Comparison

EG Pulse vs Visual Mixer

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

Head to head
About

EG Pulse

Create intricate rhythms and beats with a powerful drum machine and sampler. Import your own sounds, edit samples, and apply effects. Use it standalone or as an AudioUnit within other music production apps.

Highlights
  • Standalone and AU3 AudioUnit support
  • Import and edit custom drum samples
  • Individual pad effects (reverb, delay, EQ)
  • Pattern automation and probability mode
  • Over 40 included drumkits and 180 grooves
  • Ableton Link and MIDI support
Features
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EG Pulse is the ultimate Drum Machine / Sampler for iOS. It can be used both in standalone or hosted as AudioUnit AU3 inside apps like GarageBand, AUM, BeatMaker3, NanoStudio2, n-Track9 and others. The solid ElliottGarage sequencing engine has been updated and expanded, and you can now create ultra precise trap rhythms, hip hop grooves, electronic beats, rock and acoustic drum tracks and more. EG Pulse comes with more than 40 drumkits and more than 180 grooves already included to cover many different genres from EDM, House, Trap, Hip Hop and Electronic Music to Rock, Metal, Reggae or Jazz; moreover, you can create your custom drumkit importing samples with simple drag & drop or combining the builtin kits, and you can modify them inside the app with the sample editor (sample start, attack time, release time and sample length). Each of the 16 pads can be also pitched and panned in the mixer section of the app and also reverb, delay, bitcrusher and eq can be set individually. Each pattern can be automated to obtain dynamic changes and with the probability mode you can create always new grooves adding randomization and human feel to them. EG Pulse contains drumkits and presets created by some of the best iOS Beat Makers and Producers like SoundOfIzrael, Soundtrack Loops, the Beat Community and more. Full feature list: - Standalone & AU3 Audio Unit - Pads View, Grid View, Mixer, Automation View, FX View & Song View - Chromatic Pads - Play melodic line like on a keyboard - 64 step audio engine - 1/8, 1/12, 1/16, 1/32 & 1/64 quantization - Samples Drag & drop from File App (supports multiple files import) - Import of Wave, AIFF, M4a, MP3 audio files or MOV and MP4 video screen recording (audio will be extracted) - Kit sharing (left swipe on a kit to access additional menu) - Fill & Autofill (every 2, 4, 8, 16 bars) - Custom drumkit & user banks save - Song view - Pad Roll (with 1/8, 1/12, 1/16, 1/32 & 1/64 quantization) - Ableton Link - Step recording into grid view - Polyrhythms - Choke groups - Mixer with Solo, Mute, Volume, Gain, Pan, Pitch - Automation of Pitch, Volume and Pan for each pad and pattern dependant - Probability to create unpredictable and random patterns - Samples editor (Start offset, attack time, release time, length) - AU Fx - put EG Pulse in the FX slot of your daw and record any incoming audio - Time stretching - Loop bpm detection and automatic sync to tempo (works with 4 bar loops) - Transient detection and audio slice - Pitch detection and pitch shifting - Bank import/export - Midi In with MIDI learn to control pads - MIDI out to host (AU3 version) - Midi Program Change to switch patterns - FX (Reverb, Delay, Bitcrusher and EQ) for each pad - Tap tempo & Swing - More than 40 drumkits and 180 grooves created by iOS Producers and Beat Makers - Bank presets covering several genres - Ableton Live Set Export support for patterns - Multi stems export of patterns - AU3 Multi output - Route up to 16 separate stems to any daw supporting multi-output AU EG Pulse will give you a free Ableton Live Lite license - follow the instructions inside the app to get it

About

Visual Mixer

This audio unit plugin consolidates volume and pan controls for all tracks into a single, intuitive interface. It simplifies balancing levels and panning, offering a clear visual representation of your stereo field for easier and potentially better-sounding mixes.

Highlights
  • Consolidated volume and pan controls
  • Single interface for all tracks
  • Visual stereo field representation
  • Replaces submix groups
  • Cross-instance communication
Features
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Visual Mixer is an audio unit plugin that puts the volume and pan controls for all your tracks together into one simple interface. It can also be used as a replacement for submix groups in DAW host apps that don't support submix. In any mixing session, the most basic and often the most time consuming work is balancing the levels and setting the pan. Visual Mixer does the same thing that the volume and pan controls in your DAW application, but it puts all the controls in one place so you can see at a glance which tracks are panned left, centre, and right, and what their relative volume settings are. The ability to clearly see where your tracks sit in the stereo field makes mixing music easier, and can even lead to better sounding mixes. The most unique feature of Visual Mixer is that every instance of the plugin communicates automatically with every other instance, so that when you open any one of them, you can view and edit volume and pan, mute and solo for every track at the same time. Once you have used this simple tool, you won't want to do a mixing session without it.

Screenshots

EG Pulse4 screens
Visual Mixer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Visual Mixer at $4.99 against EG Pulse's $14.99. Visual Mixer also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.4). EG Pulse's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (147 vs 13). On review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

EG Pulse costs $14.99 and Visual Mixer $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Visual Mixer holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EG Pulse has 147 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of EG Pulse's written reviews are positive against 60% of Visual Mixer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EG Pulse ships an update every 4 days, Visual Mixer monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and June 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
EG Pulse versus Visual Mixer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEG PulseVisual Mixer
Price$14.99$4.99 — better
Rating4.4 (147 ratings)4.6 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews67.0% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings147 — better13
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#181 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.2
Further details — not scored
Size268 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElliott GarageBlue Mangoo Consulting Company Limited

Customer experience

EG Pulse

All ratings147 ratings
Positive87.1%
Neutral4.1%
Negative8.8%
Written reviews88 reviews
Positive67.0%
Neutral11.4%
Negative21.6%

Visual Mixer

All ratings13 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

In-app purchases

None

EG Pulse

No in-app purchases

None

Visual Mixer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EG Pulse free?
EG Pulse costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Visual Mixer free?
Visual Mixer costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, EG Pulse or Visual Mixer?
Visual Mixer is rated higher. EG Pulse averages 4.4 out of 5 from 147 ratings, while Visual Mixer averages 4.6 from 13 ratings.
Do EG Pulse or Visual Mixer have ads?
Neither EG Pulse nor Visual Mixer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EG Pulse or Visual Mixer?
EG Pulse ships an update every 4 days, and Visual Mixer monthly. Most recently, EG Pulse was updated on September 8, 2026 and Visual Mixer on June 24, 2026.

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