iSymphonic Orchestra

The ultimate orchestra sound app for sophisticated musicians by award-winning sound designer Kurt Ader, designed as professional sound module for your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch by connecting an external MIDI keyboard, using the Apple USB camera adapter or another adapter supported by Apple.¹

Listen to the demo videos on our product website!

This app supports Audio Unit, Inter-App Audio and Audiobus for audio & MIDI connections from/to other audio apps, as well as Bluetooth LE MIDI !

iSymphonic Orchestra was designed with the goal to deliver you superb, extremely realistic and stunning orchestra sounds, instantly with the first key being pressed by you on your MIDI keyboard. Just select a sound and you are ready for your live performance or for a boost of creativity while composing new songs. The sounds used in this app were explicitly recorded to fulfill these requirements and involved several months of recording and post processing under supervision of Kurt Ader and included a variety of innovative, new recording techniques. So far these sounds were only available to very few, famous movie composers. Now they are finally available for the first time to everybody. The supreme quality of these sounds, combined with the unique way they were recorded and assembled, gives us confidence that you haven't heard anything comparable as of to date, even not on Mac or PC.

25 Sounds included with base App:
• Orchestra Strings Spiccato & Legato 1 - 4
• Orchestra Strings Slow 1 - 3
• Chamber Arco Strings
• Legato Orchestra Strings 1
• Full Sordino Strings 1 - 2
• Legato Orchestra
• Staccato Orchestra 1 - 3
• Tremolo Orchestra
• Pizzicato Strings
• Full Strings
• Tremolo Strings
• All Brass 1 - 2
• Trombone Section
• Cello & Woodwinds
• Horns & Strings
• Full Legato Orchestra

297 additional sounds available as 15 optional in-app purchase sound sets: „Pro-", „Arpa-", „Canto-", „Boato-", „Vento-", „Ottone-", „Voce-", „Varia-", „Perla-", „Aulos-", „Keys-", „Cupra-", „Organ-", „Tosca-" and „Corda Sound Set". You find a detailed sound list & demo videos on our product website.

General Features:
• Low latency disk streaming.
• Very efficient audio engine.
• Polyphony of several hundred stereo voices.²
• Audio latency down to 1 ms.
• Integrated effects with 18 presets.
• 16 parts.
• Scale Tuning & Master Tune.
• MIDI velocity response curve editor.
• App States: Save app's entire state as user presets.
• Interactive, easy & quick sound finder.
• App can keep running in the background, so you can play on your keyboard while e.g. using Safari or another app to display scores or surfing the Internet.
• Hermode Tuning: Imitates the tuning behavior of well educated musicians of i.e. orchestras and choirs.
• Audio Unit v3 Plugin included.
• Supports Apple's "Inter-App Audio" (IAA) system.
• Audiobus support.
• Virtual on-screen piano keyboard with velocity support, scalable & scrollable.

MIDI Player / Recorder:
• Record, save and load your songs in standard MIDI file format.
• Share your songs easily as audio file.
• Unlimited amount of tracks.
• Configurable MIDI channel per track.
• Unlimited recording and playback length.
• Open MIDI (.mid) files directly from other apps (i.e. from Safari, Mail).
• Metronome
• Use the "Tempo Zoom" dial knob to i.e. slow down playback at any time and learn your favorite songs easily.

¹ For more information about supported adapters and MIDI keyboards, please visit our product website.

² Sounds are using several voices per note. Polyphony depends on the exact device model being used. You find a polyphony table on our product website.

Anti-Spy Commitment: We take your privacy very seriously. None of our apps contain so called „spy” behaviors and we committed ourself to a very high privacy standard. For more information read our „Privacy Policy for Mobile Apps”.

Version 2.2 release notes

This update provides the following corrections and improvements: • Substantial app launch time improvement. • Fixes noise at beginning of new notes that happened under rare situations. • Fixes crash on certain MIDI messages (stand-alone app and Audio Unit). • Audiobus: Fixes connection problem with Audiobus on iOS 14 and higher (see NOTE below).¹ • Audiobus: If session is restored from Audiobus, don’t ask the same question dialog again whether IAA MIDI or IAA MIDI + CoreMIDI shall be used. • IAP downloads: Fixes active download from being interrupted under certain conditions if app was sent into background. • IAP downloads: Fixes active download being restarted under certain conditions after user requested to pause the download. • IAP downloads: Fixes download status being incorrectly shown as “Download Aborted” even though download was auto resumed already. • IAP downloads: Fixes “Download Aborted” and “Resume” button been shown even though the respective sound was already resumed. • IAP downloads: Fixes green arrow animation on progress bar which was stopped if either app went into background or user switched to a different app screen. • IAP downloads: Shows an additional small download progress bar at top edge of screen (iPad only) to make it clear the app is downloading a sound set, even if an already installed sound is currently selected on screen. • IAP downloads: Fixes installation status filter not having used the actual latest installation status of all sound sets (i.e. immediately after download or removal of a sound set). • IAP downloads: Distinguishes now between “Queued for Download” for non-installed sound sets and “Queued for Update” for already installed sets. • Audio Unit UI: Fixes sound selection list from being cropped if AU UI height inside AU host app was rather small. • MIDI recorder: Fixes crash on 2nd iOS “Open with …” request for user imported MIDI files. • MIDI recorder: Supports now MIDI files with “.midi” file extension (instead of being limited to only “.mid”). • Sound selection: Fixes readability issue of placeholder text regarding search filter options if iOS was not running in dark mode. • Volume knob: Shows now that MIDI CC#7 is associated with this control. ¹ NOTE: This version asks you for permission to access the local network, which is required for Audiobus to work on iOS 14 and higher. If you are not using Audiobus you can safely ignore or decline this permission request. You can also grant and revoke this permission under iOS Settings -> “Privacy” -> “Local Network” at any time.