SunVox app for iPhone and iPad

4.2 ( 6832 ratings )

Music
Developer: Alexander Zolotov

5.99 USD

Current version: 2.1c, last update: 9 months ago
First release : 04 Aug 2009
App size: 90.08 Mb

SunVox is one of the most powerful music creation tools for iOS. It is a small and fast cross-platform modular synthesizer with pattern based sequencer (tracker).

[ Key features ]
• Modular interface.
• Powerful microtonal sequencer.
• Highly optimized synth algorithms.
• Support of 16/24/32bit WAV, AIFF and XI samples.
• XM (FastTracker) and MOD (ProTracker, OctaMED) import.
• Multitrack WAV export.
• MIDI import/export.
• MIDI IN/OUT.
• Mic/Line recording (using the Sampler).
• Audio Unit Extension (AUv3 instrument/effect), Audiobus.
• Generative music features: random selection of notes, random values of controllers, probability effects.
• Its possible to use SunVox engine in your own applications using the free library for developers.
• It is also available for other systems (see the site).

[ Brief instruction ]
The main menu - button with the SunVox icon in the upper left corner of the screen.
To connect one module (source) to another (destination): first touch on the source, second touch on the destination.

Official SunVox homepage, user manual, video tutorials:
https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox

SunVox music:
https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/#music

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[ Built-in synthesizers & effects ]
• Generators;
• DrumSynth with 120 unique synthetic drum sounds;
• FM synthesizer;
• Multisample instrument;
• SpectraVoice (FFT-based synthesizer for warm atmospheric sounds);
• Side Chain Compressor;
• Distortion;
• Echo & Reverb;
• Equalizer & Filters;
• Flanger;
• Loop (for glitch effects);
• Vocal Filter (for human voice simulation);
• Vorbis Player;
• WaveShaper;
• Pitch Detector;
• Pitch Shifter;
• and more ...

[ Jordan Rudess about this app ]
Sunvox is a serious music application. I am personally running it on my iphone. In the overcrowded world of music apps, Sunvox stands out as both unique and powerful. If you are a musician and own an iphone, you owe it to yourself to try this amazing application!

Pros and cons of SunVox app for iPhone and iPad

SunVox app good for

This is a very deep music workstation, yet easy to learn and intuitive. The modular design can produce organic and dynamic textures, and a vast array of synthetic timbres and effects. Indispensable for a variety of electronic music styles. Excellent for chiptunes! Very good support. The sounds and tracks it can generate are astonishing! Now with Audioubus it will be HeavenVox!

please, please add dropbox connection to easy swap songs from one device to another...thx...

Very good sounding app! Thank you! A bit hard to understand (Sequencer), but it offers a lot of possibilities. Please implement a copy/paste-function (Sampler).The handling would be easier. Thank you.

In my opinion this is the best and most versatile sequencer and synth engine for iOS today. It includes several synth types, a sea of effects and many modulation possibilities. This is a forgotten gem!

Just bought it to support this guy!! Desktop version is free, so just a little thank you! Will use this in upcoming LD48!!

Awesome tracker! So much fun to use! Excellent modules, great sound. One of the best music-apps!

Some bad moments

So many possibilities. So much coolness. Especially if youre a fan of chip music. Ive even done a record solely with this app.

I absolutely love this app because it goes so in-depth in creating music, and I also love the look and feel of the app. Keep up the good work!

the desktop version of the app has the same interface as the mobile one. this is the best tool i have found yet for sketching out ideas on the go and then fleshing them out back at home. dropbox support would be amazing!

Ive been using SunVox on my pc for a while now and absolutely love it. Its powerful, versatile, and intuitively designed. Users of lsdj and the like will also feel comfortable using SunVox. I am currently running SunVox on my iPad and am really impressed by it too; perfect for being able to take it all with me. I use a little bluetooth QWERTY keyboard on my iPad however and am wondering if any sort of support will be added for bluetooth qwerty keyboards. It would be nice to have the same sort of control (in that sense) as I do on PC. Anyway, i really love this app and if you are a musician or chiptune enthusiast I am sure that you will too.

Alexander Zolotov is some sort of twisted genius. Hes taken the modular environment of Psychle and Buzz, and given us a tracker, but with a fully triggerable timeline. The result? Madness. This thing can do just about anything, except give me back all the hours I spend in it, lol :) There is a learning curve, but spend some time with the tracker, and it quickly becomes apparent that SunVox really is the most powerful single music app in the App Store. ...but it also plays nice with others, via Audiobus. Alex is also beginning to build in IAA support, so the future looks bright for SunVox. Join the community at warmplace.ru

Ive had this since the 1st version, and Ive spent tons of hours writing with it. With the new update the sound quality has improved immensely. Very inspiring sounds and flexibility. The workflow takes a minute to get used to, but its pretty great. Still my favorite music making app in iOS land. Update: even better. Sounds much better now. Id love to see a square wave in the generator at some point, and possibly even a multi generator (2 oscillator) module. Also a simple 1 step undo would be very useful. Im loving it, my favorite app by far. Old review: It is indeed the deepest most fully functional electronic music making app on the iPhone. If you are a fan of electronic music making and dont mind the tracker interface, its a no brainer. So far the only issues are certain commands take a few tries to be responsive (stop and link are among them). Plus I ended up in a synth edit window with no way out because the iPhone info (reception, time, etc) was where the resize function would have been. Otherwise it seems to be working great.

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