iSymphonic Orchestra vs Real Strings

The ultimate orchestra sound app for sophisticated musicians by award-winning sound designer Kurt Ader, designed as professional sound module for your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch by connecting an external MIDI keyboard, using the Apple USB camera adapter or another adapter supported by Apple.¹ Listen to the demo videos on our product website! This app supports Audio Unit and Inter-App Audio for audio & MIDI connections from/to other audio apps, as well as Bluetooth LE MIDI ! iSymphonic Orchestra was designed with the goal to deliver you superb, extremely realistic and stunning orchestra sounds, instantly with the first key being pressed by you on your MIDI keyboard. Just select a sound and you are ready for your live performance or for a boost of creativity while composing new songs. The sounds used in this app were explicitly recorded to fulfill these requirements and involved several months of recording and post processing under supervision of Kurt Ader and included a variety of innovative, new recording techniques. So far these sounds were only available to very few, famous movie composers. Now they are finally available for the first time to everybody. The supreme quality of these sounds, combined with the unique way they were recorded and assembled, gives us confidence that you haven't heard anything comparable as of to date, even not on Mac or PC. 25 Sounds included with base App: • Orchestra Strings Spiccato & Legato 1 - 4 • Orchestra Strings Slow 1 - 3 • Chamber Arco Strings • Legato Orchestra Strings 1 • Full Sordino Strings 1 - 2 • Legato Orchestra • Staccato Orchestra 1 - 3 • Tremolo Orchestra • Pizzicato Strings • Full Strings • Tremolo Strings • All Brass 1 - 2 • Trombone Section • Cello & Woodwinds • Horns & Strings • Full Legato Orchestra 297 additional sounds available as 15 optional in-app purchase sound sets: „Pro-", „Arpa-", „Canto-", „Boato-", „Vento-", „Ottone-", „Voce-", „Varia-", „Perla-", „Aulos-", „Keys-", „Cupra-", „Organ-", „Tosca-" and „Corda Sound Set". You find a detailed sound list & demo videos on our product website. General Features: • Low latency disk streaming. • Very efficient audio engine. • Polyphony of several hundred stereo voices.² • Audio latency down to 1 ms. • Integrated effects with 18 presets. • 16 parts. • Scale Tuning & Master Tune. • MIDI velocity response curve editor. • App States: Save app's entire state as user presets. • Interactive, easy & quick sound finder. • App can keep running in the background, so you can play on your keyboard while e.g. using Safari or another app to display scores or surfing the Internet. • Hermode Tuning: Imitates the tuning behavior of well educated musicians of i.e. orchestras and choirs. • Audio Unit v3 Plugin included. • Supports Apple's "Inter-App Audio" (IAA) system. • Virtual on-screen piano keyboard with velocity support, scalable & scrollable. MIDI Player / Recorder: • Record, save and load your songs in standard MIDI file format. • Share your songs easily as audio file. • Unlimited amount of tracks. • Configurable MIDI channel per track. • Unlimited recording and playback length. • Open MIDI (.mid) files directly from other apps (i.e. from Safari, Mail). • Metronome • Use the "Tempo Zoom" dial knob to i.e. slow down playback at any time and learn your favorite songs easily. ¹ For more information about supported adapters and MIDI keyboards, please visit our product website. ² Sounds are using several voices per note. Polyphony depends on the exact device model being used. You find a polyphony table on our product website. Anti-Spy Commitment: We take your privacy very seriously. None of our apps contain so called „spy” behaviors and we committed ourself to a very high privacy standard. For more information read our „Privacy Policy for Mobile Apps”.

Imagine yourself playing a violin with an orchestra. Real Strings is "Air-Violin" application with graphical guides. It plays like a real violin. Just tilt, swing and slide your iPhone/IPod as guide bars fall. Control tempo, speed, and strength of your movement, then all the accompanying music will automatically adjust to your lead. Real Strings consists of three string instruments; violin, viola, and cello. You can play music with instrument of your choice. It's easy, enjoyable, and educational that anyone will instantly feel like playing a real violin without learning how. Here are titles of the songs currently available. ********************************************************** Classical Music Collection 1 - Salut d'Amour (Love's Greeting) - Elgar - Suite for Solo Cello No.1 in G major - Bach - Minuet in G WoO 10 No.2 - Beethoven - Violin Concerto in A minor Op.3 No.6 - Vivaldi - Chanson du Treador from Carmen - Bizet - Hungarian Dance No.5 in G minor - Brahms - Minuet Op.11 No.5 - Boccherini - Liebesfreud (Love's Joy) - Kreisler - Violin Concerto in E minor Op.64 - Mendelssohon - Air on the G String - Bach - Serenade Op.3 No.5 - Haydn - La Donna E Mobile - Verdi - Estudiantina Waltz Op.191 - Waldteufel - La Campanella - Paganini - Spring from Four Seasons - Vivaldi Folk Song Collection 1 - Oh, My Darling Clementine - American Folk Song - Santa Lucia - Italian Folk Song - Turkey in the Straw - American Folk Song - Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye - Irish Folk Song - Kalinka - Russian Folk Song Classical Music Collection 2 - Canon in D Major - Pachelbel - Habanera from Carmen - Bizet - Nocturne Op.9 No.2 - Chopin - Humoresque Op.101 No.7 - Dvorak - Voice of Spring - Strauss - Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No.2 - Bach - Serenade from Schwanengesang D.957 No.4 - Schubert - The Blue Danube Waltz Op.314 - Strauss - Swan Lake Prelude - Tchaikovsky - Autumn - Four Seasons - Vivaldi Folk Song Collection 2 - My Old Kentucky Home - American Folk Song - Korobushka - Russian Folk Song - Die Lorelei - German Folk Song - Greensleeves - English Folk Song - Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms - Irish Folk Song - De Colores - Spanish Folk Song - Lighthouser Keeper - English Folk Song - El Condor Pasa - Peruvian Folk Song - Washerwoman - Irish Folk Song - Swanee River - American Folk Song Songs for Kids - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - Alouette - Bingo - Did You Ever See a Lassie - The Farmer in the Dell - Frere Jacques - Head Shoulders Knees and Toes - London Bridge - Mary Had a Little Lamb - My Grandfather's Clock - Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone - Old MacDonald Had a Farm - Row Row Row Your Boat Holiday Season - We Wish You a Merry Christmas - Jingle Bells - Gloria - O Little Town of Bethlehem - Joy to the World - Silent Night - Deck the Halls - Noel - O Christmas Tree - O Holy Night ********************************************************** Real Strings is not for freestyle violin play. Instead, it controls timing, tempo, length, and strength of given notes just like many other rhythm games.