FM Essential Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience30.4% of reviews
Neutral13.0% of reviews
Negative experience56.5% of reviews

~ Based on 46 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is FM Essential Safe?

FM Essential has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for FM Essential is 69/100.

This assessment is based on 36 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.4/5.

Is FM Essential Legit?

FM Essential appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for FM Essential is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Could do better

Just unlock it, the patent for FM has expired anyway

素晴らしい とても軽い

良い音が出ます
そして、古いバージョンが残っていて、IPhone5sでも動きました
軽いです

Greedy jerks

You’d sell this app hundreds of times over, if only it was available to purchase without the ball and chain.

Almost good

dear developers
PLEASE
Make all chord pads editable or do note-by-note editing
Among the 20 chord pads on the App, less than half of them fit songs, with the correct chords and variations
The other chord pads don't fit at all
Fix it !

Avoid

It’s just an advert for Yamaha keyboards. 10 free presets, then they ask you to buy a Yamaha keyboard to unlock the rest. Aye right!

Such a shame

Great sounding app and some fabulous features, but I have no way of getting to a store to unlock it using a Yamaha MX keyboard. Definitely a shame on Yamaha, assuming everyone is able to do this.

Is this a joke??

You’ve got to be kidding me?! Sounds like a half decent FM synth but I’m not going to buy a Yamaha hardware synth just to unlock the presets from old Yamaha FM synths.

I’d happily pay for this, but I’m not buying a £500 synth/controller just to do so!!

Absolute waste of time.

不安定

gatagebandでは、プロジェクトファイルを開き直すたびにパラメータがリセットされる。また、そのせいで書き出しの失敗も多発する。
特にトラックの量が多いほどこの現象が起こりやすい。
改善お願いします。
(確認端末:iPad Air2)

I wondered what the poor reviews were for...

...Until I tried to save my patch.

I’d pay to unlock this feature. I already own ancient Yamaha FM synths, I have no need to buy new ones... this WOULD HAVE BEEN good for creating patch ideas 😞

Make more compatible with garage band

The compatibility with garage band is awful please fix this as soon as possible

Why do we need a Keyboard

Why can’t we just use the phone

FM Essential

Loved using this app in the past, but latest update- not able to use. Deleted and tried to reinstall but now it will not download to my phone.

Fm unlock all?

Where do we unlock all essentials? Can’t find anywhere does not work, link spins around! Where is it?

Just dumb

But seeing how Yamaha has been over the last few years. No real surprise there.
How long has the mx series been out now and Yamaha are still locking this app behind a hardware trial at the minimum and a hard up sell of an entry level synth at worst. News flash Yamaha, if I wanted to buy an mx synth, I’d have already done it. But I really don’t like the key feel on low end keybeds so the mx is a straight miss for me. If it played like a dx7 keybed then we’d have a discussion. Just offer a pay option and auv3 and well, I’d pay for an official Yamaha synth app.
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旧式のMXではアクティベーション出来ないので注意。

ソフトとしては完成度が高く、良質な音が発せられるので満足です。
[UTILITY]→[JOB]→03 Version→[▽]で『(C) 2012 Yamaha Corp』と表示される機種ではアクティベート出来ません。説明通り新型のMXでなければダメな様です。

音色が良い

だが,フルスクリーンではないですが

iPhone Xのスクリーンに対応して欲しいです

アップデートしてください

Oops

Another fine let down.. Disappointing would be an understatement. When will yamaha stop sticking it's middle finger in users faces with useless apps and atlast give us FM7 for iOS? Every app gets neg reviews and every new app is worse than the one before it :(

古くはDX7、V2と6オペ4オペの制限ある環境エフェクト外部依存で予測しようの無い音作りで大変でしたが

何て簡単で多彩な音なんだ!

Automation in Cubasis geht nicht

Finde das Plugin ganz gut, allerdings bin ich etwas entäuscht, das die automation nicht geht. Es werden Daten aufgenommen, aber das Plugin reagiert nicht drauf. Die Möglichkeiten sind gut, aber ohne die automation ist es nix.
Hoffe das wird nachgebessert, da Yamaha und Steinberg ja eigentlich gut zusammen laufen sollten.
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free,...

...sounds okay but not great.

you do NOT need to own a MX synth to unlock the app. go to a music store and connect for one second - done.