2015
01/14
Aircussion Air Drumming App For iPhone and iPad
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Aircussion

Unlike other drumming apps that require you to play the drums with your fingers on the screen, Aircussion uses your smartphone AS the drumstick or percussion instrument.

By holding your phone in one hand and your thumb down on any of the instrument tiles, start air drumming with your device and the sound will be produced! This results in a much more natural and virtual drumming experience for amateurs and professionals alike.

Aircussion also has a built-in 8-track sequencer, so that you can build up your favourite drum beats in the exact same manner. But don’t worry – if you’ve never made or played a drum beat before, we’ll walk you through a super easy tutorial and have you building beats like a pro in no time.

Features include:

– 90+ sounds to choose from including: drums, cymbals, shakers, tambourines, world instruments, animals & more
– 8-track sequencer to record your own drum beats
– Factory instrument layouts & drum beats for you to play around with
– Saving & loading of your own customized layouts & drum beats
– Volume controls for every track
– Undo & Redo functionality during recording
– Sharing of your beats with your friends and the world!

Tips for enhancing your Aircussion experience:

– Use headphones for the highest quality sound
– Great to play in groups
– Two-handed playing with multiple devices
– Jam with your acoustic guitar playing friends
– Play along with your music library
– Listen to saved beats through your stereo system
– Use created beats as backing tracks for other instruments

Aircussion is NO LONGER AVAILABLE 🙁

2014
05/30
Oscilab iPad Synth and Drum Machine
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Oscilab

Oscilab gives you an hypnotizing musical experience. It’s an innovative wave oriented sequencer that lets you make unique loops and sounds with simple gestures.

The app is easy to pick up and go. You can play for hours but also produce high-quality tracks of any music style within minutes.

Features:
• 28 wave shapers: control FREQUENCY, Filter CUTOFF, AMP and PAN of 6 devices.
• 6 Channel mixer, with 2 FX channels.
• Live Mode: 6 pads to tweak the frequency and cutoff of the generated patterns in real time.
• Drum Machine with 15 high-quality drumkits.
• 36 high-quality sampled instruments.
• Analog Synth with two oscillators, featuring ring modulation, frequency modulation and ADSR control.
• Global harmonic control: change all the arpeggiators tune settings from a single place.
• Record and upload your mixdowns to SoundCloud or other installed apps (supports Audiocopy).

Oscilab is available for $4.99

2014
04/21
dot Melody For iPhone
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dot Melody For iPhone

Move dots around to create intertwining melodies, bass lines, and drum beats. Switch chords and patterns on the fly. Select from a variety of instruments and process them through delay and reverb effects.

Best with headphones or over AirPlay.

Sequencer
Tap or drag anywhere to create new dots.
Move dots horizontally to change pitch within the current chord.
Move dots vertically to change duration/rhythm.
Tap a dot to make it a rest.
Double tap to delete it.

Chords
Switch chords/scales on the fly to change the notes in your pattern.
Unlimited number of chords
Choose from suggested chords or create your own.

Patterns
Unlimited number of patterns, each with 3 instrument layers.
Copy, reverse, clear, randomize, and generate functions.
Easily re-order patterns.

Instruments
3 instrument layers
23 carefully created built-in instruments
Mod Wheel enabled
Independent volume controls with the mixer.
Independent delay effect sends.

Effects
Tempo-synced delay with feedback and low pass filter.
Reverb with mix and decay controls.

Tempo & Time Signature
Tap Tempo function
Choose from a range of time signatures for pattern syncing.
Use x/x time signature to enter “free mode” and let your instruments create phase patterns.

MIDI Out – In App Purchase
MIDI out is available as an In-App Purchase.
Each instrument layer can use independent MIDI ports and channels.
Mod Wheel support included.
Advanced MIDI timing implementation

File Management
Create new files from templates in any key
Easily duplicate or re-name files

Record
Hit the record button to record your jams in real-time.
Recordings are saved to iTunes File Sharing.

dot Melody is available for $2.99

2013
12/10
Robotic Drums Drum Synthesizer Drum Machine
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Robotic Drums

Drum synth with probability sequencer. Demo video here: http://goo.gl/1E2HIa

Robotic Drums is an analog modeled drum synth coupled with a probability sequencer. This special combination, makes the app suitable for live sound manipulation, sequence experimentation and regular beats. The main highlights for this app are:

– A minimalist interface, with a high emphasis in flow.
– 6 analog modeled synthesized voices.
– A probability sequencer. You control how “random” a sequence is.
– Quantized pattern switching.
– Dropbox support for saving sessions and sharing across devices.
– AudioBus support.
– Midi clock sync support.

Some details:

VOICES

There are 6 analog modeled synthesized voices, each with a noise and an oscillator section. This flexible configuration allows each voice to generate sounds that range from punchy bass drums, to snappy snares, to lo-fi tones, to sound effects and much else in between.

THE PROBABILITY SEQUENCER

The sequencer for each voice is based on probabilities. A step on a sequence is not just a “switch” but a measure of “how likely is this step to be triggered”. This allows for highly dynamic sequences that maintain a certain base, but never sound the same from one pass to another.

THE PATTERNS SECTION

Each session can hold 16 patterns. Switching patterns in a live situation is always controlled by a “pattern quantization” parameter, which determines when the pattern switch actually happens. This allows for pattern switches to occur exactly when expected, maintaining the musical flow of a piece.

SESSIONS

Sessions can be saved to Dropbox, this allows to share sessions across devices or even to use as an easy method to share patches with the community.

Robotic Drums is available for $4.99

2013
11/08
Create beats and mangle them on an iPhone
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RicePad

Get Ricepad for a special price! The sale is only for a few days! Ricepad is the award-winning app for creating live music in a unique way. Check out the videos on ricecode.com

Loop, Resample, Remix, Filter and Create Sound Sequences

With Ricepad you create music by arranging objects called modules in a single chain. You start from existing sounds, freely available from the online library, importable from your computer (Mac/PC/Linux/…) or pastable from the clipboard of compatible apps, or you can use the mic line(*). Then the combination of modules you compose, divided between audio sources and effects, will manipulate the sound in an unexpectedly great number or ways.

What’s New in Version 1.5
– SoundCloud sharing support
– email sharing support

– set suitable default settings for Reverb
– fixed wrong autoscrolling while editing textual notes

Oriented To Live Music Performances

Ricepad allows you to create music that is immediately listenable to the audience: less editing and much more playing with the quick and simple interface. For example, if you like beat boxing, you can live record yourself through the mic, record a sequence and play it back as a loop, ready to be post processed or resampled, everything in sync with the bpm, e.g. quantized at 1/16. Nearly every interaction can be quantized, even the preview of audio clips when you want to set up a drum kit.

Inspirations On The Go With Your iPhone & iPod Touch

Ricepad has an extensive set of modules and offers many different techniques to create music easily and quickly, leaving room to unleash your creativity. Every new idea can be saved as a session to be later re-opened for future use. This makes Ricepad suitable for casual and short plays, as well as for long and more structured live performances, even while playing with other apps thanks to the multi-tasking support. You can even record the audio of your performance, copy it to another app through the pasteboard or save it to file and export it to your desktop computer, so to reuse your new groove in a studio environment. Finally you can also share your creations seamlessly in SoundCloud or by email.

Check out the main features.

General
– simple and original workflow to connect modules – audio sources or effects
– 16 bit 44100Hz quality
– very low latency
– low CPU consumption, for a smooth experience even on older devices
– built-in library of loops and sample kits
– constantly updating sound packs, downloadable for free
– optional temporal quantization of most interactions per module
– recoverable sessions (save and open functions) + autosave
– possibility to make long audio recordings to file
– import/export functions for personal audio files and sessions, supported in 3 ways including iTunes File Sharing
– SoundCloud and email sharing integrated support
– multi-tasking support

File Player / Recorder
– support for a lot of audio formats (wav, aif, mp3, m4a…) with different sample rates
– recording to file
– audio copy/paste, Intua compatible
– loop with programmable parameters
– set/get cue points for seeking in real time
– crossfader

Sampler & Resampler
– loading single files or sample kits (groups of 4 files)
– audio copy/paste, Intua compatible
– live resampling of the currently executing audio
– live sampling from the mic line with the microphonic variation of the module
– programmable step sequencer, 1/16 resolution, up to 4 bars
– live playing/recording of a sequence
– clip specific parameters: volume, pan, loop mode (none, hold or toggle), reverse, choke group

Effects
– compressor, decimator, dub delay, lowpass and highpass filters, phaser, reverb, ring modulator and wave shaper
– all with the same XY pad controller

Other
– microphone module (takes the mic line) with crossfader
– tempo control 60-200 bpm (not dynamically applicable with loops) + metronome
– peak indicators
– built-in tutorials
– built-in manual
– iPad compatibility in 2x mode
– plays along with iTunes music
– …and a lot of fun!

* if your device hasn’t an integrated microphone, you have to connect an external microphone for this function

Ricepad IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE

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