NLogSynth PRO vs Continua
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NLogSynth PRO
This app is a professional virtual analog synthesizer for iOS, offering a low-latency sound engine with extensive editing capabilities. It supports various inter-app audio and MIDI protocols, allowing for integration with DAWs and external controllers. Create and export custom sounds and recordings with studio-quality audio.
- Virtual analog low-latency sound engine
- Extensive sound editing with over 150 parameters
- Support for AudioUnit v3, AudioBus 3, Inter-App Audio
- Full MIDI implementation and Core MIDI compatibility
- Studio quality 44.1 kHz Stereo CD quality audio
- 224 factory sounds and user banks
- Multi-effect section with delay, chorus, reverb, and more
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Professional Virtual Analogue Synthesizer supporting AudioUnit v3, AudioBus 3, Inter-App Audio and Core MIDI compatible apps & interfaces. Versatile iOS synth with professional grade virtual analogue low latency sound engine: - Play it from on-screen keyboard - Use MIDI keyboards & controllers via MIDI interfaces - Connect to your digital audio workstation via MIDI interfaces - Play NLogSynth from other iOS apps using virtual Core MIDI - Synchronize NLog via MIDI Clock to other apps or devices - Make audio or MIDI recordings on the run and share your files - Export patches & recordings Supports external MIDI input and output via CoreMIDI compatible interfaces and class compliant USB MIDI interfaces. Full MIDI implementation including velocity control, pitch bend, sustain pedal, modulation wheel, program & bank change, polyphonic after touch, channel pressure and assignable midi controller & MIDI Sync receiving mode. ::: Follow @nlogmusic at Twitter! ::: ::: Featured in How to Make a Noise: iPad Synthesizers Edition (http://noisesculpture.com/ipad) the most widely read synthesizer book ::: - 224 IMPRESSIVE FACTORY SOUNDS - including fresh new sound set by the producer 7 Skies - ENDLESS options for SOUND EDITING - Over 150 parameters - 3 user banks with 96 slots - STUDIO QUALITY sounds - Professional 44.1 kHz Stereo CD quality - 32bit floating point engine - Highly efficient algorithms - STAGE safe KEYBOARD implementation - SLIDING & LOCK option - Double manual option - POLY, MONO & LEGATO modes - Velocity control - Different key sizes - Fully customizable EXPRESSION CONTROL - Realistic PITCH BEND and MOD WHEEL implementation - X/Y dimensional controller - 4 customizable PERFORMANCE knobs - Keyboard with VERTICAL modulation control - Incredible FAT & RICH: - New filter implementation for SMOOTH and JUICY control with 7 FILTER types - UNISONO mode for up to 4 parallel sounds with detune, delay and panning control === SOUND editing features === - 4 Oscillators with 20 waveforms: - classic analogue SIN, SAWTOOTH, TRIANGLE and SQUARE - 16 additional carefully designed wavetables - True PWM pulse-width modulation - Frequency mod - Ring mod - Noise generator - 2 Filter with 7 filter types - Low, High & Band Passes - Finest sweeps & smoothest cutoff tuning - Carefully resonating - 12 & 24dB option for steepness - 4 ADSR Envelope generators - Velocity controlled attack time - Slope control - 4 Modulation LFOs - Sample & hold - Fade in delay - Modulation Matrix - 4 Modulation slots each modulating 3 destinations - Multi-effect section - Stereo delay with x-feed & filter - chorus - flanger - phaser - distortion - reverb - parametric EQ
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.
- 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.
Verdict
NLogSynth PRO and Continua both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 83% of NLogSynth PRO's written reviews are positive against 55% of Continua's. NLogSynth PRO also leads on price ($8.99 vs $9.99). Continua's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
NLogSynth PRO costs $8.99 and Continua $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for NLogSynth PRO against 4.6 for Continua. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 33 and 13 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of NLogSynth PRO's written reviews are positive against 55% of Continua's.
NLogSynth PRO ships an update every 2 months, Continua every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NLogSynth PRO | Continua |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (33 ratings) | 4.6 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.1% of reviews — better | 55.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | tempo rubato | Audio Damage, Inc. |
Customer experience
NLogSynth PRO
Continua
In-app purchases
NLogSynth PRO
No in-app purchases
Continua
No in-app purchases









