Unknown Pleasure vs MIDI FX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Unknown Pleasure
A music player that visualizes your audio with a design inspired by a famous album cover. Easily navigate tracks with intuitive gestures. Requires downloaded music files without DRM.
- Audio visualization
- Album cover inspired design
- Swipe to change songs
- Double-tap to pause
- Select music via swipe down
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This is a music player with an audio visualization inspired by the iconic cover for Joy Division's album Unknown Pleasures. * Swipe left or right to switch songs. * Double-tap to pause. * Swipe down to select the music to play. In order to visualize music tracks, they must be downloaded to the device (not in iCloud) and must not have DRM.
MIDI FX
This app allows you to control and process MIDI signals for music creation. It offers features like harmonization, transposition, and sequencing, enabling you to control external or virtual synthesizers and create complex musical arrangements.
- MIDI signal processing
- Harmonize and Transpose
- Sequencer for synths
- Delay and Looper
- Filter notes by velocity
- Internal instruments
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Buy once and get the iOS and Mac apps (with Family Sharing) Control your MIDI signals and process them in any combination of ways: Harmonize, Transpose, Arpeggiate, etc... Or use the Sequencer to play any external or virtual synth. Use a MIDI interface to unlock the power of the app to control multiple synths with one keyboard, play one note and generate chords, basslines, etc... Use the delay/looper or filter notes based on velocity or other parameters to send to different synths/effects. A MIDI workstation in your pocket (or your iPad/Mac) You can also use some internal instruments (drums sampler, piano or synth) if you are away from your MIDI gear, and sequence whole songs inside the app, or use other synth apps as input/output for MIDI FX. Your imagination is the limit!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MIDI FX at 5.0 against Unknown Pleasure's 4.1. MIDI FX also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Unknown Pleasure's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 14.7). On price, ratings volume, ads and monetization model 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. MIDI FX sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Unknown Pleasure asks for nothing beyond the download.
MIDI FX holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 5 respectively.
| Parameter | Unknown Pleasure | MIDI FX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 14.7 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 263 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Milk LLC | Jorge Arroyo |
Customer experience
Unknown Pleasure
MIDI FX
In-app purchases
Unknown Pleasure
No in-app purchases
MIDI FX
- Unlock app$9.99
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