Comparison

BEATSURFING Performer vs FAC Gravity

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

Head to head
About

BEATSURFING Performer

This app acts as a companion for a drum kit generator plugin, allowing users to perform their drums live within their DAW. It brings the interactive music-making experience from other acclaimed apps to your digital audio workstation.

Highlights
  • Live drum performance
  • Companion for DRUW plugin
  • Integrates with DAWs
  • Interactive music-making
  • Brings Playground/Beatsurfing 2 experience
Features
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A companion app for playing BEATSURFING plugins, starting with DRUW, the drum kit generator. Once connected to your plugin, the app lets you perform your drums instead of programming them. Bringing the music-making experience of the acclaimed Playground and Beatsurfing 2 apps into your DAW.

About

FAC Gravity

Create unique audio effects like Barberpole glissandos, spectral illusions, and evolving echoes. This frequency shifter offers stereo or mono processing with customizable feedback loops and modulation for dynamic sound design.

Highlights
  • Barberpole glissandos and spectral illusions
  • Stereo or mono frequency shifting
  • Spiral feedback loop with delay and filtering
  • Modulation matrix with LFO and envelope follower
  • Tempo-synced or MIDI-driven effects
  • Dry/wet mix and optional limiting
Features
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FAC Gravity AUv3 Plugin is a frequency shifter for creating Barberpole and Shepard style glissandos, spectral illusions, stereo rotation, chorusing, phasing, evolving echoes, infinite cosmic spaces, and all the combinations you’ll make. The plugin gives you two ways to process the audio source. In Stereo mode, each channel is shifted independently, with a Ratio control determining how closely their frequency shifts align. In Mono mode, FAC Gravity extends the internal quadrature processing to create a wide stereo image from the mono source. The frequency shift can move up or down, from subtle to more extreme spectral transformations. You can set the amount in Hz for classic Bode-style frequency shifting, make it follow your host tempo for rhythmic patterns, or even control it from MIDI notes for a more hands-on approach. A new dimension appears when you let the shifter feed back into itself with Spiral, a customizable loop with delay, blur, filtering, and different characters that shape how the sound circles, smears, interacts, and evolves over time. The result can range from bubbling textures to infinite sustained tones and noisy analog self-oscillation. Each character takes the feedback somewhere different. To dive deeper into new sonic dimensions, FAC Gravity comes with its own modulation module. The LFO, envelope follower, and flexible modulation matrix let you animate most parameters, from subtle evolving movements to complex, rhythmically reactive changes. You can even make the stereo field animate and rotate continuously by making the Width, Phase, and Pan parameters spin! You can shape the effect further by blending the processed signal with the original, while the optional limiter keeps the most extreme combinations in check. • Barberpole glissandos, spectral illusions, rotating stereo, evolving echoes • Dual Frequency Shifting, or Mono Shifting with Quadrature Stereo Widening • Organic Spiral Loop, from gentle feedback to pure analog self-oscillation • Integrated delay, diffusion blur, and independent low/high filtering • Modulation matrix, multi-source envelope follower • LFO with classic waveforms and random spline • Spinning modulation to rotate and animate the stereo field • Tempo-synced or MIDI-driven Frequency Shift, LFO, and Delay • Dry/Wet mix, optional limiting, and goniometer visualization • Advanced Responsive Design, portrait and landscape views • Universal Purchase: AUv3 for iOS (iPad/iPhone), macOS and Vision Pro The documentation is available at fredantoncorvest.com/FAC_Gravity.html This is an AUv3 Effect and requires a compatible host to work The in-app purchases are for tipping only, the app is fully functional without them

Screenshots

BEATSURFING Performer3 screens
FAC Gravity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BEATSURFING Performer at Free against FAC Gravity's $9.99. BEATSURFING Performer also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). FAC Gravity's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). On rating, ads and device support 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

BEATSURFING Performer is free to download; FAC Gravity costs $9.99 up front. FAC Gravity sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. BEATSURFING Performer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BEATSURFING Performer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FAC Gravity has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
BEATSURFING Performer versus FAC Gravity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBEATSURFING PerformerFAC Gravity
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.8 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDRUW AudioFrederic Corvest

In-app purchases

None

BEATSURFING Performer

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

FAC Gravity

One-time3
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$14.99

Questions

Is BEATSURFING Performer free?
BEATSURFING Performer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FAC Gravity free?
FAC Gravity costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BEATSURFING Performer or FAC Gravity?
BEATSURFING Performer is rated higher. BEATSURFING Performer averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while FAC Gravity averages 4.8 from 6 ratings.
Do BEATSURFING Performer or FAC Gravity have ads?
Neither BEATSURFING Performer nor FAC Gravity shows ads.

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