Steve Roach Immersion IV vs Changing Landscapes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Steve Roach Immersion IV
Create personalized ambient music experiences by mixing and evolving sound loops from a renowned artist. This interactive tool offers infinite playback possibilities with CD quality sound, allowing you to sculpt unique soundscapes.
- Create custom soundscapes
- Infinite mix combinations
- Save custom mixes
- Control loop volume and pan
- Evolve new mixes
- Plays music in the background
- CD quality sound
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Immersion Station I, II & III have received rave reviews from users worldwide. We are excited to announce the release of Immersion Station IV. Created from the soundworlds of ambient music pioneer Steve Roach, Immersion Station IV places the listener in the center of a sublime ever evolving sound environment. Featuring the essence of sources from The Delicate Forever, refined and sculpted for this Station the listener can create mixes for a personalized Immersion experience Immersion Station is an elegant interactive sound immersion tool. Create infinite mix combinations from five different loops of varied lengths for endless playback. These sounds have been extracted from the heart of Steve Roach's soundworlds and carefully chosen for a congruent relationship allowing the user to sculpt constantly changing ambient music. The Immersion Station interface and application, created by Software Artist Eric Freeman (working closely with Steve), allows you to mix loops using a simple, intuitive, interactive and organic interface that is reflective of Steve's work FEATURES * Easily create custom soundscapes from Steve Roach's source loops * Includes nearly 140 megabytes of loops custom crafted by Steve Roach * Includes custom mixes from Steve Roach * Each mix provides constantly changing ambient music * Save your own mixes at any time * Use AirPlay to stream your music anywhere * Control the volume or stereo pan of each loop * Incubate new mixes using the evolve function * Plays music in the background * CD quality sound * User's guide provided in the App and online Recommended for headphones or external speakers.
Changing Landscapes
This app uses randomized algorithms to blend real-time audio and video, generating unique and surprising visual mixes. Based on research into creativity and the unconscious, it allows users to record, save, and share their experimental creations.
- Real-time audio and video mixing
- Randomized algorithmic generation
- Create unexpected visual results
- Save and share creations
- Upload to changlinglandscapes.tv
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Based on PhD research involving creativity, dream work, and the unconscious. Record real-time audio and video and mix them together using the apps randomized algorithms to create new and unexpected results. Save them, post them, or upload to the changlinglandscapes.tv project.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Changing Landscapes at every 6 weeks against Steve Roach Immersion IV's every 17 months. Changing Landscapes also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Steve Roach Immersion IV against 4.6 for Changing Landscapes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 12 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Steve Roach Immersion IV's written reviews are positive against 100% of Changing Landscapes's.
Steve Roach Immersion IV ships an update every 17 months, Changing Landscapes every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steve Roach Immersion IV | Changing Landscapes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (12 ratings) — better | 4.6 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 12.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 145 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eric Freeman | Dangerbird Records, Inc. |
Customer experience
Steve Roach Immersion IV
Changing Landscapes
In-app purchases
Steve Roach Immersion IV
No in-app purchases
Changing Landscapes
No in-app purchases


