DRC - Polyphonic Synthesizer

By far my favorite software synth! Period. So easy to use! So much fun! I never get tired of it since it’s so inspiring to pick up and play. The interface is so intuitive. Sound quality is absolutely incredible. It’s hard to believe this is a software synth after hearing the sound quality. Sooooo analog! The team really spend time on this one. Also very versatile, and it goes very deep for you synth heads. It’s very stable too and can easily handle multiple instances in a DAW. Love the midi controller support also.

Pretty Cool sounds, really strong synth for an iPhone and iPad app…. Even though i paid for a bunch of the upgraded features quite some time ago - and spending $30-45 or more… it isn’t worth ever using. Dark UI scams you out of your money. Not worth it. How you ask? Every time this app automatically offloads to save hard drive space it will not remember your purchases. There is no “restore purchases” option. Clever girl! (Picturing that scene from Jurassic Park when the raptor learns to use the door handle)… because after a few minutes, upon downloading and using it again, it will ask if you would like to purchase an upgrade to continue using. Again there is no restore purchases option. There are many features for purchase on this app and so…. If you have purchased, and agree to buying again… it will restore your purchases at no cost. If you don’t remember if you’ve purchased a feature or not, and you have not…. It will charge you for something you weren’t sure you already owned. After a couple of years of trying to use this synth, and having been charged a couple of times for things that I didn’t really want…. it can safely be assumed this “faulty” UI is undoubtedly on purpose. Come on, it’s been YEARS. Don’t download this garbage, there’s much better options out there for both your ears and your wallet. DARK UI. APPLE, PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THIS.

I recently downloaded DRC and after playing with it for only a few minutes, I was prompted to pay $8.99 because apparently this “free” app is really a trial. Because my finger was rested on the home button when this happened, payment went through without me having a chance to stop it. Ugh. I think having the ability to create sounds on the go and have them easily loadable into the desktop VST is an incredible feature, but the VST costs an extra $79! Not a fan at all of this business model, because if I really enjoyed the synth I would gladly pay more than $8.99 to get it on all platforms. Now, the synth itself is a standard subtractive synth. There are some cool presets that show off what the synth can do, and I really like the chord keyboard function. The oscillators sound good and the effects are decent, especially the tape delay which is a lot of fun to play with. I also own Zeeon on ios and prefer the sound of its filters and modulation options, as well as it having a sequencer. Although it was an accidental purchase I still can see myself coming back to DRC. The GUI is slick and its fun to play with, but I feel like I’m missing out on its best feature which is cross-platform patches. I already own a bunch of softsynths and hardware that I use in Ableton, so I won’t be shelling out another $79 for this anytime soon.