Sonic Logic vs Roostbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sonic Logic
Create and edit custom MIDI controllers on your iPad. Connect to DAWs and other music apps via WiFi, Bluetooth, USB, or MIDI cable. Offers a user-friendly interface for assigning controls and manipulating MIDI notes live.
- Modular MIDI controller creation
- Edit and control MIDI setups
- Connect via WiFi, Bluetooth, USB, MIDI cable
- Control DAWs and other iOS apps
- Create and edit on iPad with touch gestures
- Add buttons, knobs, sliders, XY pads
- Multi-screen setups (up to 8 screens)
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Sonic Logic is a modular MIDI controller that allows you to edit and control MIDI setups from your iPad. Connect over WiFi, Bluetooth(*), USB (*), MIDI cable or use Virtual MIDI and Audiobus to control other iOS apps internally. Control DAWs like: Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Cubase, Protools, Traktor, and other many more. Create and edit on your iPad! Super easy and fun interface to create, edit, control, manipulate, assign MIDI controllers and notes live, using touch gestures. (No external editor needed). Add Buttons, knobs, toggle buttons, XY pads, sliders and text objects. * Create your MIDI controller easily from your iPad. * Import and export your setups and layouts. * Multi screen - Each setup can have up to 8 different, easily switchable screens. * Intelligent MIDI assignments makes component creation fast and easy. * Edit component's color, size, MIDI channel, range and controller number. * Time advancing gestures for buttons, create a time based MIDI transition with just a press of a button. * Control everything with multi touch. * Snap to middle feature on sliders and knobs. * Built in, editable templates. * Low latency. * to Mac clients ** Windows users - 3rd party software exists for Windows to connect Sonic Logic to it over Wi-Fi Visit us at www.soniclogicapps.com for more information, videos, DAW presets and more… Email us for feature requests and ideas! Spread the love - If you like Sonic Logic, let us and others know by posting a review here :)
Roostbox
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Roostbox is a groovebox that looks like a retro arcade cabinet and plays like one. It makes techno and other electronic music live, by hand: fly a ship through a beat, ride the faders, flick the stick, and every gesture you make is recorded and loops with the beat. It is a different way to play electronic music live. There is no step grid to program and no timeline to edit. Everything on screen is a control, you play it with two thumbs, and the loop keeps what you played. Two kits are in the box, and everything is free: both kits, the whole performance surface and the AUv3 plugin. No purchase, no account, no ads. Play it standalone on iPhone or iPad, or load it as an instrument inside AUM, Loopy Pro, Cubasis, Drambo or Logic Pro for iPad. TWO KITS IN THE BOX SPACE: fly a ship through a beat. Where the ship goes picks the groove: four-on-the-floor, backbeat, offbeat, broken, sixteenths. The cockpit page holds the mixer, a stick for filter and grit, overdrive, pump, tape, delay, reverb, crush and a DJ filter. A 303-style acid bass and a drum synth make the sound. PLIVKA: a four-track techno box. Kick, bass, snare and hat, each with a pattern control and a hit control, laid out over five pages: Rhythm, Sound, Perform, FX and Mix. The bass line is a Turing machine that mutates as much or as little as you let it. UNDER THE HOOD - Euclidean rhythm generators, a Turing machine sequencer and a trigger sequencer drive the patterns. - A drum synth and a 303-style acid bass synth make the sound. No samples. - Every fader move is recorded as motion and loops with the beat. Undo and redo if you change your mind. - Scenes: snapshot the whole kit and switch on the next sixteenth, beat, bar or pattern. - Master effects: delay and reverb sends, filter, crush, tape, compressor, sidechain pump and a limiter. - MIDI learn: map any control to a hardware controller. - Landscape only. Made for two thumbs. AUv3 The plugin is the same instrument as the app, with the same two kits, and it is free. It follows the host tempo and transport. Jam in the standalone app; record into your DAW with the plugin. WHAT 1.0 IS Two kits, built to be played. Building your own kits is not part of this version. Roostbox is made by one person. If something is broken, tell me: reach.freefall.studio@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Roostbox at Free against Sonic Logic's $9.99. Roostbox also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On 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
Roostbox is free to download; Sonic Logic costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Sonic Logic | Roostbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (17 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Uri Nachmias | ARTEM VOVSIA |
In-app purchases
Sonic Logic
No in-app purchases
Roostbox
No in-app purchases









