The ultimate orchestra sound app for sophisticated musicians by award-winning sound designer Kurt Ader, designed as professional sound module for your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch by connecting an external MIDI keyboard, using the Apple USB camera adapter or another adapter supported by Apple.¹
Listen to the demo videos on our product website!
This app supports Audio Unit and Inter-App Audio for audio & MIDI connections from/to other audio apps, as well as Bluetooth LE MIDI !
iSymphonic Orchestra was designed with the goal to deliver you superb, extremely realistic and stunning orchestra sounds, instantly with the first key being pressed by you on your MIDI keyboard. Just select a sound and you are ready for your live performance or for a boost of creativity while composing new songs. The sounds used in this app were explicitly recorded to fulfill these requirements and involved several months of recording and post processing under supervision of Kurt Ader and included a variety of innovative, new recording techniques. So far these sounds were only available to very few, famous movie composers. Now they are finally available for the first time to everybody. The supreme quality of these sounds, combined with the unique way they were recorded and assembled, gives us confidence that you haven't heard anything comparable as of to date, even not on Mac or PC.
25 Sounds included with base App:
• Orchestra Strings Spiccato & Legato 1 - 4
• Orchestra Strings Slow 1 - 3
• Chamber Arco Strings
• Legato Orchestra Strings 1
• Full Sordino Strings 1 - 2
• Legato Orchestra
• Staccato Orchestra 1 - 3
• Tremolo Orchestra
• Pizzicato Strings
• Full Strings
• Tremolo Strings
• All Brass 1 - 2
• Trombone Section
• Cello & Woodwinds
• Horns & Strings
• Full Legato Orchestra
297 additional sounds available as 15 optional in-app purchase sound sets: „Pro-", „Arpa-", „Canto-", „Boato-", „Vento-", „Ottone-", „Voce-", „Varia-", „Perla-", „Aulos-", „Keys-", „Cupra-", „Organ-", „Tosca-" and „Corda Sound Set". You find a detailed sound list & demo videos on our product website.
General Features:
• Low latency disk streaming.
• Very efficient audio engine.
• Polyphony of several hundred stereo voices.²
• Audio latency down to 1 ms.
• Integrated effects with 18 presets.
• 16 parts.
• Scale Tuning & Master Tune.
• MIDI velocity response curve editor.
• App States: Save app's entire state as user presets.
• Interactive, easy & quick sound finder.
• App can keep running in the background, so you can play on your keyboard while e.g. using Safari or another app to display scores or surfing the Internet.
• Hermode Tuning: Imitates the tuning behavior of well educated musicians of i.e. orchestras and choirs.
• Audio Unit v3 Plugin included.
• Supports Apple's "Inter-App Audio" (IAA) system.
• Virtual on-screen piano keyboard with velocity support, scalable & scrollable.
MIDI Player / Recorder:
• Record, save and load your songs in standard MIDI file format.
• Share your songs easily as audio file.
• Unlimited amount of tracks.
• Configurable MIDI channel per track.
• Unlimited recording and playback length.
• Open MIDI (.mid) files directly from other apps (i.e. from Safari, Mail).
• Metronome
• Use the "Tempo Zoom" dial knob to i.e. slow down playback at any time and learn your favorite songs easily.
¹ For more information about supported adapters and MIDI keyboards, please visit our product website.
² Sounds are using several voices per note. Polyphony depends on the exact device model being used. You find a polyphony table on our product website.
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This is a fantastic app with pristine sound quality. It really just blows me away the full realistic quality of instrument samples, The keyboard is very responsive and easy to use despite its tiny size when enlarged. The basic sound bank is enough to create a masterpiece in your own right. The major complaint that I have, upon recording in additional tracks, if you delete that track, the app crashes, losing all of your progress along with way. Especially tedious, if you hadn’t saved the song. This has happened at least five times. The other suggestion I would add is please include a more accessible means to save record, play actively on the main screen instead of having to stop and cycle back and fourth.
Fantastic
GenuineHeather
I’ve been using iSymphonic Orchestra for about a year as of this writing. It’s a fantastic product, almost unbelievable for the price. As a musician, composer, and producer, I have thousands of dollars worth of top sound libraries on my desktop computer, plus thousands more in high-quality synthesizers. The quality of iSymphonic Orchestra samples are easily on that level. While the instruments don’t contain all the various articulations, mic placements and effects you’d find in a high-end desktop sample library, they are incredibly expressive and beautiful. I have purchased many of the optional collections available. They are all gorgeous and more than worth the price. In addition to using these for both composing and enjoyment, I also perform live with them. One of the bands I’m in is an all-female Beatles tribute. I use iSymphonic Orchestra to perform many of the orchestral instruments found in Beatles music. For example, on the song Penny Lane, I perform the horn sections, flute, and classical trumpet parts using iSymphonic Orchestra and my Yamaha WX5 wind synthesizer. I use a set of MIDI pedals to quickly switch between instruments. The latest software update has improved latency so much that I can perform rapid passages using wireless Bluetooth MIDI. I can’t express how amazing it is to be able to pull all of that off with an iPad. The instruments sound real because they ARE real. I don’t even know how I’d accomplish this otherwise, to be honest. It’s a wonderful thing. I’m astonished, delighted, and grateful every time I fire up this app and play with it, whether I’m performing, composing, or just playing around. I hope it stays around and continues evolving for a long time to come.
Keys Sound Set IAP - Best Acoustic Pianos Yet!
Tedh222
I have many acoustic piano sample sets for IOS, including several of the ‘premium pianos’ available from various software companies. I wasn’t truly satisfied with any of them, until I purchased the ‘Keys Sound Set’ for iSymphonic. These pianos have a nice balance between the hammer and sustained part of the piano’s sound, giving them a very natural woody quality I find missing from most of the others. They had to have been sampled from well regulated pianos. Very consistent quality sound and feel across the full 88 keys. There are other sounds in this package. But, my main quest has been to find a really satisfying piano. There are two pianos here, with just enough variance in tone to satisfy most playing situations. I have been using my iPad for years for regular live performances. I feel highly confident recommending this iSymphonic add on. I think you will be pleased.
Layer ‘em, mix ‘em, play ‘em, tears of joy.
GrahamBablam
iSymphonic takes a little while to get used to - and the AU, while functional, struggles with export and is basically just a basic sample player - but where it really shines is using it via IAA. The samples are GORGEOUS and DEEP and FULL and RICH, first off; but here’s my pro setup over IAA for maximum beauty:- Buy a couple sound packs so you have more gorgeous sounds to play with- Set several “Parts” to the same MIDI channel, and use the standalone app to select and mix different sounds together- Save these mixes as state-saving presets in order to quickly come back to themBy layering different sounds and just going with the app’s fantastic built-in reverb effects, you can create some truly breathtaking compositions. Thus far I’ve been able to create the ultimate power low strings, full and rich staccato strings (I find iSymphonic’s stand-alone staccato and legato to be a little bland, but when you put them together... WOW.), and some nice stringy tremolo-y emotional ensembles. All in all, worth the price for what I’m doing with it (composing film scores and character themes for friends). Professional samples and massive versatility... what more do you want? This app is definitely best used with a MIDI controller - for best results use one with 88 weighted keys, although any controller can be configured with the app’s built-in velocity curve editor (a genius move). Thanks to the dev - nay, the artist - who put so much time and thought into this plugin. It’s truly a game-changer.
• Minor corrections.
Version 2.5.1
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