Roast Beef vs StringLab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roast Beef
This audio effect app adds a "beefy" distortion to your music. It features three controls for sub-bass enhancement, noise texture, and drive for aggressive sound shaping. It functions as a standalone app or an AUv3 plugin for hosts like GarageBand.
- Sub-bass enhancement
- Noise texture control
- Drive distortion
- Standalone application
- AUv3 plugin support
- Works with GarageBand
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What’s better in the Christmas Season than a piping hot serving of Roast Beef? If Beef was the Ghost of Christmas Present, then Tiny-Roast-Beef-Tim is here to beef up your drums, roast your basses and cook your tracks into oblivion. With three straight-to-the-point controls, invigorate the low end with the ‘Sub’ control, add texture and presence with the ‘Noise’ control and lastly boost and distort your music into beefy goodness with the ‘Drive’ Control. Roast Beef is both a stand-alone application as well as an AUv3 plugin, meaning it works within iOS and iPadOS hosts such as GarageBand.
StringLab
This app is a digital synthesizer that uses physical string modeling to recreate the sounds of various instruments, particularly plucked or hammered strings. It allows users to explore acoustic physics and create unique instrument textures through extensive parameter experimentation.
- Karplus-Strong physical modeling
- Exciter Impact and Noise modes
- Resonator objects with feedback
- Frequency Dispersion support
- External live input
- Preset randomizer and manager
- Drag & Drop preset export
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StringLab is a physical string modeling synthesizer based on Karplus-Strong theory. It is capable of reproducing the sounds of many different types of instruments, but is especially useful in the reproduction of hammered or plucked strings and other types of percussive instruments. It works by passing carefully crafted waveforms and short bursts of white noise through a series of tuned delay lines. The delay lines have an internal feedback loop with a series of filters to mimic the natural decay of harmonics found in a real instrument. StringLab allows you to discover the character of real-world accoustics, exploring the physics of how materials interact. Many new and original textures are born out of experimenting with the settings, so don't be afraid to experiment and create your own unique and dynamic instruments. Features •Karplus Strong based physical modeling. •Exciter Impact with multiple modes. •Exciter Noise with many envelope driven filters. •2 resonator objects with feedback. •8 bands per object with inversion. •4 Coupling modes. •Supports Frequency Dispersion. •Feedback low/high Damping. •Per object Body Filter. •Pitch Deformity. •External live input mode. •Preset randomiser. •Build it Preset Manager & Favourites. •Search Presets. •Drag & Drop preset export of presets. •Supports Color Sets.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Roast Beef at $0.99 against StringLab's $14.99. Roast Beef also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On review sentiment, 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
Roast Beef costs $0.99 and StringLab $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Roast Beef holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 14 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Roast Beef's written reviews are positive against 57% of StringLab's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Roast Beef | StringLab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (15 ratings) — better | 4.3 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Caelum Audio | 4Pockets.com |
Customer experience
Roast Beef
StringLab
In-app purchases
Roast Beef
No in-app purchases
StringLab
No in-app purchases








