Stuart Kilbride Archive

Bleass Delay Review – Sonic Exploration Made Easy

Stuart Kilbride | March 22, 2019

Bleass are fairly new on the iOS music app scene but are definitely showing some promise. Their first app, Bleass Groovebox, is a tidy little groove maker that

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Outta Bass Review – 1 Developer, 212 Late Nights, 31511 Lines of Code

Stuart Kilbride | February 24, 2019

To call Outta Bass a bass synth is a fairly substantial understatement. It is capable of producing very analog sounding basses with rich sounding filters but its 3

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Sugar Bytes Aparillo for iPad Review – A Galaxy Of Complex FM Simplicity

Stuart Kilbride | December 13, 2018

Aparillo is an exact port of Sugar Bytes desktop synth for iPad. It uses FM (Frequency Modulation) Synthesis. Rather than try and write an explanation of FM I

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sonogrid Review – PolyRhythms Made Easy

Stuart Kilbride | September 21, 2018

sonogrid (lowercase required!) is a simple and effective pattern sequencer for iOS from developer rCreativ. The app is described on the App Store as a “Drum Machine on Steroids”

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iBassist Review – Realistic Basslines for iOS

Stuart Kilbride | August 21, 2018

iOS music apps are great for electronic styles of music but so far realistic drum sounds and other acoustic instruments tend to be few and far between. With

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Patterning 2 Review – Keep the Wheels Turning

Stuart Kilbride | July 26, 2018

Patterning 1 was groundbreaking in iOS music production when it was released in 2015. It was runner-up for Apple’s overall App of the Year in 2015 (and a

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SpaceCraft Review – Granular Synth Meets Rocket Science (True Story!)

Stuart Kilbride | July 22, 2018

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to be an app developer….but if SpaceCraft is anything to go by it certainly helps. SpaceCraft is a new app

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Synth One Review – Free, Open Source Pro Synth For iPad

Stuart Kilbride | June 26, 2018

Synth One has been a labor of love of Matthew Fecher, Marcus Hobbs, Aure Prochazka and the team at AudioKit that has evolved to fruition over several years.