WaveSynth Pro is a wave table based 16 part multi-timbral synthesizer application for iPad. Ships with 128 preset sound tones and 1 drum set defined by General MIDI specification.
What’s New in Version 1.1
Supported Virtual MIDI + Background
Improved Wave Table Libraries
Fixed CoreMIDI Device Detection
WaveSynth Pro has 2 modes for playing various musical instruments. Includes sound tones such as piano, guitar, trumpet, strings, flute, drums, percussions, and more.
“Performance Mode”: Playing 2 layered instruments.
“GM Mode”: Recommended for playing GM compatible MIDI files. Instruments and parameters from each part can be edited and performance of each part is also displayed.
The keyboard can be selected by 1 octave keyboard or 2 octave keyboard on the display. The most suitable octave is assigned automatically but you can simply change it as you see fit.
Touch velocity support using accelerometer allows rich performance.
In addition to normal keyboard play, various expressions can be added by the Pitch Bend Controller, Portamento, and Mono Mode.
WaveSynth Pro supports CoreMIDI and is compatible with MIDI interfaces for full 16 channel MIDI Input / Output.
Specifications:
* 128 preset sounds and 1 drum set defined by General MIDI specification
* Performance Mode / GM Mode
* Touch Velocity Supported
* Pitch Bend Change Control
* Portamento On / Off
* Mono Mode On / Off
* Hi-Quality Reverb / Chorus / Delay Effects
* Supports CoreMIDI compatible MIDI Interfaces
* 16 Part Multitimbral
Propellerhead Software Figure for iPhone & iPod Touch. Figure is said to be built on the Reason engine and will give you a full featured music studio on your iOS device for FREE.
Create an addictive beat before the next bus stop or lay down a beefy bass line while waiting in line at the bank. Share your creations on Propellerhead, the free music collaboration and sharing service, and see where other music makers will take your ideas. Figure will have you making music within seconds yet is deep enough for endless play on a transatlantic flight.
What’s New in Version 2.0
• Arpeggiator: turn chords into melodies
• New drum kit, basses, and leads
• Easier and faster sharing on Propellerhead
Figure highlights
• Make songs with Drums, Bass and Lead Synth
• Play by sliding your finger across the play pad
• Always stay in key and on the beat
• Remix other Figure users’ music from Discover
• Share your music on Propellerhead and let other remix or develop in other apps
• No previous playing skills required
• Tweak and twist your track on the fly
• Sounding amazing has never been this easy
• The sound of Reason on your phone!
Truly designed for mobile user on the go, Figure gives you drums, bass and lead synth, controlled by an incredibly easy to use touch interface that gets you sounding great literally in seconds. Slide your finger across the play pad and hear your bass line play. Tweak the Rhythm, Range and Scale Step wheels to get the result you’re after. Programming drumbeats is just as easy. Set the rhythm and play the drums with your fingers. You won’t want to stop. You won’t believe how amazing you and your phone can sound.
If you are new to music making, getting started making great sounding tracks has never been this easy — and sounded so great!
If you are a seasoned musician – music creation has never been this fun!
The nitty gritty details:
• Bass & lead parts use Reason’s Thor synthesizer
• Drums powered by Reason’s Kong drum machine
• Play in different keys & modes. Set once or change on the fly.
• Use the arpeggiator to create melody lines from chords
• Increase the Shuffle to loosen up your beats
• Turn up Pump to add a club sound to your tracks
• Adjust levels using Propellerhead’s legendary mixer
• Save, browse and load song files
• Set length of loop (1,2,4,8 bars)
• Export audio to iTunes File Sharing
• Share music on Propellerhead
• SoundCloud Sharing
• Audiobus support: Stream live audio directly to other Audiobus-compatible apps! See http://audiob.us for more information
• Background audio (in device Settings)
Retronymns is working together with Akai to bring an authentic MPC2000 app to their app Tabletop. It will run within the app along with many other useful virtual instruments.
Here is what they said, “The MPC on iPad is going to be a blast with classic MPC beat making features, sweet effects, and a killer sampling workflow, and now you’ll be able to work this legendary device into your Tabletop sessions! Possibly the best part is how it works: owners of the stand alone MPC app will automatically unlock the MPC device in Tabletop for free — no need to purchase it twice!”
Additionally they have partnered up with iZotope to bring a suite of real-time vocal processing tools to future versions of the Tabletop app.
“By partnering with iZotope, we’ll be able to offer Tabletop users the distinctive pitch-shifting vocal effects heard in so many popular songs. Use them to polish & perfect your tracks, or push the envelope and pitch-shift your live vocals to somewhere entirely new. No matter how you choose to use the iZotope tools, you’ll benefit from the same ease of use and modular design that makes all Tabletop devices work so well together.”
These features are coming soon. My guess is they will be in app purchase as additional kit but I hope they are including in the initial price.
The folks at Amido put their Songineer app to the test with this Youtube talents Mashup video. Here is what they said, “I came across some impressive singers on YouTube and wondered how it would sound like if I overlay their singing with music that has been made using only my iPhone. It took me only about an hour to produce all the tracks from scratch (Unthinkable was the hardest one.)”
Songineer – Instant Composer for the iPhone is one of the worlds fastest methods to create melodic electronic music. It brings on the latest trend in mobile music creation – short, inspiring music pieces that can be created literally in seconds and shared with your friends right away.
There is simply nothing between you and the countless billions of awesome melodies, laid out on five pre-defined layers: beat, bass, keys, lead and atmo. Four 32-step patterns can hold a massive amount of thrilling polyphonic motives and cutting solos, enriched with on-board send FX: Tape Delay and Grand Stereo Reverb. The simple, thumb-oriented structure of the interface is the icing on the cake for anyone willing to make music without any tedious hassle.
Songineer is a unique scale-based sequencer, bundled with 30 original scales, which make the search for that perfect note combination a complete breeze. The innovative DNA Keyboard leaves no chance for any bad-sounding notes, and in connection with the big piano roll-style sequencer window it provides excellent quantized loop-recording and editing possibilities. Since the scales can be changed on the fly and the sequencer data is independend from the scales, the workflow process is highly addictive and gives fantastic results.
Manual input of the beat patterns is easy, but leave it to the extremely powerful Beat Randomizer, which is capable of producing of more than 256,000,000 cool-sounding rhythms. The beats make use of a dedicated beatpad keyboard with fixed drumkits and have their own LP/HP filter. It takes only a couple of taps to export the whole track to a MIDI file for using the freshly-generated ideas in studio work later on. Among other export options are .WAV, .M4A and multi-track dry .WAV.
Songineer comes with 20 great-sounding instruments and 5 modern drumkits, but you can extend your arsenal with 60 more instruments and 15 drumkits, available in 5 packs from the bundled sound shop. The carefully-selected samples come from the best hardware synths and drum-machines and blend perfectly with the latest-generation Amidio’s CrystalClear audio engine. Audio and MIDI sharing are carried out through the new audio hosting service PlayMe.cc, created especially for mobile music apps. The URL to your track can be posted on Facebook or Twitter right from Songineer’s main menu without any unnecessary steps.
Songineer – Instant Composer is a fresh approach to creating true mobile music, a source of endless inspiration and a really addictive short music track generator. Whenever you’re a travelling musician or just looking forward to throw in some cool melodies, you’ll love the error-forgiving simplicity and user-friendly beauty of Songineer.
FEATURES
+ Unique Scale-Based Sequencer
+ 4 Polyphonic Instrument Layers
+ 8-Channel Stereo Drum Machine
+ Beat Randomizer! You don’t have to create beats manually.
+ Extremely fast and simple workflow
+ 20 Instruments, 5 Drumkits
+ Advanced Polyphonic CrystalClear Sound Engine
+ DNA Keyboard
+ In-App Sound Shop with 5 Instrument/Drumkit Packs
+ Ouput to .WAV, .M4A, .MID. multitrack .WAV
+ One-tap Audio & MIDI sharing online via PlayMe.cc
+ Built-in extensive help guide
• Start a Jam Session to play or record live with up to three of your friends using iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch*
• Conduct an entire string orchestra using Smart Strings
• Use the Note Editor to adjust or fine-tune any Touch Instrument recording
• Combine recordings to free up additional tracks using Track Merge
• Keep your GarageBand songs up to date across all your iOS devices with iCloud*
• Share your songs directly to Facebook, YouTube, and SoundCloud
• Perform retro and modern synth bass lines and grooves with new Smart Bass instruments
• Play synth melodies and arpeggios with new Smart Keyboard instruments
*Jam Session and iCloud are available on iPhone 4 or later, 4th generation iPod touch, and all iPad models.
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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