Comparison

Waveguide Flute vs Sound With Bones

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

Head to head
About

Waveguide Flute

Features
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Waveguide Flute turns your iPad or iPhone into a physically modeled wind instrument β€” a Cook/STK-style waveguide flute you play from an on-screen piano roll or a MIDI wind controller (EWI). FEATURES β€’ Authentic waveguide physical modeling β€” not a sample library β€’ Deep Sound page: shape jet ratio, reflection, loop damping, noise, and more β€’ Expression controls for live performance: blow intensity, breathiness, pitch bend, auto-vibrato β€’ Built-in reverb with 7 factory spaces β€’ On-screen piano roll with velocity and breath control β€’ Full MIDI support β€” notes, breath (CC#2), pitch bend β€’ Compatible with Akai EWI and other MIDI wind controllers that send breath and pitch bend β€’ Remembers your last settings, with one-tap reset to defaults β€’ Bluetooth MIDI support, plus a configurable Breath Control input (Mod Wheel or custom CC) for keyboard players without a wind controller Play it like a real wind instrument: breathe into the sound, bend pitch, add vibrato β€” all rendered by a genuine physical model, not recordings.

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Sound With Bones

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Draw a structure you can play. Record how you change it while it rings. Sound With Bones is a physical modeling instrument built from your drawings. A sketch becomes connected joints whose mass and stiffness shape the sound. Pluck a joint, cut a ringing connection, then repair it and hear the structure change. SHAPE SOUND BY LISTENING Choose a brighter or less bright sound. The Workshop proposes small changes to a joint's mass or a connection's stiffness. Compare each edit with the same strike, reference pitch, duration and listening level. Keep a version or return to your original. CHANGE THE INSTRUMENT AS IT PLAYS In Workshop > Perform, record the strikes, cuts and repairs you play. Keep the take as editable actions on a beat timeline. Move an action, adjust the tempo and replay it from the drawing captured at the start. A cut changes the sound already ringing. You can also arrange actions by hand. Export the performance as WAV with its editable workshop. MAKE A FAMILY OF RELATED SOUNDS Create soft, firm, edge and broken variations from one drawing. Edit the strike location, force, softness and connection cut. Export named 24-bit stereo WAV files at 48 kHz together with the workshop, drawing and recipes. PLAY WITH TWO HANDS Hold one joint while another finger plucks the shape. Damp removes energy where that joint moves. Pin constrains the held joint and changes its resonances. Release it to hear the original structure again. LEARN BY LISTENING Predict what lighter joints will do, hear the natural resonance change, then try an unfamiliar drawing. Isolate one vibration mode or listen to local damping. Save your prediction, measured result and both sounds. Reopen the exact comparison even after changing your current drawing. These experiments use the same physical model as your instrument. BRING YOUR DRAWINGS INTO A MUSIC APP The included AUv3 instrument responds to MIDI notes, velocity and sustain in compatible hosts. Open an exported drawing or workshop in the plug-in. Its drawing is saved with the host project. KEEP YOUR WORK Save instruments, recordings and workshop versions locally. Share editable drawings and workshops through Files. Export recordings as M4A, or import supported audio into your library. Imported recordings remain audio clips; they do not become physical instruments. No account, subscription or microphone access is required. Synthesis and recording run on your device. Synthesized sounds come from the drawing's physical model.

Screenshots

Waveguide Flute2 screens
Sound With Bones4 screens

Verdict

The call

Waveguide Flute and Sound With Bones are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Waveguide Flute versus Sound With Bones: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWaveguide FluteSound With Bones
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 β€” better18.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size4 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTomonori YamasakiNo Worries! Lifestyle, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Waveguide Flute

No in-app purchases

None

Sound With Bones

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Waveguide Flute free?
Waveguide Flute is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sound With Bones free?
Sound With Bones is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Waveguide Flute or Sound With Bones have ads?
Neither Waveguide Flute nor Sound With Bones shows ads.

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