# Mazetools Mutant — Multiperspective Music > Multiperspective music creation app with loop-based instruments and a Hypercube interface. (iPhone/iPad app by Ectoplastic.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mazetools-mutant/id1483123496 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Ectoplastic](https://appshunter.io/developer/1103228660) - Category: Music, Music - Price: $5.99 - Rating: 4.16/5 from 31 App Store ratings · 19 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 14.5 · 240 MB - Languages: English - Released: 2020-03-27 - Data updated: 2026-07-07 - Monetization: paid - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mazetools-mutant/id1483123496/reviews.md ## What is Mazetools Mutant? Key Features - 7 Cubes with different settings as starting point for your Session - Interactive, quantized Loop-Machine within the Cube-Cell - 7 Instruments with sequenced based note input, envelope, filter & effects - 4 different synth, 2 drum sequencers, 1 sampler with slice, granular & pitch shift mode - Sample library with user file integration - Cross-Instrument key interface to define chords & scales - Main FX Interface to perform a Snapshot playlist incl. Echo, Reverb, Reverser, Note Envelope & Flanger - Snapshot principle: keeps track of the recorded loop - Snapshot list can be used like a playlist of the different loops - Save Session to save the Snapshot list - Interactive Cube-Cell navigation to switch from one Cell to another & change the musical perspective in key, tempo & pitch - Snapshot Cloud: Load your snapshot into a 3D cloud defined by the characteristics of mood, energy and texture - Interactive cloud navigation and Snapshot filtering by author, key & tempo - Snapshot Mutation Interface to merge two Snapshot and create infinite new perspectives - Audio Record as .wav file - Ableton Link - Audiobus & Inter-App Audio (experimental) - Setup Menu to define graphic and sound quality setting - Main zoom to customize the general size of the interface - In-App Guide Mazetools Mutant lets you make music in loops. On a square surface you play synths, drums, sampler, sequencer, filters and effects. Together, all the instruments form the Hypercube. Hyper- What?. The Hypercube is a space that changes your music multiperspectively.... The principle Think of a record player, play the vinyl from 33 to 45 and everything sounds higher and faster. Conversely from 45 to 33 everything sounds slower and lower. It remains the same song, only the conditions are changed. Mutant works in a similar way. You play in a beat loop, then turn the Hypercube and hear everything from new perspectives. According to this principle, new ideas and results emerge in the musical process. These don't have to reach perfection. Mutant stands for experimenting, making loops and exploring sound, it's the session, the moment and an audio recording that counts. From Snapshots to Cloud Mutation To capture the loops you've created, take a snapshot - an anchor point with all the instruments that you can always return to. Load your snapshot into the cloud and locate it in three dimensions with Mood, Energy & Structure. If you then select another snapshot, it will be mutated in certain ways and many new perspectives will emerge. Play together In Collaboration Mode, two Mutant users can make music together via local network. All inputs are transmitted live and the people each play instruments or effects. App information We do our best to avoid bugs, often enough they drive us crazy or were disappointed when a moment was lost. But at some point it has to go out and after the update before the update. So feel free to write us bugs and problems, definitely also if you made a song or video. The cloud is offline, but technically designed to be part of an online cloud for own user data and content sharing in the future. It was created as part of the Mazetools Assist research project. You can read more about it at Ectoplastic.com. Mutant requires the microphone for audio recording, the local files to store projects and recordings, and the network for Collab Mode and Ableton Link. Much more content, terms of use, credits and FAQ are in the app in the Guide and can be found in the app's Start-Up menu. About Mazetools Empowering creativity, democratizing musical expression and making it inclusive - how does that work? These are the questions that keep us busy. Mutant is a further step in the process, alongside Soniface, and provides important points of contact through the multitouch-based loop principle, the change of perspective and the cloud. But we want to go further - with you and the community. Have a good time with Mutant, Stephan & Jakob ## Key features - Interactive loop-machine - 7 instruments with sequenced input - 4 synths, 2 drum sequencers, 1 sampler - Cross-instrument key interface - Main FX interface with playlist - Snapshot Cloud for 3D navigation - Collaboration Mode for live jamming ## Recent user reviews (10 of 19) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mazetools-mutant/id1483123496/reviews.md ### 5/5 — A Masterpiece of Perspective and Utilization of the IPad *2025-03-13* These two apps in particular from this developer are absolutely Amazing in terms of usability ingenuity and the reimagination of what a touch insrument can be! ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2024-07-29, version 2.0.2* Fascinating novel intuitive design ### 5/5 — Breathtaking *2023-01-30, version 1.0296* I have been looking for an app that uses the touch interface well, and I tried all the usual offenders (TC11 etc.) but this one has blown me away and, even though my old iPad can get a bit glitchy with it, it’s still amazing. It’s a music creation tool that could only be touch-based and yet you feel utterly connected to it. Tip, for my old iPad going mono helped reduce glitching a lot - like I said though, I’d rather have this app and glitchy than many of the others I’ve tried. ### 3/5 — Not very intuitive *2022-11-26* Seems like a great idea and I’m sure I’ll enjoy it more once I understand it. But just a few minutes in and I can’t quite figure out what does what. Meanwhile, there’s an annoying sound that plays every now and then and I felt like I was racing just to figure out how to stop it before it would play again. I couldn’t figure out how to stop it, so I just closed the app instead. ### 5/5 — A superb, great value gem *2021-04-03, version 1.029* I’ve been using this app for a couple of days and I see a lot of value in here Using with an iPad Air 1 iOS 12.4.8 First some niggles: Saving sometimes results in crackling popping interference which is remedied by a relaunch of the app; otherwise fairly sturdy. The sonic output of the synth, string, bass and arp aspects fall within a sonically predictable (or quickly familiar) range in spite of the input process itself feeling somewhat (and pleasingly) random. Latency prevents accurate drum programming for the most part but this somewhat misses the point, again the randomness of the app in general can whisk up warp-style offerings pretty quickly, but the same flip side is apparent: I wonder how similar my creations are to everybody else. This apprehension may only be because I’ve made 4 ‘things’ already that I like, with virtually no effort. Ordinarily I’m wrestling with my Octatrack or programming stuff, so I’m not accustomed to this effort/reward ratio! Can’t work out where the stop button is?! Positives: Layout is intuitive and encouraging. Compositional aspects, when used in conjunction with an external sampler, are impressive. The key and note information help wend towards more interesting key segues and will no doubt impart more theory subliminally over time to someone like myself who can neither read nor write music. Sharing from my iPad to Mac over airdrop worked perfectly. Within this ecosystem therefore, it’s dead easy to take clips and treat them in Logic or another DAW with minimal fuss. Ultimately this app is a breeze to use, has possible music theory applications to steer you towards interesting transitions and has a well-thought out GUI that’s fun to use, I think £4 is very good value for something with this many components, I was happy to pay a tenner for Huangs Flip sampler, but this is especially decent value. I’m tending to get a beat going, throw in all the melodic aspects and establish 4 or 5 ‘starred’ snapshots then remove the drums altogether, sample in my octatrack and apply proper drums from my TR-8S. The melodic and structural ideas that you can get from this thing are lovely and I’ve already recommended it to several friends as, at the very least, a superb travel companion, but a worthy tool for sketching out quick ideas and getting inspiration. More power to the developers, a lovely thing! ### 5/5 — Their own paradigm *2020-12-31* Love everything this company does. Truly have their own unique vision of what interfacing with music might look and feel like. Love it. ### 3/5 — Great design, really complicated *2020-06-29* 1. Drummer for 24 years so creating beats to a click is Kind of what i do... there’s a latency with this app. You turn on a click when trying to play the drums to it, you tap and about 1-2miliseconds later it responds there for your beat is never on the rhythm you want it to be on. Especially if already have a melody going and are trying to play to said melody. 2. The “clear” buttons are confusing, “clear all” seems to do nothing and “clear” workers but there now way of knowing what your clearing as far as what part of the loop you just created.... 3. How can you start over??? I looked for about 20 min and maybe I missed something but I simply couldn’t find anywhere to just start fresh with the same sounds I was working with. I had to use the “clear” button and click it a million times till everything was gone. There is some seriously amazing functionality and fun with the overall concept but for me it’s really confusing and could use a lot of streamlining to make it more user friendly. If there is anyone that can help that would be awesome, but again no “help” buttons a ay here just the “guide” but that doesn’t explain anything but what the buttons do. **Developer response:** Hi! Thanks for your feedback. You're right, documentation, some key functions and tutorials still need to be improved. It's still confusing to read in the guide and have no option to switch to the function directly to try it. That will be improved in the future. Nevertheless the most of your questions are explained with the guide... 1. The visual interface causes an extra amount of graphic performance, what makes it difficult to reach such low latency like a sound app with a static UI, but it depends also on the device, so on older ones latency is higher on newer ones is faster. It still have capacity to get better. A trick is to swipe inside the play area... 2. Like in the guide explained, you have 7 instruments, each got its controller section to enable several input. the "clear" button clears the values of one controller, "clear all" deletes the values all controllers of an instrument. You have to tap twice to confirm the clear action. 3. There are two methods (you can also find in the guide): inside the cell editor there is a button "clear states", which deletes all values of a cell, but keeps the snapshots. The second way is to got to "Session" and tap on "reset" to start from the scratch (deletes also the snapshots). We really appreciate your feedback, because it forces us to improve the user experience and make it a better product. Cheers! ### 5/5 — Bold *2020-06-19* This app and its team are onto something very special ### 4/5 — Yawl be trippin on mutant *2020-06-13* This works great on iPhone x , seems easier to grasp than mazetools. Hails and lets make it an auv3 and ko it! Cheers ### 4/5 — App Crashes *2020-05-18, version 1.25* Beautiful interface, intuitive response, after some initial hiccups with the app, the developers responded to my frustration and I must say I was delighted to get back to this sound play app after the issue was fixed. Looking forward to further updates in future. Great work guys! ## Frequently asked questions about Mazetools Mutant ### What is Mazetools Mutant's core principle for music creation? Mazetools Mutant allows users to create music in loops using a Hypercube interface. By changing musical perspectives like key, tempo, and pitch, new ideas and sonic results emerge, similar to adjusting a record player's speed. ### How does Mazetools Mutant handle saving and recalling musical ideas? Musical loops can be captured as 'Snapshots,' which act as anchor points. These Snapshots can be saved as a list, similar to a playlist, and sessions can be saved to preserve the entire Snapshot list. ### Can I collaborate with others using Mazetools Mutant? Yes, Mazetools Mutant features a Collaboration Mode where two users can create music together via a local network. All inputs are transmitted live, allowing participants to play instruments or effects collaboratively. ### What are the audio output options for Mazetools Mutant? Users can record their audio creations as .wav files. The app also supports Ableton Link and experimental Audiobus & Inter-App Audio integration for connecting with other music applications. ### How does the Snapshot Cloud in Mazetools Mutant work? Snapshots can be loaded into a 3D cloud defined by mood, energy, and texture. This allows for interactive cloud navigation and filtering of Snapshots by author, key, and tempo, offering new ways to discover and organize musical ideas. ### What is the 'Snapshot Mutation Interface' in Mazetools Mutant? The Snapshot Mutation Interface allows users to merge two Snapshots together. This process creates infinite new perspectives and variations of the original musical loops, fostering experimentation and discovery. ### What is the price of Mazetools Mutant? Mazetools Mutant is a paid application, priced at $5.99. This one-time purchase grants access to all its features. ### How often is Mazetools Mutant updated? Mazetools Mutant was last updated on January 10, 2024, with version 2.0.2. The developer aims to release updates regularly to address bugs and introduce improvements. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.0.2 — 2024-01-10 2.0.2 Small bug fixes & improvements 2.0.1 Bug fixes & improvements Added demo sets Mazetools Mutant is available as iPhone&iPad version on Mac M1+ (Apple Silicon) with activated trackpad touch alternatives to use the trackpad for multitouch 1.5 Improved app performance, audio quality Snapshot Cloud: to load Snapshot into a 3D cloud (offline) defined by perception features mood, energy & structure Interactive cloud navigation and Snapshot filtering by author, key & tempo Snapshot Mutation Interface to merge two Snapshots Improved Setup Interface New Guide, improved in-app help in english & german Background Audio, Inter-App Audio & Audiobus (experimental) ### 2.0.1 — 2023-12-20 1.51 Bug fixes & improvements Added demo sets Mazetools Mutant is available as iPhone&iPad version on Mac M1+ (Apple Silicon) with activated trackpad touch alternatives to use the trackpad for multitouch 1.5 Improved app performance, audio quality Snapshot Cloud: to load Snapshot into a 3D cloud (offline) defined by perception features mood, energy & structure Interactive cloud navigation and Snapshot filtering by author, key & tempo Snapshot Mutation Interface to merge two Snapshots Improved Setup Interface New Guide, improved in-app help in english & german Background Audio, Inter-App Audio & Audiobus (experimental) ### 1.0500 — 2023-10-30 - Improved app performance, audio quality - Snapshot Cloud: to load Snapshot into a 3D cloud (offline) defined by perception features mood, energy & structure - Interactive cloud navigation and Snapshot filtering by author, key & tempo - Snapshot Mutation Interface to merge two Snapshots - Improved Setup Interface - New Guide, improved in-app help in english & german - Background Audio, Inter-App Audio & Audiobus (experimental) ### 1.0296 — 2021-09-25 Sampler update with Melodic Pitch-shifting, Hamonic Granular Mode and extended Editor menu Main FX Controller with Echo, Reverb, Filter, Flanger & Reverser Improved audio quality Audio Settings for Latency/ DSP-Buffersize Folder in Files App Ableton Link Bluetooth ### 1.0294 — 2021-09-10 Main FX Controller with Echo, Reverb, Filter, Flanger & Reverser Improved audio quality Audio Settings for Latency/ DSP-Buffersize Folder in Files App Ableton Link Bluetooth ## Apps similar to Mazetools Mutant | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [EG Nodes](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/eg-nodes/id6466639463) | 4.9 (80) | $19.99 | Music | | [Cube Synth Pro](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cube-synth-pro/id1560948972) | 4.3 (16) | $9.99 | Music | ## More apps by Ectoplastic - [Mazetools Soniface Pro](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mazetools-soniface-pro/id1232018647) - [Mazetools Soniface](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mazetools-soniface/id1273836217) All apps by Ectoplastic: https://appshunter.io/developer/1103228660 ## Related topics [ectoplastic](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/ectoplastic) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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