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3.7(18 ratings)

$1.99

Explore a novel approach to sound design with this synthesizer. Rotate a sphere with over 70 presets to discover ideal sounds, enhanced by a stereo ping-pong delay and global settings. It's AUv3 compatible for use within other music production apps.

EG Nodes by Elliott Garage

Clip based Host/MIDI Sequencer

Strong Contender

4.8😊(93 ratings)

$19.99In-App Purchases

This app is a clip-based audio unit host and MIDI sequencer for creating musical projects. It offers a variety of built-in MIDI and audio nodes for generating sequences, recording, and sampling. Users can load external Audio Units and automate parameters for unique compositions.

What We Love

👍 Intuitive and easy to use
💡 Innovative concept and workflow
🚀 Fast idea generation
✨ Inspiring and creative
🔧 Powerful and flexible
✅ Great for concept creation and sound design
🌟 One of the best apps
🧩 Fills a missing piece in music production
🎛️ Excellent for building compositions without a DAW
📈 Constantly improving with updates
👨‍💻 Responsive and engaged developer
🎚️ Easy to record automation
🎶 Great for live performance and jamming
⚙️ Superior ergonomics and smooth workflow
🎵 Makes music creation fun
💡 Well-designed MIDI sequencer
🚀 Fast and fluid to use
🎛️ Good for Berlin School jamming
🎧 High sound quality
🎚️ Easy to get started with AUV3 plugins
💡 Generative features and probability are excellent
🚀 Quick to bust out ideas
✅ Great on its own and as a MIDI controller
👍 Easy to grasp quickly
🌟 Modern alternative to AUM
🎚️ Fun and genuinely useful
🚀 Ideas just flow
🎶 Perfect for coming up with song structures
🌟 Superb ergonomics
💡 Unique host app
✨ Feature-packed and fun
🚀 Turns iPhone into a powerful music tool
✅ Good alternative to AUM
✨ Wonderful and fun
🚀 Dev working hard to improve
💡 Great tool, intuitive
🚀 Releases come often
💡 Amazingly intuitive Ableton style groovebox
🚀 Easy to get started
💡 Excellent for solo musicians
🚀 Developer extremely responsive
💡 Incredible intuitiveness and ease of use
🚀 Allows excellent creativity and depth
💡 Wonderful job
🚀 No brainer purchase
🌟 New go to for music noodling
🚀 Excellent!
👨‍💻 Developer on it with bug fixes and improvements
🚀 Implements things at lightning speed
🚀 Jamming in no time
🚀 Easy to use and powerful
✅ Clear and easy to understand
🚀 Can be grasped quickly
👨‍💻 Dev worked quickly since release
🚀 Totally recommended
🌟 Modern Alternative to AUM
🚀 Off to a great start
🚀 Best app I never knew I needed!
🚀 Fluid and fun to use
👨‍💻 Developer super engaged
🚀 One of the most used iOS apps
🌟 Great job
🚀 Perfect for Live Performance and Jamming!
👍 Big toggle buttons
👍 User interface doesn’t require a microscope
🚀 Great sequencers and an arpeggiator
🌟 Superior ergonomics and smooth workflow
🚀 Easy to write music
🚀 Anticipates common actions
🎶 Very good sound quality
💡 Ability to load AUV3s and lay down MIDI easily
👨‍💻 Developer very responsive
🌟 First Thoughts...Super! Fantastic! Even Super Fantastic!
👍 Reasonable price point
✅ "Gets" me, and likewise, I "get" it
🚀 Ability to work fast
💡 Many excellent types of nodes
🚀 Ability to add X/Y pad(s) and/or slider(s)
🌟 Amazing!
🌟 Wonderful!
🚀 Cool! Neues Groove Box Konzept.
💡 Many small details make it fun
✅ Well designed midi sequencer
🚀 Great for getting ideas going quickly
🚀 Smashing!
💡 New approach and I like it
🚀 Purchase, and start making beats
🌟 Does EG stand for Excellent, Great because this app is definitely that.
🚀 Takes iOS music to the next level
🚀 So much fun
🚀 Go buy.

Room to Improve

🐛 Sampler won't play correctly
🐛 Sampler features inconsistent
🐛 Random arming and recording into disabled scenes
🐛 Crashes with some apps
🐛 Too much crashing results in losing work
🐛 Accidental refresh instead of saving
🐛 Can't sequence all AU parameters
🐛 Chord module seems weird
🐛 Rhythm module labeling is hard to understand
🐛 Pads option for iPhone could be better
🐛 Sustain pedal input issue (resolved)
🐛 Pan bug (resolved)
🐛 Teething problems being sorted
🐛 Some bugs reported (quickly fixed)

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Kalimba Sounds & FX | AUv3

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5.0(14 ratings)

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This app offers a realistic and expressive Kalimba instrument experience with studio-quality sound. It features detailed sampling, a variety of built-in effects, and cross-platform preset management for seamless creativity.

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