Oriental Strings

🇺🇸 United States
Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte  | 
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4.4
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App Age
11y
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Last Update
Jul 07, 2025

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4.44
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Number of Ratings (Voted)
46
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Oriental Strings
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Oriental & Arabian Sounds App
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Oriental Strings is a professional sound module app for oriental keyboard players and for musicians who simply want to resemble the typical sound of the Orient and Middle East in their songs. Connect an external MIDI keyboard to your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch by using Bluetooth MIDI or by using the Apple USB camera adapter or another adapter supported by Apple, or launch Oriental Strings as virtual instrument directly within your favourite DAW app on your iOS device!¹ Watch and listen to the demo video on our product website! This app supports "Audio Unit", "Audiobus" and Apple's "Inter-App Audio" System for audio & MIDI connections from/to other audio apps, as well as Bluetooth LE MIDI ! The sounds of Oriental Strings were exclusively recorded with players who are professionally dedicated to oriental style of music. Typical string instrument sounds for the Arabian genre are covered by this app. Besides rather exotic instruments like the Chinese erhu, typical western string instruments were used as well, but since the players of the recording sessions are focused on oriental music, those western instruments sound completely different than you might be used to from western orchestra players. The sounds of this app were once again created by Kurt Ader, winner of the NAMM 2015 "Best Sound Designer of the Year" award. 32 Sounds are included with this App: • Chinese Erhu 1 - 3 • Chinese Erhu Trill • Turkish Strings 1 - 4 • Arabian Strings 1 - 3 • Tremolo Strings 1 - 5 • Spiccato Strings • Oriental Spiccato Strings • Oriental String Quartet 1 - 3 • Oriental Staccato Strings • Arabian Solo Strings 1 - 3 • String Quartet • Oriental String Ensemble 1 - 5 • Slow Oriental Strings There is no in-app purchase in this app. So all sounds and all app features are immediately available to you as one buy. General Features: • Sounds based on high quality stereo sample set. • Master Tune & Scale Tuning (including factory presets for common Arabian & Turkish scales). • Low latency disk streaming. • Configurable audio latency down to 1 ms. • Polyphony up to several hundred stereo voices.² • Integrated effects with 18 presets. • 16 parts. • App States: Save app's entire state as user presets. • MIDI velocity response curve editor to fine tune the feeling of your MIDI keyboard. • App can keep running in the background, so you can play on your keyboard while e.g. using Safari or another app to display scores or surfing the Internet. • Audio Unit plugin version of this app, to be used as virtual instrument directly within third-party multi-track DAW apps. • Audiobus support. • Supports Apple's "IAA" system for audio & MIDI streaming between other apps. • Virtual on-screen piano keyboard with velocity support, scalable & scrollable. MIDI Player / Recorder: • Record, save and load your songs in standard MIDI file format. • Share your songs easily as audio file. • Unlimited amount of tracks. • Configurable target MIDI channel per track. • Unlimited recording and playback length. • Open MIDI (.mid) files directly from other apps (i.e. from Safari, Mail). • Download or upload MIDI files with iTunes. • Load your favorite songs as MIDI files from the Internet, and watch at the virtual keyboard how to play it. • Metronome. • Use the "Tempo Zoom" dial knob to i.e. slow down playback at any time and learn your favorite songs more easily. ¹ For more information about adapters and connecting external MIDI keyboards: https://doc.crudebyte.com/iOS/External_MIDI_devices/ ² Some sounds are using several voices per note. Polyphony depends on the exact device model being used. You find a polyphony table on our product website.}
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4.4
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Some Latest Reviews

TheWraith517
07 Jul, 2025
5
I started out with this App on an iPhone 5 x86 and i still love it on my iPhone 7 pro with iOS 15.8.4… please maintain support as long as you technically can 🤗
deleteddddd0989
11 Feb, 2023
2
This app is only amazing in standalone. It doesn’t work as an Auv3 with maqam choice, which without it just makes it a mediocre string Auv3, nothing Arabic about it inside a DAW
cosmic strange
22 Jan, 2023
4
L’application en elle-même est de bonne facture . Avec un panel de preset assez large ,on peut l’exploiter sans limite. Mais je rencontre des problèmes lors que j’exporte ,quelques soit le format. L’application crash ,les violons sonnent 1 fois sur 2.
mobley8
27 Nov, 2020
3
The Erhu in garageband is free and sounds authentic & beautiful. The one in ‘Oriental Strings’ sounds like its a synth version. It’s not 1980’s home organ bad, just not great. The attack on these sounds lets them down but they are not deep or nuanced altogether. They might do ok underneath the blend of a busy instrumental mix but as solo sounds they are cheap and tacky. Some worse than others. Some not so bad. Then again they are actually cheap and so I guess you get what you pay for. Hence the *** rating. I wished I’d heard a demo before buying.
il..p3drin0
12 May, 2020
5
its sooooooo great app really , we waiting for new sound packs , with classical turkish " kemençe " and arabian " Rababa " , its both a strings , thnx ♥️♥️♥️
a00000123
22 Apr, 2020
1
I’m sorry guys but these strings don’t sound even close to the real thing. Please try to get some decent sounding string in there. Otherwise this is great. I feel kind of cheated. The garage band strings sound way better than these ones that I just bought.

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Rating:
4.45
Voted: 46
App Store Link:
Price: 7.99 $
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Categories: Music
Size: 1901MB
App Age: 11 years
Release Date: Dec 17, 2014
Last Update: Jul 07, 2025
Version: 2.4
Version history
2.4
Jul 07, 2025
• Audio Unit: added audio rendering time statistics. • Audio Unit: detects audio dropouts and shows a warning in this case.
2.3.2
Apr 05, 2024
This update fixes some UI issues on iPhone. Note: This version raises the minimum requirement to iOS 12 and 64-bit CPU. For older devices there are still older versions of this app with lower requirements available for download on the App Store.
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