iDensity Reviews

I had some trouble after the update. It was extremely buggy and I wasn't too fond of the GUI changes. But I tried deleting it and reinstalling from the cloud and that cleared it up. This is one of my favorite apps and I was devastated when I thought the upgrade wasn't working properly. Seems good again. So if you have problems, back up your data and reinstall.

It's 7.99 plus a three dollar purchase. Not very happy about that. I bought this because you guys have been working hard on your updates. I feel like it's my duty to support good developers and your work is really good. Honestly the dynamics processor is worth buying your app alone. I'm saying this because I really do care. Watch the price and iap because it will ruin you in the long run.

iDensity will turn your sounds inside out and upside down. My only complaint is the UI. It is as counterintuitive as the sounds you will create.

A few examples: (1) how to revert the original sound to its unaffected self - I don't know! (2) How to bring back sound I just had before I further mangled it inadvertently - I don't know! (3) How to snap an effect on and off with preset values (ie - go from 0.00 to 2.05 with one scrub, and then have it snap automatically back to 0.00
without scrubbing back) - I don't know! (4) how to apply a preset scenario - I don't know!

So, as far as the sounds you can get, awesome...major transformation possible, not just mid level tweaks to pattern impact. But, as far as the workflow, it too feels like mangle city, it feels like a gamble each time. Some more control would be useful as far as backtracking and snapping back.

Maybe I'm missing the point in that you are supposed to let it morph your sound and you follow it, but this workflow can be frustrating, even if inspiring.

A superb app for graular textures. Hardware synths are an absolute joy to use, however when it comes to granular synthesis, the options are very bare. Apesoft has given us the answer, all praises due! As another reviewer stated, I too desired a midi note on/off option, and then i found iDensity iPulsaret -bingo! If your seeking to take a plunge into granular synthesis i highly recommend both of these apps.

Ape Soft also makes iPulsaret which as of now I do not own. The only reason I don't own it is because I have this app. This is the granular app to have on your apple device. iDensity is powerful. You've got 6 streams of granular synthesis which can all run at the same time if you'd like. You can have a stream looping while pitch shifted with delay while another stream is frozen on a particular grain with delay and reverb and still have 4 more granular streams left. You can load your own samples into each stream, add fx and tinker for hours. You can load iDensity in Audiobus or AUM as an effect. In AUM each of the 6 streams can be used to live process the incoming audio. You can export the audio to AudioShare if you'd like. iDensity is up to date, well thought out and very powerful.

A stunning update: having four tracks is a pleasure. Absolutely stellar sound, no unwanted pops and glitches, infinite sustain. You can run live audio through all four channels and let it breathe granular pulses and delays into your sounds. I'm a huge fan.

I have a Microgranny 2.1 (the hardware equivalent) and this eclipses it. Future of music in an app.

So that's two lengthy, well-considered reviews of this tool that were eaten by iTunes. No time for details now, so if you are into granulation and appreciate a full featured granulator with an intuitive but by no means simple interface, fork over the 8 bucks now.

Extra tip: Use Studiomux to route the six tracks in this app into six tracks of your favorite DAW--in my case, ableton. Beautiful.

Thanks so much to this update! I don't care I paid for the full version, it was worth it!🙂
iDensity is very very cool if you need and want the fun of creating your own audio sound scape! It's pretty detailed for sure. To have the ability to capture "found sound" with my phone, manipulate it, then mix into my other audio…well, iDensity is the cats meow! In fact, I think I'll go right now and see just what I can do with that meow!😼

As far as it goes, this is by far the best granular DSP app for altering sound files and optionally copy/pasting them into other apps. It's one of the very few sound mangling apps that can produce 48k files, making it suitable for film scoring/sound design. Results can be subtle & clean or fetchingly horrendous. I've run this app on iPad 2 and gotten great results. I suspect it's very CPU intensive to do it's thing. I've had no crashing problems at all so far.

When in standalone mode (or IAA), you get 6 windows to load your audio files. When you load up like 2 or more audio files that’s when the magic begins to happen and you can create really unique ambient scapes. I think it might be possible to “play” it somehow as an instrument, but I find it works best with longer audio files creating continuous motion. It’s pretty much perfect in what it does and how it does it. Beautiful UI and very pleasant controls.

When you load it in your dDAW as AUv3, you just get a single window. Well you can run multiple instances in AUv3, so you can basically have more of them, and save them all, along with your project.

Still, I prefer to use IAA mode because you just have all the audio files in front of you to tweak, and adjust individually to get the “unified” sound.

NOTE: when you tap in the top right corner, you’ll see an icon labeled “Samplers in presets”. Make sure this is enabled if you want to load your saved project as it were when you saved it. Otherwise it’ll load preset of the tweaks, but leave whatever audio samples you got currently loaded. Both options have their place, but can be confusing if you don’t know about this.

This is definitely a solid 5-star app.

Only one request, please make presets alphabetical. There’s a way to rearrange them, but there’s really no point in doing this extra management when we can just group them “naturally” in alphabetical order. Also please load the existing project name into the Save As. It helps *a lot* when saving successively. Oh, and the same request for ApeMatrix please!! Love your unique apps, thanks for making them!

I can't get the preset management working properly. Every time I load a new preset, it maintains the samples from the last preset. I followed the instructions from the manual to reload the factory presets, but I still have my own samples from the last thing I did loaded.
Still a great app, even with the missing preset bit, just not working at the best of its capability.

Pure genius...changed my life

iDensity is as good as any vst i have for granular fun.

There is only one word that describes an experience with this excellent app:

WOW!

The audio patchbay takes this to a new level! Glad to see the devs are still pushing the limits of an already great app.

this app was one of the first iOS audio apps I bought several years ago. It showed me the incredible possibilities there are with granular sound.

Over the years it just keeps getting better!

Now, with this app 4 we have an AU host similar to this developers apeMatrix host matrix, but built right into this app. How insane is that?!

Huge fan of iDensity and this developer. Highly Recommended :)

This still, for my money, one of the best granular synth apps on iOS. It’s very stable playing in the background. You can make some REALLY unearthly sound tapestries with this app! (After all, they made the iVCS app!)

Definitely one of the most intriguing music / sound creation apps for ios. the learning curve is there but once u get it WOW running six samples simultaneously with the ability to do just about anything to them lends to infinite creation. i love being able to to touch to scrub the waveform.
a real joy ✨✨✨✨✨

Giving 4 stars because there’s no way that I can see to sync the au3 transport to host. You have to start and stop it manually or it just keeps going, which is quite annoying. Otherwise, a good take on granular synthesis.

Ok, so now the transport sync seems to work, never did in the past. Thanks for fixing!

Load up some tracks or pipe in some audio and be prepared to lose track of time as you explore what iDensity is capable of. Really enjoyable playing with multiple tracks. You can get a lot going on in just one screen and being able to zoom in on the wave form works well too.