bismark bs-16i App Reviews

This app is a must buy for anyone who plays music live. Please add support for the Akai synthstation 25.

I bought the first version for 4.99. Waste of money unless youre into sound fonts. Now the developer has upped the price. Dont buy it. There is a bank of sound fonts in the update but of poor quality, IMO. Still no help file AT ALL and no user forum. This developer does not have his/her act together. Save money and aggravation and go buy ThumbJam. The samples are awesome, theres support and many more features.

The update is great. The inclusion of a soundfont that has dozens of sounds should help for people that dont have any soundfonts. The interface could still use a little work. But i am grateful for this app that makes it possible to take my library of thousands of high quality soundfonts on the road. Keep up the good work! For people that dont know, one of the reasons this app is superior is that your database of sounds is almost limitless. There are tons of quality soundfonts you can find online for free, if you dont already have any. Cheers!

Sound fonts open a whole world of sound. This program is controllable via virtual midi and external keyboards.

I needed a multi-timbral synth for my iPad... checked out a few and went with this one. No regrets at all. It comes with some good sounds but what I really love is I can import my own soundfonts. Its got two keyboards, mixing options and lots of other nice stuff too, but I wish you could save a set up, patch or instrument channel assignment... hopefully we will get this in a future update. Thanks for a great program... love it.

what to say, I just really like it. Im a musician with my pc for more than 20 years, now I got a new choose with ipad, and the amazing app of bs-16i! it work fine with line6 midi mobilizer, so I can use this app as an musical instrument! its real-time, sounds perfect, low latancy, well done! whats more, I still wonder that if iPad app(or iPad hardware) has the ability to suport .GIG files? if it can, that will be the most useful app for all musicians around the world! Thanks also，can it support iPhone5 with camera kit？

Amazing music app! Bought this on sale during the holidays and must say that the sounds are pretty good and the UI is very is easy to work with IMO. I can use Midi Bridge to play bismark with my Synthstation 25 easily! Another thing I can do is use Jordan Rudesss Geo Synth, route it to the Midi Bridge app, go into bismark and turn on virtual midi and route channel to trigger both sounds from the Geo Synth screen. It took me a little bit to figure it out, but Midi setup is fairly easy compared to most apps. Last but not least the import of Soundfonts is awesome! I have never used Soundfonts before, but they sound just as good as WAV if not better. Great app and thanks for dropping the price for the Holiday season.

Fully functional with Audiobus to record sequenced sound into your iOS DAW of choice, Folder Management for Organization of Soundfonts and Midi files! It also has Scenes to save your layouts for different song projects so you can recall them on the fly! This was one of the first solid midi equipped apps to run 16 channels of midi without a hiccup! I sequenced this app with everything from a Commodore64 to a MPC. As a day 1 user and supporter of this app, I can now say that it is COMPLETE! Bravo!

Love this app great sounds you can find lots of Soundfonts online

I have all the top synths for iOS and its hard to pick one as a favorite but if I could only have one synth loaded and had to choose it would be BS-16 without a doubt. It can cover everything by itself with the right sound fonts. I use a program on the PC called Extreme Sample Converter and can convert any sample from my EMU and Akai sample librarys with the click of a button. Honestly this should get the top iOS synth award.

Very good app, but dev did not respond to repeated requests for help. My external midi controller sends cc 123 (all notes off) when the last key is lifted, and bs16i stops all notes at that point even if the hold pedal (cc64) is down. No other synth apps that Ive tried have this problem. I was able to work around it by filtering out cc123 with FrEWI. Will upgrade to 5 stars if this gets fixed so I dont have to hack it every time.

This is a very good App on my Ipad 2 runs fine, but when i tried on my iphone 3gs it crash very often and when i am lucky enough to make it work it hardsly plays midi songs besides it couldnt load the 4 soundfonts it suposses. When i wrote to customer support i didnt have any answer, when i tried to get in touch with some question for the pc version i wanted to buy, they either got in touch with me, im waiting for an answer yet ... For the Pc now im thinking to buy the Fantasize Soundfont player or Maybe the Camaleon 5000 due to the bad customer service this bs16 has, im sorry and sad because other way it is a good app on my ipad

WONDERFUL!!!!!!!! Thank you Shun!!!! NOW this is MY TO-GO app!!! Thank you very much!!!

Thank you for the new update with an app support. Im so glad you have to continued the development of the only sound font player in the App Store. To anyone think about buying this app, you should! It has a great sound engine. With an unlimited amount of sf2 files form 1990s until now, is the easiest way to know your sounds will be unique when making iOS music.

This sounds and works amazingly well. I love this. I like it better than Sampletank for iOS

Basically turns your ios device into a midi module. Ive loaded up my own soundfonts I cant be any happier. Best $8 Ive ever spent!!!!

This is a multitimbral Soundfont PLAYER! Its not a Soundfont editor. To the user TranslationPolice - Youre bashing an app that never said it could do what you needed it to do in the 1st place. You need a Soundfont editor like Awave Studio (PC only) or Polyphone (Mac and PC) to edit Soundfonts. Once theyre edited, then you load them back into BS-16i. AFIAK there are no Soundfont editors for iOS.

How about some decent documentation? This is my first syth and I prefer not to stumble around for hours trying to grasp every aspect of it... when some documentation could-should be provided to help me use it to its full potential. I got midi and sound working fine...

Ive used this app to capture and perform some of the amazing orchestral, vocal, and drum sounds floating around the Internet in sound font files. Sound fonts can be "opened in" the app, so you dont need to sync with a computer via iTunes. The app lets you layer multiple sounds triggered by a single key press. For example, you could have a guitar which swells into a choir. Each sound can be managed indepentently. I had a question about how to do this, and the dev was very helpful. He hung in with me over three emails, but eventually showed me exactly how to do what I wanted. Bravo!

One of the first music apps I ever purchased. There are LOADS of soundfont files on the internet, and within a week I had a library with over 6 GB of free samples. The app makes it very easy to sort and store your samples. You also get an 8 channel mixer and two keyboards which can be used together or separately. Also, the developer updates regularly and it shows. The BS-16i plays nice with every virtual midi app Ive lobbed at it. Great value, easy to use, plays well with others ... All you have to do is spend a little time finding soundfonts to add to your library. Highly recommended!