Category: Music
Type: Music Creator
Cost: 1.99
Rating: 4+
Current iTunes Reviews: 300 ratings, 3.0 stars

Description:

Six weeks on the App Store Staff Favorites list!

"There are a few apps that attempt to create whole new instruments out of the iPhone... Among these, Cosmovox is by far the most interesting." iLounge.com

"Cosmovox is a fun app for musicians of any caliber, with a far-reaching landscape of space-age sounds to explore." tuaw.com

"Anyone who is interested in the core of electronic music or wants to play around with a great musical tool will enjoy Cosmovox." AppCraver.com

Cosmovox is a unique and innovative motion-controlled music instrument for the iPhone and iPhone touch. Cosmovox allows you to control a powerful professional-quality synthesizer using over 60 different musical scales. Cosmovox uses the built-in accelerometer of your iPhone to track your hand motions and precisely map them to musical pitches from the scale of your choosing.

Cosmovox Features:

- Accelerometer Controlled

- Over 60 Different Musical Scales
- Major, Minor, Church modes
- Blues scale
- Balinese Gamelan scales
- Japanese Pentatonic scales
- Harmonic Series, Microtones
- Theremin scale, and many others

- Fully-featured Synthesizer

- 9 Real-time Multi-touch Sliders
- Modulation
- Feedback
- Instability
- Vibrato
- Beating, and many others

- Professional Audio Quality
- Synthesizer renders using 32-bit floating-point
- Full stereo 44.1 KHz 16-bit final audio output

- WiFi Open Sound Control (OSC) support

What's new

Added 3 Classical Indian scales:
Gavambhodi, Jalarnavam, Jyotiswaroopini

Cosmovox is a fantastic app for anyone interested in music, or even just general noise making. Tilt the iPhone to play various scales of your selection. This app is a fully-feature synthesizer, which allows you to play around with the scales you are creating by altering the range, fundamentals, tuning, vibration, beating, and feedback, among other things. It's not 100% perfect, but for $1.99, it's a completely excellent find.

This really is a great musical app. It's only missing one thing - the ability to record the sounds you create! It would be nice to be able to go back and listen to or share your creations. All in all, this is a very fun app for people of any musical skill level!

Overall impression: 8/10
Value for your money: 9/10

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Categories: Author: Nicole