Comparison

Negative Harmony vs MultiComb

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

Head to head
About

Negative Harmony

Features
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Negative Harmony lets you explore one of music theory's most fascinating transformations: reflecting any chord or progression across a tonal axis to produce its harmonic mirror image. TAP ANY CHORD Select a root and quality on the interactive Circle of Fifths. See the original chord and its negative simultaneously, with voice-leading automatically applied. BUILD PROGRESSIONS Add chords to a progression and play them back β€” originals or negatives β€” with smooth voice leading between every chord. Common tones are held, not re-attacked. UNDERSTAND THE THEORY Built-in theory section explains the concept from first principles: the axis, the transformation formula, voice leading, and the history from Hugo Riemann to Jacob Collier. 5 SOUNDS Choose from Rhodes, Strings, Choir, Organ, or Synth Pad β€” the same high-quality soundfont used by professional music apps. MULTILINGUAL Full support for English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.

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MultiComb

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MultiComb turns a bank of moving comb filters into a playable sound-design effect. Four independent comb voices create shifting resonances across the stereo field, each moving with its own timing, spacing, and character. Smooth modulation keeps the bank alive while Bite introduces stepped sample-and-hold disturbances that push individual combs into new resonant relationships. The result can move from hollow coloration and subtle animation to metallic ringing, mechanical movement, fractured resonance, and unstable tonal textures. MultiComb works across drums, vocals, pads, guitars, percussion, and full electronic texturesβ€”but it especially comes alive on leads, basslines, arpeggios, plucks, and other short-note sequences. Individual notes excite the comb bank differently, turning simple melodic or rhythmic patterns into animated, resonant phrases. Teeth reshapes the fundamental comb structure. Motion keeps it moving. Spread pulls the voices apart. Feedback lets resonances ring. Color moves from dark and hollow toward bright, steel-like character. And then there’s Bite. Bite introduces independent stepped disturbances across the comb bank. At restrained settings it adds little irregular catches and tonal shifts. Push it harder and the resonances begin snapping into fractured, metallic relationships of their own. Seven controls. Four combs. Lots of teeth. Features Four independently animated comb-filter voices Moving, evolving resonant structures Independent sample-and-hold disturbances across the comb bank Wide stereo spreading and voice separation Dark, hollow through bright, metallic tonal character Controlled high-feedback resonance Smooth continuous motion combined with stepped instability Particularly expressive on leads, basslines, plucks and short-note sequences Factory presets ranging from subtle coloration to fractured metallic textures

Screenshots

Negative Harmony3 screens
MultiComb1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: MultiComb at 15.0 against Negative Harmony's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Negative Harmony costs $2.99 and MultiComb $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 4 level
Negative Harmony versus MultiComb: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNegative HarmonyMultiComb
Price$2.99$2.99
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size32 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMartin AdlerJeremy Phillips

In-app purchases

None

Negative Harmony

No in-app purchases

None

MultiComb

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Negative Harmony free?
Negative Harmony costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is MultiComb free?
MultiComb costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Negative Harmony or MultiComb have ads?
Neither Negative Harmony nor MultiComb shows ads.

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