KORG iDS-10 Reviews – Page 3
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.
Bring back the old drums please!
dyyrek
Being a big fan of the DS-10 since back when it first came out I was very excited to see it come to the ios (especially since I don't really lug around my old DS these days). For the most part it works great and even has a really cool Voice Synthesizer/Vocoder feature! My only complaint, and it's actually a pretty big complaint, is the drums. Instead of like the old DS-10 were you would use the actual MS-10 synthesizer to create each drum sound, here it gives you an 808 style drum synthesizer, which is much less versatile and inspiring. Korg, if your reading this, please please please give me the option to use the old DS-10 style drums and I will give this a full 5 star rating!
Great re-port of a DS Classic
HouseOfHomuth
With the 2.0 update making this a universal app, I think iDS-10 is a 5-star app. Really, everything from Korg on iOS is terrific. That being said, Korg Gadget (recently made universal also) kind of supersedes the functionality and sound quality of iDS-10 in every meaningful way. Still, iDS-10 has some great sounds, cool sequencing functionality, and arguably the best vocoder on iOS.
Fantastic Synth
Wild Type
Finally! The IOS version of the Nintendo DS-10 Plus synthesizer has arrived. This is a great-sounding synth app that emulates the general workflow, tone capbilities and vintage vibe of the classic Korg MS series of analog synths. In general, iDS-10 with Plus Mode (an In-App purchase) is based on but expands beyond what Nintendo DS-10 Plus can do . Overall, I am very pleased with this app, and after using it steadily since it's release, I give it 5 stars. iDS-10 without Plus Mode comes with 2 synths, a vocoder, and a 6-peice drum kit. Plus Mode provides 2 more synths and another vocoder. For comparison, Nintendo DS-10 Plus has 2 "decks" each containing 2synths and 4 drum parts, for a total of 4 synths and 8 drum parts. In the iDS-10 app, each synth has 2 oscillators, an amplifierr, a voltage controlled filter, an envelope generator, an fx section and a low frequency oscillator with patch bay for modulating synth parameters. The app comes with preset tones and drum kits to get you started. The vocoder can use text or recorded sounds to generate tones. The synths, vocoders and drum kits are used to compose up to 32 Patterns (of up to 64 steps each) that can be sequenced into Songs or played live. I've encountered a bug and several "missing" features, which hopefully the developer will address in future updates. The bug is an occasional glitch when playing a squence of patterns in the Song panel where the sequencer repeats a pattern instead of moving to the next one in the sequence. Features missing from iDS-10 (that were in DS-10 Plus) that I've requested include: 1) display of the Session and Tones that are currently loaded, 2) addition of 2 to 4 DS-10 type drum synth modules. Currently, iDS-10 has Drum Kits containing kick, snare, tom, 2 high hats, and a "percussion" instrument. Although these tones can be adjusted within certain limits, the drum synth modules in DS-10 Plus are much more flexible and can be used to generate a wide range of tonal and nontonal sounds. To summarize, this is an excellent synth app, and I would recommend it to both fans of Nintendo DS-10 Plus and to anyone who likes creating music on synths.
Needs kaoss pad, and independent fx processor for drum set, and WIST
Heyokachick
This app is definitely fun, and the synth, and vocoder engines are very powerful. The capabilities of sound design are great too. My major complaint are definitely the drums. They don't have their own independent fx processor, and they don't have kaoss pad support. If the did you would be able to make much more complex, and glitchy drums. They just seem a bit too basic. My other complaint is the IDS-10 doesn't support WIST if we could sync two IDS-10's it would definitely be much more fun for live on the fly jams. If Korg can make these things possible I will give the app 5 stars
What did you expect?
a e r o c
I have the tendency to get far too many apps and I hesitated with this, not because of the cost (same price as lunch out), but thought it would just be another thing I felt bad if it weren't used often. I've been absolutely hooked since it was opened for the first time. It's playful yet POWERFUL. Like all the Korg stuff it sounds stellar. Korg has been absolutely on point these pat several years so I have to take a couple minutes to applaud their staff and their ability to both innovative and draw from their archives to consistently impress in every way.
Great
Ethertrip
Great music app. It has a lot in common with KORG DS10plus on the Nintendo DS/DSi. I do wish the percussions in iDS10 could do notation similar to DS10plus, specifically the tom and generically labeled "percussion", but that's minor. The single bothersome thing to me is when editing in song mode, if you set channel muting up but then need to reorganize the pattern scenes it erases the channel mute setups for any scene you edit. I also don't like how the legato settings do this same behaviors. Aside from not being able to set scene muting for scenes that haven't been assigned a pattern in song mode, there is nothing else I would want the software to change that I can think of. iDS10 is awesomely powerful, and is the sole reason I got an iPad.
Awesome!!
apollo1377
Get this now. So many things you can do with this. Synths vocoder automation and much more. Very stable you won't regret it
Great port.
Nogreatcrime
About 1/8 the power or Gadget but this is far more approachable and fun. The sound is pretty decent, you get two MS-10's, a vocoder and a pretty limited drum machine with an extremely simplified sequencer. Fx per part and master fx. I find myself using this on my commute to work and on lunch breaks and stuff while using Gadget with my controller when I have more time to flesh something more intricate out. But this is fantastic and brings nostalgia of the old DS version. It'd be great to see it in Gadget someday.
YYYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Solomon of Kleptolia
Update: still needs the ability to undo/redo. Still need to be able to program "held" notes, instead of just staccato. Still a great synth app. THANK YOU, KORG!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! FINALLY!! Update: audiobus/iaa = 5 stars Revised review: Ok, having messed with this thing some more, I am ready to review it in a better mindset. In comparison to the DS-10 and DS-10+ (both of which I have owned), it is a clear upgrade over the DS-10 and a partial upgrade over the DS-10+. It has 32 patterns, which is double the patterns over the previous versions. The vocoder is a completely new feature, and an incredibly important (and enjoyable!) one. It doesn't have the "Dual DS-10" option that the DS-10+ had. As for the drum synth: it is limited in that you cannot assign individual effects to each sound, within the initial synth bus. However, you can put effects on the back end in the mixing bus. With the option to add effects to the two synth parts in their respective modes, you can at least assign one effect to the drums via the mixer. It is not the same, at all, really; it's just a workaround. A very important feature is the ability to set individual pattern lengths in the "Set" section of the app. You can also program the BPM ratio. That is to say, set the BPM ratio at 2, and that particular pattern now runs double the BPM. This is how they got that spectacular synth arp break in the included demo song "The Good Times." Bottom line: this app, while lacking a couple of features that were really nice to have in the original DS-10s, is an upgrade over both of those previous apps, when you take into account the overall function and ability of this new version. And it's $9.99. Try getting the Nintendo DS versions for that. IT'S SO SYNTHY I WANNA DIE!