iOS Musician Apps (223) Instrument Type is Synth

Scythe is a new iPad synthesizer that makes designing new sounds easier than ever before.

Harness the enormous power of 8 polyphonic synths: meet KASPAR Supersynthesizer.

SWAM Trumpet is a trumpet sampler.

Create 100% synthesized electronic drum loops that sound alive, noisy and musical.

ShockWave is a monophonic Synthesizer designed to bring modular style workflow to the world of iOS & AUv3 plugins.

A matrix-controlled arpeggiator designed to play with your thumbs.

Professional Virtual Analogue Synthesizer.

VAMono is a virtual analog monophonic synthesizer inspired by iconic monophonic analog synthesizers of the 80's.

Nave is a wavetable synthesizer.

Photophore is a unique instrument that uses flocks of up to 100 sound generators to create rich, organic synthesizer sounds.

Tardigrain is a granular synthesizer. Sounds are created by taking smaller fragments of a sample and playing them back in a non linear fashion, with settings for grain size, direction, step size and more.

Additive synthesis is a sound synthesis technique that creates timbre by adding sine waves together. The timbre of musical instruments can be considered to consist of multiple harmonic or inharmonic partials or overtones.

VADrum2 is a production tool to create drum tracks on iPhone, iPad and Mac. You can program drum sequence, mix the drum sounds and export audio file to be used for production or to be shared with your friends.

The app gives you the basis to try out Grid Synth, Sampler & Rhythm. The Guide explains the basic functions to create soundscapes & melodies.

These instruments are NOT sample libraries. Unlike sampling, which uses recordings to replicate the sound of an instrument, physical modeling doesn’t generate a sound as such but creates the conditions for the system to create it according to an external input (like someone playing on a keyboard).

You can think of auGEN X in two ways:  first, it is a handy utility for making audio test sounds, and second, it is a performable creative sound design tool.

Holon is an auditive mixed reality app that generates functional music from your body movements and the world around you - your behaviour. Use it for active commuting - or almost any sport you can think of - Holon adapts seamlessly to your activity and context.

With EGSY01 you can create sounds, from modern ones to vintage analog ones, working with arpeggiator, step sequencer and FM, addictive and subtractive synthesis.

An app which is a faithful digital re-creation of their circa 1980 analog cult-classic, The MINI-SYNTHESIZER.

LayR is a polyphonic, multi-timbral synthesizer for iPad and iPhone, delivering up to 256 voices of rich, multi-layered and textured sounds.