Comparison

Roast Beef vs StringLab

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Roast Beef1 screens
StringLab4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Roast Beef costs $0.99 and StringLab $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Roast Beef versus StringLab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoast BeefStringLab
Price$0.99 — better$14.99
Rating4.8 (15 ratings) — better4.3 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews57.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15 — better14
Update frequency—Every 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCaelum Audio4Pockets.com

Customer experience

Roast Beef

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

StringLab

All ratings14 ratings
Positive78.6%
Neutral7.1%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral14.3%
Negative28.6%

In-app purchases

None

Roast Beef

No in-app purchases

None

StringLab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Roast Beef free?
Roast Beef costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is StringLab free?
StringLab costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Roast Beef or StringLab?
Roast Beef is rated higher. Roast Beef averages 4.8 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while StringLab averages 4.3 from 14 ratings.
Do Roast Beef or StringLab have ads?
Neither Roast Beef nor StringLab shows ads.

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