YDS Controller vs Saxophone Notes & Tablatures
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
YDS Controller
This app allows for detailed sound creation and editing for specific musical instruments. Users can customize instrument tones, adjust effects, and modify fingering configurations. It also provides instrument settings like breath resistance and tuning, offering a more intuitive visual interface than the instrument itself.
- Edit saxophone, synthesizer, and shakuhachi tones
- Adjust effects and detailed sound parameters
- Customize fingering configurations
- Adjust breath resistance and response
- Change instrument tuning
- Display registered fingering lists
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This dedicated app enhances the performance of the YDS-150 and further expands the range of sound creation—and includes instrument settings and sound editing. You can make detailed settings intuitively and visually from the app, that cannot be done on the instrument itself. ≪Function≫ * Editing voices You can easily change saxophone tones such as alto, soprano, tenor, and baritone tones, as well as synthesizer tones and shakuhachi tones. You can also adjust effects and make detailed sounds. * Edit fingering You can customize the fingertips by changing them or adding new ones. * Instrument settings You can adjust the blowing feeling such as breath resistance and response, and change the settings such as tuning. * Fingering list It is possible to display the registered fingers in a list. It is useful to check the fingering.
Saxophone Notes & Tablatures
Learn to play popular melodies and traditional tunes with an interactive collection of sheet music and tablatures. Import your own music, customize playback speed and transposition, and bookmark favorites. Unlock all content and remove ads with a subscription.
- 130+ melodies to learn
- Import Music XML files
- Printable music sheets
- Adjustable playback speed
- Customizable saxophone types
- Bookmark favorite melodies
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Collection of sheet music with notes, tablatures, and interactive training for saxophone. This application helps to learn and practice playing popular, traditional melodies on your saxophone. Try it now, for free! Application features: - Selection of saxophone kind (Alto, Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, Bass, Contrabass, Sopranino, Sopranissimo); - Over 150 traditional melodies to learn and practice; - Allows to import additional melodies from your own, local Music XML files (.mxl, .musicxml, .xml); - Interactive training modes (recognition via the microphone of the music you play on a real world saxophone, and scoring it against the music sheet); - It can play every melody displaying the progress in the music sheet; - Optional countdown before the melody playback; - Tune-able playback speed (tempo); - Allows custom transposition of melodies; - Allows to print out music sheets; - Allows to bookmark favorite melodies. ADVERTISEMENTS & SUBSCRIPTIONS By default, this application is supported by advertisements, and only a handful of melodies are accessible for free. Paid application subscriptions, available in the in-app store, unlock all melodies, and remove all advertisements. The profit from subscriptions supports application maintenance and further development, including bug-fixes, new features, and new melodies. USER SUPPORT Any comments, ideas, suggestions are welcome to support@music-tabs.com TERMS OF USE (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: YDS Controller at 35% against Saxophone Notes & Tablatures's 0%. YDS Controller also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ads (none vs shown). Saxophone Notes & Tablatures's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On price, device support 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
Both are free to download. Saxophone Notes & Tablatures sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per month. YDS Controller asks for nothing beyond the download.
YDS Controller ships an update every 4 months, Saxophone Notes & Tablatures every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | YDS Controller | Saxophone Notes & Tablatures |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (164 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 35.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 164 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yamaha Corporation | Sergey Pogodin |
Customer experience
YDS Controller
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In-app purchases
YDS Controller
No in-app purchases
Saxophone Notes & Tablatures
- Monthly Subscription$4.491 Month
- 3-Months Subscription$12.493 Months
- Half-Year Subscription$20.996 Months
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- Annual Subscription$27.991 Year
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