MusicBook Pro vs Tonic Synth

MusicBook Pro is a private Apple-native songwriting, songbook, setlist and live performance app for singer-songwriters, solo performers, guitarists and small bands. WRITE AND ORGANIZE Capture text, audio and video Ideas before they disappear. Develop related Ideas in Projects, move them into editable Drafts or Songs, and keep lyrics, chords, sections, keys, capo, tuning, tempo, notes and versions together. PERFORM YOUR WAY Build ordered setlists with Songs and timed or untimed breaks. Open Performance with large readable lyrics and chords, or use the full Setlist View to keep the complete running order visible with the current song highlighted. Switch views from Live Settings whenever the stage situation changes. STAGE-SAFE TOOLS Use deliberate next-song safety, Performance Lock, Panic recovery, SmartScroll, set timers, break timers, pedal reminders, optional MIDI cues, external display and iPhone Remote controls. Sessions save rehearsal or concert timing without recording the performance. SMART, REVIEWABLE HELP SmartFunctions can assist with layout, rhymes, writing feedback, chord inspiration, setlist order and rehearsal focus. Transcribe turns recordings of your own ideas into editable Draft Lyrics with Apple speech technology. Suggestions remain review-first and under your control. YOUR APPLE WORKFLOW Work across iPhone, iPad and Mac, capture quick Ideas from Apple Watch and widgets, and use the free Apple TV companion for read-only big-screen lyrics and Performance. Optional private iCloud sync keeps supported library data across your own devices. FREE EXPERIENCE Every feature is included in the free version. Save up to 6 Songs, 2 Drafts, 2 Ideas, 2 Projects and 2 Setlists; Sessions are unlimited. Full Version removes those library limits with one purchase. No subscriptions. No ads. No third-party tracking. No automatic lyric or chord downloads. MusicBook Pro is for original songs and cover material you have the right to use.

Eight sound engines in one instrument — and a whole preset community living inside it. Physical modeling, virtual analog, 3D wavetable, 6-operator FM and a full SoundFont player: stack up to three engines per sound, each with its own filter, envelope and modulation. Play it standalone on iPhone, iPad and Mac, or load it as an AUv3 plug-in — instrument and effect — in your favorite host. One purchase. No subscription, no ads, nothing locked behind a paywall. • TONICA — THE SOUND COMMUNITY Your next signature sound might come from a player on the other side of the world. Browse what the community publishes without ever leaving the app: one tap auditions it under your fingers, two taps keep it. Love an author? Take their whole collection at once, into a bank named after them. And publish yours with a single tap — no account, no sign-up, no cost. • THREE OSCILLATORS Up to three independent layers — each with its own source, filter, envelope and modulation, plus mute/solo and keyboard split. From a simple patch to a fat, detuned stack on one spread knob. The Vector pad morphs across all three layers in real time: draw a path and the sound travels it on its own. • SOUND ENGINES Per layer: physical modeling (string, modal, wind, bowed), virtual analog (sine, saw, square, triangle, pulse and super-saw, with sub-oscillator and noise), wavetables up to 128 frames, SoundFont (.sf2 and compressed .sf3) and 6-operator FM that opens .syx cartridges. Record anything through the mic and turn it into a wavetable — or draw the waveform with your finger and hear it instantly, on a 3D landscape you can drag, rotate and resize. • FILTERS Eight analog-modeled voicings — LP/HP/BP/Notch, 12 or 24 dB per octave, resonance into self-oscillation, drive and 4× oversampling. From warm ladder to creamy SVF, from acid squelch to screaming resonance. • ARPEGGIATOR & SEQUENCER A step editor with a live playhead: ties, ratchets, accents and per-step probability, polymetric rhythm masks, capture of what you just played, swing, gate mode, key range and per-layer arping. Imports .mid patterns, follows MIDI Clock, and with Hold the pattern runs by itself. • EFFECTS RACK Chorus, tempo-synced ping-pong delay, 6-type FDN reverb, 5-band EQ, compressor and a Flanger/Phaser module — each one switchable and routable per layer. • BUILT FOR THE STAGE Six scenes (A–F) swap the entire patch live without cutting the sound: the note ringing out finishes naturally while the next one already speaks with the new tone. Switched apps mid-set? A sustain pedal left down or a mod wheel parked halfway no longer hijacks your sound — every control starts working again the moment you move it. The MIDI filter decides what each pedal, wheel or controller is allowed to do, and can target one specific device when there's more than one keyboard in the rack. Program Change and Bank Select switch sounds from your controller. MIDI Learn on any control, over USB or Bluetooth. • YOUR LIBRARY 280+ factory sounds in banks, and your own collection beside them: favorites, renaming, saving, tagging and search by name, tag or bank. Two file formats of its own — one to share sounds (.tpr) and one for a full library backup (.tbk). Double-click a file, or receive one by AirDrop, and it merges straight in without duplicating anything. • WHERE IT RUNS iPhone, iPad and Mac, from a single purchase. As an AUv3 it runs in the major recording apps on iOS and macOS. Using software that doesn't load AUv3 yet? See rsjb.com.br/support for the route other users have already proven. Thank you for playing with RSJB - made by musicians for musicians! Follow the news at www.rsjb.com.br/en