Comparison

Derson DSynth Mobile vs Vibrato Practice

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

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About

Derson DSynth Mobile

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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

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Vibrato Practice

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A straight, motionless tone is a kind of death. Add vibrato and you breathe life into the note. Vibrato Practice teaches vibrato as something you can actually study โ€” not something you wait to arrive with maturity. Hear a tunable model wave at a steady 5 waves per beat, then match it: shape, depth, and speed. Not a metronome. Not a tuner. Not a drone. A model vibrato wave you match โ€” 5 waves per beat, across 69 instruments. WHY FIVE Five waves per beat is the goal from the very beginning. It is difficult, and that is the point. At the default 45 BPM five waves a beat is 3.75 waves a second; the tempo slider moves that wherever the music and your teacher want it. The slower settings (2, 3, 4) build control on the way there. Don't let anything but 5 become your habit. THE EXERCISE A base note alternates with a chromatic scale โ€” base, note, base, note โ€” climbing to the top of your range, then dropping below. Taught to Prof. Thomas Hornig by Alain Bouhey at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, who insisted on the four low notes: on saxophone, F, E, E-flat, D. Start the note straight, then add the vibrato, the way a singer does. Those four low notes are not hard-coded saxophone pitches. Every instrument carries its own low-register anchor group inside its own real range, so the method transposes โ€” not just the pitch. 69 INSTRUMENTS, 13 FAMILIES Violin, viola, cello, double bass. Voice. Saxophones, flutes and recorders, clarinets, oboe and bassoon, sixteen brass, guitars and basses, mallets, percussion, harp, keyboard โ€” and the oud (Arabic and Turkish), buzuq, qanun, nay and mizmar. Each with correct written-pitch transposition, and the concert pitch shown underneath. WHAT'S IN IT - Tempo 20-120 BPM, depth 1-10, and 2/3/4/5/6 waves per beat - Four style presets: Standard (modern), Moderate, Warm & singing, Lush & wide - Four tone colours: Soft, Warm, Reed, Mellow, each with its own volume - Two wave shapes: Smooth is the goal; Even adds an angular dip, there so you can hear the difference - Two modes: run the full exercise, or hold one note and just match the wave - An optional click, four sounds, its own volume, switchable off - A practice log counting reps and minutes, exportable as CSV to send your teacher Free. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no advertising, no account, and nothing collected. No connection needed to practise. The Recommended Gear page loads product photos from the retailers and links out to them, so that page needs a connection. Those Amazon links are affiliate links, and Thomas Hornig earns from qualifying purchases. The note sets for saxophone and flute are research-grounded. The other instruments carry correct transposition and range, but their practice-note sets are provisional starting points. Refer to your teacher. Thomas Hornig is a Henri Selmer Paris Artist, Professor at the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music since 1994, and Principal Saxophonist of the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra. thewholehorn.com/vibrato-studio

Screenshots

Derson DSynth Mobile4 screens
Vibrato Practice4 screens

Verdict

The call

Derson DSynth Mobile and Vibrato Practice are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Derson DSynth Mobile versus Vibrato Practice: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDerson DSynth MobileVibrato Practice
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS16.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size6 MB4 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperDERSON PRODUCTIONS, LLCThomas Hornig

In-app purchases

None

Derson DSynth Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

Vibrato Practice

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Derson DSynth Mobile free?
Derson DSynth Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Vibrato Practice free?
Vibrato Practice is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Derson DSynth Mobile or Vibrato Practice have ads?
Neither Derson DSynth Mobile nor Vibrato Practice shows ads.

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