Pixelsynth vs Vinyl Room

Make a sound in seconds—and shape it while it plays. Pixelsynth turns taps, drags, melodies, and chords into a colorful instrument you can understand by watching it. Everything you play lives on one screen. Touch a note and start exploring. FROM THE DEVELOPER OF PIXELBOOP Pixelsynth is a new visual instrument from the maker of Pixelboop. Both apps share a love of playful grids, immediate feedback, and musical ideas that begin with one touch. PLAY FIRST. LEARN BY WATCHING. Sixteen pads invite you to find a melody, hold a chord, or strum across the screen. Notes light up as you play, and every sound control moves in front of you. You can see what each gesture is doing while you hear the result. SHAPE THE SOUND LIVE • Switch waveforms to change the character of your sound. • Sweep the filter from bright and open to soft and focused. • Shape attack, decay, sustain, and release for crisp plucks, swelling notes, and long tails. • Add motion with LFO, repeating echoes with delay, and depth with reverb. Each control is a colorful tank. Touch higher or lower inside it to set the value directly. Values in the upper half stay where you leave them; notes in the lower half drain away after you lift. It feels immediate because the picture and the sound follow the same gesture. MADE TO BE SEEN Created by a Deaf musician, Pixelsynth treats visual feedback as part of the instrument. The entire musical surface is drawn on a 40 by 24 pixel grid—just 960 pixels—so every control stays visible and every change has a visual response. PLAY IT YOUR WAY Open Pixelsynth as a standalone instrument on iPhone or iPad, or load the included AUv3 instrument in a compatible iOS music host. Your host can send MIDI notes and save the instrument state with your project. A compatible host is available separately. FREE TO EXPLORE No account. No in-app purchases. No third-party ads. The instrument works offline. The standalone app may occasionally show developer news or an introduction to Pixelboop, which you can close immediately. Pixelsynth does not track you or collect the music you play. Open it. Touch a note. See where it takes you.

Make room for music. Vinyl Room gives listening a little more presence: a record on the platter, a tonearm under your finger and a calm desk made your way. A TURNTABLE YOU CAN TOUCH Press the power button, lower the needle and watch the record turn. Explore a real-time 3D room with adjustable lighting, reflective metal and five base finishes: porcelain, sage, graphite, leather and wood. The 3D room requires iOS or iPadOS 18 or later. READY WHEN YOU ARE Start with ten included jazz and lounge recordings by Kevin MacLeod. They play offline, with the next record following in collection order. Bossa Antigua is cued at launch. No account is needed for the included collection. SEARCH OR PASTE Tap the YouTube search button to enter an artist, a song or a video link. Use + to paste several links. YouTube plays through its visible official video player in both 2D and 3D, subject to video availability. MAKE THE DESK YOURS Choose five 2D turntables, mix different tonearms and buttons, and soften the background with pastel colours. Save favourites, arrange the 2D desk cards, set a sleep timer or hide the panels for a focused view. Included music needs no video window; YouTube keeps a visible player. MADE FOR IPAD AND IPHONE A spacious tablet layout and a compact phone layout. Free, with no subscription or in-app purchases. YouTube requires internet and may show ads. Some videos cannot be embedded. YouTube pauses when its window is hidden or covered. All playback pauses when the app becomes inactive or the device locks. No background playback or YouTube downloads. Included recordings are licensed under CC BY 4.0, with credits in the app. Vinyl Room is made by Sfoor Labs and is not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.