Comparison

Visual Instrument vs Talk Button

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

Head to head
About

Visual Instrument

This app uses touch input to trigger musical chords and create ambient melodies. Random key changes and physics-enabled "balls" generate unique, endlessly evolving soundscapes with accompanying visuals.

Highlights
  • Randomized chord generation
  • Multi-touch support
  • Physics-enabled sound triggers
  • Ambient visual backdrop
  • Endless melodic tunes
  • Key changes
Features
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The power of randomness combined with your touch creates an endless melody for your enjoyment. Jazz guitar virtuoso Paul Musso combined his musical knowledge with the programming and artwork of Bryan Leister to create this music-making application. Musso provided guitar recordings of chords typically used to create a melody - F#, D#, C and G. Your touch (supports up to 4 simultaneous touches) creates collisions that will trigger one of these chords. Every 3 seconds, the key is randomly changed to either A Minor, C, F or G. The result is an amazing, soothing and endless melodic tune that you can play for hours without the tune ever repeating itself. The visuals provide an ambient backdrop to help you play. The capsules represent your touch, each moving dot is a physics-enabled ball that contains one note. Hit a ball, and the note plays. If the ball hits the edges of the screen, the collision also triggers the note. An experiment in music theory that was produced for an exhibition in Denver that also used motion tracking. Now available as a touch screen application.

About

Talk Button

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Wireless remote for a Talkback control, connecting with OSC networking. Latch, Toggle or Hybrid button behavior. Just right if you need a wireless Talkback Button in your studio for another person e.g. director, producer, artists without installing hardware, cables, etc.. A an OSC-capable application or device on your remote computer is required.

Screenshots

Visual Instrument3 screens
Talk Button4 screens

Verdict

The call

Visual Instrument and Talk Button are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Visual Instrument versus Talk Button: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual InstrumentTalk Button
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 64 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.4
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBryan LeisterFelix Rost

In-app purchases

None

Visual Instrument

No in-app purchases

None

Talk Button

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Visual Instrument free?
Visual Instrument is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Talk Button free?
Talk Button is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Visual Instrument or Talk Button have ads?
Neither Visual Instrument nor Talk Button shows ads.

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