Patchrat vs FakeTake
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Patchrat
This app helps music creators manage analog gear settings, manuals, and product specifications. It offers realistic GUIs for recall and a DAW-style workflow, supporting over 975 products from 200+ manufacturers.
- Support for 975+ products
- Generic gear profiles
- Touch-actuated recall GUIs
- DAW-style workflow
- Embedded product specs and manuals
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An essential toolset for music-makers who need to keep track of analog gear settings, manuals, and more... Features include: • Support for 975+ products from 200+ manufacturers (and counting...) • Generic gear profiles for products not yet in the Patchrat database • Realistic, touch-actuated recall GUIs • A straightforward, easy-to-use DAW-style workflow • Embedded product specs and manuals and much more...
FakeTake
This audio effect plugin creates the illusion of an overdubbed track using a combination of short delay, stereo processing, and modulation. It's designed to enhance instruments like guitar and vocals by adding depth and width to your mix.
- Automatic Double Tracker effect
- Adjustable delay time
- Modulation with drift control
- Variable stereo width
- Standalone and AUv3 host compatibility
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FakeTake Double Tracker Plugin (AUv3) FakeTake is an audio effect plugin that can run standalone, or in any AU compatible host application such as Logic or GarageBand. Overview FakeTake is a tribute to the old "automatic double tracker" studio trick. The idea is that ADT creates the illusion of the same part, overdubbed again (a "fake take") which can work great with many instruments, especially guitar and vocals. There are various approaches for achieving this effect, but most use a short delay, a bit of stereo processing and possibly some modulation applied to the delay. FakeTake uses all three! Parameters Active - Toggles the effect On or Off. Delay - Sets the base delay time of the "fake take". Low settings can be thought of as "tighter", and higher values, "looser", going up to almost a slap-back echo effect. Drift - Varies the amount of delay time modulation. This is applied to the original and processed signal. At zero, no modulation is applied to the dry signal. Spread - Varies the stereo width of the ADT effect. At maximum, the original and delayed signals are panned hard-left and hard-right respectively. At zero, both are dead-centre. Spread can also be used to create space in a mix. For example, apply spread to a guitar track to leave room for vocals in the middle. If the name sounds familiar, FakeTake is an improved and simplified version of the FAKE TAKE ADT module developed for Voltage Modular by Waverley Instruments. Please do take a look at my other AudioUnits on the App Store if you can spare the time. Supporting paid apps allows me to release free ones as a little thankyou from time to time. For more info and support please visit: www.waverley-instruments.com/robjackson
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FakeTake at 5.0 against Patchrat's 4.1. FakeTake also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). Patchrat's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FakeTake holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Patchrat's written reviews are positive against 100% of FakeTake's.
| Parameter | Patchrat | FakeTake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rats Nest Solutions, Inc. | Rob Jackson |
Customer experience
Patchrat
FakeTake
In-app purchases
Patchrat
No in-app purchases
FakeTake
No in-app purchases
