Comparison

MIDI FX PRO vs Negative Harmony

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

Head to head
About

MIDI FX PRO

This app is a powerful MIDI workstation for iOS and Mac, allowing users to control and process MIDI signals. It offers features like harmonization, transposition, arpeggiation, and sequencing for external or virtual synths. It also includes internal instruments and effects for mobile music creation.

Highlights
  • MIDI signal processing
  • Harmonize, Transpose, Arpeggiate
  • Sequencer for synths
  • Delay/looper
  • Internal instruments (drums, piano, synth)
  • Filter notes by velocity
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Buy once and get the iOS and Mac apps (with Family Sharing) This is the Unlocked Version of MIDI FX. You can buy this version instead of unlocking the free one through IAP Control your MIDI signals and process them in any combination of ways: Harmonize, Transpose, Arpeggiate, etc... Or use the Sequencer to play any external or virtual synth. Use a MIDI interface to unlock the power of the app to control multiple synths with one keyboard, play one note and generate chords, basslines, etc... Use the delay/looper or filter notes based on velocity or other parameters to send to different synths/effects. A MIDI workstation in your pocket (or your iPad/Mac) You can also use some internal instruments (drums sampler, piano or synth) if you are away from your MIDI gear, and sequence whole songs inside the app, or use other synth apps as input/output for MIDI FX. Your imagination is the limit!

About

Negative Harmony

Features
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Negative Harmony lets you explore one of music theory's most fascinating transformations: reflecting any chord or progression across a tonal axis to produce its harmonic mirror image. TAP ANY CHORD Select a root and quality on the interactive Circle of Fifths. See the original chord and its negative simultaneously, with voice-leading automatically applied. BUILD PROGRESSIONS Add chords to a progression and play them back — originals or negatives — with smooth voice leading between every chord. Common tones are held, not re-attacked. UNDERSTAND THE THEORY Built-in theory section explains the concept from first principles: the axis, the transformation formula, voice leading, and the history from Hugo Riemann to Jacob Collier. 5 SOUNDS Choose from Rhodes, Strings, Choir, Organ, or Synth Pad — the same high-quality soundfont used by professional music apps. MULTILINGUAL Full support for English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.

Screenshots

MIDI FX PRO1 screens
Negative Harmony3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Negative Harmony at $2.99 against MIDI FX PRO's $9.99. MIDI FX PRO's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.7 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

MIDI FX PRO costs $9.99 and Negative Harmony $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MIDI FX PRO versus Negative Harmony: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMIDI FX PRONegative Harmony
Price$9.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.7 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size263 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJorge ArroyoMartin Adler

In-app purchases

None

MIDI FX PRO

No in-app purchases

None

Negative Harmony

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MIDI FX PRO free?
MIDI FX PRO costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Negative Harmony free?
Negative Harmony costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do MIDI FX PRO or Negative Harmony have ads?
Neither MIDI FX PRO nor Negative Harmony shows ads.

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