Note to Be vs Zodiak Taurus Mega Octavizer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Note to Be
This app offers advanced MIDI quantization for iOS musicians. It allows precise control over note selection, octave flexibility, and MIDI CC integration for crafting harmonious compositions and dynamic live performances. Supports microtonal scales and multi-synth setups.
- Customizable note and octave selection
- MIDI CC to note conversion
- Multi-synth channel assignment
- Live performance toggles
- Microtonal scale support (Scala Library)
- MPE polyphonic playback
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Take full control of your MIDI experience with Note to Be—the powerful iOS app designed to transform how you interact with your music. Whether you're working with a MIDI keyboard, sequencer, or MIDI CC input, Note to Be ensures your notes are perfectly quantized to the nearest selected note, allowing you to craft precise, harmonious compositions with ease. Key Features: - Customizable Note Selection: Choose individual notes from any octave, or apply your selection across the full -1 to +8 octave range. - Octave Flexibility: Work within the entire octave spectrum, selecting and unselecting notes with a simple tap. - MIDI CC Integration: Use MIDI CC from hardware controllers or apps like ShiftBud to convert control changes into quantized notes. Easily create chord voicings and dynamic live performances. - Multi-Synth Support: Assign different MIDI channels to multiple synths, allowing each to respond to the quantized MIDI output independently. - Live Performance Enhancement: Engage the 'all notes' toggle to instantly apply note selections across all octaves or quickly select notes in a specific key and scale. - Microtonality: Select a microtonal scale from the Scala Library with +5000 microtonal scales, or import your own to the iCloud folder. Play the MPE supported synths polyphonically. With Note to Be, your music becomes a canvas, and every note is a brushstroke. Unlock new creative possibilities and refine your sound with the precision of MIDI quantization, right from your iOS device. Note to Be is a MIDI app and does not produce any sound on its own. You need a MIDI input source and an audio output destination in order to work with Note to Be. The AUv3 plugin requires an AUv3 host app such as AUM, Logic Pro for iPad, Loopy Pro, Cubasis, Nanostudio, apeMatrix, Audiobus etc.
Zodiak Taurus Mega Octavizer
This app generates five independent voices of your input signal across five octaves, offering extensive sound shaping capabilities. It features individual saturation, detune, delay, and EQ for each voice, plus cabinet simulators and room emulation for a complete audio solution. It works as an AUv3 plugin on Apple devices.
- Five independent voices across five octaves
- Individual voice saturation, detune, and delay
- Attack envelope and tuned EQ per voice
- Stereo panning and mixer interface
- Cabinet simulators and room emulation
- AUv3 plugin support for iOS and Mac
- Over 60 factory presets
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Zodiak Taurus is not your grandparents' octavizer. Zodiak Taurus is a mammoth multi-voice beast that takes the puniest tone and turns it into full frontal sonic assault. Slap it on your guitars, drums, bass, vocals, or even your keyboards. Then let Taurus elevate your sound. Taurus generates five independent voices — or reconstructions — of your input signal in realtime. These voices together span a whopping five octaves. With a few tweaks, you can double track your guitar, add a bass, a sub bass, and even a high frequency overtone. The result is a big, spacious sound that covers the whole stereo field. But that’s only the beginning, because this is a Zodiak effect. To sweeten the pot, each Taurus voice features its very own saturation stage (tuned specifically for it); a detune control for obtaining non-octave intervals or even natural chorus or ADT effects; a regenerative delay stage that can be used for staggering the voices, changing their timbre, or even causing them to self oscillate; an attack envelope that can have each voice fade in at different rates; a tuned EQ submodule, as well as stereo panning and other parameters — all collected in a familiar mixer-like interface. Newly developed algorithms deliver crystal clear signal reconstruction, and operate so efficiently that Taurus is as responsive when playing live as it is well-behaved in the studio. A special post-FX module includes cabinet simulators, room emulation, variable EQ, and compression to produce an easy to use, all-in-one audio solution. Zodiak Taurus also works as an AUv3 effects plugin on your iPad, iPhone, and Silicon Mac computer. It comes with over 60 factory presets to start you off in your journey, as well as many other advanced features like patch save/share, MIDI learn, and more. The latest offering in Yonac’s new Zodiak series of effects, Taurus is jam packed with sonic easter eggs. Whether your goal is to emulate diverse instruments, create enormous walls of sound, or paint complexly layered psychedelic soundscapes, Taurus has a roadmap for you somewhere across its controls.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Note to Be at $3.99 against Zodiak Taurus Mega Octavizer's $14.99. Note to Be also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Zodiak Taurus Mega Octavizer's advantage is review sentiment (71% vs 50%). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
Note to Be costs $3.99 and Zodiak Taurus Mega Octavizer $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Note to Be holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 15 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Note to Be's written reviews are positive against 71% of Zodiak Taurus Mega Octavizer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Note to Be ships an update every 9 days, Zodiak Taurus Mega Octavizer weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Note to Be | Zodiak Taurus Mega Octavizer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (7 ratings) — better | 4.6 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cem Olcay | Yonac Inc. |
Customer experience
Note to Be
Zodiak Taurus Mega Octavizer
In-app purchases
Note to Be
No in-app purchases
Zodiak Taurus Mega Octavizer
No in-app purchases
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