Comparison

GOA UNIVERSE GENERATOR vs Pulse16

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

Head to head
About

GOA UNIVERSE GENERATOR

Features
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GOA UNIVERSE GENERATOR is a Goa trance generator for iPhone. Choose an audio file and the app estimates tempo, key, and frequency balance. It then builds a 16-step Goa trance pattern with kick, hi-hat, bassline, melody, pads, delay, and reverb. Emotion presets shape the result from melancholic and peaceful to tense and energetic. Audio processing happens on device. Selected files are not uploaded by the app.

About

Pulse16

Create beats anywhere with this versatile music production app. It features a step sequencer, drum machine, and multiple synthesizers for crafting rhythms, basslines, and melodies. Customize sounds with built-in effects and load your own samples.

Highlights
  • 16-pad step sequencer
  • 808 bass and synth lines
  • Kit mode with 16 sounds
  • Load and record custom samples
  • Automation for synth parameters
  • Hardware MIDI controller support
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Pulse16 is a groovebox for your phone. Sample a sound or pick a built-in one, put it on 16 pads, add an 808 or an acid line with slides, and switch patterns while the beat keeps running. Four tracks, 16 steps, eight patterns. Tracks A to C each play a sample, a kit of 16 sounds, an 808 or a mono synth. Track D is a synth with an arpeggiator. START WITH A GROOVE • Six complete loops to start from: Acid Drive, Peak Time, Neon Nights, Midnight Run, Kit Jam and French Filter. One tap loads drums, bass line and tempo. • Ten built-in techno and synthwave drum sounds SEQUENCER • Tap the 4×4 pads to set steps; the playing step lights up • Velocity per step: long-press a step • Every track can have its own length from 1 to 16 steps • Eight patterns A to H; while playing, the next one starts on the next bar • Copy, paste and clear patterns; copy and shift single tracks • Duplicate repeats a track's steps and doubles its length • 20 to 300 BPM, tap tempo SAMPLER • Load WAV, AIFF, MP3 or FLAC files, or record with the microphone • Trim on the waveform, tune up or down by two octaves with fine tuning • Low-pass or high-pass filter and distortion on every sample KIT MODE • 16 sounds on the pads of one track, each with its own sample • Finger-drum and record into the pattern with Rec, in time, with erase and undo • Volume, pan, tune, filter, distortion and choke groups per pad 808 • Synthesized kick and bass with a note per step • Decay, punch, click and drive • Slide steps glide into the next note without a new attack SYNTH • Sine, square, saw and triangle, sub oscillator, unison, filter with envelope, four LFOs, distortion and reverb • Arpeggiator with seven chord types • Draw automation curves over the pads: cutoff, resonance, drive, distortion and reverb per step • The same synth plays mono on tracks A to C, with slides like a TB-303 • Nine factory sounds, from Berlin Minimal and Acid 303 to Outrun Bass MIXER • Volume and pan per track • Pump per track: ducks on every beat, like sidechain compression • Reverb send on tracks A to C • Boost: multiband compression on the master MIDI • USB MIDI controllers: map knobs, faders and pads with MIDI learn • MIDI clock over USB: follow a drum machine or DAW, or send clock to your gear On tablets, sound, mixer and presets stay open next to the pads. Everything is free. Saving projects and your own presets is a one-time purchase, no subscription. No account, no ads, no tracking, works offline. Pulse16 is made by one developer in Germany. Feedback and bug reports go straight to me: pulse16@anzalichi.de

Screenshots

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Pulse164 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GOA UNIVERSE GENERATOR at none against Pulse16's 1. Pulse16's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Pulse16 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. GOA UNIVERSE GENERATOR asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
GOA UNIVERSE GENERATOR versus Pulse16: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGOA UNIVERSE GENERATORPulse16
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developersatoshi amasakiNavid Anzalichi

In-app purchases

None

GOA UNIVERSE GENERATOR

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Pulse16

One-time1
  • Unlock saving$1.99

Questions

Is GOA UNIVERSE GENERATOR free?
GOA UNIVERSE GENERATOR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pulse16 free?
Pulse16 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do GOA UNIVERSE GENERATOR or Pulse16 have ads?
GOA UNIVERSE GENERATOR shows ads; Pulse16 does not.

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