Tachyon Reviews – Page 4
4/5 rating based on 43 reviews. Read all reviews for Tachyon for iPhone.
Tachyon is paid iOS app published by Wizdom Music LLC
Good idea on paper, ultimately disappointing
Jah shoe wah
I bought this up because of the phenomenal morphwiz app that Jordan ruess(spelling?) endorsed, I assumed this one would be as musical and useful as that one. Wrong! One of the most crucial elements of music is controlling dynamics, which apps like kaossilator, morphwiz and bebot do brilliantly, but this one offers no such control. Just flat, robotic stale sounding tones which I could look past if they sounded good but the are downright cheese-tacular. Controlling dynamics, especially on a platform like the ipad, is the only way to make the sounds come to life in a musical way and they seriously missed the boat on that part, instead opting for some pretty star animations the for e shape of the instrument your playing. I mean they couldn't even row a digital mod wheel, or xy pad or something to control volume swells, nope it's all got to be "starry"... The sounds are cheesy and nothing beyond mere novelty status as an ipad toy. Moreover, as a gigging keyboardist looking to incorporate the ipad into my rig, I laughed when I saw the scale options, bebot and kaossilator and most other apps offer an assortment of chromatics, major scales, minors, modes, and often exotic scales that are usually completely customizable as arpeggios and so on. Five. Five scales offered. And what's more, they insult anyone who knows even a little about music theory by including the "major pentatonic" and "minor pentatonic" as two separate scales. Play the major pentatonic in the key of C, then play the minor in the key of A, only start on the note "C". You'll "see" what I mean(oooh a pun)... Jordan, I really expected more from a dude with your prestige on the keys, but its clear your cashing in on the oppurtunity, heck I'd probably do the same thing in your shoes....wait....no way!!! For shame....oh for shame... Two star because it looks nice and its functional as a toy...any serious musicians, save your hard earned money...or buy morphwiz ;)
makes iPhone worth keeping
nicluciano
i keep my iPhone around for apps like this. this is first one I decided to rate, fwiw. - recording capability would be cool - some automation ability (or an arp) would be cool - configurable scales would be cool
Great sounds & fun to play
Base128
Very, very easy to get great sounds out of this. Would like to see updates. Maybe to help support development offer in app purchases for the following : - Additional Instrument Packs - Ability to import SampleWiz sounds - Audiobus support Great product, please don't let it fade away.
Broken!
Silverquimera
On Ipad 2 - IOS 7, completely broken. It is not using the complete screen of the Ipad, only a portion of it, so it's impossible to play. Jordan, please tell your guys to fix this...
Audiobus support THANK U!
voodoo jew
I love this app but was frustrated without audiobus support and was afraid this app was being orphaned. I am so glad for the update. This is a wonderful sounding instrument with a really nice and intuitive interface. It's not as deep as other synths - but it's really easy to make great sounding synth leads with as well as cool sounding chords. Explore the half circles to customize. Pick a scale root and scale type- then have at it. Thanks Wizdom!
Excellent Instrument!
Tweakout321
Mr. Rudess is the wizard of music! While its not as customizable as the other amazing apps you offer, it gives control over notes in yet another intuitive and expressive way. The best commonality between all these apps are the ability to isolate keys and scales. Beautiful work gentlemen. I'll try to upload stuff at some point :D -B. Hasson
Could use some more features, but an excellent instrument
SlugShotSniper
A simple but amazing instrument. I would suggest giving it a few more features, such as: 1. Reverb settings 2. Keyboard view 3. More sounds
It was not what I expected
DalienKeys
it does not cost much but there are better apps at the same price and it no longer works in IOs 11
Good app but needs MPE.
jack splash
Good app but needs MPE. I would explain more in depth but other reviews can already explain it exhaustively. Otherwise, MPE Midi seems sensible for more expression while playing on an device with force touch or an external device with such a capability. Especially when other apps made under the developer has MPE capability also. 4 stars - because while it still is a cool app released many moons ago, the app has had multiple updates and to survived the crossover to 64-bit - an omission like MPE seems odd.