Best Relic Waves alternatives: apps like Relic Waves

Relic Waves is great, but it's not the only option. Explore 8+ similar apps for iPhone and iPad, each reviewed and rated by real users. Find free alternatives, premium upgrades, and hidden gems.

Top Alternatives to Relic Waves

Salome - MPE Audio Sampler by Bram Bos

Record, Import, Play

Editor's Choice

4.7(30 ratings)

$7.99

This app lets you record or import sounds, transform them into seamless loops, and play them polyphonically using MPE or MIDI controllers. It offers a fast workflow with onscreen keypads and MPE/MIDI input/output for creative sound manipulation.

Secta : amplitude sculptor by K-Devices

Strong Contender

5.0(8 ratings)

$6.99

This audio effect dynamically splits incoming sound into two distinct processing paths, allowing for independent sculpting of each layer. It shapes accents, amplifies details, and guides each sonic dimension for unique timbral results. Designed for sound designers and musicians seeking unconventional audio manipulation.

EG Nodes by Elliott Garage

Clip based Host/MIDI Sequencer

Worth Considering

Hands-on Creative Arpeggiation

4.8😊(93 ratings)

$19.99In-App Purchases

This app is a clip-based audio unit host and MIDI sequencer for creating musical projects. It offers a variety of built-in MIDI and audio nodes for generating sequences, recording, and sampling. Users can load external Audio Units and automate parameters for unique compositions.

What We Love

👍 Intuitive and easy to use
💡 Innovative concept and workflow
🚀 Fast idea generation
✨ Inspiring and creative
🔧 Powerful and flexible
✅ Great for concept creation and sound design
🌟 One of the best apps
🧩 Fills a missing piece in music production
🎛️ Excellent for building compositions without a DAW
📈 Constantly improving with updates
👨‍💻 Responsive and engaged developer
🎚️ Easy to record automation
🎶 Great for live performance and jamming
⚙️ Superior ergonomics and smooth workflow
🎵 Makes music creation fun
💡 Well-designed MIDI sequencer
🚀 Fast and fluid to use
🎛️ Good for Berlin School jamming
🎧 High sound quality
🎚️ Easy to get started with AUV3 plugins
💡 Generative features and probability are excellent
🚀 Quick to bust out ideas
✅ Great on its own and as a MIDI controller
👍 Easy to grasp quickly
🌟 Modern alternative to AUM
🎚️ Fun and genuinely useful
🚀 Ideas just flow
🎶 Perfect for coming up with song structures
🌟 Superb ergonomics
💡 Unique host app
✨ Feature-packed and fun
🚀 Turns iPhone into a powerful music tool
✅ Good alternative to AUM
✨ Wonderful and fun
🚀 Dev working hard to improve
💡 Great tool, intuitive
🚀 Releases come often
💡 Amazingly intuitive Ableton style groovebox
🚀 Easy to get started
💡 Excellent for solo musicians
🚀 Developer extremely responsive
💡 Incredible intuitiveness and ease of use
🚀 Allows excellent creativity and depth
💡 Wonderful job
🚀 No brainer purchase
🌟 New go to for music noodling
🚀 Excellent!
👨‍💻 Developer on it with bug fixes and improvements
🚀 Implements things at lightning speed
🚀 Jamming in no time
🚀 Easy to use and powerful
✅ Clear and easy to understand
🚀 Can be grasped quickly
👨‍💻 Dev worked quickly since release
🚀 Totally recommended
🌟 Modern Alternative to AUM
🚀 Off to a great start
🚀 Best app I never knew I needed!
🚀 Fluid and fun to use
👨‍💻 Developer super engaged
🚀 One of the most used iOS apps
🌟 Great job
🚀 Perfect for Live Performance and Jamming!
👍 Big toggle buttons
👍 User interface doesn’t require a microscope
🚀 Great sequencers and an arpeggiator
🌟 Superior ergonomics and smooth workflow
🚀 Easy to write music
🚀 Anticipates common actions
🎶 Very good sound quality
💡 Ability to load AUV3s and lay down MIDI easily
👨‍💻 Developer very responsive
🌟 First Thoughts...Super! Fantastic! Even Super Fantastic!
👍 Reasonable price point
✅ "Gets" me, and likewise, I "get" it
🚀 Ability to work fast
💡 Many excellent types of nodes
🚀 Ability to add X/Y pad(s) and/or slider(s)
🌟 Amazing!
🌟 Wonderful!
🚀 Cool! Neues Groove Box Konzept.
💡 Many small details make it fun
✅ Well designed midi sequencer
🚀 Great for getting ideas going quickly
🚀 Smashing!
💡 New approach and I like it
🚀 Purchase, and start making beats
🌟 Does EG stand for Excellent, Great because this app is definitely that.
🚀 Takes iOS music to the next level
🚀 So much fun
🚀 Go buy.

Room to Improve

🐛 Sampler won't play correctly
🐛 Sampler features inconsistent
🐛 Random arming and recording into disabled scenes
🐛 Crashes with some apps
🐛 Too much crashing results in losing work
🐛 Accidental refresh instead of saving
🐛 Can't sequence all AU parameters
🐛 Chord module seems weird
🐛 Rhythm module labeling is hard to understand
🐛 Pads option for iPhone could be better
🐛 Sustain pedal input issue (resolved)
🐛 Pan bug (resolved)
🐛 Teething problems being sorted
🐛 Some bugs reported (quickly fixed)

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