Derson DSynth Mobile vs What About Phase?
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Derson DSynth Mobile
Create complex sounds with a polyphonic synthesizer. Build custom patches using multiple oscillators, envelopes, and a flexible effects chain. Practice or perform with responsive on-screen keys and MIDI input.
- Multi-layer oscillators
- Per-oscillator envelopes and filters
- Reorderable FX chain
- Preset browser
- On-screen keyboard
- MIDI input
- Visualizers
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DSynth Mobile is a low-latency polyphonic synthesizer for sound design, practice, and performance. Build patches with up to 10 oscillator layers, per-layer envelopes, detune, filters, a reorderable FX chain, factory and user presets, MIDI input, and responsive on-screen keys. Features: - Multi-layer oscillators with sine, square, saw, triangle, and noise waveforms - Per-oscillator ADSR, volume, detune, and filter controls - Global filter and master envelope - Reorderable FX chain with distortion, chorus, echo, delay, phaser, and reverb - Preset browser with factory and user presets - On-screen keyboard with octave controls and velocity from touch position - Oscilloscope and spectrum visualizers - Optional background audio
What About Phase?
Record short audio clips and transform them into evolving, hypnotic soundscapes. This pocket instrument uses phasing and other processes to create unique, unfolding audio patterns from simple sounds.
- Audio recording and looping
- Ten distinct audio processes
- Radial display of sound patterns
- On-device pitch detection
- Save, share, and revert recordings
- Live control over audio parameters
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Record a few seconds of anything — your voice, a clap, a passing train — and let the app pull it apart in time. What about phase? is a pocket instrument for process music: it loops your recording in two channels and lets them drift out of sync, so simple sounds grow into shifting, hypnotic patterns. Inspired by the tape-phasing experiments of 1960s minimalism, it makes the process itself audible — you set it in motion, then listen as it unfolds. TEN PROCESSES • Phasing — two copies of your loop, one drifting a few cents faster; hear them separate into echo, then canon • Gradual process — a ramp that grows louder and sweeps across the stereo field • Tape loop multiplication — your loop fanned into a detuned chorus • Rhythmic construction — a rhythm assembled hit by hit • Pattern substitution — beats replaced one at a time: silence, octaves, fifths • Resultant patterns — two interlocking rhythms revealing a third • Clapping Music — a pattern rotating against its fixed copy • Pulse / drone — a pulse grid over a deep foundation • Canon — staggered voices entering one after another • Speech melody — a syllable pulsed in speech rhythm and dynamics THE WHEEL A radial display shows what the process is doing: your loop's waveform — or the process's own pattern — wrapped around a circle, left channel in coral, right in cyan, a comet sweeping the playhead. In Phasing you can watch the two rings physically drift apart. Volume and pitch views included, with on-device pitch detection. AUDIO UNIT (AUv3) Every process also comes as an AUv3 plugin for AUM, GarageBand and other hosts: an instrument that plays the process's own demo, and an effect that does the process to whatever you send it. The wheel is the plugin's screen. Each voice has an output of its own, a MIDI note starts the loop over, and Sync can follow the host's transport. A Level control sets how loud every output is, and on the effects BAR sets the loop to one bar of your host's tempo and keeps it there. Look for the maker "Scriptum" in your host. The plugin is part of Pro, a one-time in-app purchase that also includes everything in the full version. Until Pro is unlocked the plugin loads and shows its wheel, but stays silent. MADE FOR EXPLORING • Ten built-in demo takes, one per process, playable from the very first launch • Every take saves with its process and settings; rename, share as WAV, revert • Takes named after where you record them (optional, location used only while in the app) • Live controls: drift in cents, process amount, tempo, sample offset • No account, no ads, no analytics — recordings never leave your device unless you share them Record something small. Let it become something long.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: What About Phase? at 5.0 against Derson DSynth Mobile's 3.0. Derson DSynth Mobile's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. What About Phase? sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Derson DSynth Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.
What About Phase? holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Derson DSynth Mobile | What About Phase? |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Daily |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DERSON PRODUCTIONS, LLC | Vladimir Gusev |
In-app purchases
Derson DSynth Mobile
No in-app purchases
What About Phase?
- Full Version$0.99
- Pro$3.99
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