Comparison

Continua vs LFOH!

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

Head to head
About

Continua

This professional synthesizer for iPad offers a unique morphing sound design experience. Explore a vast sonic palette with versatile oscillators and continuously shifting filters. Deep modulation capabilities and an innovative patch evolution system allow for highly expressive and evolving musical textures.

Highlights
  • Morphing filters
  • Versatile oscillators
  • Deep modulation routing
  • Interactive patch evolution
  • Full MPE support
  • AUv3 plugin compatibility
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Continua is a professional synthesizer for iPad, built around a single idea: everything should move. Three oscillators with five modes each — Virtual Analog, Additive, Supersaw, Supersquare, and IXA — give you a palette that runs from warm analog warmth to aggressive digital textures to sounds that have no easy name. Stack 64 sine waves. Detune five sawtooths simultaneously. Explore phase modulation borrowed from a synthesizer most people have never heard of. The oscillators are just the beginning. Continua's filters don't switch between types — they morph between them. Low pass becomes band pass becomes high pass in a continuous sweep, with resonance and two- or four-pole slope selectable at any point. Two filters running in series or parallel, each one a moving target. Modulation is where Continua earns its name. Nearly every parameter is a destination. Every knob can receive up to five simultaneous modulation sources — envelope generators, flexible multi-point envelopes, four shapeable LFOs, sample and hold, and a random source that gives each voice its own personality. Right-click any knob to connect a source. The routing is as deep as you want it to be. New in version 1.2: the Genetics panel lets you evolve your patches through an interactive mutation tree. Start with any sound, explore branches of subtle variations, and drill down into whatever catches your ear. The arpeggiator adds eighteen patterns — from standard ascending runs to Brownian motion and probabilistic rests — all synced to your DAW tempo. Four new oscillator modes expand the raw material available from the ground up. Full MPE support means Continua responds to every dimension of expression from a Linnstrument, Osmose, Roli Seaboard, or any MPE controller. Or play it with a standard keyboard and automate everything else. Works as an AUv3 plugin in Logic Pro, AUM, Cubasis, Drambo, Garage Band, and any AUv3-compatible host. iPad only.

About

LFOH!

This app is an advanced LFO tool that enhances classic cycling envelopes with unique shaping and morphing features. It functions as both an audio processor and a MIDI modulator, offering extensive control over modulation signals.

Highlights
  • Morphable and selectable waveforms
  • Advanced waveform shaping
  • Sample and Hold circuit
  • Audio amplitude modulation
  • MIDI CC output
  • AUv3 extension
Features
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LFOH! is an augmented, stunning (as the name suggests!), LFO which enhances the possibilities of the classic cycling envelope by adding control over a set of advanced and unique features. LFOH! is a single oscillator LFO and has a set of continuously morphable and selectable waveforms that represents the core of its modulation signal. Apart from the classic frequency and phase parameters (which make it capable of all of the classic modulation stuff), the waveform can also be shaped by swinging its cycles, bending its curve, squeezing portions of oscillation in the same period of time, scaled and transformed while exceeding its boundaries. An additional Sample and Hold circuit provides quantization for the resulting signal. A tool you already know, with the most advanced features: simple and powerful. LFOH! is both an audio processor and a MIDI modulator: while is capable to send its modulation signal out as MIDI CC (according to the MIDI routing flexibility of the app that hosts it), it can also modulate the amplitude of incoming audio. *** Please note: LFOH! is an Audio Unit extension (AUv3) – it only works in an AUv3 host app like AUM, Drambo, Cubasis, etc... ***

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: LFOH! at $3.99 against Continua's $9.99. LFOH! also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 12.0). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

Continua costs $9.99 and LFOH! $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Continua against 4.7 for LFOH!. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 18 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of Continua's written reviews are positive against 63% of LFOH!'s.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Continua versus LFOH!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContinuaLFOH!
Price$9.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.6 (13 ratings)4.7 (18 ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.1% of reviews62.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1318 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.09.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAudio Damage, Inc.K-Devices

Customer experience

Continua

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive55.1%
Neutral26.5%
Negative18.4%

LFOH!

All ratings18 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

Continua

No in-app purchases

None

LFOH!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Continua free?
Continua costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is LFOH! free?
LFOH! costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Continua or LFOH!?
LFOH! is rated higher. Continua averages 4.6 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while LFOH! averages 4.7 from 18 ratings.
Do Continua or LFOH! have ads?
Neither Continua nor LFOH! shows ads.

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