SKIIID User Reviews

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Stephan Bolch

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Itโ€™s own thing

The sound palette and rhythmic structures this thing can produce are stunning. Teams up nicely with Octachron.

Oscillator crackles when the pitch is changed. Hope this can be fixed.

This was great! Easy five stars! Needs an update nowadays!

Love this app but hadnโ€™t used it in a bit. Just opened it up and it definitely needs an update. Do an IAP! Iโ€™d purchase in a heartbeat.

This was cool in the first place! Recent updates make it awesome! Nice combination of random and programmed sounds! ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

Wastes 20% of iPhone 12 display

Making it impossible to see and play.

app was the best until iOS 16

the app has multiple modes, and you can easily bounce between the three and really utilize this app by itself as a peformance level drum synth.

unless you upgrade to an iphone 13 from iphone 11 and are using iOS 16. once that happens you lose the ability to leave the first mode, rendering the drone and sequencer as well as all of their features unusable. this is a bummer. i will go back to five stars if they update and fix this issue.
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Sound great

Sounds great but midi implementation is not good. No midi cc. No way to change midi channel. No way to change midi notes. And you canโ€™t trigger more than one sound at a time even if you load 2 instances in AUM.

Favorite iOS percussion synth

So innovative and weird but still easy to dial in to taste. Please make more apps!

Amazing app but seriously needs midi and sequencer update

Update - prior to the developer response I figured out how to send midi. Can't remember the issue, although I still wish I could specify midi channel. I've been sending notes from digitakt to aum and I specify limiting this app to a specification midi channel in aum. Anyway it's a great sound design tool and I hope it's expanded upon - whether this app itself or maybe some future deluxe version or something. not enough unique drum sound design tools on ios for my taste. so this is nice

So first of all - amazing app for the price. Anyone considering it, just go find a demo video and you'll be sold.

However... The sequencer is frustratingly limited. You can choose to have between 1 and 16 steps but that's as advanced as it gets.

I'd like to see up to 64 steps in the sequencer, probability per step, and a "retrigger" option.

Thanks a ton for reading this, developer. Look forward to updates and future drum design apps
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Response from developer

hi, you can play the PADs using MIDI with your DAW (Ableton, Logic etc) or inside of your IPad with virtual Midi (App to App) or inside of PADs like AUM. playing the PADs with a connected keyboard or via korg nanokey should work too (not tested yet) PAD 1 = C4 (notenumber 60) PAD 2 = C4# (notenumber 61) PAD 3 = D4 (notenumber 62) PAD 4 = D4# (notenumber 63)

Innovative and deep

Wow. Truly this is one of the rare artifacts recovered from the alien world. I canโ€™t wait to see where this goes.

How does the AU midi work? Tried in cubasis but the GUI never showed up and I couldnโ€™t get it to play any sound.

Works great in nanostudio2.

Very much love this thing. Would love to see some manual and good docs!
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Response from developer

hi, there is a question mark on top of the app which leads you to a manual, enjoy :-) and i am happy you like the app

For grimy sound manglers

Sick and slimy beats that you can morph and mangle like a wizard. Parameter locks are in here as are high quality randomization options. This a
Is a synth drum and drone mode is very obtuse.

Wonderful morphing droning percussive sounds

So, the good stuff... the four instruments are incredibly expressive and easy to shape. Within a single pad, you have a wide range of sound possibilities depending on how you set parameters across the width of each pad. Everything is on one page, so you can readily see how your sound is made and where morphing takes each of your soundโ€™s parameters. Very intuitive!

The bad stuff... not to much to say here. You have to play around a bit to get some good sounds. With a little time and effort, any youโ€™ll start to see how powerful this instrument can be in a live setting as well as within daw arrangements.
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