iSymphonic Orchestra 4+

Virtual Orchestra Sound App

Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte

    • 4.3 • 12 Ratings
    • $12.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

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, Inter-App Audio and Audiobus 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.
• Audiobus support.
• 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.

Anti-Spy Commitment: We take your privacy very seriously. None of our apps contain so called „spy” behaviors and we committed ourself to a very high privacy standard. For more information read our „Privacy Policy for Mobile Apps”.

What’s New

Version 2.4.3

This update fixes an UI issue with recent iPhone models.

Note: This version raises the minimum requirement to iOS 12 and 64-bit CPU. For older devices there are still older versions of this app with lower requirements available for download on the App Store.

Ratings and Reviews

4.3 out of 5
12 Ratings

12 Ratings

Turtle_free ,

Good surprise

I was not expecting much of this library compared to big libraries I have on PC/Mac but it actually sounds very good and it is enjoyable to play. I plug my Kompletd Kontrol and I found that the expression CC is also supported! Also, if you switch a preset while maintaining a previous chord, the engine does not cut the sound! Something you might not find on expensive libraries. So it is worth to mention.
On the cons, I will say that you have to play with pre-built sections so you cannot do exactly what you want but at the same time this is not the goal of the library to provide every single section.
Some extensions are beautiful. Price could be a bit lower tough.
Overall an extremely good experience. I highly recommend it.

remurd ,

Very View Sound

You only receive 25 presets at this price. Several of which are very similar. There are 15 other sound libraries that you can purchase in App. But like cable TV, if you want a few sounds from a library, you have to buy the whole package. They are around $15 each, and contain 20 or so sounds each. The presets do sound great, but don’t be fooled into thinking you get that many at this price

Developer Response ,

The prices are due to the costs that we have for hiring professional orchestras. The audio app market is very small. It is simply not possible to pay orchestra sessions for creating high quality sounds and offering that on the App Store for few bucks.

kevin_627 ,

Inspiring app - reliable, simple and sounds incredible

Thank you to whoever has put in the time to make this app. It sounds incredible and despite its minimalistic design, provides everything I need. To provide some background I play in an alternative rock band and I was looking for a way to add some string sounds in our live performances. The string patches on most synth apps (Korg Module/Gadget, Sunrizer, Synthmaster One, etc) all sound like they’re coming out of one of those 80s/90s hardware synths, which is what they intend to do and there is a place for that. Yet I wanted something that actually sounds like the string section of an orchestra. iSymphonic fills that space, and it is really inspiring when you hear it coming out of monitors at a loud volume. I use it with an app called Dream Foot, so I can trigger chords in iSymphonic while playing guitar. The app supports inter app audio and AUv3, so it can be used in AUM. I really think this app has been carefully designed and it is a steal for what you get. I haven’t tried any of the in app purchases, but the YouTube demos sound good, I just have no need for more sounds. Thank you!

App Privacy

The developer, Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

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  • Family Sharing

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