Iconica Sketch - Orchestra app

IIconica Sketch how’s a reasonable set of orchestral instruments and articulations readily available upon picking the instrumentation. Some people have objected to what they consider to be a small library. Considering that the most typical playing skills are right in front of you I strongly object and think that you get extremely good playing instrument that sounds real. the problem I have with Iconica is there requirement that you download the 1.8 gig library if you use it outside of Cubasis 3, and in Cubasis 3, you’ll be downloading the 1.8 gig library as well. It’s a lot. Currently I’m dealing with Wi-Fi. That is super slow and him to waste hours getting the program. Downloaded is a real pain in the neck. I will not write something low when it’s capable of doing excellent work. Could it be better, yes, but if you can compare it to what’s available for the iPad it is a stunning, high-quality set of functionally high quality timbres. If these are something that you use, and it definitely goes beyond the orchestral mindset many people have, hip-hop, rap, rock, all use orchestral timbres and these are well suited for what it is. I hope they expand it, but seeing as creed plays a big part in everything available for the App Store I would suspect if they did expand, it would probably be a part two and honestly, I would probably buy it. Well, worth your consideration, recommended.

I have a lot of AU’s parked on my iPad with little use to me. The quality of this app is pretty stunning, for me. Sure, I can see that if the rods are going out in your Retina, the app may be a little too dark. However, will this app be in my live playing and mobile recording? Absolutely!

I have a 64gb iPad and I ran out of space so I need the option of installing the sound on a sd card in order for me to use this app until then I can’t use the app.

This is so worth it, the only problem I’m facing on iPad is that there should be an option to route velocity to modwheel on sustain or others that use it as dynamics, as the scoring program (flat.io) I use uses velocity, not mod wheel, and I can’t figure out how to do it, if I can even switch it, besides that, perfect

Fine stars for the great sounds! ONE star for for USER INTERFACE. Grey on Grey colors? The top row of items (undescernable, due to little to NO contrast. Also, whats's with the super small text sizes? Are you afraid we might be able to read it? You want to save the company some money? FIRE all the Qualty Control Dept., Fire ALL the Supervisors in the chain of command, fire the Artsey-Fartsey Dept. , fire ALL the VP's and give some of that money back to the developers. Its a WIN-WIN! Five stars if you fix the visual problems. Absolutely inexcusable for a company of your calibur.

Great to see an AUV3 with good orchestral sounds! It has enough instruments to sketch a decent score, the articulations are few but well chosen, and the sounds are great for arranging on the go. It also has a very clear interface, which is a plus. It has just come out, so there are a couple of things that could be improved, though, like the mod and pitch wheels effectively stopping you from pressing keys on the screen (big problem for orchestral playing), and it would be nice to arrange the presets by instrument type (strings, woodwinds, brass, etc) instead of alphabetically. I'm sure we will get there eventually. Definitely worth it at this price.

Quality app worth every penny! Thank you for creating this wonderful app

I just bought this, and I want to love it, but it's virtually unusable because it's so dark I can barely see anything. Please, Steinberg, remember that functional design is way more imprtant than someone's idea of a cool look. I'll amend this review when the developers clean up their interface so that everything is easy to see. For now, though, this app is literally unusable.

This app is essentially a wrapper for an AUv3 that is a solid, if not underwhelming, sample playback engine. I would have liked to see the ability to play whole sections, etc. but as it stands, it is a good orchestral plugin, with a novel way to add articulations. I think it faces serious competition on the “expressive orchestral” plugin land, GeoShred with SWAM instruments comes to mind, but it is solid enough to warrant a purchase if you regularly use orchestral sounds.