Simple and easy to learn. if only music theory were so easy.

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It has great sounds, but no stand alone sequencer. it probably would've been better throwing this synth in tabletop as a better keyboard over the rs3 because of it's sampling capability. I hoping the MPC 2000 app for tabletop doesn't lack all these capabilities

Nicely Done

The Gorillaz used this app?! 0_0

Love all the variation of retro sounds, I would give it 5stars if only it could save or export :) please fix as I would love to use with Tabletop some how. Upgraded btw.

This is a quite useful synth app without too many buzzers and whizzers. The rotary knob format would probably work better with sliders. Despite the intuitive design, I find building an iPad synth to operate as if it were manual a little odd. It's quant but in this case, why not reinvent the wheel. Otherwise as I stated very useful with some cool sounds.

Great synth app but no Midi! What gives?! It's 2013, ant'e nobody got time for that!!!! Lol

.. needs recording, soundcloud, and audiocopy support. (Even if minimal.) With these things: definitely worth five stars.

If you're looking for traditional instrument tones, you won't find them here. However there are a lot of space aged sounds for you to experiment with.

When it works, it works wonders. However I've been switching between this and Figure and when I swipe to go back, sound no longer is outputted. I have to restart the app to get audio output again. Please fix it. I love the sounds but I need to be able to switch between apps and have this still work for me.

Amazing!

Just what I was looking for

Needs an upgrade for: audiobus, midi, and volume Control. I also think synth designers need to stop with the knobs and make sliders. So much easier on an ipad surface. Don't look as good but every one will thank you and wonder why no one has thought of this yet. Plus more space for more controllers when using sliders.

Pretty cool gig

Never thought I'd hear really good synths before. This app has it. Only wish I could record loops and export stuff. Otherwise the app is great. Love the synth creator too!

The sampler alone is fun and practical

Really just a toy nowadays - surprised they would charge for this. No midi support, no IAA/Audiobus. It's stuck in the past of an iOS world that has moved way past what this app can do in music.

Why can't I record my work!!!!!

Great synth effects! Wish I had some sort of drum machine preset to jam along.

I love this little synth, but it really needs an up date. Things like Audiobus & CoreMIDI support would be a great place to start. It seems that Retronyms has put so much time into Tabletop & the Akai stuff that they have forgotten a really cool little synth that could be great with a little TLC. I will hold out hoping for it to happen.

Nice keyboard to work on for any bedroom rocker out there. Thanks to the developers. Big UP'

Love this app. I like that it is simple because it forces you to be more creative. Sometimes to many bells and whistles are a bad thing. Two thumbs up.

The app itself has various instruments for the synth pad, which comes in great use. Though by itself awesome, this combined with another app written by the developers "Tabletop" creates the perfect package for music creation use for the price of free.

This very odd little synth reminds me of the CZ 101 for some strange reason (phase distortion synth) but nothing else on the iPad has it's very niche kind of interface . I like ! And a Retronyms product that doesn't crash is quite refreshing! Peace christo

I gave it 4 stars ONLY because I also own Retronyms Tabletop which I would give 5 stars--I think if I were to purchase the Patch Editor for a mere $0.99, it would be worthy of 5. As a sound designer/musician I create all my own sounds so I don't use pre-made patches...however you can add delay, delay filter and distortion in the free version and they all sound good. The factory patches are also good, but for serious work, I recommend Tabletop by this same company.

A very simple, but very useful synth!

Very simple easy to use does something's very well! Like to see it keep up.

No function to record and export files makes this app almost useless...

Could we Plz hav audiobus support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why doesn't it work with my IMPC??? I thought they would be compatible

I like this app, only I wish it had the option to choose what type of audio out I like to use. It won't play through a Bluetooth speaker setup.

Don't get me wrong with my title, this really is a brilliant synthesizer. I love the presets that you can use with the keyboard, some truly unique sounds, not found in other ios synthesizers. But, for me, the big letdown was the fact that I just cannot find a way to record and export. I thought this function might be present in the paid upgrade. But, from what I surmise, there still is no way to record and export your track, even if you buy the upgrade. I assume that when "The Gorillaz" used this app to record content for their new album. That they had a bunch of equipment that allowed them to connect this app to their computer or gear, and record the output that way? Well, as you probably guessed, I am not part of that band, and I do not own a bunch of expensive tech to help me accomplish this. Or, maybe they didn't really use this app at all, who knows? I am always amazed, though, when a developer creates a wonderful music-making tool like this application, and purposefully omits any way for the user to save and export all of their hard work and time spent in the app. This is same case with those Jordan Rudess apps, no way to export your work, they just assume everyone has expensive gear to record outside the app, or, they just do not care. Either way, in my mind, it is a complete waste of my time and effort to spend time working on anything in these non-export music applications. But, if the need or want to save and export isn't on your list of requirements. Well, you probably will love this app, just like I did, up until the point when I figured out that I could not save my work and export it to a .wav or .Mp3 file. iPad 4 / ios 6.1

BEEEEESSSSSTTTTT

Soundcloud support would be a cool feature to have.

My title makes it a deal breaker....time to delete this app

No ADSR with sampling, No Audiobus, I think I just got screwed by the IAP's which essentially are a complete disappointment .... I hope the developer improves this app & that I and likely many others don't feel burnt ... Has "potential" but that's about it .... Fix it up and I'll up my rating

Fun! Easy to grasp. A definite must have for one's app library.

it's 2013 and this app still doesn't have ADSR when your playing in Sampler mode... if this was added i could actually use this synth. Below is my previous review, and as you can see things haven't changed. I've had this app for a while now, and only purchased it for the sampler section. I contacted the developer about adding an ADSR section to the sampler, but all they seem to care about is adding more in app purchases, one of which I bought, "the patch editor", but still........ No simple ADSR...... Something every other synth, or sampler would have......... Save your money and buy something else.

It is a cheap cheesy synth. The mod wheel works backwards. You cannot truncate samples after recording. The meager sounds that are supplied free are awful to say the least. Give this one a miss there are a lot better free synths to spend time on than this pile. It does not deserve to spend time on my iPad. BEGONE! Junk junk junk.

decent sounds. need to restore my in app purchase and not seeing a way to do so. checked retros website and its almost like this app doesnt exist.

Fun and pretty simple to use for experimenting with sounds and noodling. Haven't noticed any bugs, and it sounds cool, especially for the price.

A fun toy, nice delay effects. However, if it had some basic things like filter cutoff, resonance and maybe an envelope control, or an lfo rate, that would have put it over the top!

Got it for my aspiring musician grandson. We both love it!

It's almost really really nice but, you can't really do much with it. No Tabletop, no AudioBus, No Inter-App Audio. Just a synth.

Love the app and its simplicity but come on, no basic recording features? This app is basically meant to play around in.....

This is a great app that is easy to use and versatile.