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this is Ross Miller with the verge and we're looking at impact or for iOS now we've seen synth apps in the iOS App Store before this one has a little bit of a different kind of innovative input mechanism what it's doing went in a very quiet space is actually feeding off the tabs basically hearing the percussion sounds and converting it to a digital instrument so are we have this on table we're trying to make it a quiet issue so if we do that we you can kinda see it based on the volume you get different sounds it's agnostic of the location however so provided the audio is about the same the slam gesture I suppose is about the same when you open up the app you're basically given a very simple looking interface obviously the things very sensitive it's picking up me talking right now if you can see that so you've got the wave forward saying this is what's being picked up and kind of what it looks like you've got simple controls for a volume pan we can change effects right here delay reverb you've got six presets for different sounds this is a deep hole you've also got middle drone which is tabla big conga River very very baby sound we got to lay on turn it down a little bit so you've got the basic interface and if you want to get a little more detailed you've got of course the entire synth wall of pitches and dials you can kind of change every little nuance of the audio this is probably more detail than you ever need but if you're into that sort of thing you can definitely definitely dig deep into the detail of the sound other nice tricks says you have a sequencer which you can use to kind of record over preset sounds or kind of make your own clearly it's going through a very nice pre-record option that off but also what you do is you can make recordings if we start a live recording here the other nice thing is you can audio copy really nice let's say you want to paste this directly into GarageBand for iPhone or iPad you can just do that you copy it you go into GarageBand you paste it now here's the catch even if you just sensitivities and you have a lot of sensitivity adjustment options read normal right now and it goes very low grabs very little very high and of course my voice becomes a variable you quiet room the other caches to granade headphones without a microphone because otherwise it's going to pick up on the shirt level instead of say the table itself you need headphones that will still use the iPhone or iPad so microphone built-in with the right conditions however it is a very compelling product if $4.99 it's not the cheapest of sent apps but it is fun and again if the environmental conditions are right it actually could be pretty uh pretty effective you