Korg IMS20 Synth App Review

When it comes to producing music, nothing is more thrilling than having a good sequencer handy.  The Korg IMS20 Synth App is one such device.  The beauty of this program is that this is all presented through the power of the iPad.  There are several advantages of using the Korg IMS 20 synth app. First and foremost of which is that you have in your hands a powerful analog synth made popular in the late 70′s or early 80′s but this time with a touch of modern day technology.  If you want to learn more about this app, then reading through this review will be a big help.

For those who are not familiar with this synth, it has gained popularity based on the number of musicians who have used it in their music creation.  Groups like Daft Punk, OMD, Goldfrapp and Gorillaz  are just among the known music groups who have used this synth in their works.  The IMS 20 app welcomes you to an array of tools to help you create music and leap your music to new heights.  It also has the famous Kaoss Pad which allows you to drag your fingers within the provided space and alter different streams of the notes you are playing.  You may even program different scales in your Kaoss Pad and later on with a record button, all your ideas can be put in storage so you can review it later.  This is a pretty neat tool that can really bring your creative juices into fruition.

There are several views with the Korg IMS20 Synth app and they are the following:

• Drum view
• Song and Pattern view
• Mixer

Each of these views is useful to properly create music and substantially open a wide array of choices and options for music making. For instance the drum view has about 6 tracks for drum sounds, enough to provide the important foundation of your music. Each track also has individual sequencers.

The song and pattern view allows you to make a combination of up to 16 patterns so that you can piece together crucial patterns that make your song.  There are loop and stop buttons that facilitates the creation of either a short loop or a full fledged song.  Finally, you have the mixer view which does its job perfectly as you can mix effects and do some tweaking to your music with its 14 options for effects.  All in all, the IMS 20 is a very capable synth that creates music perfectly and produces sounds that are close if not at a professional level.  For a price of $33 this little app here is a thing to behold. Buy the KORG iMS-20 direct from iTunes