KORG iDS-10 Reviews
5/5 rating based on 41 reviews. Read all reviews for KORG iDS-10 for iPhone.
KORG iDS-10 is paid iOS app published by KORG INC.
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The E.A.R.
It’s fun, although I did buy the actual hardware Kong MS 20. I also bought an iPad Pro. Enjoyed re_solving the mystery again on a new song, nine icons. I now work with multiple DAW’s & soft synthesizers & can make a song even with limitations. I recommend getting this little brother soft synthesizer app.
Fantastic!!!
Pancho Villa80s
The sound of this app is terrific, out of space, from another planet !!! ??????love it ! Easy to use...
DS Max
Benny Badman
I bought the cartridge for my DS-Lite back before I had any iOS devices. Now I can play with it on a much bigger screen! Soooo…when do we get it in Gadget?
Meh..
Tonestones
I am sure Happy and I only paid half price for this...Um where is the midi support???????????Please integrate such feature.
A step down from DS-10 Plus
wavetracer
Except for its very cool voice synth, the iDS-10 feels mostly like a DS-10 Plus downgrade. 2 mono synth parts (plus its voice synth), compared to 4 on the DS-10 Plus. 6 very dumbed down drum synths with no effects, compared to 8 much more versatile drum synths with effects. Smaller gripes: Fewer scale modes. And while it does let you sequence more synth parameters at once—the DS-10 Plus is limited to 2—it doesn’t offer the “hold” mode; parameters are always animated in “smooth” mode, with no way to change it. Its delay effect has fewer parameters, making it somewhat less versatile. The big letdown, though—and the reason I give this 3 stars instead of 4 or 5—is its puny, limited drum section. It does have its upside. The voice synth is awesome. Really awesome. And the iDS-10 offers reverb—something the DS-10 Plus doesn’t. And “mystery bingo,” whatever that is. Maybe it eventually opens up more functionality when you get a “bingo.” (And if it does, maybe I’ll bump my rating up to 4 stars.) And despite the limitations, overall the iDS-10 does sound great, it’s on my phone so it’s with me everywhere I go, and it seems to go pretty easy on my phone’s battery. Oh, and undocumented feature—a “hard” press on a synth’s knob with the iPhone 6s’s 3D screen opens up the sequencer for editing/sequencing that knob. Nice. Get it while it’s on sale, but if you’re a fan of the DS-10 Plus, prepare to be underwhelmed.
No midi or audio copy/paste
sgranlund
Was fun on Nintendo. Still fun toy but was hoping it would play well with other music apps. There is no midi or audio copy making it a completely stand alone app. Even though it sounds good as a fun analog toy you can't use it to with other music apps to make music. The first Korg app I'm disappointed in. I love the fun factor but Wished I could use it beyond the app itself. I wanted to be able to use the sounds and patterns in my music workflow. Glad I only paid half price. Would NEVER pay more. In reality it's worth about $1-5, not really a bargain at $10. Again still fun, just not really useable beyond a toy even though it's sounds good.
No inter app or audiobus or midi
SonnyBever
Even getting this app at half the cost. At the moment It is useless without midi, inter app and audio bus. Hoping for an update with at least the inter app feature soon. If not I will be deleting the app and calling it a waste if money.. even at half the cost. No way I would pay the full amount for this app that does not support inter app or midi. Please update soon!
Excellent Groovebox for iOS
BikeAllMolten
It's been difficult to find a good groovebox style app for iOS. Not that they don't exist, but rare to find one that feels as comfortable to work with as the iDS-10. Great dual osc subtractive synth, with signal routing, filter envelope, effects section per device. Drum synthesis, voice synthesis(!), step automation, fantastic. One of the few all-in-one composition tools that comes close to nanoloop's usability. If there's anything I'd like to see, besides core audio and midi(as other reviewers have mentioned) it would be something like the "active step" option that makes the Korg Volcas built-in sequencers so much fun to work with. I feel that could make the iDS-10 patterns much much deeper. To be clear I don't mean overall pattern length, rather arbitrary pattern lengths per instruments, i.e. Drum =16 steps, synth2 =15 steps, synth1 = 12 steps, etc. If I could have another wish, it would be for more options in the routing section. Such as sending a single source to multiple destinations. And/or maybe a multiplier option at each destination input, to halve or double the frequency received. Overall I love this app
Needs export functionality
Peter Lorre
Overall this is a very cool mobile groovebox- the sounds are great and very flexible, and the voice synth is a lot of fun. But without any way to export audio, it's just a toy for now. Hopefully Korg will add the "export to Ableton Live project" feature from iKaossilator and Gadget.