Best iPad Synths?

hollywoodrox

Dexed, , FM player 2, synth one

RaymondLin

personalnadir said:

RaymondLin said:

personalnadir said:

RaymondLin said:

Anything which lets you send instructions from hardware to your iPad. As you’re interested in synths, probably something with a piano keybed that you can connect to your iPad. You can play synth on the iPad screen, but I found it’s much harder to get the rhythm right

I have a Yamaha P75, which has a midi out.

That’ll be perfect for it then. You may need a midi interface and or usb hub if it doesn’t have midi over Usb. I use one by ESI which is great, though I have to be careful about which order I plug stuff in or it get confused 

Just want to say i got the MIDI Bluetooth thing, came with ZERO instructions, good thing i read an Amazon review that pointed me towards that free app which acts as a bridge between and after 15mins of fiddling i got it working!

No noticeable latency, feels weird to have the piano now to make all these weird noises from it but certainly makes the app into a more tangible product.

horse

RaymondLin said:

No noticeable latency, feels weird to have the piano now to make all these weird noises from it but certainly makes the app into a more tangible product.

 Off topic, but I play keys a lot, and as my collection of gear has expanded over the years I've learned just how much the feel of the keyboard changes what I think I'm hearing. Eg the same piano sound played from a synth keyboard seems to sound more "weighty" when played from a piano type keyboard. Likewise, synth sounds played from a piano type keyboard seem to sound less convincing, but if I play them on a light synth action the same sounds can seem to sound different / right.

A certain amount of this can be explained by velocity curves, but not the whole thing in my experience - the feel of the keyboard really does seem to influence what I think I hear.

d8m

Couple of my favourites are Poison 202 + Moog Model D.

The Moog apps do drop in price/ go free from time to time so worth keeping an eye on appsliced.

Drambo is very good but very very deep in potential and comes with a huge learning curve. Ive not really got into the building my own synths with it yet but as it can host AUV3s I use it purely for its sequencing and p-lock capabilities.

personalnadir

RaymondLin said:

personalnadir said:

RaymondLin said:

personalnadir said:

RaymondLin said:

Anything which lets you send instructions from hardware to your iPad. As you’re interested in synths, probably something with a piano keybed that you can connect to your iPad. You can play synth on the iPad screen, but I found it’s much harder to get the rhythm right

I have a Yamaha P75, which has a midi out.

That’ll be perfect for it then. You may need a midi interface and or usb hub if it doesn’t have midi over Usb. I use one by ESI which is great, though I have to be careful about which order I plug stuff in or it get confused 

Just want to say i got the MIDI Bluetooth thing, came with ZERO instructions, good thing i read an Amazon review that pointed me towards that free app which acts as a bridge between and after 15mins of fiddling i got it working!

No noticeable latency, feels weird to have the piano now to make all these weird noises from it but certainly makes the app into a more tangible product.

Cool, glad you got working. Opens up a whole world of iPad synth apps 

https://musictech.com/ Is a great resource for them. 

If you want to get advanced you can look at DAWs like AUM which let you set up keyboard splits and have multiple synths assigned to different parts of your keybed
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/aum-audio-mixer/id1055636344

https://youtu.be/SXPOQEApf90

personalnadir

d8m said:

Couple of my favourites are Poison 202 + Moog Model D.

The Moog apps do drop in price/ go free from time to time so worth keeping an eye on appsliced.

Drambo is very good but very very deep in potential and comes with a huge learning curve. Ive not really got into the building my own synths with it yet but as it can host AUV3s I use it purely for its sequencing and p-lock capabilities.

https://www.cheapcharts.info/gb Is a useful site for being notified when app prices drop. Also let’s you see historic price changes 

d8m

d8m

Korg sale just started on appstore, looks like everything is 50% off again.

d8m

Bit of Thread resurrection but Koala Sampler has just been updated to add in a synth engine.

Free if you have the Samurai update(if you don’t it’s well worth it!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sODVRjoE4ZQ

d8m

releasing imminently - going to see how its reviewed but looks like a strong evolution on GR16

d8m

Nanostudio 2 free at the moment - not sure why its free of how long for.

monquixote

d8m said:

releasing imminently - going to see how its reviewed but looks like a strong evolution on GR16

I've got a copy of this it's very good indeed.

I didn't really get on with GR16 (although I know many people love it), but to me this seems like a very significant upgrade.

d8m

monquixote said:

d8m said:

releasing imminently - going to see how its reviewed but looks like a strong evolution on GR16

I've got a copy of this it's very good indeed.

I didn't really get on with GR16 (although I know many people love it), but to me this seems like a very significant upgrade.

I haven't bought it yet as I've been somewhat distracted but the demos the dev has put on youtube seem really impressive for all onboard sounds - I also tried GR16 and didn't get along with it!

hollywoodrox

paganskins said:

AudioKit synth one is good, and free

Their FM player & king of FM is outstanding too 

d8m

New free Juno for IOS

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/audiokit-synth-one-j6/id6741535277

Stratavarious

d8m said:

New free Juno for IOS

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/audiokit-synth-one-j6/id6741535277

It’s nice… 

d8m

https://www.ruismaker.com/#battlestation

monquixote

d8m said:

https://www.ruismaker.com/#battlestation

Bram Bos stuff is usually really good. 

monquixote

Having investigated loads of IOS stuff now I can say that if you are after an IOS synth then:

Poison 202
Twin 3
BA-1 
Zeeon

Are all really solid choices as are the Moog and Korg offerings.