Musical polyphoniс synthesizer vs XPad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Musical polyphoniс synthesizer
This app transforms your iPad into a versatile musical instrument, offering a microtonal synthesizer with extensive octave range and distortion effects. It allows for unique tuning, low latency performance, and combines a small set of features for diverse sound creation.
- Microtonal capability
- Low latency and distortion
- Extensive octave range
- Adjustable pitch rounding/frets
- Polyphony adjustment
- Reverb and delay effects
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Video: http://youtu.be/qNADBoucaRk A microtonal capable distortion synthesizer with an 11-string bass guitar layout with extremely low latency. This App gives you: Too much octave range The ability to play totally out of tune A small amount of help on playing in key A somewhat ugly interface A small set of features that you must combine to make variety. No bitmapped images to make you drool over the eye candy Not a font anywhere - other than a few begrudgingly penciled in note names The settings (bottom buttons): - Overall Volume - Reverb - Distortion - Octave Harmonics - FM Distortion - Delay - Pitch Rounding / Optional Frets - Polyphony Adjustment - Preset and Lock(slide right to un-lock AS FIRST STEP!) Technique A lot of players play with one hand. Right-handed guitar players are typically doing everything with their picking (right) hand. Pianists seem to do the same. I play two-handed finger-tapping technique, which seems to be best way. Special thanks to Rob Fielding. Полифонический синтезатор Эта программа превращает Ваш iPad в потрясающий музыкальный инструмент - церковный орган (музыкальный инструмент). Внутри трудится полифонический синтезатор, позволяющий Вам извлекать 10 звуков одновременно. Синтезатор настраивается на специальном поле настроек внизу экрана. Для развлекательных целей этот инструмент подходит слабо, но при соответствующей подготовке (и занятий в музыкальной школе хотя бы на ф-но!) он позволяет играть очень впечатляющие музыкальные произведения. Попробуйте :) Классические и романтические произведения на органе звучат очень впечатляюще. Краткая инструкция: Экран iPad используется максимально полно, разделен на клавиши инструмента, каждая клавиша по горизонтали отличается на пол-тона(музыкальный интервал) от соседней. Соседние клавиши по вертикали отличаются на кварту(музыкальный интервал) Пара рядов клавиш находится в пределах 1 музыкальной октавы. Пара рядов выше - на октавы выше, пара рядов ниже - на октаву ниже. Исключение составляет предпоследний сверху ряд - 3 ряда играют в пределах одной октавы - удобно играть аккорды. При смещении пальца с клавиши происходит сдвиг частоты - позволяет играть "легато" Клавиши, играющие "чистые" ноты C,D,E,F,G,A,H - подписаны При игре подсвечиваются все клавиши аналогичные нажатой ноте во всех октавах (нажимаем "Е" - подсвечиваются все "Е" на устройстве) Ну в общем разберетесь :) Настройки синтезатора меняются положением регуляторов на нижней строке. Далее слева направо: - Общая громкость. Служит в основном при замешивании выходного сигнала с другими источниками, например гитарой. - реверберация (случайное эхо) - дисторшн (компрессия). - октавные гармоники. Обязательны для звучания, напоминающего орган или гитару. - FM дисторшн (модуляции частот, дающие богатый набор гармоник) - индикатор повторения задежки (delay) (моргает во время работы) - Частота повторения задежки (delay) - Громкость задежки (delay) - плавность перехода между соседними клавишами (отображается толщиной линии между ними), позволяет играть легато. - настройка полифонии (игра аккордами). Менее 25% - монофоническое звучание, более 75%- полная полифония. - заранее запрограммированные установки (пресеты),всего 12, когда все кнопки внизу серые - вы не можете редактировать их, нужно разблокировать крайней правой кнопкой. Отредактированные пресеты - сохраняются. - блокировка кнопок настройки от случайного нажатия Кнопка "подарить рубль" НЕ отключает рекламу и НЕ покупает ничего и служит только как стимул для меня выпустить платную версию, без рекламы и с расширенными возможностями (есть идеи - пишите в почту техподдержки). Эта версия программы основана на идее и работе Rob Fielding и поэтому бесплатна. Я люблю музыку. Удачной игры.
XPad
This app provides professional pad sounds for keyboardists, aiming to replicate warm analog synth tones with advanced digital features. It offers intuitive glissando control, real-time sound morphing, and extensive MIDI compatibility for a dynamic playing experience.
- Modern pad sounds
- Realistic glissando control
- Tone Width morphing
- Sensible sound controls
- MIDI remote control
- Extensive sound library search
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XPad is a professional sound module app and Audio Unit v3 plugin with focus on modern pad sounds for iPad. Goal was to get the warm and vibrant sound of analogue synths onto the convenient platform of an iPad and combining those sounds with the benefits of state of the art digital features while still preserving that analogue tone and feeling. Glissando XPad introduces a new way that we were developing for our apps to achieve realistic large interval Glissando. You can glide a tone continuously e.g. from the lowest octave up to the highest octave and vice versa, in any desirable speed and without causing an artificial impression to the listener. We were also thinking about how to improve the usability aspects for playing Glissando in a much more intuitive & convenient way for a keyboard player, while still preserving the player's full control. Foremost this app allows you to mix Glissando with regular polyphonic notes (e.g. chords) simultaneously or switch between these playing styles quickly at any time without leaving your hands off the keyboard. For instance you might be playing and holding a chord with your right hand while playing a Glissando slide with your left hand and punching through the right hand's chord from an octave lower than the chord, up to some octave higher than the chord. Tone Width Replicating some analogue boutique pad synthesizers is nice, but what about having a huge stack of them? That's where "Tone Width" control comes into play. Especially the important pad sounds of this app allow you to morph the sound with the "Tone Width" knob in real-time steplessly between a very thin and clean sound up to a huge and fat tonal sound as if an army of pad synths was working under your finger tips. Sensible Control Controls for the individual sound aspects is good. But it should be in a sensible way. Nothing is hard wired here. Every sound of this app presents controls that make sense for the individual sound. All controls presented are always fine tuned to the individual elements of that sound. You can alter all controls remotely by MIDI e.g. with sliders at your keyboard. The most important controls for each sound are mapped to things that you are most likely using anyway at your keyboard. For instance all sounds use the Aftertouch information of your keyboard to bring more dynamic behaviour into the sound even while just holding some notes. And just grab your modulation wheel at your keyboard to bring in some more variance. Never Lost XPad offers up to 462 sounds, but don't worry, it never lets you down and always assists you finding just the sound you need in a glimpse. You can quickly search for sounds with any combination of several criteria like sound characteristics, articulations, controls and more. Connectivity Like all our apps, XPad is very easy to use and start with. Just connect your keyboard with your iPad and you are ready to go. And of course if needed, you can simply tweak the setup, e.g. use a Bluetooth MIDI wireless connection to your keyboard instead of a cabled one, restrict MIDI input to certain devices or apps, connect to other apps with Inter-App Audio or use the sounds of this app as Audio Unit v3 plugin directly in the DAW app of your choice. Recorder The app comes with a built-in MIDI recorder that allows you to quickly record your musical ideas. You can share them as audio files with other people or transfer them as MIDI files for further work e.g. on your Mac. Sound Sets XPad is divided into 14 optional sound sets of different sound categories and provide up to 462 sounds in total. Even though the app is focused on pad sounds, this is not all this app has to offer sound-wise. The "Atmo" pack for instance contains atmospheric sounds for generating very emotional sound bases and backgrounds e.g. for film and entertainment. The "Perc" sound set contains drums and percussive sounds. The "Silicon" sound set covers synthesizers also offside the pad field, and much more.
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Musical polyphoniс synthesizer at 4.4 against XPad's 3.8. Musical polyphoniс synthesizer also leads on review sentiment (77% vs 50%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). XPad's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 42 months) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Musical polyphoniс synthesizer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and XPad sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Musical polyphoniс synthesizer holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 24 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Musical polyphoniс synthesizer's written reviews are positive against 50% of XPad's.
Musical polyphoniс synthesizer ships an update every 42 months, XPad every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Musical polyphoniс synthesizer | XPad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (20 ratings) — better | 3.8 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 42 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 1.2 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Evgeny EGOROV | Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte |
Customer experience
Musical polyphoniс synthesizer
XPad
In-app purchases
Musical polyphoniс synthesizer
- Gift $1 to developer$0.99
- to switch off advertizing$3.99
XPad
- Metal Sound Set$3.99
- Bass Sound Set$3.99
- Choir Sound Set$3.99
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- Altro Sound Set$3.99
- Percussive Sound Set$3.99
- Vintage Sound Set$4.99
- Atmo Sound Set$5.99
- Space Sound Set$5.99
- Nature Sound Set$5.99
- Sequence Sound Set$5.99
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