--- title: "ZOA — Living MIDI Sequencer - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store" description: "ZOA is a creative MIDI sequencer that is both immediate and immense. ZOA uses a custom, musical implementation of John Conway’s Game of Life to generate melody, harmony, and rhythm. Up to four voices" --- # ZOA — Living MIDI Sequencer — United States > Generative melodies for synths ![ZOA App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple122/v4/75/d9/e1/75d9e18f-d17b-d9dc-3cf4-3d369b841226/AppIcon-1x_U007emarketing-0-7-0-85-220.png/434x0w.png) **Developer:** [Ryan Robinson](https://apptail.io/developer/ryan-robinson-APab) (United States) **Category:** Music **Rating:** 4.8/5 (43 ratings) **Price:** $8.99 **Bundle ID:** ryan.ZOA **Store:** Apple App Store **Country:** United States **Version:** 1.3 (released 2022-12-08) **Original Release:** 2021-11-04 **Languages:** English **App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1581881354) **AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/zoa-living-midi-sequencer-WuCb/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/zoa-living-midi-sequencer-WuCb/united-states) ## ZOA Description ZOA is a creative MIDI sequencer that is both immediate and immense. ZOA uses a custom, musical implementation of John Conway’s Game of Life to generate melody, harmony, and rhythm. Up to four voices move through an evolving landscape of living cells, playing notes as they go. Each voice can move in a unique way, with its own pace and rhythmic pattern. ZOA includes unique features, such as note values based on the golden ratio for maximum generative fun. Features: - Interact with the Game of Life by touching the grid to toggle cell states - Define your musical palette by configuring the grid settings - Create a complex dance between four independent voices - Free your hands to explore your synthesizers as ZOA plays them for you - Includes ten factory presets to give you a feel for what ZOA is capable of - Explore a focused, yet deep set of parameters - Grid Settings - Root note - Octave shift - Scale (see below for available scales) - Octave range - Game of Life Settings - Grid size (8x8 and 16x16) - Auto or manual generation advance - Rate of new generations (in beat time from 16 bars to 32nd T) - Auto or manual grid respawn - Voice Settings - Four voices with independent settings - Enable/disable - Rate of play (in beat time from 16 bars to 32nd T) - Includes unique note values based on the Golden Ratio for maximum generative fun! - Length of note (10% to 100%) - Variety of rules for moving through grid (see below for list) - Pitch offset - Unique pattern control for creating rhythms and polymeters, now with step options - Easily add holds, ties, accents (positive and negative!), ratchets, and trig conditions - MIDI velocity and channel - Flexible Connectivity - Use in a compatible audio unit host like AUM, or in standalone mode - Control multiple instruments at once with five MIDI outputs - One for all voices together, and one for each voice by itself - Set the key and octave shift on the fly with MIDI input - Sync to the tempo of other devices using Ableton Link or MIDI clock (standalone) - Send MIDI clock to external synths (standalone, experimental feature) - Connect to Bluetooth MIDI devices - Modulate ZOA's parameters in a compatible AUv3 host (audio unit) - Eight unique MIDI CC outputs derived from ZOA’s game of life simulation - Population density, fertility, mortality, stability, and per-voice random - Includes macOS app! IMPORTANT: ZOA can be used as a standalone app or as an AUv3 plugin. There are some important differences between the two. The standalone app features a simple, toggleable "Sidekick Synth" so you can quickly experiment with ZOA. Of course, you can also send MIDI from the standalone app. Meanwhile, the ZOA AUv3 plugin does NOT generate sound. Instead, you use it to send MIDI (note messages) to other apps, plugins, or hardware instruments that do the actual sound generation. AUv3 plugins must be used inside a compatible host. Available Scales - Major Pentatonic, Minor Pentatonic, Major, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Minor, Locrian, Blues, Whole Tone, Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor, Chromatic, Diminished, Whole Half, Spanish, Super Locrian, Bhairav, Hungarian Minor, Minor Gypsy, Augmented, Prometheus, Pelog, Major Hexatonic, Minor Hexatonic, Hirojoshi, In Sen, Iwato, Kumoi Available Voice Rules - Up, Down, UpDown, DownUp, First, Last, Random, Walk, Rise, Fall View manual: View tutorials: ## ZOA Screenshots - [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource125/v4/06/86/32/0686320f-9c35-c9ed-78ac-1c5ea4c3ab26/32d64418-c85e-42ea-a12a-3fb72550aed6_iPhone-notch-1.png/2688x1242.png) - [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource115/v4/1b/f4/08/1bf4088a-0747-d0cb-4e35-7c339da0585b/0cd4f681-4f1e-47b7-bfcd-451bc930a7e6_iPhone-notch-2.png/2688x1242.png) ## ZOA Rating Breakdown in United States - 5 stars: 38 (88%) - 4 stars: 2 (5%) - 3 stars: 2 (5%) - 2 stars: 1 (2%) - 1 stars: 0 (0%) ## ZOA Reviews in United States ### ***** "Original and interestng" Wow. This app is so cool. I tried it out with Iconica Sketch and what a gas. My first tries would have had Bach & Beethoven rolling over in their graves, but after a while got the hang of it and can make some pretty amazing pieces with it. Cudos to Ryan. Great creation. -- fleeteelf, 2025-02-22 ### ****- "Great idea but very limited." Please expand the grid to something more interesting; a 256x256 grid would be ideal. One would wish to explore “GOL Species” but realistically more than 80% of these won’t even fit on the available (limited in size) grid. Please do update this, it’s such a great idea limited by an arbitrarily small limitation (the grid size). -- Enrique Raphaël Page Pérez, 2024-07-31 ### ***** "Very Cool!" Really enjoyed the app. Great soft music coming out. Also great to use on USB MIDI devices when testing! Very nice! -- RobertusMaximus, 2024-03-14 ### ***** "Amazing" I love using this app to create hypnotic sound scapes to help me relax. I run it through AUM. Ryan’s tutorials on YT are very helpful. -- Mojo9924, 2023-12-01 ### ***** "Very Useful" Really fun and useful midi engine, yet as the cycles progress it has fewer and fewer motes and ends uo just playing two or threenecessitsting a grid reset. not horrid, but having to reset it egery few minutes is irritsting and diminishes this apps usefulness. i suspect its user error but havent figured out the solution -- Zorchzorch, 2023-08-03 ### ***** "Absolutely Stunning!" This is exactly what I’ve been wanting for quite some time, thank you! Instead of trying to describe the endless possibilities that ZOA offers, I strongly suggest to anyone that is looking for a generative ipad synth to take it for a ride through the Milky Way and beyond… you’ll be glad you did! Promote!!! -- Joe Rollins, 2023-05-22 ### ***** "Versatile and interesting" What I love about this is that you can use it to set up a complex and random melody for your next track, or you can set it, forget it, and just chill to the onboard synth playing in the background. -- TheFeller, 2022-09-08 ### ***** "Creative Tool" Great tool to find a creative spark. Perfect for generative and/or ambient genre and can be used in other genres. Great developer… try his other stuff too. -- MuddyNikes, 2022-09-06 ### ****- "Great sequencer" This would be amazing if Midi Receive could also change other things like scale, range and the life settings. Please add CC controllable parameters. Thanks -- recengbr, 2022-06-25 ### ***** "Very well thought out app" Works very smoothly, brilliant design (like all of his apps - you can tell they are designed and deved by a musician who is going to use them himself). Buy all of his apps on iOS - they're all top notch. -- Codowlsky Polopumus, 2022-06-12 [View all ZOA reviews and detailed analytics on AppTail](https://app.apptail.io/signup?utm_campaign=ai-crawl&utm_content=reviews) ## ZOA Store Rankings | Chart | Country | Category | Rank | |-------|---------|----------|------| | Top Paid | Switzerland | Music | #55 | ## ZOA Discovered Keywords - zoa ## Apps Similar to ZOA - [LFOH!](https://apptail.io/app/lfoh-YOlb/united-states) - [rymdigare](https://apptail.io/app/rymdigare-aKmb/united-states) - [TROOPER Synthesizer](https://apptail.io/app/trooper-synthesizer-rorb/united-states) - [Rozeta Sequencer Suite](https://apptail.io/app/rozeta-sequencer-suite-Cxsb/united-states) - [Piano Motifs](https://apptail.io/app/piano-motifs-efCb/united-states) - [SpaceFields](https://apptail.io/app/spacefields-YuCb/united-states) - [Senode - Graph Sequencer](https://apptail.io/app/senode-graph-sequencer-iKQc/united-states) - [cykle](https://apptail.io/app/cykle-VYZc/united-states) - 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