Comparison

dSL1200 vs Raw Byte Audio Machine

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

Head to head
About

dSL1200

This app simulates a professional DJ turntable, offering a realistic touch experience for scratching and beatmatching. It plays your music library and supports AUv3 effects for creative mixing.

Highlights
  • Real-time turntable emulation
  • Touch-based scratching and control
  • Plays DRM-free music library
  • Loop playback for breaks
  • AUv3 effect rack integration
  • Realistic 3D tonearm and lighting
Features
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dSL1200 — Digital SL-1200 A professional DJ turntable simulator and music player for iPhone — a faithful real-time emulation of the most-used direct-drive deck in DJ history. Every part of the deck modeled in 3D, most touch-controllable. THE DECK, REBORN For nearly fifty years, one direct-drive turntable has been the de-facto industry standard in clubs, hip-hop, dance, and bedroom studios across the world. dSL1200 captures that deck — its motor, its slipmat, its quartz-locked strobe, its long-throw pitch fader, its tonearm tracking — as a working real-time simulation, not a skin or a sample player. REAL TOUCH, REAL SCRATCH Touch the vinyl and the platter responds the way a real one does. The motor keeps spinning underneath while you scratch, the slipmat couples back when you let go, and the audio rate follows your finger through every back-cue, body-trick rub, and crab. QUARTZ-LOCKED STROBE The multi-dot rim ring locks at exactly 33⅓ and 45 RPM through honest motor-rate-driven strobe physics. Pitch off center and the dots drift; lock to nominal and they freeze — the same visual feedback DJs have used to beat-match by eye for half a century. ACCURATE PITCH RANGE Faithful to the original long-throw pitch fader, with ±8% range, a center-detent snap, and strobe drift independent of motor rate. Beat-match by eye exactly the way the deck was designed for. YOUR MUSIC, ON THE DECK Plays MP3, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, and Apple Lossless files from your iOS Music library — any DRM-free track you've imported, ripped, or purchased. (DRM-protected Apple Music subscription streams cannot be played.) The vinyl label is generated from each track's metadata, with title and artist printed on the LP. LOOP PLAY FOR BREAKS Toggle loop mode and the track wraps with zero-sample-gap continuity — perfect for chopping b-boy breaks, drum loops, and battle samples. Cue points and back-cues across the loop boundary work transparently. AUv3 EFFECT RACK Load any installed Audio Unit Extension into a wet/dry parallel mix. Reverb, delay, filters, EQ, distortion — any AUv3 plugin you have on the device works. 3D TONEARM Drag the arm to cue, tap the cue lever to lift and drop, and watch it sweep from outer rim to inner spindle in real time with the audio playhead. The anti-skating dial, height adjustment, and counterweight are visually modeled on the 3D deck for fidelity to the original (not user-adjustable in this version). AUTHENTIC LIGHTING The pop-up inspection lamp lifts and lights with a warm bulb when toggled. A red strobe LED throws a sharp glowing arc across the platter rim — the same flashing red light that makes a working deck look alive in low-light club environments. 120 Hz METAL RENDERER Native 120 Hz on ProMotion devices, 60 Hz everywhere else, with PBR lighting, real-time reflections, vinyl groove geometry, and adaptive touch-density compensation so scratching feels identical regardless of refresh rate. ENGINEERED FOR DETAIL - End-to-end touch-to-audio response under 6 ms - Adaptive high-resolution resampler tuned for scratching - Streaming + ring buffer for tracks of any length - Slipmat physics, not state-machine fakery dSL1200 is an independent simulation product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any manufacturer of physical turntable hardware. Any visual or behavioral resemblance to professional DJ equipment is offered as faithful artistic homage to a category of product that has shaped DJ culture for decades.

About

Raw Byte Audio Machine

This app generates complex musical patterns using a single sawtooth wave and a powerful expression engine. It supports binary and bitwise operations to create rhythms, harmonies, and melodies. Operates as a standalone app or an AUv3 instrument plugin.

Highlights
  • Sawtooth wave synthesis
  • Expression engine for sound design
  • Binary and bitwise operations
  • Rhythm, harmony, and melody generation
  • Standalone app
  • AUv3 instrument plugin
Features
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The Raw Byte Audio Machine allows the user to operate on a constant sawtooth wave that is calculated against the assigned sample rate and bit-depth. With each sample, the counter "t" increments by 1. Your expression is evaluated and the lowest bits become a PCM audio sample. Expressions allow for binary arithmetic like addition, subtraction, division, and modulo; and bitwise operations like AND/OR/NOT and bit shifting. With these combinations of tools, a single expression can yield tremendous musical results in complex rhythms, harmonies, and melodies, all while operating on a single sawtooth wave. Operates as a standalone app or AUv3 instrument plugin.

Screenshots

dSL12004 screens
Raw Byte Audio Machine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: dSL1200 at every 3 days against Raw Byte Audio Machine's every 6 days. Raw Byte Audio Machine's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $2.99). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

dSL1200 costs $2.99 and Raw Byte Audio Machine $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for dSL1200 against 5.0 for Raw Byte Audio Machine. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

dSL1200 ships an update every 3 days, Raw Byte Audio Machine every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
dSL1200 versus Raw Byte Audio Machine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterdSL1200Raw Byte Audio Machine
Price$2.99$0.99 — better
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings44
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMike WolakCallback Audio, LLC

Customer experience

dSL1200

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Raw Byte Audio Machine

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

dSL1200

No in-app purchases

None

Raw Byte Audio Machine

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is dSL1200 free?
dSL1200 costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Raw Byte Audio Machine free?
Raw Byte Audio Machine costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, dSL1200 or Raw Byte Audio Machine?
dSL1200 and Raw Byte Audio Machine are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do dSL1200 or Raw Byte Audio Machine have ads?
Neither dSL1200 nor Raw Byte Audio Machine shows ads.
Which is updated more often, dSL1200 or Raw Byte Audio Machine?
dSL1200 ships an update every 3 days, and Raw Byte Audio Machine every 6 days. Most recently, dSL1200 was updated on October 13, 2026 and Raw Byte Audio Machine on September 23, 2026.

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