Arctic ProSynth vs LH Grain Pad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Arctic ProSynth
Create bold and tough electronic music with a modern subtractive synthesizer. Explore rich sound design with powerful oscillators, dual filters, and versatile effects. Record and share your creations easily.
- HyperOscillators for fat sounds
- Dual multi-mode filters
- Master effects with adjustable order
- Integrated Vocoder
- 16x4 gated step sequencer
- Live audio and MIDI recording
- Preset and bank sharing
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Be rude. Be rough. Be bold. Be tough! Arctic Pro Synthesizer / Vocoder is a modern subtractive synthesizer. It does not aim to accurately model or re-create vintage synths of yesteryear. Instead Arctic Pro offers the contemporary synthesist a rude, rough, bold and tough palette of sound to get stuck into. Including two massively fat HyperOscillators, dual filters, and easy to re-order master effects. While the Vocoder, used in conjunction with a suitable microphone, adds an extra dimension to your musical performance. HyperOscillators =========== Combine two HyperOscillators and one Sub Oscillator for some seriously fat sounds. Layer up to 8 oscillators in unison to create very thick and powerful tones. Spread detune and Mix these separate oscillators in real-time. More than just a "SuperSaw" - it's also a Super-square and Super-triangle. Powerful Presets =========== Legendary sound designer John ‘Skippy’ Lehmkuhl has exclusively designed the factory presets. John has worked as a professional sound designer since 1988 for Korg - making patches, combinations, drum kits as well as creating the sample data for almost every synth Korg has released since the M1. If you have owned one of these historic synthesizers you have heard John's presets. Sharing ===== Arctic Pro includes everything you need to record and share your audio and MIDI with others. Live record to WAV and MIDI files. Use AudioCopy, open audio directly in apps, or share with Kymatica AudioShare. Presets and Banks can be emailed and transferred via Wi-Fi and iTunes Files Sharing. And of course we also support Audiobus. SPECIFICATION ========== • Synthesis: analog modelling • Polyphony: up to 4 voices • HyperOscillators: 2 per voice, alias free, saw, triangle and square with pulse width, hard sync, ring mod, noise generator, sub-oscillator • Filter: 2 multi-mode resonating filter with 4 filter types and variable routing • Envelopes: mod, filter and amp ADSR envelopes with adjust curve • Modulation: 2 LFOs with multiple wave shapes, sample and hold, 3 routable destinations per LFO, independently sync-able • Effects: stereo master effect processors with adjustable order: 3-band EQ, Distortion, Chorus, Phaser, Vocoder, Delay, Reverb • Arpeggiator: classic arpeggiator with octave shift, MIDI-sync-able • Sequencer: 16 x 4 gated step sequencer with multiple modulation destinations, MIDI-sync-able • Keyboard: glissando, scroll, multi-touch poly pitch bend and aftertouch • Works with Wizdom Music's Geo Synthesizer continuous pitch bend • Polyphonic Aftertouch for use with CME Xkey FEATURES ======== • Inter-App Audio for iOS 7 • Audiobus • AudioCopy 2.0 • MIDI Learn • Live phrase recorder with audio and MIDI export • File and patch sharing via iTunes File Sharing, e-mail and Wi-Fi • Supports external MIDI in and out via CoreMIDI Networking and USB with the Camera Connection Kit • Audio background operation • Virtual MIDI Ports • Open Music App Collaboration compliant Requirements: iPad 2 or later recommended iOS 7.0 or later
LH Grain Pad
This app is a powerful granular synthesizer with two independent channels for creating unique sound textures. It offers extensive control over grain parameters, built-in samples, and a variety of audio effects for complex sound design. Ideal for both live performance and studio production.
- Dual independent granular channels
- 8 amplitude envelopes
- Built-in sample library
- Extensive audio effects suite
- Touchpad grain control
- Customizable pitch bar
- OSC message support
- Audio recorder
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LH Grain, a granular synthesizer with two channels -- each channel independent for generating and controlling granular textures -- is focused on stunning granular sound. To make your grains unique, LH Grain offers you 8 kinds of amplitude envelopes used for the grains and built-in samples furnishing a wide variety of wave shapes. There are a lot of audio effects which give you more possibilities to process the sound and make the sound more complex. To take advantage of LH Grain to deal with both live performance and studio work, the touch pad visualizing the grains and the customizable pitch bar provide you with the easy way to control sound. The support for OSC format message makes it possible LH Grain’s associating with other devices in real time. When you are ready to play, you can record what your are producing and share your pieces with other devices. ------notice ------- LH Grain does not support Audiobus. ------features------ --Sample Location Control --Grain Waveform Selector --Frequency Jitter --Grain Duration & Density Control With Touchpad --Pitch Bar --OSC Format Message Receive & Send —Audio Recorder. ———-FXs——— EQ, Format Filter, Ring Modulation, Low/High/Band pass filter, Chorus, Flanger, Distortion, Delay, Reverb, 3D Sound.
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LH Grain Pad at 4.0 against Arctic ProSynth's 3.3. LH Grain Pad also leads on price ($2.99 vs $9.99) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). Arctic ProSynth's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 25 months) and review sentiment (71% vs 50%). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Arctic ProSynth costs $9.99 and LH Grain Pad $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
LH Grain Pad holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Arctic ProSynth's written reviews are positive against 50% of LH Grain Pad's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Arctic ProSynth ships an update every 4 months, LH Grain Pad every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Arctic ProSynth | LH Grain Pad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.3 (8 ratings) | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 25 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | One Red Dog Media Pty Ltd | 昊 刘 |
Customer experience
Arctic ProSynth
LH Grain Pad
In-app purchases
Arctic ProSynth
No in-app purchases
LH Grain Pad
No in-app purchases
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