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Real Violin app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 2218 ratings )
Music Games Music Simulation
Developer: 平 陈
2.99 USD
Current version: 2.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 25 May 2009
App size: 10.34 Mb

Real Violin is a software that simulate the violin playing on iPhone/iPod Touch.
Features:
-High performance real-time multi-track sound processing engine, high quality, low latency.
-44 KHz, 16 bit stereo sound output.
-Slide mode and Touch mode. With slide mode, you can play the "Real Violin" like a Real Violin; With touch mode, you can play the sound directly by tap the corresponding note, just like playing a keyboard.
-Acceleration(Pose) sense. With slide mode, you can select the string that you want to slide on by tilting the device, which make it more like a violin.
-Sliding along the string with the finger of your left hand to play unlimited smooth glide.
-Custom distance between the note marks.
-3 violin family instruments(Violin, Viola, Cello) in one!
-Up to one octave per string with Touch mode.
-Easy to use interface.

Please visit http://phyar.cn/ to see the instructions about Real Violin, especially to learn how to play with Slide mode. Any feedback is welcome. The programer who make Real Violin is also a violin fans and music lover, he is glad to make this software as good as possible.

Pros and cons of Real Violin app for iPhone and iPad

Real Violin app good for

Its exactly what I was expecting from an iPhone Violyn. Improvements: It needs an inclination meter so you can tell how close you are from playing the next string. Ive been accidentally playing the wrong strings because of this issue. Also FYI colors from classical instruments dont look good on Iphones Try adding a different theme to it to make it more friendly to the digital world. I would suggest a smule ocarina look where the strings would be floating over black and have a simple animation in the background like that wave of sound.
I like that you have 3 instruments- very nice. And definitely an A+ on the quality of the samples. For the most part its intuitive to play but the accelerometer is a little hard to control in the slide mode- thats my main gripe. All in all this is MUCH more than I expected. Recording and export to wav soon I hope? And a metronome would be a nice feature to have.
Definitely a great app. No complaints. A plucking option would be pretty awesome.

Some bad moments

Not a bad start - the touch mode is easy to use and I like the use of the accelometer to simulate playing the violin. Suggestions for improvement - better sounds (it seems to me the sounds are all synthetic, some sound reasonably authentic but others dont), volume control, a way to pluck the strings. Not there yet but has potential. The update adds some features, but this app still needs more to be really useful.
App was great on the okd 3G, but does not work with newest iPhone software upgrade on 3GS.. Fix???
DO NOT BUY THIS APP!!! IT DOESNT EVEN SOUND LIKE A VIOLIN. I WANT MY MONEY BACK. BECAUSE OF THIS, I HAVE LOST ALL FAITH IN APPLE DOING ANY QUALITY CONTROL OF APPS THAT THEY SELL. I WANT MY MONEY BACK! I DONT EVEN WANT THIS PIECE OF CRAP EVEN IF IT WERE FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It dosent even sound like a violin and it also crashes all the time  I dont reccomend