Voice Band vs Voice Synth Modular
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Voice Band
Transform your voice into musical instruments in real time. Record multi-instrument songs, play along with your music library, and enhance your creations with built-in effects. Ideal for both aspiring musicians and music enthusiasts.
- Voice to instrument conversion
- Real-time instrument playback
- Multi-track song recorder
- Play along with iPod library
- Built-in effects processor
- Auto pitch correction
- Metronome and adjustable scale
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Play instruments with your voice in real time! Voice Band introduces a revolutionary new way to make music - with only your voice. Featured on G4TV’s Attack of the Show (with Olivia Munn). * Imagine creating an entire song with only your voice. * Just sing into your phone and hear Voice Band transform your voice into an instrument in real time. Voice Band doesn't simply alter your voice to sound like an instrument, it actually plays a real sampled instrument which follows what you sing. Want to jam to a guitar solo with your favorite band? Voice Band lets you play along with your ipod library, too. Voice Band features a recorder which lets you build a song, one instrument at a time. Auto pitch mode helps you stay on key, and if you're a musician, you'll appreciate the adjustable scale and metronome. Voice Band also includes a built-in effects processor with distortion, reverb, and delay. Whether you’re a musician looking to instantly capture an arrangement idea, or a music fan looking to make your own music for the first time, Voice Band will inspire and challenge you. Check out what others have to say: NYTimes: “Want to write music but you can’t play an instrument? Download Voice Band, sing the melodies and rhythms for different instruments, and the app creates the bass, guitar and drum tracks to your specs.” Gizmag: “Stunning multitrack rock band recordings using only your voice.” Tuaw.com: “I don't usually gush during App reviews … [but] VoiceBand is pretty marvelous.” Features • Turns your voice into an instrument, in real time. • Instruments include: 2 guitars, bass, sax, 2 synths, Drums, and a Mic mode • Built-in recorder allows you to record an entire song, one instrument at a time. • iPod player lets you play along with your favorite music. • Drum mode lets you play both kick and snare at the same time by singing at two different volumes. • Auto Pitch mode helps you to stay on key. • Adjustable octave • Effects include distortion, reverb and delay. • Adjustable musical scale for auto pitch includes Major, Minor, Blues, Pentatonic, Wholetone and Mixolydian. • Built-in metronome with adjustable tempo. • Songs can be saved, and e-mailed from within Voice Band. • Compatible with headphone and microphone accessories. NOTE: Like any musical instrument, Voice Band works better with practice. If you consider yourself non-musical you can still have lots of fun with Voice Band as you continue to expand your musical talent! For help in getting the most from Voice Band, check out our tutorial videos. Requirements • Quality headphones are recommended. • A quiet place to record, to avoid false instrument triggering from external noise. • Practice is required! As with any musical instrument, your results will improve dramatically as your skill develops. Links to quoted sources: Attack of the Show with Olivia Munn: http://youtu.be/E6cZIPAerWA http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/technology/personaltech/28smart.html http://www.gizmag.com/voice-band-iphone-app/13876/ http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/08/voiceband-personal-music-artistry-gone-wild/
Voice Synth Modular
Transform your voice into a musical instrument with a suite of advanced audio effects. Create robotic voices, harmonies, and unique soundscapes using only your voice. Save and share your creations, or integrate them into your digital audio workstation.
- Live voice processing
- Vocoders
- Auto Pitch
- Harmonizing Pitch Shift
- Speed-Shift Sampling
- Create organic soundscapes
- Save and share creations
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Voice Synth is a professional live voice processor and music synthesizer played by your voice. With the vast set of integrated tools including Vocoders, Auto Pitch, Harmonizing Pitch Shift and Speed-Shift Sampling, you can • Sing in Tune like P-Tain & vocoded like Duft-Pank • Speak with Hollywood-quality Robot voices like 1978 Cylons • Play by Voice, no fingers needed: scream to play rock guitar, hum a church organ • Make professional funny voices: animal, evil, weird & much more • Create unique organic and rhythmic soundscapes • Sing multiple voices in harmony within any musical scale • Sample, speed shift and dress up your beatboxing to create the strangest rhythms inspiring new compositions • Live-pause and stroboscope your voice • Save and share your creations as presets and audio files • Use all of the above in your DAW and audio setup via Audio Units & MIDI This "Modular" version of Voice Synth offers a free unlimited-time tryout of all effects on prerecorded samples, while all other functions are unlocked by a single In-App-Purchase. On Voice Synth you will find no conventional ADSR, LFOs or filters. Even the keyboard is optional. Instead, Voice Synth uses the most expressive all-in-one tool you were born with: your voice! It's unique so be ready for a jump in voice creativity, sound design and rhythmic inspiration. To give you an easy start in this adventure, we included over 250 factory presets! Speak, sing, hum and scream live into the mic, and start exploring the unconventional controls: 24-band vintage analog modeling vocoders, Auto Pitch Tracking, live-voice-pause, speed-shift sampler, multiple voice harmony arranger, spectrum stroboscope, pitch and formant shifter, 24-band equalizer, classic FX as distortion/delay/chorus/reverb, and an extensive vocoder designer with oscilloscope. We included a manual for in-depth use. Musicians, DJs, sound designers, voice artists: Voice Synth is a must-have in your audio toolbox! Qneo voicesynth.com TECHNICAL SPECS • Engine 2x32 bit 44.1 kHz poly x24 • All effects fully integrated, simultaneous, live, realtime, low-latency • Background audio (iOS) • Manual • Audio Unit V3, instrument & effect, parameter automation • Audio routing • Midi • Repeater, anti-audio-feedback • Noise gate manual/auto • Keyboard 1.5-2.5 oct (midi 10), hold/mono/poly • Tapes to record/export your performance • 250+ factory presets, unlimited user presets, import/export INTEGRATED EFFECTS • 4 vintage analog modeling vocoders 24 bands 5th order filters (Natural Robot Breath Designer) • Auto Pitch, track/fix/double/inverse pitch • Multiple Voice Harmonizer, any musical scale (choirs, rich 70's vocoder sounds) • Speed-Shift Sampler ±800%, pause/zoom/loop/hold • Live-pause & strobo voice • Pitch Shifter 8 octaves (e.g. lion/gender/child/baby/duck) • Formant Shifter adapt spectrum ±1 octave (child to giant) • Registers 4 octaves (add brilliance, chords) • Arpeggiator pattern/gate/speed/grouping • Equalizer 24 bands, 10 presets (loudness, low-pass, telecom, etc) • Autogain/Compressor, Clip/Distortion, Stereo Panning, Delay, Chorus, Reverb • Slew rate: special vocoder reverb (plucked strings, wind, thunder, storms) • Mic thru and Vocoder mix to add-in your unprocessed voice (e.g. for beat-boxing) • Sync rhythmic effect timing DESIGNER VOCODER • Realtime oscilloscope • Sine/square/triangle/sawtooth, adjustable frequency/harmonics/clip/width/skew/slope • Noise white/voiced, adjustable filter/clipping • Mix additive/maximum/multiplicative synthesis • Test mode, design/play without voice
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Voice Synth Modular at Free against Voice Band's $2.99. Voice Synth Modular also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.0) and update cadence (monthly vs every 8 months). Voice Band's advantage is review sentiment (55% vs 41%) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.6). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
Voice Synth Modular is free to download; Voice Band costs $2.99 up front. Voice Band sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and Voice Synth Modular sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Voice Synth Modular holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Voice Synth Modular has 3.1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 55% of Voice Band's written reviews are positive against 41% of Voice Synth Modular's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Voice Band ships an update every 8 months, Voice Synth Modular monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Voice Band | Voice Synth Modular |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.2 (3.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.9% of reviews — better | 41.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WaveMachine Labs, Inc. | Qneo |
Customer experience
Voice Band
Voice Synth Modular
User reviews
Voice Band
From 2 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great fun
- 👍 Innovative concept
- 💡 Allows music creation without instruments
- 👍 Useful for brainstorming musical ideas
Room to improve
- 🐛 Pitch tracking issues
- 🐛 Drum controls are difficult to use
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Instruments sound distorted
- 🐛 Purchases not persisting across app sessions
Voice Synth Modular
From 3.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🔥 Powerful voice modulation
- 🎨 Huge array of filters and sounds
- 🎹 Ability to create beats from voice
- 🎶 Excellent for vocal performances
- 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
Room to improve
- 💰 Paid features hidden behind paywall
- 🔒 Confusing upgrade process
- 🐛 Unreliable recording and playback
- 🤔 Unintuitive workflow and lack of guidance
- 🤷♀️ Inconsistent functionality across updates
Bugs and requests
Voice Band
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on launch for some users
- Recorded tracks get deleted when closing the app
- Inability to save or export recorded songs
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add more instruments like piano, acoustic guitar, and percussion
- Implement a loop function for easier recording
- Add a timeline/editor to rearrange and edit recorded tracks
- Improve pitch detection and quantization
- Allow importing audio files to use as backing tracks
Voice Synth Modular
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes and freezes when using certain features
- Microphone not detected or working properly
- Imported audio files not playing back correctly
- Presets and settings not saving or loading properly
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to record and process own voice
- Deeper integration with music production apps
- More customization and preset options
- Better documentation and tutorials
- System audio capture and processing
In-app purchases
Voice Band
- Cello Instrument Sample$0.99
- Violin instrument sample$0.99
- Fuzz Box instrument sample for use in Voice Band$0.99
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- Lead 2 instrument sample$0.99
- Power Chords 2 instrument sample$0.99
- Rock Bass instrument sample$0.99
- Talk Sitar instrument sample$0.99
- Fat Synth instrument sample$0.99
- Synth Pad instrument sample$0.99
- Morph Kit 1 instrument sample$0.99
- Rock Kit instrument sample$0.99
- Techno Kit instrument sample$0.99
Voice Synth Modular
- Pro ToolsFree
- Upgrade$8.99
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