orphinio

At first my opinion for was what can I do with this? I experimented and changed the circles. I found one that sounded so good. Thank you for being alive this is my favorite app.🎶🎶🎶🎶

...but if you are sporting an iPhone 5 or screen just as small as I am using and coming from an iPad, you will notice the room limitations. But like everything else, even the larger and more customisable Orphion, you learn that certain sides of your fingers, knuckles, palms etc, will still work to achieve desired sounds with adjustments. My interest is not so heavy on the rhythm/ guitar aspect as much as percussion but for some reason I do get better results with lets say (plucking) on the phone, Also (and this is a device thing) IMO without earphones the iPhone provides a better sound quality. I have major sound problems anyway with my iPad retina so this could just be my own device issue. I really love both of these apps and you can create some great soundscapes with both without being a musician but by being exposed to the notes and experimenting, a beginner will pick up on notes and achieve at least a rudimentary understanding. Both apps from this developer are so unique plus he does answer emails. Def well worth the price and much more.

The sound distorts quite badly through the speaker on my iPhone 6S Plus running iOS 9.1. Other sound-making apps do not do this.

Great app, but needs customizable layouts like it's iPad counterpart

I've been using Orphion sense it's early versions, and to me it is a totally unique kind of instrument and less like a MIDI controller compared to any other MIDI controllers for iPad. Orphiono is very much the same without a couple minor features, to me the absent features by no means takes away from the value the app. I would however suggest that the option to create your own layouts is perhaps more important on the iPhone than on the iPad, considering the lack of screen space on the iPhone. Midi works perfectly in my case, I had no problems getting orphiono to work with any other app that I have tried. Another suggestion, it might be possible to relay the softer sounds from stroking pads by, for example sending softer sounds to MIDI channel 1 and plucked sounds to MIDI channel 2 and have two different synthesizers play controlled via orphiono. Orphion as a complex sound with depth and dynamics that can't be relayed by playing one synthesizer. This is a really great app and I can't wait to see what comes next.