TONAUT
Synth, drums, sequencer and 8-track tape for iPhone and iPad
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Tonaut is a synth, drum machine, sequencer and eight-track tape for iPhone and iPad, made to be played rather than programmed. 9 synth engines, over 500 sounds, 41 drum kits, a chord pad, 16 effects and an eight-lane sequencer. On iPhone, five housings with key LEDs. $19.99 - one-time purchase for iPhone and iPad. No subscription, no account. AUv3 is coming in 2.0, free.
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PH · launched Oct 25, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 5%)
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Music
- Audio
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Partial The UI, sequencer, and tape-style interface are doable, but a credible synth and drum engine with low-latency audio and good sound quality needs real DSP expertise.
What it would actually take: Build an iOS app with AudioKit or Core Audio, custom synth engines written in C++ or Swift, a MIDI-style sequencer, and an audio-unit effects chain. The hard parts are low-latency real-time audio, engine sound design, and the polish that makes instruments feel good to play. This needs DSP and audio-software expertise plus sound-design work for the 500+ sounds and 41 kits.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 233 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 234 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 361 days after the earliest competitor.
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- MotifPilot MIDI Generator · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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