This mobile music creation tool allows you to sketch ideas, compose with MIDI and audio clips, and host AUv3 plugins. It's designed for a fast and creative workflow, enabling you to build musical projects anywhere. The app offers a free trial before unlocking full features via in-app purchases.
What We Love
- 👍 Great UI and features
- 💡 Potential for music creation
- 🚀 Fast and creative workflow
- 👍 Easy to use, no instructions needed
- 💡 Most usable studio on small screen
- 👍 Simple yet feature-filled
- 👍 Excellent developer understanding of workflow
- 👍 Great on phone
- 👍 Brilliant concept
- 👍 Dope and simple
- 👍 Solid experimental clip launch
- 👍 Minimalist UI
- 👍 Good value
- 👍 Smooth workflow
- 👍 Great start
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Clean and easy to use
- 👍 Flexible and easy to use as groove box
- 👍 Good for beginners
- 👍 Fast beat creation
- 👍 Good for iOS music making
- 👍 Accessible developer
- 👍 Fun to use
- 👍 Brilliant app
- 👍 Great for AUV3s
- 👍 Deep yet simple interface
- 👍 Refreshingly simple
- 👍 Powerful and simple
- 👍 Good for composing
- 👍 Great on small screens
- 👍 Well-organized main interface
- 👍 Mappable features
Room to Improve
- 🐛 Record function always starts
- 🐛 Sand not opening in overview
- 🐛 Integration with other apps seems off
- 🐛 Record does not pick up data
- 🐛 Cannot save ideas from one app to another
- 🐛 Auv3 interfaces don't scale well
- 🐛 Not clearly explained it's a paid app
- 🐛 Not intuitive to use yet
- 🐛 Note editing, snapping/quantization awkward and buggy
- 🐛 Sand won't run within AUM anymore
- 🐛 Sand not recognized within AUM
- 🐛 Sand wouldn't recognize other apps as host
- 🐛 Rendering issues
- 🐛 Editing notes in pitch grid flies up
- 🐛 Entering note values difficult
- 🐛 Changing note length has issues
- 🐛 Bugs not worked out, more brought in
- 🐛 Clips out of sync when manually triggered
- 🐛 Needs more detailed instructions
- 🐛 Unpredictability for creating new notes
- 🐛 Selecting notes for editing difficult
- 🐛 Synchronizing between tracks problematic
- 🐛 Not enough features for usefulness
- 🐛 Paid for a half-finished app
- 🐛 Too cluttered to use on iPhone
- 🐛 Basic functionality
- 🐛 Cannot change sequence size (meter)
- 🐛 Cannot set velocity and modulation parameters
- 🐛 No CC automation recording
- 🐛 Few slots for patterns
- 🐛 Does not work with most other iPad instrument apps
- 🐛 Misleading advertising claims
- 🐛 Audio integration needed
- 🐛 Notes editing/selection/moving process is a pain
- 🐛 No BT headphone support
- 🐛 Needs more polish
- 🐛 Occasional crashes
- 🐛 Useless at v1.0.1
- 🐛 Less than 50% of synths/plugins show up
- 🐛 Many plugins don't work properly
- 🐛 Money better spent elsewhere
- 🐛 App prompts for purchase again after buying
- 🐛 Minimalistic beginnings
- 🐛 Missing standard sequencer features
