Leaf Light vs Tessera Sequenced Resonator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Leaf Light
This app offers a unique audio experience, simulating a lightfield lenticular ambiance machine with flanger, delay, and reverb effects. Control sound parameters through a simulated tree canopy, blending natural sights and sounds for relaxation or musical creativity.
- Lightfield lenticular ambiance machine
- Flanger, delay, and reverb effects
- Simulated tree canopy control
- Time of Day, Brightness, Wind parameters
- Camera Distance, Aperture Focus, Light Trails effects
- Standalone or AUv3 host compatibility
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Are you looking for a beautiful white noise machine to match your aesthetic and soothe your soul? Are you looking for a truly unique instrument effect for your music? What if we thought of your incoming instrument signal as the sun, split it through a tree canopy into dozens of copies, and then shifted the timing of those signals as the tree moved? Relax and invigorate with the natural sights and sounds of Leaf Light - the world's first lightfield lenticular ambiance machine and flanger/delay/reverb. With all parameters controlled by a simulated tree canopy, you'll be able to dial in the perfect sound with both your eyes and ears. Tune in the: - Time of Day (sound color) - Brightness (rays of sound, hi-freq) - Wind (motion of sounds) And for effect modes: - Camera Distance (Delay time and spread) - Aperture Focus (Lo-pass filter on repeats) - Light Trails (Delay feedback) Leaf Light is a new way to see and hear nature in unnatural environments. Enjoy the app in standalone or with AUv3 hosts. Headphones are recommended :)
Tessera Sequenced Resonator
Transform any sound into lush, evolving musical textures with twelve tuned voices. Choose from various resonator models and motion engines to create unique sonic landscapes. Lock to host tempo for rhythmic precision.
- Twelve parallel tuned resonators
- Selectable scales and chords
- Eleven resonator models
- Five motion engines (Contour, SEQ, Strum, Arp, Swarm)
- Host tempo synchronization
- MIDI and gate input
- Standalone and AUv3 plugin support
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Tessera is a tuned resonator. Play a drum loop, a guitar, a vocal, or a field recording into it, and it blooms that sound into twelve pitched voices that ring, shimmer, and decay in tune. At its core are twelve parallel resonators, each locked to a note of a chord or scale you choose. Whatever you feed them excites those voices, so a single hit becomes a lush chord, a sustained pad, or a slowly evolving cloud. Pick a root and a scale, from majors and minors through ninths, elevenths, whole tone, and chromatic, and the whole instrument retunes at once. Choose from eleven resonator models: plucked strings, struck bells, singing bowls, glass, membranes, tuned bars, plates, and hollow tubes. Shape each one with decay, damping, brightness, and stereo spread, moving from tight and percussive to vast and cathedral-like. Five motion engines decide how the voices arrive: Contour spreads them into shimmering, arpeggiated waves. SEQ steps each voice through its own rhythmic pattern. Strum rakes across the chord like fingers on strings. Arp cycles the voices one note at a time. Swarm lets them weave and drift around a moving center. Any of it can lock to your host tempo, so rhythmic patches stay in time. Play Tessera three ways: leave MIDI off and let the resonators sound on their own tuning, key them live from a keyboard, or gate them with held chords. Balance the effect with the dry and wet mix, blur the tails with the diffusion stage, and add motion with the built-in vibrato LFO. Microtonal tunings are supported for the pitch-obsessed. One hundred factory presets get you going, from plucks and drones to bells, rhythmic sequences, strummed chords, arpeggios, and dark cinematic textures. Tessera runs as an AUv3 plug-in inside your favorite host, and as a standalone app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Leaf Light at Free against Tessera Sequenced Resonator's $7.99. Tessera Sequenced Resonator's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Leaf Light is free to download; Tessera Sequenced Resonator costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Leaf Light against 4.9 for Tessera Sequenced Resonator. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tessera Sequenced Resonator has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Leaf Light | Tessera Sequenced Resonator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Radii Research | Audio Damage, Inc. |
Customer experience
Leaf Light
Tessera Sequenced Resonator
In-app purchases
Leaf Light
No in-app purchases
Tessera Sequenced Resonator
No in-app purchases
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