Comparison

MESA Synth AUv3 vs Seyfert

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

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About

MESA Synth AUv3

This music creation tool transforms visuals into sound by rendering shaders and images into wavetables. It offers a powerful synthesis engine, extensive sound-shaping capabilities, and a full effects rack, all controllable through light and visual input.

Highlights
  • Visual-to-audio wavetable synthesis
  • Unison oscillator stack with sub-oscillator
  • Zero-delay-feedback filter
  • Vision panel for sound shaping with light
  • 26 stackable visual modifiers as audio effects
  • 8-stage stereo FX rack
  • Sampler mode with auto pitch-tracking
Features
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MESA is a wavetable synthesizer unlike any other — it turns visuals into sound. Drop in a shader or a .vkograph and MESA renders it offscreen, reads the light across the image, and turns that into a wavetable you play. The picture literally becomes the oscillator — and the same visual keeps living behind your keys, reacting to every note. No other synth works like this. Behind the magic is a complete, serious instrument: THE ENGINE • 64-frame wavetables, FFT mip-banked for clean, alias-free playback everywhere • Unison oscillator stack with detune, spread, and a sub-oscillator • Zero-delay-feedback filter — cutoff, resonance, drive, self-oscillating • Full ADSR envelope, portamento glide, and a dedicated pitch envelope SHAPE THE SOUND WITH LIGHT • Vision panel: choose the scanline, weight color channels, bend the brightness curve, sweep time — one shader, a thousand timbres • 33 color palettes that reshape the tone, not just the look • VFX chain: 26 stackable visual modifiers, each one also an audio effect A FULL STUDIO • 3-slot modulation matrix with 2 LFOs, velocity, and mod wheel • 8-stage stereo FX rack: tape, wow & flutter, chorus, delay, reverb, lo-fi, tape-stop • Sampler mode — load any audio, auto pitch-tracked across the keys • Arpeggiator, Ableton Link, and MIDI Learn on nearly every control BUILT FOR YOUR WORKFLOW • AUv3 plug-in AND standalone app — one purchase, iOS + macOS • iCloud sync — build a patch on your Mac, it's ready on your iPhone • Categorized preset browser with import/export and full patch recall

About

Seyfert

This music effect plugin creates unique echoes that orbit and revolve around the listener. It offers advanced control over pitch, depth, and tone for each echo, with a built-in reverb and EQ for a rich soundscape. It functions as a standalone app or an Audio Unit for music production software.

Highlights
  • Orbital echo generation
  • Spin and Doppler pitch-bend effects
  • 3D binaural imaging
  • Octave shimmer and transpose
  • Per-echo tone and drive
  • Echo-focused reverb and EQ
  • Standalone and AUv3 support
Features
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Seyfert is a delay unlike your others: every echo spawns at its own place in an orbit around you, and the whole constellation slowly revolves. Turn up Feedback and you don't just add repeats, you spawn more echoes into the orbit, from a single tight slap to a dense, spiralling cloud. Spin revolves the whole field around you. Doppler bends the echoes in pitch as they whirl toward and away. 3D wraps them around your head on headphones. Lift the repeats an octave into crystalline shimmer, drop them a sub-octave for weight, or detune them into a chorus. A lush reverb blooms around the echoes, never the dry signal, so your source stays clear while the repeats dissolve into space. Features: - Orbital echoes, where Feedback sets how many circle you - Spin, from a gentle drift to a full whirl - Doppler pitch-bend as the orbit turns - 3D binaural imaging for headphones - Shimmer and transpose, up or down one octave (octaves, fifths, sub-octaves) - Per-echo Trail tone, tape Wobble, and Drive - Lush reverb applied to the echoes - Full 5-band EQ on the wet signal - Orbit and Ping-Pong patterns, tempo sync - 18 factory presets, plus save your own - Standalone app and Audio Unit (AUv3) for GarageBand, AUM, Logic, and more No accounts, no tracking, no data collected. Everything stays on your device.

Screenshots

MESA Synth AUv34 screens
Seyfert3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Seyfert at 5.0 against MESA Synth AUv3's 3.0. Seyfert also leads on price ($1.99 vs $8.99) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

MESA Synth AUv3 costs $8.99 and Seyfert $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Seyfert holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MESA Synth AUv3 ships an update every 2 months, Seyfert every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
MESA Synth AUv3 versus Seyfert: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMESA Synth AUv3Seyfert
Price$8.99$1.99 — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJuan MaguidKonstantin Torsten Schutz

Customer experience

MESA Synth AUv3

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Seyfert

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

MESA Synth AUv3

No in-app purchases

None

Seyfert

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MESA Synth AUv3 free?
MESA Synth AUv3 costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Seyfert free?
Seyfert costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MESA Synth AUv3 or Seyfert?
Seyfert is rated higher. MESA Synth AUv3 averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Seyfert averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do MESA Synth AUv3 or Seyfert have ads?
Neither MESA Synth AUv3 nor Seyfert shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MESA Synth AUv3 or Seyfert?
MESA Synth AUv3 ships an update every 2 months, and Seyfert every 2 days. Most recently, MESA Synth AUv3 was updated on October 24, 2026 and Seyfert on October 24, 2026.

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