iPhone synth apps - Sound + Interface

[saichele]

What are the most professional-sounding and interface-appropriate dedicated iPhone synth apps currently?

My impressions so far:

(1) nLog seems pretty decent, but all of the presets are absolutely saturated with reverb, so it's difficult to get a quick yet valid impression of its capabilities.

(2) Argon looks amazing, but it's monophonic and sounds a bit like a toy.

(3) iSyn sounds pretty nasty (in a good way), but its compatibility with other apps is lacking.

(4) DXi?

(5) Crystal - I imagine this is much better on iPad than iPhone. Though it sounds pretty great.

(6) Jasuto or Reactable? - also seem much better suited to iPad than iPhone.

(7) Fairlight - overpriced toy, though I can't help but love it

(8) Bleepsynth/Bleepbox - I can appreciate that others would dig this, but I don't like it at all.


Is there a hidden gem I'm overlooking? My taste in synths is nothing too unusual: Virus, Korg Monopoly, Elektron MonoMachine, Juno 106, Nord Modular are my all-time faves.

[IncarnateX]

Those in my sig does complement each other fairly well and apart form the Aurora studio they can export and/or import waves through pasteboard transfer.
I agree with respect to Argon, but it has some good formant filter sounds if you want some synthetic "yeah" and "auau" to your tracks.

[JimHeintzFromSifuAudio]

If you are on an iPad, you might want to check out SynthX for iPad. I am working on an iPhone/iPod Touch update as well. I hope to have it in the App Store in a couple of weeks.

Here are a few links to info about it:

Here are a couple of articles:

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/03/r ... -for-ipad/
http://www.gearwire.com/way-out-ware-sy ... eview.html
http://www.luzcannon.com/article/interf ... -keyboards
http://musicapps.com.br/2011/03/synthx- ... ni-review/
http://www.kvraudio.com/news/way_out_wa ... ipad_16271

There are a few video demos on youtube as well:





Best,

Jim