Iconica Sketch User Reviews

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Almost there!

Great to see an AUV3 with good orchestral sounds! It has enough instruments to sketch a decent score, the articulations are few but well chosen, and the sounds are great for arranging on the go. It also has a very clear interface, which is a plus.

It has just come out, so there are a couple of things that could be improved, though, like the mod and pitch wheels effectively stopping you from pressing keys on the screen (big problem for orchestral playing), and it would be nice to arrange the presets by instrument type (strings, woodwinds, brass, etc) instead of alphabetically. I'm sure we will get there eventually. Definitely worth it at this price.

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EduardoG2

3 days ago

The best Orchestra app hands down

Quality app worth every penny! Thank you for creating this wonderful app

TheOscillation

4 days ago

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Hi TheOscillation, Thank you for your positive review and rating. We are very glad to read that you seem to enjoy using Iconica Sketch!! Warm greeting and stay well, Lars

Almost impossible to see anything on this interface!!

I just bought this, and I want to love it, but it's virtually unusable because it's so dark I can barely see anything. Please, Steinberg, remember that functional design is way more imprtant than someone's idea of a cool look.

I'll amend this review when the developers clean up their interface so that everything is easy to see. For now, though, this app is literally unusable.

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arlencard

4 days ago

Response from developer

Hi arlencard, Thank you for your review and rating. We are sorry to read about your issues. Does it help to increase the brightness of your iPhone or iPad to make sure everything is easy to see? Please let me know via your updated review! Thanks in advance and stay well, Lars

I wanted this to be something more..

This app is essentially a wrapper for an AUv3 that is a solid, if not underwhelming, sample playback engine. I would have liked to see the ability to play whole sections, etc. but as it stands, it is a good orchestral plugin, with a novel way to add articulations. I think it faces serious competition on the “expressive orchestral” plugin land, GeoShred with SWAM instruments comes to mind, but it is solid enough to warrant a purchase if you regularly use orchestral sounds.

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Tilden Thorne

4 days ago

Response from developer

Hi Tilden Thorne, Thank you for your rating and review. We are sorry, if Iconica Sketch does not meet your expectations. Please note that it took us quite some time to make Iconica Sketch available for iPhone and iPad, resulting in much more work than simply using a wrapper. Plus the content of the app has been carefully lossy compressed to keep the file size of the content small as possible on mobile devices (while behaving almost like a lossless compression, only with significantly lower memory usage). We hope you will enjoy using Iconica Sketch for iPhone and iPad! Thanks and stay well, Lars