Cadentia vs Memory MIDI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cadentia
This app offers advanced audio manipulation for musicians, allowing on-device song splitting into vocals, bass, and drums. It also includes a precise tuner, a stable metronome, virtual instruments, and a multitrack recorder for practice and composition.
- On-device stem separation (vocals, bass, drums)
- Karaoke backing track creation
- Accurate pitch tuner
- Drift-free metronome
- Synthesized drums and piano
- Multitrack tablature editor
- Multitrack audio recorder
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Cadentia splits any song into four stems (vocals, bass, drums and the rest) inside the iPhone itself, with nothing uploaded to a server. Remove the vocals and sing over it as karaoke, isolate the bass to learn it by ear, or practise over what is left. Free, no account, no ads. In the same app: tuner, metronome, drums, piano, tablature and a multitrack recorder, all working with the phone in airplane mode. STEM SEPARATION ON THE DEVICE Pick a song from your library and Cadentia splits it into four tracks with a Core ML model that runs on your iPhone. Mute the vocals and you have a backing track; mute the rest and you have just the bass or just the drums. The karaoke apps that do this send the song to the cloud and charge a subscription. Here nothing leaves the device, and it costs nothing. A TUNER THAT DOESN'T WOBBLE Pitch detection through the YIN algorithm, accurate to about one cent. The ring runs red, amber, green; the note sits in the middle and the deviation in cents just above it. Reference pitch goes from 415 to 466 Hz, for orchestra players and period instruments. There is also Analyse tuning: play for up to a minute and see how much of it you spent in tune. A METRONOME THAT DOESN'T DRIFT The click is scheduled on the audio clock, not the screen clock, so it still lands where it should after ten minutes. Time signatures from 2/4 to 7/8, subdivisions, polyrhythm, tap tempo, a microphone BPM detector and a practice timer. It plays through the silent switch, which is half the reason to build a metronome natively. REAL DRUMS AND A REAL PIANO The pads and the keys don't fire samples: the sound is synthesised as you play, with Bessel-mode membranes on the drums and true inharmonicity on the piano. In practice: how hard you hit changes the timbre, not just the volume. Sixteen-step sequencer, 25 ready grooves, a vertical multitouch keyboard, 77 chords and 144 scales. TABLATURE WITH A BAND BEHIND IT Open and edit multitrack tablature with bass, drums and 48 backing tracks. It is the same .rostab file you write in RoqueOS in the browser: back and forth, nothing to convert. MULTITRACK RECORDER Play over what you already recorded, with Apple's echo cancellation and noise reduction. The timeline actually edits: trim, split, fade, pan, undo. Export the mix as M4A when you're done. YOUR LIBRARY, IF YOU WANT IT If you use RoqueOS, you can pair Cadentia with your account using a short code and play the music already there. It is the only part of the app that uses the internet, and it is optional: without pairing, everything else works the same. No ads, no charge, no in-app purchases. In 10 languages.
Memory MIDI
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Turn your iPhone into a wireless MIDI controller. Drum pads, piano keys, mixer faders, XY pad and transport — over Wi-Fi, no cables. Works with Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Studio One, Cubase, Bitwig Studio, Reaper, GarageBand, Pro Tools and any DAW that supports Network MIDI (RTP-MIDI) or Bluetooth MIDI. DRUM PADS Six velocity pads that respond to several fingers at once. Layouts are tuned for the DAW you pick. KEYS A full-screen keyboard: turn the phone sideways and play. Slide between keys, shift octaves, hold sustain. MIXER, XY PAD AND BUTTONS Faders, an XY pad and toggle buttons for effects, filters and sends. Map them in your DAW once and they stay mapped. TRANSPORT AND RECORDING Play, stop and record from your phone while your hands stay on the instrument. YOUR OWN PRESETS Build your own layout from pads, faders and buttons, rename controls and save it. APPLE WATCH Turn the Digital Crown to control any parameter from your wrist. EASY SETUP Pick your DAW and follow the step-by-step guide. Your iPhone reconnects to the computer you chose on its own. Interface languages: English, Russian.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cadentia at none against Memory MIDI's shown. Memory MIDI's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cadentia ships an update every 8 days, Memory MIDI fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cadentia | Memory MIDI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 160 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roque Ribeiro | Dmitrii Bondarchuk |
In-app purchases
Cadentia
No in-app purchases
Memory MIDI
No in-app purchases









