If your saving up for a Polyend Tracker try this first – SunVox Review

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
Review by SadSynthPerson on SunVox.