Leave a Review iMini Synthesizer
Excellent
As the owner of an original Minimoog, I must say that I really like this app, and highly recommend it. Only two issues that need to be addressed:
1) modulation wheel does not work with midi controller; and 2) I would like it to have a button to turn off "background", like the ISEM has.
Other than that, this would be a five star app.
Note: can't wait for Arturia to come out with more apps, would love to see the ARP 2600.Show lessE_Sanford
Beautiful sounds, tough to integrate
As a fan of old synths, I recently bought both the iSEM and the iMini for my iPad2 (updated with iOS8). As others have reported, there are some issues, most related to MIDI, with these Arturia apps on iOS8. Sometimes I can connect to external devices or other apps (like SoundPrism), sometimes I can’t, sometimes only some functions connect. There, that’s the “bad” out of the way, and 1-star off. But I am absolutely blown away by the sounds, the user interface and the overall experience. There are so many sound patches in here, and so many that, when you press a key, you may go “Oh, WOW, I know that sound!” Especially with the iMini, I will find a way to add this into my GarageBand workflow. And I wanted to leave a fair and high rating for these apps to encourage others to try them, and to encourage the developers to continue to update for iOS8. These are the kind of apps that make me want to rush out and get an iPad Air in order to get even better performance from them, and to keep developing my own amateur music chops. Well done, Arturia!Show lessmechascorpio
Needs a Better Midi Implementation.
This has great sound worthy of the Moog name, but even after several updates, it still has the most basic Midi implementation imaginable.
It only operates in Omni mode, which makes it unusable in a typical setup with other synths. This is the sort of poor operation that you might have expected to see in a synthesizer made 20 years ago; to see it in a modern product like this is ridiculous. Even the Midi Message window remains broken, never displaying any received Midi information. This is a MAJOR problem that keeps a great sounding synth from being a player in any sort of real musical setup. PLEASE fix this, Retronyms!Show lessAudiohubb
MIDI
I love this app, but I'm still having MIDI issues (currently using an I/O dock 2). From audiobus, it freezes on its load screen and if it makes it past that point, it's unresponsive. Occasionally it will load and not display the pitch/mod wheels, in the cases that it does, it's still just frozen. After closing and re-opening, it will work with its own keyboard but as soon as I try to use an external keyboard, the whole cycle starts over.
This app sounds amazing and I would love so much to be able to use it with an external keyboard. Please make this happen guys! I'd easily give it 5 starsShow lessMiles Platting
Bad update
The 1.4 update was supposed to fix core midi problems. I deleted/reinstalled app and it STILL has stuck notes from external KB, but now the whole app freezes after a few minutes of moving around the presets, and must be force quit, restarted again, then the same problem recurs. Was a great synth, so PLEASE fix.
UPDATE....OK, I got the app to behave by doing 3 deletes and reinstalls and after doing a soft reset of the iPad Air. No more freezes. Mod wheel works great, too. This procedure shouldn't be necessary, but...Show lessHiko303
Sounds great, weak MIDI implementation
This app really does sound like a Moog.
Its MIDI implementation is weak:it ignores the keyboard's mod wheel, and you can only assign one knob at a time. I've heard several reports of notes that won't stop, once they've been struck, but I don't actually play it enough to confirm this myself. Before you buy, read the other reviews. Contrary to what some of the reviews say, it _does_ have Audiobus support.
In summary: this app has a five-star sound engine, but the port to iOS is a three. Certainly worth $10, but might not be reliable enough to use live. Arturia's other synth app, iSEM, was handled by a different developer and is much more robust.
If you read the reviews, you'll see that customers have been commenting on this for some time. The latest version does nothing to fix it.Show lessDavid Wilson-Okamura
The minimoog V Original now in iOS.
Well, I was quite happy to see one of the most authentic softsynth companies get into the iOS world.
At first glance it is quite familiar (if you have the minimoog V Original in your PC/Mac, the VST) you'll be able to navigate quite easily in it.
The sound patches are also taken from the VST version and it is quite robust, you'll be able to find pretty decent sounds. The joy will come as you start tweaking by yourself and making your own patches, man! It sounds so good you'll be hard pressed to find one that sounds so authentic.
One of the reasons I got this is because it is Tabletop ready as that platform REALLY needed a new synth to spice things up. I also got it because of the donation to the Moog Foundation.
Midi support, Tabletop ready, Audiocopy, IAA, exchange patches from the desktop to the app and viceversa. It is all there!
Thanks Arturia, welcome to the iOS realm and please do drop by with more of your great emulations.Show lessC3l3$t1n0
Needs improvements
This synth is a joy to use and sounds fantastic! However, it has some serious issues that really hamper it:
- it has no way to "initialize" itself and start from scratch;
- it has no audio recorder, so no quick record and paste audio into another app;
- it annoyingly turns the status bar to red all the time... you need to force-quit app from the multitasking to get rid of it.
Please fix these issues and this will be a five-star synth!Show lessArtemiy Pavlov
Mod wheel doesn't work, still stuck notes
When using an external MIDI keyboard, the mod wheel does not register from the keyboard mod wheel. The pitch wheel works, and the mod wheel can be programmed to control other parameters, just not the actual mod wheel. Makes no sense.
Also, there are still stuck notes that continue to play.
The "support" page for Arturia is a series of hoops to jump through, and makes me wonder how honestly they value user feedback.Show lessSean Garland
One of the very best
First, I run this on an ipad 3 and have kept current OS since this app was first released, and use it weekly if not daily sometimes. No crashing issues, modulation most certainly works, and notes don't stick (unless I set them to do that).
Comparing this against Animoog or Nave isn't quite fair because they're designed completely differently and decades apart. While the others in this class have comparatively endless user options, iMini's beauty is in its simplicity, history, and sound. It plays more like a hardware instrument and I spend less time trying to get good sounds out of it.Show lessEllivenud
