My favorite!
This one is just awesome, fantastic sound! Great that one can choose between various included tunings or even add your own. I only wish there was a traditional-style kalimba app that sounded this nice.
Beautiful Tones
Very responsive and like the fact that I can tune it digitally. Versatile.
Extremely disappointing.
This over-priced poor design takes advantage of .001% of the iPad as a platform. It'll play single notes, and you can change tunings and save those, but that is it. There is no ability to hit across more than one tine- as you can with a real Sansula, which could be easily implemented in the app. There's no ability to generate the "wah-wah"- which the accelerometers could easily do. Instead of an enhanced experience and thinking about the incredible abilities of the iPad, this app settles for the bare minimum, and plays much worse than the real instrument. At least give us the ability to strike more than one tine and generate effects through tilting the iPad!
I have an iPad full of musical apps, and most in this price range offer recording, saving, sharing, dropbox, audio share, some will even loop, or bridge to DAWs with audio bus. Yes- it sounds ok- but it is limited to one dimensional sound. Yes- you can make custom tunings. And if that is worth it for you, you'll be satisfied. But- if you are at all familiar with the current state of music making apps today, this app is a huge disappointment.
I have an iPad full of musical apps, and most in this price range offer recording, saving, sharing, dropbox, audio share, some will even loop, or bridge to DAWs with audio bus. Yes- it sounds ok- but it is limited to one dimensional sound. Yes- you can make custom tunings. And if that is worth it for you, you'll be satisfied. But- if you are at all familiar with the current state of music making apps today, this app is a huge disappointment.
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Wow
Simple and elegant. Played the free version for a few moments and immediately bought the full version.
Wonderful
This is a great product! The sound is great and the option to create custom tunings easy to use. This app is like having a set of sansulas at your finger tips.
An absolutely *stunning* app!
I have had a Hokema A minor tuning Sansula for six years and have loved it. The sound is exquisite and I've always wanted to have additional tunings - of course, you can buy them with additional Sansulas.
I just bought another Sansula - this one in "Heavenly A" tuning from Kalimba Magic, and was surprised to see on the Kalimba Magic web site a recommendation for the iPad/iPhone app. I downloaded it and wow - I now have many other tunings to play with PLUS I can create my own tunings with Hokema's ingenious way of tuning the electronic version!
The interface for playing is graphically pleasing and comfortable. The sustain after striking a tine is impressive, to say the least.
The real sansulas are better though, because you can do the way-wah effect, and for me personally, I prefer an actual acoustic instrument. But you can get this into your hands for very little money by purchasing this app - and I will use this app to create new tunings in which I will then order the actual Sansulas from Hookema. Only one thing on my wish list for this app - the ability to record a song and play it back. Other than that, I highly recommend this app - what a wonderful way to pass the time waiting at the airport (using headphones of course!), being at home alone in the rain - this is a beautiful instrument - thanks to the Hokema Company!
I just bought another Sansula - this one in "Heavenly A" tuning from Kalimba Magic, and was surprised to see on the Kalimba Magic web site a recommendation for the iPad/iPhone app. I downloaded it and wow - I now have many other tunings to play with PLUS I can create my own tunings with Hokema's ingenious way of tuning the electronic version!
The interface for playing is graphically pleasing and comfortable. The sustain after striking a tine is impressive, to say the least.
The real sansulas are better though, because you can do the way-wah effect, and for me personally, I prefer an actual acoustic instrument. But you can get this into your hands for very little money by purchasing this app - and I will use this app to create new tunings in which I will then order the actual Sansulas from Hookema. Only one thing on my wish list for this app - the ability to record a song and play it back. Other than that, I highly recommend this app - what a wonderful way to pass the time waiting at the airport (using headphones of course!), being at home alone in the rain - this is a beautiful instrument - thanks to the Hokema Company!
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Top notch
Beautiful version of the actual instrument. The preset tunings and ability to add your own custom tunings make this app a keeper.
Mesmerizing sound
Sound is amazing and I love how you can save different tuning. So much fun to play. The preset tuning options are wonderful. Hope you add more. Please make a Kalimba too. The ones offered are no match to how this Sansula app works and sounds. Definitely worth the paid version. Great work, great app, thanks!
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Kalimbarrific!
Not bad, though perhaps a little pricey compared to other musical instrument apps of similar functionality. Apparently released by a German firm that makes real kalimbas. The ability to come up with one's own tunings is a nice touch. A potential future enhancement would be to allow the user to adjust the size, position, and number of tines for a real custom fit.
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