Electric Phantoms: LUMA

With the iOS 27 update, tapping a chord pad could give you the little buzz and then nothing, no sound, no colour. That's fixed. Every press plays instantly and lights up as it does. • Voice Leading, chords now move to their nearest notes instead of jumping register, so progressions flow instead of stepping. Switch it on under CTRL. • Play with both hands, hold a chord with one finger and press the next with another. Sliding between pads is smoother, and letting go of one hand no longer cuts the other's chord. • A tap always sounds, however briefly you touch the pad. • A much bigger joypad on iPhone SE, with more room to aim and more expression. • The Controls sheet is reorganised so it reads at a glance: the four pad modes, then the two locks, then Slide Chords and Voice Leading. • Recording stops when you leave the instrument or the app, so a take can't roll on unnoticed. Playing a take back stops when you leave Recordings. • The recording border now draws evenly all the way round, including the corners on larger iPhones.