SunVox

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

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Music	$5.99	Alexander Zolotov	iPhone, iPad, iPod

[ 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!

[ Key features ]
• Modular interface.
• Powerful microtonal (ultra-chromatic) 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;
• WiFi import/export;
• MIDI file import/export;
• MIDI IN/OUT;
• Mic/Line-in recording;
• Audiobus and IAA support;
• 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.
Use multitouch to scale/move content of timeline and pattern editor.
How to connect one module to another: first touch on source, second touch on destination.
REC button is only for notes and controller recording. If you want to record sound - use the Sampler module.

[ Built-in synthesizers & effects ]
• Analog Generator;
• DrumSynth with 120 unique synthetic drum sounds;
• FM synthesizer;
• MetaModule (use it to build your own synths/effects);
• Sampler (supported formats: WAV, XI, AIFF);
• SpectraVoice (FFT-based synthesizer for warm atmospheric sounds);
• Side Chain Compressor;
• Distortion;
• Echo;
• 3Band equalizer;
• Filter (Low-pass, High-pass, Band-pass, Notch);
• Flanger;
• Loop (for glitch effects);
• Reverb;
• Vocal Filter (for human voice simulation);
• Vorbis Player;
• WaveShaper;
• and more ...

[ Bug reports ]
Found a bug? Have some questions? Just write me directly: [email protected]
The answer comes immediately!

Official SunVox homepage + video tutorials:
www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox

User manual:
goo.gl/ZYptT

Development status of the new version:
goo.gl/ByfKb

SunVox music:
soundcloud.com/groups/sunvox

Reviews

phenomenal!
Eisenhower808

Can’t say enough good things about it. I mean, if retro video game music (chip tunes etc) is your thing, than it doesn’t get better. But for any electronic music this thing is highly capable. The fact that it’s so cross-platform is super useful. There isn’t anything really comparable tbh.

FM module is rigged...
needHymn

Update: the dev has responded and let me know that the FM module isn't "bugged", but that it is designed to work on a non-standard way. I had thought it was bugged. But now that I know it's by design, I'm still not happy with it. I need a normal behaving FM. However, the dev accepted my suggestions and is considering to add an "FM2" module in a future update, which would allow for some more standard FM behavior. I will update review if this update comes out... In the mean time I might be able to find an alternative way to produce FM-like sounds, using some of the other sound generators included in sunvox.

LOVE IT
Richie Daggers

ok so I’m only 23 years old (born 1997) so I’m way too young to have grown up with trackers. Didn’t even know they existed till a couple days. I’ve been looking into the new polyend tracker and gained a tiny bit of knowledge on how to use them so coming into this app was really fun and easy. Really wanted to see how a tracker workflow would work for me and I kind of dig it! I personally don’t find it confusing (the basics that is) and I’ve only been fooling around for a day! Love this app and for the price it’s a steal!! Maybe I’ll never buy the polyend tracker cause it’s literally 100 x the price!!

Unparalleled. Side chain since 2011 on iOS
Stefan Daniel Bell

I have had this since 2011-12. It’s still ahead of me. Still learning about SunVox. The sound quality through real speakers is so much more than one might think possible. It creates volume and layering that makes the process fun for me. On Fractal Bits now. It too feels infinite. You can make your own everything in SunVox and it is a daw. This is really a separate world I have barely learned. I love it more every time I open it.

It’s a GUI thing...
Applesnoranges99

You’ll either get along with the UI of this app or you won’t. I’ve watched videos of people doing very cool things with this app, but I’m not a programmer and I don’t think like one, so this app is tough for me to understand... I did manage to make a simple 8 bar 3 track groove, but it took about an hour. ? Not the apps fault at all. It’s the sequencer and timeline that I struggle with. I’m sure that if I hunkered down and spent a few months with this app, I could have a good understanding of how it works, but there are many other apps that do not require such work for me. I’ll probably keep hitting this app over time until I get it, cause I do like a good puzzle. peace

If your saving up for a Polyend Tracker try this first
SadSynthPerson

It’s not just for chiptunes and it’s not just a tracker. This app started off getting a lot of praise from the chiptune community—and rightly so: it is beautiful for that purpose. It’s light, multi-platform, could run on PalmOS, free on a computer... BUT! This app has grown to become something far beyond just a chiptune app so please don’t let the tracker scare you away. I’m starting to wrap my head around the tracker after a few tutorials and I’m finding it’s a very intuitive way to sequence parts and build chords as opposed to a piano roll. This rivals Korg Gadget for modular synths possibilities and pattern composition, and personally, I like this better. If you didn’t know already, SunVox is a full featured DAW in one app. The version you get for PC or OS X, is the same exact thing in iOS. So if you want to try it somewhere else, you can. It is also one of the best ports I’ve ever seen interface-wise for touch screen use in an app, anywhere. When first using this, every time I started to fantasize about a feature this app could have, I found that it already had it and that it works well. The multisampler, the MIDI features, the exporting and importing of samples, files, and instruments—right down to the color scheme so I can make it look as sexy as I want. I am seriously blown away at the thoughtfulness of this developer. For live performances, I may just be freeing myself of a laptop on stage and using the sample module built into this and a MIDI controller. Don’t buy AudioLayer from Virsyn. Use the multisampler here. Also, the instrument modules are MIDI channel assignable, so if you don’t want this to be your audio-source, let it sequence your actual synths/drums/whatever. It’s unreal and can be your production center if you want it to be. For songwriting, it is also a tour de force. You can compose on the same project on any device. The beautiful thing is that if you want to construct your sampler from another computer, you can transfer it to another device with SunVox and it’s totally seamless. For that matter, if you want to import an ENTIRE PROJECT from one device to the other, it is seamless. It can even be done over wifi. iOS to iOS. Linux to Android, PC to OS X, whatever. The project files are self-contained so you don’t have to worry about moving your sample library over with it. It moves it all over as a single instrument. It’s a file-management nerd’s dream. If you wanted to export the parts you made in SunVox to use in a different DAW, it exports your parts to MIDI, and can even export up to 192k sample rate .wav as well. Don’t be intimidated. There are terrific instructional videos on YouTube from Solar Lune I’ve only scratched the surface Welcome

I could pay more for this app.
sabliran

I've never written a Review for an app. I just want to say that this guy is genius! You can download the software from your computer and try it for free. I really can't believe that this was made just by one guy.

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jotai

If I had to choose only one...

Awesome app, UI isn’t great but it’s charming
SwampyFans36

Totally awesome little app. I’ve been using this on my PC and was worried that this was going to be horrible in the iPhone due to the UI but it actually works pretty well, nice work!