Ever since I was a kid, I was obsessed with the sound of the Oberheim Ob X series , so I had to get this as soon as I noticed it in the App Store. It is exactly as awesome as I hoped for…mostly. I know the GUI has been optimized for the iPhone now and is much improved from earlier versions. There is one issue though… when using it as an AU in GarageBand, I can not access the last two banks as if I try to scroll down , the bottom two banks are cut off, and one of those banks is the empty one for user presets. Now the work around for the other is to enter standalone mode, choose the preset and hit “copy” load up a “default” preset in one of the few accessible banks that have one, and then hit paste in the menu. The tricky part is, if you forget to load up a default preset first, you’ll accidentally overwrite the loaded preset. That is the legit only issue I have but it’s kind of a big one

The new scrollable UI is far superior to what we had before. I haven’t had the chance to fully get dirty with this synth but it looks promising, is not too expensive and is AUV3, that’s mostly enough for me to spend a few bucks on an iOS synth. The little I’ve used it, I’ve enjoyed the sound too! Now that the controls are far better I will use it a lot more (I’m an iPhone user and the previous UI was a little too tiny to be conveniently set). It would be a blessing if we could also zoom in a little bit, enabling us to use the AUV3 in portrait mode on iPhone on apps such as AUM. This would be massive! A little heads up about a bug: turning a knob Downwards doesn’t seem to affect the UI Window however turning it upwards does and acts as a drag on the interface. Workaround: touch screen with another finger to keep screen position locked while changing knobs. Hopefully this little detail can be fixed? I can’t see a keyboard on the regular app, but I only use AUV3 so to me this is irrelevant (although it did use to have before if I recall correctly, dev it might be a good idea to not remove it from the standalone app (in case you did, I’m not sure)).

This synth sounds incredible. Filter is surprisingly authentic, really gets the blood pumping. Sweeps sound amazing. I’m not the best programmer but even I can coax an amazing amount of sounds out this thing, almost every knob adjustment makes something that sounds good. Not every synth has that ability I have found. The presets are really nice too and there are a lot. If you love the OB-X then get this you won’t regret it, idk how anyone can say this emulation is not excellent.

Its not too visible on an iPhone so you really depend on presets... but It’s really more of the same as other synths out there.. and if you scroll through the presets you’re gonna find that there are a bunch of patches that are so similar that you’ll wonder if all they did was do a minor tweak to the same patch and save it over and over as a different patch with every other minor tweak. The high number of patches was the selling point for me, so you can see why this upsetting.Also the patch list menu will get you frustrated when you have to jump back into the patch list with every selection since it disappears after every selecting each patch and just driving you to say “ to heck with this “ I’m not sure if it’ll ever get used in this current state. Too bad because I was really hoping to like it.