Holon User Reviews

Name: Holon
Rating: 4.5 (14 reviews)

Holon

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Sounds interesting

All of a sudden I feel my phone vibrate with a sound that I could only hear if I put my head up to the phone. I wonder if this could be used in the future to talk to people who do not share a language. If I could describe the sound if I may. It was huuuuum dita dita dita dita dit. Then higher huuuuum...dit dit dit. It was almost like I was listening to a humming person.

Gwen110

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hi Gwen, thanks for the review! Yes, sometimes the data feeding the synthesis creates these kind of emergent events. This is a good example of how music really happens inside our heads and why live music is so powerful.

My background music form now on lol

I'm impressed-this app lets you interact with the invisible musical ethereal space within which sound itself awaits papered to be drawn out of the world through the interaction of consciousness and action..... Connect to your loved ones and hear the music echoes of themselves, in realtime? whenever you feel too far distanced!!!!! Awesome!!!

EC0Sphere

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you very much! Our next update - out soon - has even more real-world musical interactions and several new presets to explore, hope you enjoy them!

Effortless MiRack integration - pure affordance

Open up you patch and listen to data streams guide the sounds. A wonderful river of auditory 1’s and 0’s awaits. It’s essential to use this with the holon.ist app and well worth the purchase price.

jasonpil

3 years ago

Just a gimmick.

As it stands, Holon is little more than a gimmick. It doesn’t output anything useful like midi and even with Holon.ist was pretty well worthless. It does make some nice sounds but these are limited to the iPhone speaker. Needs more work as does Holon.ist.

Pdjones

4 years ago

Response from developer

Hello and thanks again for the review. I writing to inform you we have developed our platform further and Holon now supports user created patches made in miRack. Our editor app, Holon.ist, contains several templates snd examples to get started. Both Holon and Holon.ist support our new musical geospatial computing features. I hope you can try these new features and the many presets that showcase them. Perhaps you would be willing to revise your review if you find the changes favourable. kindly, Holonic team

Super cool app to convert your data into music!

Definitely love it, it is a great app to experience music production done with data collected from your daily iPhone user life. Check-out Holonist app to start making your music triggered by your daily movement data, you can take full control of the many sensors that your iPhone already have!

endemicaproject

5 years ago

Maria

Amazing app for interactive audio. Best in market with difference. Highly recommended

Maria Munoz Martinez

6 years ago

Fun app but useless for music creation

Love playing with the iPhone version, but for sound design it is worthless, no way to get sound out through USB-C. I’d like to route sound to Logic Pro but doesn’t seem possible.

Kurt52

7 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks again for the review. We have developed our platform and would like to let you know that you can now use miRack to create patches that can be played back in Holon. For Logic Pro, we recommend using miRack as an AUv3 plugin with an instance of our Holonic Source plugin to receive data from the Holonist editor. I hope this improvement is of interest to you and that you may revise your review in the light of this development. kind regards, Holonic team

Wow!!! Great app!

This app is so unique! I couldn’t find any app quite like this! It’s so cool how you can just move the phone in different ways and make music! I do have a few suggestions though. You should include a manual explaining which way you have to move your arm to make a certain song. That is pretty much the only thing this app needs to become the best Ar music app!

bigboom13

7 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your review and kind words. We’d like to help but the complexity of our music engine is such that we ourselves cannot completely fathom it’s workings. Holon is very much about exploring the features first hand and some results are not always replicable, as the factors behind them involve the weather, time of day, distance traveled and so on. Our editor, Holon.ist, on the other hand, is a fully configurable meta-instrument. We wish you many happy moments with Holon.

Awesome

It changes the sounds while you move! Pretty nice! I guess anyone who likes experimental music or EDM is gonna freak out with this app!

asher3006

7 years ago

Wow

Very, very cool concept and execution. Would love Audiobus support.

xJohnnyHx

8 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you very much! It’s possible that we could include Audiobus and AUv.3 support, but it’s more likely to be available sooner for our editor, Holon.ist, which already has MIDI out. You’re welcome to try the beta: http://bit.do/holonist

Very neat

I enjoy using this when I don’t feel like listening to my music library but also don’t feel like listening to podcasts or audiobooks. It’s neat noticing how the music changes slightly when my car goes faster or slower.
I do wish the music was slightly more pleasant. Many times it sounds unpleasant.

michdavidadams

8 years ago

Response from developer

Hello and many thanks for your review. We have addressed this and would like to invite you to try the new presets, many of an ambient kind. The music now also changes according to the type of place you are currently in. kind regards, Holonic team

Totalmente inutile

Provata incuriosito dalla possibilità di creare musica captando il proprio umore e l’ambiente circostante, ho rimosso la app dal mio telefono dopo che produce stessi suoni, stessa musica in situazioni e ambienti differenti. E menomale che è gratis ma completamente inutile!

Fox Owlcat