The FM3 Buddha Machine is a palm-sized plastic box that plays meditative music loops composed by Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian.
This iPhone/iPod application is a “virtual Buddha Machine” which replicates the no-nonsense simplicity of the original with improved sound quality.
Since its introduction in 2005, the Buddha Machine has won global praise for its novel approach to music enjoyment and has been used in hundreds of recording and performance projects from a wide range of artists.
Featuring hypnotic, ethereal music designed to create a calming presence in today’s fast paced world, the machine’s colorful charm provides an experience that is hard to define.
Essentially, It’s a box with a life; a tool for living, and to many, a friend
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Buddha Machine Features:
– All 18 Buddha Machine 1.0 and Buddha 2.0 loops in High-quality Audio
– All 12 original colors
– Touch Sensitive (give it a shake!)
– Simple interface. Beautiful Sounds. No added Sugar!
Brian Eno has a series of really cool apps for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch by Opal Limited.
BLOOM – A music box for the 21st century
Developed by ambient pioneer Brian Eno and musician / software designer Peter Chilvers, Bloom explores uncharted territory in the realm of applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Part instrument, part composition and part artwork, Bloom’s innovative controls allow anyone to create elaborate patterns and unique melodies by simply tapping the screen. A generative music player takes over when Bloom is left idle, creating an infinite selection of compositions and their accompanying visualisations.
Features
– 12 different mood settings
– Random mood shuffle
– Adjustable delay
– Shake to clear
– Evolve when idle
– Sleep Timer
“Bloom is an endless music machine, a music box for the 21st century. You can play it, and you can watch it play itself.” – Brian Eno
Trope, designed by ambient pioneer Brian Eno and musician / software designer Peter Chilvers, expands further on the ideas introduced by Bloom, their acclaimed iPhone application. Darker in tone, Trope immerses users in endlessly evolving soundscapes created by tracing abstract shapes onto the screen, varying the tone with each movement.
“Trope is a different emotional experience from Bloom – more introspective, more atmospheric. It shows that generative music, as one of the newest forms of sonema, can draw on a broad palette of moods.” – Brian Eno
Air is a generative audio-visual work created by musician / software designer Peter Chilvers and Irish vocalist Sandra O’Neill. Based on concepts developed by Brian Eno, with whom Chilvers created Bloom, Air assembles vocal and piano samples into a beautiful, still and ever changing composition, which is always familiar, but never the same.
Air features four ‘Conduct’ modes, which let the user control the composition by tapping different areas on the display, and three ‘Listen’ modes, which provide a choice of arrangement. For those fortunate enough to have access to multiple iPhones and speakers, an option has been provided to spread the composition over several players.
“Air is like ‘Music for Airports’ made endless – which is how I always wanted it to be” – Brian Eno
Aura Flux 2 is a unique and innovative ambient music creation App for iOS devices.
Create unlimited, generative music by simply connecting nodes together drawing pictures.
With a wealth of options available for each node the sound, frequency, pitch can be changed to your needs or set to random to create evolving music.
With 48 individual sounds and a wide variety of features for how each connection reacts with the next, Aura Flux offers limitless possibilities.
Choose from one of 4 moods (keys) and adjust the background ambiance to create new music every time you play with Aura Flux.
The entire screen also acts as a touch instrument letting you play along melodies with any of the 48 instruments included.
Featuring full save and load, keep your favorite scenes to recall and listen to later or tweak to suit your mood.
Key Features
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48 High quality stereo instruments
14 Stereo background ambience sounds
4 Seasons (keys)
Unlimited generative music
Full save and load of scenes
Multitouch Instrument playback of instruments
Universal App – one purchase for iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad
Supports multitasking on iOS4 (Not Audio playback)
Volume, Trigger Rate, Pitch, Additional Note, Pulse Speed and Decay settings for each node
Solo each node
Instrument preview
All in under 8Mb!
Upload your creations to YouTube and we will post the best ones on our website!
Aura Flux
NO LONGER AVAILABLE
iPad Loops is an iOS music production blog dedicated to exposing the best iPad apps musicians, producers, and Djs. This is not a database of every app. It is, however, one of useful recommendations from someone with many years in music production. I try to update it on a daily basis (ok sometimes every two days) and I do my best to post useful apps only. My name is Jason Donnelly (Dj Puzzle).
You might know me from my royalty free loop packs and sound design. Some of the apps that contain my sounds are Synth One, EG Segments, Hammerhead, Retronyms AudioCopy, Audio Evolution Mobile, LP-5, iPRO.DJSAMPLER, Looptastic. My work is published by Roland, Antares, Magix, Soundtrack Loops, Sample Logic, Acoustica, Loopmasters and many more. Subscribe to our RSS feed below to get updated when new apps are posted.
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