SWAM Violin

It was not an easy app to get working properly on my iPad. It kept crashing. But, once I finally realized that the local setting needed to be turned on it worked great. (In settings click on privacy and security and then click on local network. Then switch the SWAM app to the on position). I hope this helps anyone who downloaded this app onto their iPad and got frustrated that it wasn't working .

idk if i’m just not great at using the app but i haven’t found a way to achieve sounds like falls, rises, or ultra smooth legatos that i need for the type of music i’m producing.

I use IOS in my live guitar rig. I use it, for example, to play the solo in I Will Survive, which has a descending string run that starts at G4 and goes down to E2. It’s barely more than 2 octaves, but SWAM Violin refuses to play anything below the the G2. Why? Because to get those notes you need to pay another $30, for a different module. The rationalization is that the violin can’t play notes that low, but this is *software*. They could make one instrument that covers the full range of my neck and sounds authentic at every point, perhaps even seamlessly transitioning between the timbre of the relevant instruments. It’s the same engine. No reason they can’t build meta instruments with bigger range than their physical counterparts, except that by breaking them up into small ranges of notes, they can excuse charging you more.