76477 Complex Sound Synth vs Dawcade
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
76477 Complex Sound Synth
Create complex sound effects and music with a powerful synthesizer inspired by vintage hardware. Offers extensive modulation, noise generation, and customizable envelopes. Easily share your creations and control it with MIDI devices.
- Three oscillators with multiple wave types
- Modulation capabilities for oscillators
- Adjustable noise generator with filter
- Configurable ADSR envelope
- Unlimited sound effect generator boards
- MIDI input support
- Export/import sound effect boards
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Synth 76477 is a powerful sound effects generator and synthesizer app, inspired by the famous SN76477 integrated circuit from the 1970s, but containing many enhancements. Features: • Three oscillators, each of which can produce a sine, triangle, sawtooth, or square wave • The outputs of two of the oscillators can be used to modulate the main oscillator • Frequency modulation can be linear or octave based • The duty cycle of the main oscillator can be adjusted in square wave mode • Noise generator, either analog or digital, with an adjustable low pass filter • Oscillator outputs can be mixed to the audio output • Fully configurable ADSR (Attack / Decay / Sustain / Release) envelope, linear or exponential • One shot mode available • Unlimited number of sound effect generator boards • User configurable array of sound effect generator buttons on each board, up to 50 on the iPhone and 150 on the iPad • Boards as well as individual generators can be exported and imported, and transferred to and from your computer via iTunes file sharing, making it easy to share with others Synth 76477 comes with a full set of sample sound generators, making it easy to understand how to use and configure them, and tap the full power of the app. Synth 76477 works with MIDI input devices (keyboards and controllers) in several interesting ways: If you plug a MIDI device into an iPad (via the USB Camera Connection Kit), Synth 76477 will automatically use it. You can plug several MIDI controllers in via a powered HUB, and Synth 76477 will use all of them. You can also use MIDI controllers over WiFi. Midi controllers can be used to trigger chip playback, or set the VCO frequency and volume. They can also be used in the chip editor to adjust the various settings. The app also supports Bluetooth audio devices. Visit the support page for step by step instructions on how to use the app: http://www.blackcatsystems.com/ipad/complex_sound_synthesizer_FAQ.html Buy your copy right now, and start generating your own sound effects in minutes.
Dawcade
Create music anywhere with this pocket-sized studio. Record, sequence, mix, and arrange tracks using a vast array of instruments and effects. Offers flexible arrangement tools and multiple play surfaces, all running offline on your device.
- Pocket music studio
- Record, sequence, mix, arrange
- Session and arrangement views
- 50+ instruments and effects
- Multiple play surfaces
- Per-channel mixing and automation
- MIDI controller support
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Dawcade is a complete music studio that fits in your pocket. Record, sequence, mix and arrange anywhere — everything runs on your device alone. No account, no subscription, no cloud, nothing to unlock. Buy it once and everything is there. TWO WAYS TO BUILD A TRACK Session view lets you launch clips and scenes freely while you find the arrangement by playing it. Arrangement view puts the same material on a timeline when you are ready to commit. Clips move between the two, so nothing has to be decided up front. INSTRUMENTS More than fifty instruments and effects ship with the app. Wavetable, virtual analog, FM, phase distortion, vector, spectral, supersaw, granular, physical modelling and chip synthesis all have purpose-built editors rather than a generic parameter list. Sampled acoustic instruments cover piano, electric piano, organ, guitar, bass, strings, brass and woodwinds. DRUMS AND SAMPLING A library of factory drum kits, each with per-pad tuning, envelope, filter, pan and send controls. The sampler loads your own audio, and the drum surface can be played as pads or programmed as a step sequencer. PLAY SURFACES Sixteen selectable play surfaces sit under the mixer instead of a single fixed keyboard. Alongside the piano keyboard there is a chord pad grid, a Tonnetz lattice, a circle of fifths, a strum surface, a fretboard, a bowed-string surface, an XY pad, and generative surfaces that keep playing while you shape them. Every surface follows the project key and scale, so wrong notes are opt-in. MIXING AND AUTOMATION Per-channel volume, pan, mute, solo and record arm, with return channels and sends. Twenty-four audio effects including compressor, multiband compressor, limiter, transient shaper, parametric EQ, reverb, plate reverb, delay, filter delay, grain delay, chorus, flanger, phaser, distortion, amp cabinet, bitcrusher, vocoder, resonator, frequency shifter, auto filter, beat repeat, gate, spectral and step effects. Any parameter can be automated on the timeline. MIDI AND GENERATORS Class-compliant USB and Bluetooth MIDI controllers are supported for input, and Dawcade sends MIDI back to control surfaces that have pad or key lighting. Insert an arpeggiator with classic, Markov and Euclidean generators, or a scale-quantiser, ahead of any instrument. RECORDING Record audio through the microphone or an audio interface, straight into a channel. Count-in, pre-roll and post-roll are configurable, and takes land as clips you can move, trim and reuse. PRIVACY Dawcade does not ask for an account and does not collect personal data. Crash and error reports are the only thing that leaves the device, they are not linked to your identity, and they are processed in the European Union. Your projects, recordings and samples stay on your device. Requires iOS 17 or later. Includes a demo project and a guided tour on first launch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dawcade at every 5 days against 76477 Complex Sound Synth's every 3 months. Dawcade also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 50%). 76477 Complex Sound Synth's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.8) and price ($2.99 vs $5.99). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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
76477 Complex Sound Synth costs $2.99 and Dawcade $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
76477 Complex Sound Synth holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 9 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of 76477 Complex Sound Synth's written reviews are positive against 67% of Dawcade's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
76477 Complex Sound Synth ships an update every 3 months, Dawcade every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 76477 Complex Sound Synth | Dawcade |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (10 ratings) — better | 3.8 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 310 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Black Cat Systems | Nihatcan Dogu |
Customer experience
76477 Complex Sound Synth
Dawcade
In-app purchases
76477 Complex Sound Synth
No in-app purchases
Dawcade
No in-app purchases
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