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TONAUT

Richard Rogers

Category: Music
Best rank
#27Canada
Charts
22 countries
Price
$19.99
Size
102.5 MB
Requires
iOS 26.0or later

Current rank

#27

Canada · Paid · Music

Was
—7 days ago
Change
Not enough history yetover 7 days
Best
#27in 7 days
Longest chart run
1 dayCanada · Paid · Music
New ratings, 7 days
—Needs a week of rating history

What's new

Version 1.1 · today

CHORD PAD: seven chords from your key on seven keys, and a stick that turns each one into a 7th, 9th, sus, dim and more as you play. SIXTEEN EFFECTS, eight of them new: tape echo, a reverb with tails up to a minute, distortion, filter, pump, swirl, lo-fi and tremolo. OVER 500 SOUNDS, a 3D screen for every engine, and on iPhone three new housings with an LED in every key. CHORD PAD On a synth lane, hold SHIFT and tap CHORD until it reads PAD. The seven keys play the chords of your key and scale, and the stick changes them: 7, 9, sus4, sus2, dom7, dim, add9 or major to minor. STRUM rolls each chord in time and BASS adds the root below. Play it from a MIDI keyboard too: the white keys pick the chord, the pitch bender and mod wheel move the stick. The chords play into the arpeggiator, the sequencer and MIDI out. NEW EFFECTS Every sound still has four effect slots, and MIX has a master effect. Each now chooses from sixteen types: • ECHO: a tape echo in time with the tempo, each repeat darker than the last • SPACE: a reverb with tails from one second to a minute, and a shimmer an octave up • DIST: distortion from crunch to fuzz • FILTER: a low, high or band filter that moves in time with the tempo or with how hard you play • PUMP: the sidechain duck, in time with the tempo • SWIRL: a phaser and a flanger in one • LO-FI: crackle, hiss, wobble and an old-radio tone • TREMOLO: the level or the pan moving in time with the tempo SOUNDS • Over 500 sounds, including 147 sampled instruments and 40 more: electric pianos, hard basses, big pads and echo plucks, listed under NEW in the browser • Every synth engine has a 3D screen that moves with your playing, and KNOCK and CINDER kits play on 3D pads and a 3D drum kit. Tap the screen for the classic view • Each sound opens in its own range, so basses start low • A filter on the SAMPLER • Rename your own sounds, tag them by type, and choose SAVE or SAVE AS FIVE HOUSINGS ON IPHONE TN-1, TN-1 Dark and TN-XY join Light and Dark (Settings, THEME, Housing). In all three, every key has an LED that lights while its note plays. iPad has Light and Dark. KEYS AND CHORDS • Pick a key and scale and the keys in it light up. LOCK keeps every note in key • CHORDS plays a whole chord from one key, and LEARN keeps a chord shape of your own • Each lane can have its own key SEQUENCER, MIX AND TAPE • STEP REC: each note or chord you play fills a step and moves on, with REST and TIE, from the screen, the chord pad, the drum pads or a MIDI keyboard • Move a pattern up or down an octave, copy a pattern to another lane, and see which bar is playing • An EQ on every lane • Recording every lane to tape keeps your mix balance SHARE AND MIDI • Share a loop from the tape as a vertical video or as audio, ready to post • Export MIDI files of every lane • Your MIDI keyboard can play the selected lane, or each lane can listen on its own channel • Enter sequencer steps from a MIDI keyboard EASIER TO USE PLAY shows whether it starts the sequencer or the tape. REC blinks while it records. The page keys look different from the mode keys. On the FX page, tap an effect's name to change it. FIXES No crackle on the first play, smoother audio, and many smaller fixes. A song that uses the new effects, a lane EQ, LOCK or CHORDS asks a friend still on 1.0 to update before it opens.

Ranking events

  1. Entered the Paid · Music chart at #27Canada
  2. Entered the Paid · Music chart at #38United States

About

Tonaut is a synthesizer, drum machine, sequencer and eight-track tape recorder in one instrument, made to be played rather than programmed. Pick a sound, tap out a pattern and record it to tape, all on one panel that feels more like hardware than an app. SOUNDS • Nine synth engines: virtual analog, six-operator FM, wavetable, pulse, modeled string, a seven-oscillator swarm, grains, a classic analog poly and a sampler • Every engine has a 3D screen that turns slowly and moves with your playing.

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TONAUT icon

TONAUT

Richard Rogers

Category: Music
Best rank now#27Canada · Paid · Music
Peak rank, 7 days#27Canada · Paid · Music
Charts now2Across 2 countries
Rating—No ratings yet
New ratings, 7 days—Needs a week of rating history
Longest chart run1 dayCanada · Paid · Music

About

From the app's App Store listing.

Tonaut is a synthesizer, drum machine, sequencer and eight-track tape recorder in one instrument, made to be played rather than programmed. Pick a sound, tap out a pattern and record it to tape, all on one panel that feels more like hardware than an app.

SOUNDS

  • Nine synth engines: virtual analog, six-operator FM, wavetable, pulse, modeled string, a seven-oscillator swarm, grains, a classic analog poly and a sampler
  • Every engine has a 3D screen that turns slowly and moves with your playing.

What's new

Version 1.1 · 25 Oct 2026 ·

CHORD PAD: seven chords from your key on seven keys, and a stick that turns each one into a 7th, 9th, sus, dim and more as you play. SIXTEEN EFFECTS, eight of them new: tape echo, a reverb with tails up to a minute, distortion, filter, pump, swirl, lo-fi and tremolo. OVER 500 SOUNDS, a 3D screen for every engine, and on iPhone three new housings with an LED in every key.

CHORD PAD On a synth lane, hold SHIFT and tap CHORD until it reads PAD. The seven keys play the chords of your key and scale, and the stick changes them: 7, 9, sus4, sus2, dom7, dim, add9 or major to minor. STRUM rolls each chord in time and BASS adds the root below. Play it from a MIDI keyboard too: the white keys pick the chord, the pitch bender and mod wheel move the stick. The chords play into the arpeggiator, the sequencer and MIDI out.

NEW EFFECTS Every sound still has four effect slots, and MIX has a master effect. Each now chooses from sixteen types:

  • ECHO: a tape echo in time with the tempo, each repeat darker than the last
  • SPACE: a reverb with tails from one second to a minute, and a shimmer an octave up
  • DIST: distortion from crunch to fuzz
  • FILTER: a low, high or band filter that moves in time with the tempo or with how hard you play
  • PUMP: the sidechain duck, in time with the tempo
  • SWIRL: a phaser and a flanger in one
  • LO-FI: crackle, hiss, wobble and an old-radio tone
  • TREMOLO: the level or the pan moving in time with the tempo

SOUNDS

  • Over 500 sounds, including 147 sampled instruments and 40 more: electric pianos, hard basses, big pads and echo plucks, listed under NEW in the browser
  • Every synth engine has a 3D screen that moves with your playing, and KNOCK and CINDER kits play on 3D pads and a 3D drum kit. Tap the screen for the classic view
  • Each sound opens in its own range, so basses start low
  • A filter on the SAMPLER
  • Rename your own sounds, tag them by type, and choose SAVE or SAVE AS

FIVE HOUSINGS ON IPHONE TN-1, TN-1 Dark and TN-XY join Light and Dark (Settings, THEME, Housing). In all three, every key has an LED that lights while its note plays. iPad has Light and Dark.

KEYS AND CHORDS

  • Pick a key and scale and the keys in it light up. LOCK keeps every note in key
  • CHORDS plays a whole chord from one key, and LEARN keeps a chord shape of your own
  • Each lane can have its own key

SEQUENCER, MIX AND TAPE

  • STEP REC: each note or chord you play fills a step and moves on, with REST and TIE, from the screen, the chord pad, the drum pads or a MIDI keyboard
  • Move a pattern up or down an octave, copy a pattern to another lane, and see which bar is playing
  • An EQ on every lane
  • Recording every lane to tape keeps your mix balance

SHARE AND MIDI

  • Share a loop from the tape as a vertical video or as audio, ready to post
  • Export MIDI files of every lane
  • Your MIDI keyboard can play the selected lane, or each lane can listen on its own channel
  • Enter sequencer steps from a MIDI keyboard

EASIER TO USE PLAY shows whether it starts the sequencer or the tape. REC blinks while it records. The page keys look different from the mode keys. On the FX page, tap an effect's name to change it.

FIXES No crackle on the first play, smoother audio, and many smaller fixes.

A song that uses the new effects, a lane EQ, LOCK or CHORDS asks a friend still on 1.0 to update before it opens.

Store listing

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App facts

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Price
$19.99
Released
24 Oct 2026
Last update
Version 1.1
Requires
iOS 26.0or later
Size
102.5 MB
Languages
1

Rank history

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Canada · Paid · Music: best #27, latest #27, over 9 snapshots since 19 Oct.

Canada · Paid · Music: best #27, latest #27, over 9 snapshots since 19 Oct.

Current rankings

Every chart this app is in right now, best position first.

TONAUT chart positions
ChartRank24 h7 daysBestDays on chart
Canada· Paid · Music · best #27 · 1 day#27New entryNot enough history yet#271
United States· Paid · Music · best #38 · 1 day#38New entryNot enough history yet#381

Ranking events

Entries, big moves, #1s and new versions we've recorded, by day.

    1. Entered the Paid · Music chart at #27Canada
    2. Entered the Paid · Music chart at #38United States

Competitors

Full chart

Top of Paid · Music in Canada. TONAUT is #27 there. Changes are over 7 days.

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