Comparison

Steve Roach Immersion II vs Stellarvox

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

Head to head
About

Steve Roach Immersion II

Create infinite, evolving ambient music soundscapes by mixing custom loops from renowned artist Steve Roach. Sculpt unique audio experiences with an intuitive interface, save your creations, and share them with others. Enjoy high-quality, background playback for immersive listening.

Highlights
  • Create custom soundscapes from source loops
  • Mix five different loops for endless playback
  • Save and share custom mixes
  • Control volume and stereo pan of each loop
  • Background music playback
  • AirPlay streaming support
  • CD quality sound
Features
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Immersion Station II brings you infinite ambient music, created from the soundworlds of ambient music pioneer Steve Roach. In this second version of Immersion Station, Steve draws from his recent atmospherics heard on the release Back to Life. Immersion II also makes use of the most recent Immersion Station, which includes support for iPhone 5, AirPlay and sharing via Twitter. Immersion Station is an elegant interactive sound immersion tool. Create infinite mix combinations from five different loops of varied lengths for endless playback. These sounds have been extracted from the heart of Steve Roach’s soundworlds and carefully chosen for a congruent relationship allowing the user to sculpt constantly changing ambient music. The Immersion Station interface and application, created by Software Artist Eric Freeman (working closely with Steve), allows you to mix loops using a simple, intuitive, interactive and organic interface that is reflective of Steve's work. You can visit http://www.immersionstation.com for a complete demonstration. FEATURES * Easily create custom soundscapes from Steve Roach's source loops * Includes 80 megabytes of loops custom crafted by Steve Roach * Includes four custom mixes from Steve Roach * Each mix provides constantly changing ambient music * Save your own mixes at any time * Use AirPlay to stream your music anywhere * Share your mixes with Twitter * Control the volume or stereo pan of each loop * Incubate new mixes using the evolve function * Plays music in the background * Optimized with HD Images for iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 * CD quality sound * Supports Apple's remote interface for controlling playback * User's guide provided in the App and online Recommended for headphones or external speakers.

About

Stellarvox

Design immersive ambient soundscapes with a hybrid reverb and artificial space designer. Create lush textures, deep spaces, and whispering backgrounds for electronic, experimental, and sound design projects. Offers intuitive controls and inspiring presets for quick, high-quality results.

Highlights
  • Hybrid reverb with artificial space designer
  • Algorithmic reflections tail processing
  • Dynamic timbre changes over time
  • Geometry and dimension control
  • Factory presets and random feature
  • MIDI learn support
  • Standalone and AUv3 module
Features
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Hybrid reverb with an artificial space designer, combining it with algorithmic reflections tail processing, is ideal to creating immersive ambience of deep spaces, lush atmospheric textures or stunning whispering backgrounds in your ambient, electronic, experimental and sound design projects. Unlike traditional algorithmic reverbs, Stellarvox constructs a complex model of a vast resonant sound spaces with choice of geometry, dimensions and tonal structure of the space, along with a unique feature that dynamically change the timbre of reflections over the reverberation time. The second algorithmic reverb allows you to prolong and blur reflections, adding extra dimensions to the sound space. Easy-to-use controls on a single screen, along with optimally designed parameters that always give great results, make insignificant the peculiarity of that kind of reverbs, when the model creates with a little delay after changing it. Factory presets and the random feature will give you a starting point of inspiration and allow you to get a quick result where you need just to slightly tweak the parameters to align with your idea. This application is great for ambient projects, it can create mesmerizing atmosphere from single infrequent sounds of various instruments, or giving a beautiful and deep backgrounds to sharp sequences in electronics, as well as for any experimental projects that require unusual, deep and rich sound ambience. Stellarvox is a universal application for iOS and macOS. It can work on iPhone and iPad as well as Mac / MacBook with M1 chip (and later). Stellarvox works on iPhone and iPad standalone, as an Audio Unit or Inter-App Audio module, with supports Audiobus host app. On MacOS, Stellarvox can works both as a standalone application and as an Audio unit (AUv3) with DAWs and other hosts that support AUv3 plugins. All application features are available on iOS and macOS, including MIDI support (with a MIDI learn option) and audio unit parameters. Stellarvox has a built-in detailed description of all parameters also available as PDF file on the application site. Sound demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEtZfvLtJy8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqCYa1tp2Qw You can find more information on Stellarvox and other audio apps at: https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com

Screenshots

Steve Roach Immersion II4 screens
Stellarvox3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Steve Roach Immersion II at Free against Stellarvox's $11.99. Steve Roach Immersion II also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Stellarvox's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 12 months). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Steve Roach Immersion II is free to download; Stellarvox costs $11.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Steve Roach Immersion II against 5.0 for Stellarvox. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 11 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steve Roach Immersion II ships an update every 12 months, Stellarvox every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Steve Roach Immersion II versus Stellarvox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSteve Roach Immersion IIStellarvox
PriceFree — better$11.99
Rating5.0 (26 ratings)5.0 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings26 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 5 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size134 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEric FreemanIgor Vasiliev

Customer experience

Steve Roach Immersion II

All ratings26 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Stellarvox

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Steve Roach Immersion II

No in-app purchases

None

Stellarvox

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Steve Roach Immersion II free?
Steve Roach Immersion II is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stellarvox free?
Stellarvox costs $11.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Steve Roach Immersion II or Stellarvox?
Steve Roach Immersion II and Stellarvox are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 26 and 11 ratings respectively.
Do Steve Roach Immersion II or Stellarvox have ads?
Neither Steve Roach Immersion II nor Stellarvox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Steve Roach Immersion II or Stellarvox?
Steve Roach Immersion II ships an update every 12 months, and Stellarvox every 5 months. Most recently, Steve Roach Immersion II was updated on October 2, 2026 and Stellarvox on October 9, 2026.

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