2016
03/23
Using Blocs Wave As An Eight Track Looper
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Novation Blocs Wave iOS

Blocs Wave is an eight track loop recorder and loop mixer. Easily combine original professional sounds across a wide array of genres. Tweak your sounds using beautiful touchable waveforms, and make your ideas even more unique. Record your vocals and instruments, and bring your ideas to life within minutes.

The following video is a quick demonstration showing how you can use Blocs Wave as an eight track loop recorder.

Get it now at a special introductory price.

Features
• Start new music – Quickly tap sounds to combine and make new original musical ideas.
• Make every sound unique – Tweak sounds using beautiful touchable waveforms.
• Record new sounds – Effortlessly capture your own sounds, vocals and instruments.
• Explore and combine your sounds from a huge library – Explore amazing sounds across genres from EDM to dubstep, indie to songwriting and tons more.
• Expand your collection – Download even more sounds from an ever expanding pro library

Advanced Features
• Real-time stretch – Change pitch AND bpm while playing, and blocs will adapt.
• Record with Low-Latency
• Export & Import – Bring in your own sounds from other apps, or export to them.
• Key aware – All library sounds are ‘key aware’ and can stay in-key.
• Works well with others – Audiobus, AudioCopy, AudioShare, and hardware input and outputs supported.

Compatible with iPad 2, iPad (3rd Generation), iPad (4th Generation), iPad Air, iPad Air 2, iPad Mini, iPad Mini 2, iPad Mini 3, iPad Pro

Supports iOS 8 and iOS 9.

Blocs Wave

2012
06/28
MultiTrack DAW For iPad
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The power of a digital audio workstation in the palm of your hand. Release your creativity with up to 24 high quality audio tracks. Record multiple takes, harmonies, solos, and experiments. No more worrying about bouncing – each instrument can have its own track.

Build new songs just like in a real recording studio, with the monitoring and overdubbing capabilities of MultiTrack DAW. Move and trim audio until it’s perfect, and mix the sound until it’s just right. Share your creations with iTunes File Sharing, Wifi, email, and SoundCloud.

What’s New in Version 4.3.3
Preamp gain controls how much signal is sent to IAA track effects.
Effect Knob drag types (horizontal, vertical, or both). Option available in Settings App.
IAA Track effects now work on underlying regions of armed tracks as well as input monitor.
“Sound Copy” App Extension, converts audio to wav and copies to the general pasteboard from outside MultiTrack, including ogg files.
Tempo Controller redesign, separate spinner controls for Ruler type and Display type, ‘Accent’ button to accent the first beat of the bar.
Custom metronome sound (drop a short wav file into the Documents folder named ‘metronome.wav’. Max duration for metronome sound is 0.1 seconds. Accent sound is created automatically by pitching up the sound.)
MultiTrack now rotates 5 backups of a project. If anything goes wrong, the latest backup is loaded.
Improved Input Selector box now groups core audio inputs, IAA effects, generators, instruments, and Audiobus sources.
Waveform previews are now built while recording, instead of after. No waiting for a lengthy preview build after long audio recordings.
Bins and Regions are named by track and take number, or audiobus source port names.
MultiTrack can now be launched into the background, when hosted from another app.
Now supports retina 3x displays on iPhone 6+, 6S+, and 7+ (5 tracks visible). iPad pro displays 11 tracks landscape and 15 tracks portrait.
Bluetooth A2DP and Airplay now works for iOS 10 devices (enabled in the Menu).
Non-Exclusive solo, now you can solo as many tracks as you want.
‘IN’ volume meter now displays up to 24 input channels on iPad and 3x iPhone
Select from the 3 different built-in microphones on newer devices.
Reworked IAA plugin system for better stability and compatibility with particular apps.
Updated for iOS 10. Audiobus 3 ready.

INPUT OPTIONS

MultiTrack has a wide range of input capabilities, including the built-in mic, headset mics, and USB interfaces and mics. Please see our support forum for a list of supported input devices.

AUDIO FILES

File types for import include mp3, wav, aac, m4a, aif, and m4a. MultiTrack now offers 7 ways to get audio files in and out: iTunes File Sharing, Wifi, Copy/Paste, “Open in…”, Email, Music Library Import, and SoundCloud.

FEATURES

8 stereo audio tracks, upgradable to 24.
Up to 24 bit / 96kHz, professional quality sound for each track.
Inter-App Audio – Generators, Instruments, and Effects supported.
Audiobus 2.0 – Can be used as a sender for any track or master out. Supports saving and restoring state.
Non-linear, non-destructive editing using Regions and Bins.
Per track Compressor and EQ (2 bands parametric, 2 bands shelving)
Sweet Reverb and configurable stereo Delay available as bus effects.
Supports up to 16 inputs simultaneously (USB hardware required)
Grid View with Snap to easily align regions.
Freeze tracks for improved performance and to free up the IAA plugins for use on other tracks.

Metronome adjustable from 40 to 240 BPM
Time Signatures (2/2, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 7/4, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8, 11/8 and 12/8)
Ruler showing bars/beats/divisions/ticks or timecode.
Individual controls for volume, pan, mute and solo.
Volume faders have +12db of gain boost.
Fade in and out per region (editable fade points)
Input selection allows splitting stereo input onto 2 mono tracks.
Ability to monitor the input signal with effects.

Opens email attachments or audio on web pages (mp3, m4a, AAC, wav, aif, ogg)

Bounce Regions using multi-region copy and paste.
Looping with the Loop Markers.

Hotbox popup control with context sensitive buttons.
Audio Browser allows preview of audio files in the song.
Snap, Punch, Input Monitor, Auto Input, Undo and Redo, and many more features.
Smart Snap displays red vertical lines with exact snapping placement, snaps to any other region or ruler line.

MORE FEATURES

Beautifully rendered waveforms at multiple zoom levels.
Low latency VU meters for each track.
32 bit / 64 bit audio processing.
Multi-touch pinch/zoom support.
Unified Copy/Paste system means internal copying works in other apps.
Latency compensation with selectable buffer sizes.
Recorded material perfectly synced with other tracks.
Fades use quadratic interpolation in dB space.
Fully Bit Transparent when faders set to 0dB.
Zip compression of song projects for backup/restore.
Sharing of Zipped songs with AirDrop or “Open In…”

Native iPad support (landscape and portrait, up to 11 tracks visible)
USB Audio using Camera Connection Kit or Lightning to USB Camera Adapter.

Wav, Ogg, and m4a compression for Wi-Fi download, mixdown, email attachments, and SoundCloud upload.

“Sound Copy” app extension allows copying audio to the General Pasteboard (Intua format) from outside MultiTrack.

MultiTrack Daw Screenshot

MultiTrack Daw Screenshot

MultiTrack DAW is available for $9.99

  • 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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