A fast, modern and efficient audio editor for the iPad touch screen providing many features for rapidly chopping, blending and editing audio files, taking full advantage of the latest advances in iOS.
• Extremely simple import and export directly to and from any location in the Files environment.
• Import and export to and from many file formats.
• Macro based multi-file batch format and rate conversion direct from the file browser.
• Single file and region based multi-layer editing modes with mixable bouncing to new layers.
• Loop tools for creating crossfade loops and (planned for a near future release) tools for slicing and stretching.
• Full multi-step undo.
• Rapid and efficient locating, scrolling and zooming.
• Customizable Tool Bar and Transport Bar, (choose which editing functions you want available on buttons).
• A simple record function with support for hardware inputs from attached audio interfaces.
• Light and dark colour themes.
•Split screen and Drag & Drop compatibility.
New features in version 1.5 bring polyrhythm to all sequencer engines, 6 powerful modulation sources for the filter, scales to the bass section and monophonic mode in the slicer. Additional content: presets, slicer samples in folder “Modular“ and a new drumkit: “Cweijman S1“.
What’s New in Version 1.5.0
– Ableton Link Integration
– All Sequencers polyrhythmic now with independent clock dividers
– Monophonic mode for Slicer
– Scales available in Bass Engine
– Filter now with 7 mod sources
– Panning for Hi-Hats
– New Content: presets, new slicing samples and a fresh beatkit: ‚Cwejman S1’
Hello hello welcome to the sound mix lab I am your host Jason Donnelly aka Dj Puzzle reporting for my website www.ipadloops.com and today we’re gonna do a little sampling with an iPad and an app called Beat Twirl. Beat Twirl is an app inspired by Propellerheads Recycle. What it allows us to do is record a stream of audio hits and automatically slice them up and export the slices so that we can easily import then into our sampler or drum machine app of choice.
Our audio source will be these two Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators. We’ve got a simple mini plug Y adapter and two 1/4 inch adapters going into the iTrack Dock. The pocket operators are good for producing chiptune. Use these free samples in your mixes. Samples from PO-28 Robot and PO-20 Arcade.
Goal: Sample and export slices with an iPad.
Results: Free Teenage Engineering samples.
Let’s start recording. Here you will see the record options. Have the wait for audio enabled. What this will do is tell the app to start recording right when it picks up the first sound. Now the record button will become a small square when it is armed and you should see your VU meters dancing. Make sure you adjust the gain accordingly and leave a bit of head room. Hit the record button again to name and save your samples. Now lets adjust the slice sensitivity to place our slice points. You can also adjust the silence parameter to remove silence from each slice. Next we will export the individual slices in a zip file to our dropbox. Now we can open and extract the zip pack into Audioshare and open them in our app of choice. Let’s choose patterning. Suppose I’ll have a little jam. Thanks for watching and please remember to subscribe to my channel. You can download the free samples via a link I placed in the video desciption below.
Beat Twirl is a “beat slicer” app. The app lets you analyze existing sounds and detect their rhythm with its note onset algorithms. With Beat Twirl you can work with drum loops and rhythm patterns, easily enhancing them with additional percussion sound, or create new patterns.
With Beat Twirl you can:
• Change the tempo (time) of drum loops without changing the pitch.
• Analyze percussion patterns and find the underlying timing.
• Mix-in additional percussion sounds, or replace the original sounds
• Export single beats from a sound file.
How to use Beat Twirl?
• You can record yourself singing or clapping a rhythm, than add percussion instruments to the rhythm you created.
• You can extract a rhythmic/percussive section from a song and convert it to a loop you can play along with at different tempos.
• Mix-in percussion instruments to a song to enhance its’ rhythm.
• Extract beat samples from a song for use with a beat sequencer.
Features:
• Import audio from your ipod library, using iTunes file sharing or using audio copy/paste from supporting applications.
• Record using an external mic or the built in mic.
• Universal app. UI designed iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Supports retina displays.
• Two spectrum based note onset detection algorithms.
• Manual slicing capabilities on top of the automated algorithm.
• Mix in percussion beats from a library of 300 samples.
• Export audio as wav, caf or aac. Export using audio copy, iTunes files sharing or email.
• Audiobus input/output support.
Beat Twirl
Audioshare is a sound file manager with powerful import and export abilities. If you are using music-making apps, then this tool is a must-have. I use this app on a daily basis. The new update is cool because it now supports iPad Pro and split screen.
What’s New in Version 2.7.3
• Native support for iPad Pro
• Support slide-over and split-screen on iOS 9
• Minor fixes and tweaks
A sound file manager with powerful import and export abilities. If you are using music-making apps, then this tool is a must-have!
“If you make music with an iDevice, you need this app. It just makes sense.” – smitematter.com
“AudioShare is a Must Have App for musicians, a Killer App!” – apps4idevices.com
Organize all your soundfiles and midifiles on your device. Record, trim, convert, normalize, transfer, export, import, zip, unzip. Create folders, rename and move files and folders around, put everything where you can find it.
Built-in Inter-App Audio host with 4 node slots. Record Inter-App Audio compatible instruments and effects, or process files through the chain! AudioShare is also a node itself that can be used in other hosts like Garageband or Auria.
Use it to transfer files between apps and between your device and computer. For example, transfer your new track from your favorite music-making app and import into the AudioShare library, then share it on your SoundCloud account, or transfer it into other apps. Or record your live-jam from other Audiobus-apps.
You can record directly in the app, from hardware, Inter-App Audio, or other Audiobus compatible apps. Preview and play soundfiles with waveform display and looping, trim and normalize soundfiles, and convert to other file formats.
FEATURES
• Record external input (such as microphone) directly in app
• Record the live output of other Audiobus-compatible apps
• Record Inter-App Audio node apps
• Plays and records in 96k, 48k, 44.1k, 22k, 11k and 8k sample rates
• Plays and records 16, 24 and 32 bit files
• AudioCopyPaste (General pasteboard, Retronyms ACP2.0)
• Import/Export through iOS8 Document Pickers like iCloud Drive
• AudioShare Document Picker extension allows direct access to your sound file library from within other apps
• Built-in Dropbox client
• Use “Open in” from other apps or to open a file in other apps
• WiFi Drive: transfer files from/to any computer on your local network
• Import songs from iTunes music library
• Import/Export from/to AudioShare-compatible apps
• Access files through iTunes File Sharing
• Playback of almost any kind of sound file
• Trim, apply fade ins and fade outs
• Convert between sound file formats
• Normalize
• Share your sounds on your SoundCloud account
• Send your sounds by email
Audioshare allows you to download zip files and loop packs straight from the internet to your iPad and iPhone. The following video tutorial is a how to instructional guide to show you how simple it is to browse to the location of a zip file, download it, unpack it, and use the audio contents in your music project.
Audioshare is a sound file manager with powerful import and export abilities. If you are using music-making apps, then this tool is a must-have! Organize all your soundfiles and midifiles on your device. Record, trim, convert, normalize, upload, download, export, import, zip, unzip. Create folders, rename and move files and folders around, put everything where you can find it.
What’s New in Version 2.7
MAJOR NEW FEATURES
• New and improved visual design.
• Auto-zoom when trimming audio.
• Apply fade in/out when trimming audio.
• New built-in text editor for taking notes.
• WiFi Drive: Access the library and upload files from any web browser on your local network.
• Allow access to Document Providers from within AudioShare on iOS 8, for example iCloud Drive.
• Include a Document Picker app extension to allow other apps to access the AudioShare library directly on iOS 8.
• Support iPhone 6 and 6+ screen resolutions.
• Scroll up to reveal a Search Bar to search the current folder.
• Support 24 and 32 bits recording and conversion.
MORE NEWS AND FIXES
• New waveform display with doubled resolution, that shows RMS as well as peak levels.
• Waveform display now reads both channels for stereo files.
• Allow sorting on size as well as name and date.
• Auto-start a file when opening it if another file was already playing.
• Tap navigation bar folder title to show navigation menu.
• Group multiple Inter-App Audio node ports in ‘folders’.
• Inter-App Audio sync: send play & rec flags to connected nodes when recording.
• Show play progress on preview buttons.
• Display helpful instructions when Inter-App Audio zombie node detected.
• When opening a zip file, ask to unpack instead of opening an empty detail view.
• Check microphone permissions before starting recording.
• Use a separate iTunes File Sharing folder for access from computer (iTunes, iFunBox, etc). This folder is not available in the Document Picker extension.
• Fix crash in case of web download timeout.
• Fix crash when clearing general pasteboard.
• Update TheAmazingAudioEngine for upstream bug fixes.
• Update Audiobus SDK for upstream bug fixes.
• Several small and big tweaks of the user interface.
• Update file listing in background, improves user experience and startup time on big folders and/or slow devices.
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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