My favourite Music Production app for iOS – SunVox Review

I cannot recommend this app highly enough. Most of the music production apps are limited, glitchy, and not built for serious musicians. Even the paid music production apps, in my experience, are often a waste of money, and a massive waste of time being that recording music on iOS can be a time-consuming process when you’re getting started as it’s nothing like recording music in a “real” studio. iOS has got kind of a learning curve in the MIDI/music production department, which is mostly because of the inconsistencies between apps, And the inability for apps to work with each other without problems. Even awesome apps like Audiobus 3 can be problematic due to other apps being glitchy. If you’re not familiar with the “Tracker” platform of music production, this app might be a bit of a learning curve for you, but I cannot stress how worth it learning this app will be if you want to make music on iOS devices. If you’ve been downloading music production apps on iOS you’ve probably realised many of them are childish beat making platforms - The kind of thing where you draw in a snare here and a hi hat there... this is not that. You do have the ability to quickly and easily make repetitive (or extremely complex!) electronic beats perfect for hip-hop or EDM, but this app is also a fully functional DAW. It doesn’t quite work like most music production apps for desktop or iOS, again this is a “tracker.“ If you’re not sure what I mean by tracker, look up Fast Tracker, Milky Tracker, or this app (SunVox) on YouTube. The most important thing those two programs have in common with SunVox is the pattern editing view typical of trackers (and they do not come with a suite of modular synthesisers, drum sounds, and effects like SunVox). for someone unfamiliar with trackers, the interface may at first seem unintuitive; however as someone who has been recording music digitally for 20+ years (and a devout Ableton Live user), I believe that the tracker style of music production is almost limitless and one of the most underrated and underused systems of recording music. Most importantly, this app is not glitchy at all. I’ve been running it non-stop for at least four years, through tons of massive updates from the developer, and I’ve never had any crashing or serious problems whatsoever. That said, I know that there have been some minor bugs throughout this apps development, but I can’t understate how quickly the developer has fixed them. Also, there seems to be massive updates from the developer about once a year and the list of fixes and awesome embellishments they come up with each time is staggering. This app is worth every penny as there is no other app comparable for iOS. Not to mention, some of the other quality music making apps for iOS can run 30 or 40 bucks; SunVox costs a tiny fraction of that. Oh and I almost forgot, there is a desktop version and it functions just as well as this iOS version.
Review by Osoberry on SunVox.