This app sucks.
It just does.
Please add a keyboard… and version 2.7 breaks AU compatibility
First, version 2.7 update no longer works as an Audio Unit in GarageBand. Second, if you could add an onscreen keyboard it would make the app more useful as a standalone and speed up new patch creation. Thank you.
Incredible!
If you’re a FM nerd like me and were around when the first fm game music came about, you will absolutely love this. Very authentic, lovely lo-fi FM sound with endless presets and many sounds that will melt you with nostalgia. Superb!
Surprisingly cool sound possibilities
More inventive than it looks, a very nice source of unexpected sounds.
Sounds truly excellent but UI has some limitations, depending on your need.
For people who just want to load a patch from the tremendously large built-in library and integrate with a host for sequencing from another app (or playing via midi keyboard) this app would be great. Not so much for my purposes however, though I can’t fault it a great deal for this. It’s a fantastic emulation and the patches are solid and plentiful. Below I will explain why it didn’t work for me though, in case you are planning similarly:
Since this is an accurate emulation of a real hardware chip using a standardized OPL fm preset format, I was counting on there being an easy method for programming, testing and storing presets within the app. My goal in buying this was to have a portable way to create and build a library of my own original patches to use with Adlib Tracker ][. This use-case has proved mostly fruitless however for the following reasons—
1. The standalone app does not properly fit an iPhone screen (iPhone X at least); the bottom row of buttons runs below the edge of the screen.
2. There is no way to save your own patches directly inside the app, only load the existing presets.
3. There is no built-in keyboard, basically it’s a plugin more than an app and relies on a host to do most useful things.
4. On an iPad 11” I wasn’t able to scale the view to fit both the complete instrument UI and the AUM virtual keyboard on-screen simultaneously, making it cumbersome to edit, play and test custom patches. (Honestly this one might be user error, please correct if I’m wrong and there’s a way to achieve this)
Since this is an accurate emulation of a real hardware chip using a standardized OPL fm preset format, I was counting on there being an easy method for programming, testing and storing presets within the app. My goal in buying this was to have a portable way to create and build a library of my own original patches to use with Adlib Tracker ][. This use-case has proved mostly fruitless however for the following reasons—
1. The standalone app does not properly fit an iPhone screen (iPhone X at least); the bottom row of buttons runs below the edge of the screen.
2. There is no way to save your own patches directly inside the app, only load the existing presets.
3. There is no built-in keyboard, basically it’s a plugin more than an app and relies on a host to do most useful things.
4. On an iPad 11” I wasn’t able to scale the view to fit both the complete instrument UI and the AUM virtual keyboard on-screen simultaneously, making it cumbersome to edit, play and test custom patches. (Honestly this one might be user error, please correct if I’m wrong and there’s a way to achieve this)
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