Comparison

Heavy Brass vs Spatial Orchestra

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Heavy Brass

This virtual instrument app provides realistic trumpet, trombone, and saxophone sounds for music production and live performance. It offers a wide variety of articulations and sound categories, supporting integration with other music apps and external MIDI controllers.

Highlights
  • Trumpet, Trombone, Saxophone sounds
  • Multiple brass section samples
  • Switchable and crossfadeable articulations
  • Audio Unit v3, Inter-App Audio, Audiobus support
  • External MIDI keyboard and controller support
  • Integrated effects with presets
  • MIDI player and recorder
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Heavy Brass delivers the most flexible and innovative approach to modern brass sounds ever provided by a virtual MIDI instrument!¹ With this ultimate brass app your productions and live performances will gain such powerful and amazing tone you previously were only able to retrieve from a real brass section! This app contains the following instruments: Trumpet, Trombone and Saxophone sampled in four different brass sections. Watch and listen to the demo video on our product website! Minimum requirement: at least iPad 3 / iPad Air 1 / iPad mini 2. This app supports Audio Unit v3, Inter-App Audio and Audiobus, so you can directly use it with other apps as well! External MIDI keyboards and controllers are supported as well of course, both via Lightning/USB cable connection, as well as wireless via Bluetooth LE MIDI.¹ There are 3 fundamental sound categories: „Singles“, „Switches“ and „Combis“, where „Switch Sounds“ allow you to either switch or crossfade between configurable articulations. Some „Combi Sounds“ allow you to switch or crossfade between predefined articulations as well. 24 Single Sounds: Solo Trumpet, Solo Sax, Solo Trombone, Heavy Brass 1-4, Section 1, Section 2, Section 3, Section 4, Crescendo, Growl, Doiks, Shaker 1, Shaker 2, Staccato 1, Staccato 2, Staccato Sax 1, Staccato Sax 2, Falls 1, Falls 2, Falls 3, Falls 4. Switch Sounds: Five base sounds: Section 1, Section 2, Section 3, Section 4 and Crescendo, which are switchable or crossfadeable to four alternative articulations: Shaker, Growl, Doiks or Falls. 16 Combi Sounds: Sections Velocity Layer 1, Sections Velocity Layer 2, Sections Velocity Layer 3, Sections Velocity Layer 4, Sections Velocity Layer 5, Sections Velocity Layer 6, Sections Modwheel Layer 1, Sections Modwheel Layer 2, Staccato Layer 1, Staccato Layer 2, Staccato Round Robin 1, Staccato Round Robin 2, Staccato Round Robin 3, Sections & Staccato Round Robin 1, Sections & Staccato Round Robin 2, Sections & Staccato Round Robin 3. General Features: • Low latency disk streaming. • Polyphony up to several hundred stereo voices.² • Configurable audio latency down to 1 ms. • Integrated effects with 18 presets. • App States: Save app's entire state as user presets. • 16 parts. • Provides Audio Unit v3 plugin version of this app, which allows it to be used as virtual instrument directly within third-party multi-track DAW apps. • Support for Apple's "Inter-App Audio" system. • Audiobus support. • MIDI velocity response curve editor. • Master Tune & Scale Tuning. • App can keep running in the background, so you can play on your keyboard while e.g. using Safari or another app to display scores or surfing the Internet. • Virtual on-screen piano keyboard with velocity support, scalable & scrollable. MIDI Player / Recorder: • Record, save and load your songs in standard MIDI file format. • Share your songs easily as audio file. • Unlimited amount of tracks. • Configurable target MIDI channel per track. • Unlimited recording and playback length. • Open MIDI (.mid) files directly from other apps (i.e. from Safari, Mail). • Download or upload MIDI files with iTunes. • Load your favorite songs as MIDI files from the Internet, and watch at the virtual keyboard how to play it. • Metronome. • Use the "Tempo Zoom" dial knob to i.e. slow down playback at any time and learn your favorite songs more easily. ¹ For more information about adapters and connecting external MIDI keyboards: https://doc.crudebyte.com/iOS/External_MIDI_devices/ ² Various sounds are using several voices per note. Polyphony depends on the exact device model being used. You find a polyphony table on our product website. Anti-Spy Commitment: We take your privacy very seriously. None of our apps contain so called „spy” behaviors and we committed ourself to a very high privacy standard. For more information read our „Privacy Policy for Mobile Apps”.

About

Spatial Orchestra

Experience a full orchestra in augmented reality, allowing you to walk through the musicians and visualize the music. Explore four different songs with three unique viewing modes, bringing immersive recordings to life anywhere.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality orchestra experience
  • Walk through musicians
  • Visualize music in 3D
  • Four songs included
  • Three viewing modes
  • iOS 12 required
Features
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Have you ever wanted to walk through the orchestra yourself? Well now you can, thanks to the power of augmented reality in iOS 12. "Spatial Orchestra" brings the raw, immersive recordings of the Cinema-Sonic orchestra to life anywhere you are--including in your own living room! Download the free app and launch for quick and easy instructions (don't forget to use your camera!), and then get physically moving to walk through the orchestra! You can enjoy four different songs all played by the orchestra, and take advantage of three different views to visually see the music. "Spatial Orchestra" is the collaboration of Cinema-Sonic, the award-winning team of composers and musicians, and TCW, developers of augmented reality music applications. To take advantage of Cinema-Sonic's composing, mixing, and orchestra services, or to learn more about the group, visit cinema-sonic.com. For more information on the app or TCW's spatial audio work, please visit tcwav.com. *iOS12 is required. App runs better on newer devices--above an iPhone 6S and newer iPads are strongly recommended. If your iOS device can't run the app, please contact us or try the desktop versions available on tcwav.com.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Heavy Brass at 81% against Spatial Orchestra's 0%. Heavy Brass also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.5). Spatial Orchestra's advantage is price (Free vs $9.99) and device support (3 vs 1). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Spatial Orchestra is free to download; Heavy Brass costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Heavy Brass holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 37 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Heavy Brass's written reviews are positive against 0% of Spatial Orchestra's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Heavy Brass versus Spatial Orchestra: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHeavy BrassSpatial Orchestra
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.2 (37 ratings) — better3.5 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings37 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size353 MB487 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristian Schoenebeck d/b/a CrudebyteTCW

Customer experience

Heavy Brass

All ratings37 ratings
Positive83.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.2%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral3.1%
Negative15.6%

Spatial Orchestra

All ratings14 ratings
Positive64.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative35.7%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Heavy Brass

No in-app purchases

None

Spatial Orchestra

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Heavy Brass free?
Heavy Brass costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spatial Orchestra free?
Spatial Orchestra is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Heavy Brass or Spatial Orchestra?
Heavy Brass is rated higher. Heavy Brass averages 4.2 out of 5 from 37 ratings, while Spatial Orchestra averages 3.5 from 14 ratings.
Do Heavy Brass or Spatial Orchestra have ads?
Neither Heavy Brass nor Spatial Orchestra shows ads.

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