iVoxel 4+

I has been reading the reviews and saw how this great vocoder, possibly the best on iOS, just eroded away to the point where it didn't even work. Combined with how far back the last update was, I didn't take any chances and just waited. Patiently.

And I knew it would happen! Well, I hoped anyway, that eventually an update would come out of nowhere and it would be back in business. So I downloaded (on sale to boot!) and it's everything I hoped it was. I see now why it was the go to choice in so many demos a year or so back. My only quip is that I've had a few times where it just stops playing audio, not sure why, and only when sampling the demo sounds/settings. That, combined with the sequencer either not working correctly or there not being good "help you get started" help contextually available... Makes it hard to give it 5 stars. A solid 4? For sure.

Thanks to their team for bringing this back to life, I am super stoked and it's worth every penny! It was the missing piece I've been needing to fill for quite a while now. Nothing else out there fit the bill, at least not on this platform or anywhere near this price. Again, thank you!

Just got this and seems like a great app, but, running this on a 2019 iPad Pro (iOS 18) in standalone mode with nothing else running, the app hangs, especially when I try to change to a different preset. It just starts to run a random sound in the background, and sometimes I can change some settings and sometimes I can’t. For the most part once that weird noise starts, I can’t change anything, can’t change to a different preset, etc., and I just have to close the program out and reboot it. I really want to like this app, but right now it just seems buggy and unusable for me, and I’m bummed that I wasted my money on it. I was considering also getting the matrix vocoder, but now I’m not so sure if I should. As inexpensive as these apps are, I’m low income and I really wish I could get a refund so I can buy something else that will work for me. I’ll be happy to change my review if this gets fixed, because it otherwise seems like it should be a really great app and I know other people have had success with it.

If you do not notice the volume knob (it is in a strange spot, but still, there it is), what do you do? Leave a bad review, delete the app.

If there are too many functions to "figure out", and you take a manual as an insult, what do you do? Well, yes, you leave a nasty review and complain about wasting SEVEN dollars.

Look, there are some quirky things in iVoxel that should have been addressed over time. Yes, the sequencer is slightly fiddly and balky, but it is there, with all the voxels at your disposal for tune writing for your choir of crazy, spectrally shaped voices. This is a remarkable vocal-sound-design tool (warts and all) musical with all sorts of uses. After all the years it has been on the app store, there is still nothing like it.

That people have dragged this app down with lazy complaints here rather than sending them to the developer strikes me as odd. Maybe the developer is hard to reach? I have never found one of his apps so confusing I need to make contact.

The app is worth exploring and enjoying, even in late 2024. It deserves to get some refinement and update love from Harry for the new year, but that is his call.