tardigrain

Name: tardigrain
Price: 5.99 USD
Rating: 4.5 (97 reviews)
Author: Erik Sigth

by Erik Sigth

iPhone · iPad

Active Last checked 5 Aug 2026

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At a glance: $5.99

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Music

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Music

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Function	Availability	Access	Scope	Evidence
Family Sharing	Yes	Unknown	App Store	Store published

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Price: $5.99

Last verified 5 Aug 2026

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4.5 97 ratings · App Store

5/5Smooooth Touch Update on this Fantastic Synth
Tardigrain has been a home run from the get go. The synth engine makes it incredibly easy to get a wide range of sustained sounds out of virtually any sound material. The UI is also brilliant: beautiful, uncluttered, powerful. The touch keyboard + chords layout is just wonderful - I honestly wish I could use it with other iOS synths. The issue this update fixes - touch response problems with the edges, often making the controls finicky - was an annoyance that I really didn’t mind putting up with given how amazing this app is. Until this fix, I had no idea just how much better this would make the app feel. This is an unexpectedly awesome quality of life improvement to an already awesome app. Kudos for figuring out how to make a second home run out of tardigrain.

Oh_W3ll · 5 Aug 2026
5/5Interestingly subtle❣️
Time for a new review. First, Tardigrain has been around a lot longer than the 5-year App History implies. :-) What? Some 15-18 years? I found Tardigrain now long after it first was released. Way before Alligoopa’s demise. My first Allihoopa offering was from Tardigrain. Several Japanese members were excited that not only did I know of the tiny beast AND I made a song to them. lol I have always had Tardigrain on my mobile device! There still isn’t anything quite like it on the App Store. It’s other worldly and under worldly! It’s simple but affective. Keep thinking out of the box! (And very stable standalone playing in the background with other apps while I read on iOs.)

Eriptron · 5 Aug 2026
5/5love it
made a cool track with this, I was looking for something strange capable of making strange sound this was it, I sampled a bass note from a piano and it sounded so dark and ambient, this app is interesting and can make something simple sound unique, good for drones, love the look, love the parameter changes possible, high sound quality

BossHaussguymanbrotha · 5 Aug 2026
2/5Disappointing
After watching a video I was excited about the capabilities. But then after trying it as an audio unit in BM3, I feel completely ripped off. The ability to use your own samples from a session doesn’t seem to exist. All the cool modulation options are no longer there either... Everything is about audiounits these days. If developers don’t make their stuff to run smoothly and function 100 percent as audiounits, it’s a wasted effort... Disappointing. I wanted to be able to give it 5 stars after seeing the video on it. Make honest videos, there’s no practical purpose to how an app functions in standalone. Show how it works in practical applications as audiounits.

7Z7 · 5 Aug 2026
5/5Love this synth but...
Thanks for the new update! But!!! Please make microphone monitor recallable for saved sessions. This is one of my favorite reverbs as an auv3 effect but i have to open each instance and “press” the monitor button to activate the the reverb effect. Thanks so much!

Mehmui · 5 Aug 2026

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1.0.17
+++ Improving the situation with loading IAA in iOS 12.4. A complete fix is down to what Apple does now. Will they kill off or will they give a soon deprecated protocol a chance, I don't know.
1.0.18
+++ Fixing issue where decay gets stuck on 0s.
1.0.19
+++ Adding fix for IAA issue in iOS 12.4 and later. App must be brought into foreground to start processing sound. +++ Fixing pop over ui issues in iOS 13. +++ Fixing issue connection to bluetooth MIDI devices in iOS 13. +++ Adding throttling to incoming MPE messages in AUv3.
1.0.20
+++ Fixing issue showing preset share in iOS 13. +++ Fixing issue with colours in dark mode in iOS 13.
1.0.21
+++ Additional tweaks for popovers in iOS 13.
1.0.22
+++ Fixing iOS 13 fix that broke audio paste for iOS 12.
1.0.23
+++ Updating AudioBus, fixes crashes loading Inter App Audio in iOS 12.4 and up.
1.0.24
+++ Adding midi out. +++ Adding file browser instead of internal audio copy/paste. +++ Fixing issue with saving with certain file names. +++ Making pop up windows slightly bigger on iPad.
1.0.25
+++ Fixing AUv3 loading issues in iOS 14.2. +++ Fixing sample rate resampling issue.
1.0.26
+++ Minor bug fixes
1.0.27
+++ Fixing issue with imported files longer than default recording size. +++ Fixing issue open with file extension in upper case. +++ Fixing ui freeze issue when changing midi cc controls.
1.1.0
+++ Updating UI and placement of some elements. +++ Adding note trigger sequencer/arpeggiator. +++ Adding 4 LFOs for modulating a selected set of parameters. +++ Adding pitch bend. +++ Adding a keyboard shift function, allowing a different root note. +++ Adding ability to keep keyboard between presets. +++ Adding and improving presets. +++ Improving preset handling. +++ Adding ability to import/export multiple presets. +++ Exposing user presets to AUv3 Hosts.
1.1.1
+++ Fixing issue with missing audio files after import.
1.1.2
+++ Minor stability fixes.
1.1.3
+++ Stability improvements.
1.2.0
+++ Saving loaded preset name with DAW state saving. +++ Fixing bug where shift length wouldn't reload correctly.
1.2.1
+++ Fixing issue with passing auval validation. +++ Fixing issue modulating parameters in Logic Pro on Mac. +++ Fixing UI layout menu issues seen with some window sizes.
1.2.2
+++ Fixing touch issues seen along edges when running as AUv3 in some hosts. +++ Minor bug fixes.
1.2.3
+++ Fixing performance issue introduced in last build.
1.2.4
+++ Minor bug fixes.
1.2.5
+++ Fixing issue opening host application from IAA menu.
1.2.6
Build 108: +++ Stability fixes. +++ Fixing unzip issue seen on iPhone 6S. +++ Adding filter resonance and cut off state to presets saving and loading.
1.2.7
+ Fixing issue loading files in a security scope introduces in last version.
1.2.8
+ Fixing graphical issues in seen menus on iOS 26.
1.2.9 · 22 Jun 2026
+++ Fixing issue with preset menu scrolling to the top on open, in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26

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