I can NOT believe this synth is free! •• As used by Gorillaz on their album The Fall ••
Sylo Synthesiser allows you to play music, or create sound effects, using sounds you can design yourself. Sylo Synth includes a collection of pre-designed sounds which you can use as they are, tweak them to your heart’s desire, or you can make new sounds from scratch.
Build sounds from basic waveforms, or capture them from the world around you using the iPad’s built-in microphone. Then, tinker with Sylo Synthesiser’s filters and other settings to make a sound all your own.
Sylo Synthesiser features live time-stretching technology based on granular synthesis and a suite of filters:
• Speed up or slow down a recorded sound to use as an instrument
• With a regular wavetable synthesiser, higher-pitched notes are also faster, like chipmunks, and lower-pitched notes are also slower, as though they are moving through treacle
• But enable Sylo’s “Sync Speed” feature, and lower or higher-pitched notes still play back at the same speed, keeping them in sync with each other
• Fiddle with the speed control even while you’re playing notes: Slow, stop or even rewind the sound in the middle of notes — without changing the pitch
• Granular synthesis allows you to create instruments or effects from a recording, that do not sound like the original, yet retain its realistic, natural sound
• FX units: Frequency modulation, ring modulation, echo/delay, distortion, and a low-pass filter with resonance control
Sylo Synthesiser also supports Core MIDI: play music from another device via MIDI.
Upgrade to Sylo Synthesiser Pro and you gain these additional features:
• Use existing audio files as the building-blocks of your instrument: import audio from wave, aiff, mp3 and aac/m4a files
• Save recordings to your iPad or to Dropbox* online storage
• Save your new instruments to the preset list for quick access
• Exchange audio with other apps via AudioCopy/AudioPaste or “Open in…” (where supported)
Now supports Dropbox
Please note: The microphone button in Sylo Synthesiser is for recording sound into the synth, to use as the basis for new instruments — not for making a permanent record of what you play! (We’ve heard from a couple of people confused about this so we thought we’d make it clear!) If you wish to record your performances, Sylo Synthesiser Pro adds a Record button to the toolbar for this purpose.
Alchemy Mobile (Alchemy Synth Mobile) by Camel Audio
Turn your iPhone/iPad into a powerful synthesizer! Alchemy Mobile includes everything from evolving soundscapes and fat bases to lush pads and pulsing arpeggios. This is the iOS version of Camel Audio’s award-winning Alchemy synth – the leading sample manipulation synthesizer which can be heard on thousands of records and films by world-class artists.
What’s New in Version 1.1.23
What’s New in v1.1.23
– Tilt your device to move remix pad (Extra->Tilt)
– Inertia for remix pad (Extra->Inertia)
– Quantize to lock your recordings into time
– Unlimited record, bounce and export time
– Improved keyboard display
– Improved menu layout
– Full control over MIDI input and output
– iPad 3 retina display graphics
– Splash screen on start up
– Bug fixes
New in Pro Upgrade:
– Record remix pad movements
– Mark presets as favourites for easy lookup
– Additional quantise options including triplets
– Clear MIDI performance and loops option (File->Clear)
Discover an almost limitless palette of sounds using the unique remix pad to morph between sound variations. 16 controls including cutoff, resonance, ADSR and effects parameters are specially selected for each preset to make tweaking sounds to fit your music easier than ever.
The Alchemy Mobile interface was designed with ease of use in mind. You can play the mini keyboard built into the app, which features scalable key size and one touch major and minor keys so even the clumsiest fingers can play along with friends. You can also plug in an external Core MIDI keyboard.
Using Alchemy with other apps like NanoStudio and Garageband is easy, thanks to the included loop player. Simply paste a loop from your sequencer into Alchemy Player, hit record, and play in your killer bass part, and then paste the resulting loop back into the sequencer. Alchemy Player is the first iPhone app to feature exposé, which makes switching between pages a breeze.
Want to know why Alchemy Mobile has such amazing sounds which can change so drastically with a tap of the remix pad? The performance controls and remix pad are linked to the most powerful synthesis engine on iOS, which allows you to morph and change the sound in radical ways not possible with any other synth. Alchemy’s VA synth, sampler and granular and additive resynthesis, combined with almost unlimited modulation sources, effects and a flexible arpeggiator are used to power this expressive way of creating new sounds for your music.
The free version of Alchemy Mobile includes 25 sounds, with a further 25 available when you register for free with Camel Audio. You can expand Alchemy Mobile with a wide range of sound libraries such as BigTone, Cinematic and Arp Dimensions from world class sound designers. The libraries each contain 50 sounds (400 variations) and are available as in-app purchases.
Alchemy is programmed to make the most of your device, so the more recent your model the higher the polyphony and the lower the latency.
FREE FEATURES:
• Remix Pad to morph between sound variations and create your own sound
• 16 Performance Controls so you can easily tweak sounds to fit your music
• Most Powerful iOS Synthesis engine with VA, sampler, granular and additive resynthesis
• External MIDI Keyboard support
• Loop Player with 25 drum loops included
• Copy and Paste support for easy integration with sequencers
• Keyboard with velocity sensitivity and per note filter sweeps
• iPad Native version included
• 25 Sounds with 25 more free when you register
• Add On Sound Libraries available as in-app purchases
What’s New in Version 1.1.8
NEW FEATURES in FREE: (Pro Upgrade 25% Off with Many Extra Features)
• Velocity Sensitive – press lower down the key for louder sounds
• Individual Note Filter Sweeps by sliding your finger up and down the keys
• Improved Copy/Paste – integrated Sonoma Wireworks AudioCopy/AudioPaste
• Dubstep, Dance & Trance and Guitar Mutations available as in App purchases
• Smaller downloads and faster installs of Sound Libraries
PRO UPGRADE EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURES: ★★ 25% OFF ★★
• Load/Save Projects so you can recall your song sketches
• Virtual MIDI – control Alchemy from other Apps such as SoundPrism Pro
• Export MIDI and WAV files
• Load Alchemy Desktop Presets
• Pitchbend Each Note by sliding your finger left and right
• Bounce – layer up as many synth parts as you like
• Auto Sync to External MIDI tempo
• Poly control – set the number of notes to play at once
• Polyphonic Aftertouch MIDI messages sent to desktop Alchemy
PRO UPGRADE DESCRIPTION
With the Pro upgrade, you can remotely control Alchemy or the free Alchemy Player on your desktop computer. Easy one touch access to the remix pad and preset selection means you’ll spend more time getting inspired and less time reaching for your mouse. The Pro upgrade comes with an extra 75 presets and 25 loops and you can download Mobile versions of the desktop Sound Libraries you own for free. Since the same presets are available in the desktop version, you can find the perfect sound for the tune you are working on whilst you’re on the go. Upgrade to the Pro version via in-app purchase from the presets menu.
Most apps now support the audio copy and paste feature. This means you can import your own performances as an audio file into them. Hokusai is a great editor for editing that audio in between apps and it’s FREE! It’s also great for sound design as it includes a nice set of effects such as filter, pitch bend, and delay.
What’s new:
Selections snap to zero crossings (requires iOS 4 or later)
If a recording is in progress when you switch to another app, Hokusai continues to record.
Easier for customers to check which upgrades are installed
Additional accessibility features for VoiceOver users (requires iOS 4 or later, iOS 5 recommended)
Description
Hokusai is a multitrack audio editor for iPhone or iPad. Record or import a track, and make it sound the way you want it to: not just trimming the ends, but full cut, copy, paste and delete, and a suite of filters and special effects available. Edit many tracks side-by-side, mix them together, and export to wave or mp4 format — then transfer them to your computer via USB or Dropbox, or send them to another app on your device. Hokusai is streamlined to give you a clean, clear view of your tracks. Use the familiar pinch and swipe gestures to zoom right in and fiddle with fine detail, or step back to see the big picture. And just like selecting text in other apps, you can select pieces of audio. Live “scrubbing” means you can hear the sound under your fingertip as you make your adjustments. And you needn’t fear a bad edit with our full undo/redo support: as many levels as space allows. Hokusai comes free with a set of useful tools such as fade in/out, normalise volume levels, reverse time, and basic synthesis. If you need more power, you can upgrade from inside the app to add new tools and effects, including: AudioCopy/AudioPaste, grain synthesis, noise gating, time-stretching, pitch-bending, echo, reverb, modulation (AM & FM), resonance, distortion, grunge, vocal levelling, monster voice, high/low/band-pass/notch-cut filter and more.
Are you comfortable using music production environments like Reason by Propellerheads? If so and you own an iPad, this is the app for you! Created by the same companies who brought you Rebirth for the iPad.
Enter TableTop by Retronyms! Version 1.6 offers a new T Pain effect as an in app purchase.
Tabletop iPad T Pain Effect
An Expandable Studio with 11 included musical devices!
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The heart of Tabletop is a modular environment where you can mix and match different devices. Select from more than 25 devices including samplers, mixers, effects, sequencers and more. Buy only the gear you need from an expanding catalog.
Tabletop is the first musical environment designed from the ground up exclusively for the iPad. Each device has its own uses, characteristics, personality — ranging from classics like drum pad samplers to touchscreen effects.
Virtual, Modular Gear
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Plug the output of a keyboard into a delay to add an echo, or wire it up to a mixer and adjust the pan. Chain up multiple effects to create new and evolving sounds. Tabletop is an audio playground where you can create beats, compose songs, mix live, make mashups with samples from your iPod library… the possibilities are wide open.
Tabletop Includes
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– Gridlok: Pad Sampler
– M8RX: Tone Matrix
– RS3: Polyphonic Stereo Keyboard
– Mr. O: Master Output
– Goblin MX8: 8-Channel Mixer
– SpinBack: Turntable Player
– Recorder M2: All-Purpose Input Recorder
– Filtr LP: Low-Pass Filter Effect
– 3Q: 3-Band Equalizer
– X2: Splitter Unit
– T101 – Triggerator: Sequence and Perform
In-App purchases can be made for additional FX and modules.
Top free iPad music app in 5 countries, top 10 in more than 50!
Get your groove on with Core Synth HD, the definitive monophonic synthesizer for the iPad. With tons of features packed into a small package, Core Synth is great for live performing. A Pitch Wheel replicates perfectly the real thing!
This free app has the following features:
– Pitch Wheel
– 2 Octave keyboard
– Keys light up in different colors when pressed
Oscillator Module
– Dual overlapping oscillators
– Four wave patterns: Square, Triangle, Sawtooth and Reverse Sawtooth
* Select from 5 octaves
* Adjust glide between notes
* Fine tune Oscillator 2 with option to sync with Oscillator 1
Upgrade to the full version within the app for the following additional features:
– 7 Octave Keyboard
– Octave control to move along entire range
– Modulation Wheel
Patches Module
– Save an unlimited number of individually named patches
– Browse through your collection before applying patch
– Delete unwanted patches
Modulation Module
– Four wave patterns: Square, Triangle, Sawtooth and Reverse Sawtooth
– Modulate Filter, Pitch or Wave
– Adjust LFO Rate and amount
Arpeggiator Module
– Arpeggio moves up to 5 octaves
– Four step modes: Up, Down, Up/Down, Random
– Adjust rate
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).
Some of the apps that contain my sounds are Synth One, EG Segments, Hammerhead, Retronyms AudioCopy, Audio Evolution Mobile, and iMPC Pro. My work is published by Roland, Antares, Magix, Soundtrack Loops, Sample Logic, Acoustica, Native Instruments, The Grammt Museum and many more. Subscribe to our RSS feed below to get updated when new apps are posted.
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