Meteor is a digital multi-track recorder designed specifically for the iPad. The program features up to 12 tracks of high quality audio, a built in mixer and multi-effects processor. Meteor is ideally suited for creating musical compositions, and also a great tool for journalists and business people who need to splice and piece together voice notes, narration or dictation. Compositions once mixed can be exported to standard file formats for use on your desktop PC or MAC.
Meteor includes a fully featured sound editor allowing recordings to be trimmed or spliced together. You can apply various effects to your recordings either directly, as part of the recording process or in real time during playback. Editor features include cut, copy, paste, fade in/out. clear, reverse, gain, normalize, remove DC offset, time stretch and pitch shift. Effects include digital delay, chorus / flanger, reverb, graphic equalizer, tone boost, compressor (with side chaining) and distortion.
The Mixer and effect levels can be fully automated using definable controller tracks. An integrated metronome with count-in helps you record your masterpiece, and If 12 tracks isn’t enough there is a full stereo mixdown facility.
Key Features:
• Record up to12 tracks of CD quality audio
• Multi-Effects Processor
• Integrated 12 channel Mixer
• Integrated Sample Editor
• 3 Global Send Effect Busses
• Insert Effects with freeze facility to reduce CPU load.
• Record Effects & Record Monitor
• Mixer and Effect Automation
• Metronome
• Mixdown / Bounce Facility
• Import samples and iPod songs.
• Export to compressed CAF and WAV formats
• Automatic Delay Compensation
• In-App Purchases through the Online Shop found in the Help Menu.
I kinda miss the old days of recording on my Tascam multi-track cassette. Looks like Tascam realised there would be a market for function and nostalgia in one iPad app. A little gimickey but hey!
TASCAM’s Portastudio brings 30 years of easy-to-use home recording to your iPad. Based on the PORTA ONE recorder that revolutionized recording in 1984, the Portastudio app records up to four tracks with a vintage vibe.
Record one track at a time using the built-in mic or a headset microphone connection, monitoring on authentic VU meters. A cassette transport with position counter tracks your position while you mix with level, pan and EQ controls. When you’re ready to mix, the built-in mixdown function saves your song as a CD-quality WAV file. Your mix appears in iTunes when you’re finished, ready to share with friends and bandmates.
A generation of your favorite bands crafted their songs with Portastudios, now it’s your turn. Start capturing your songs with the company that invented home recording using Portastudio by TASCAM.
Shapemix is the only app to give you access to INDIVIDUAL CLIPS. The most innovative remixing and mashup app to bring out the rock star in everyone! Shapemix provides aspiring singers and DJs the ability to combine individual clips from different songs, create original remixes and mashups, and publish instantly to Facebook.
Features
* Vocal record – add your voice to any song you create, or replace the vocal track of one of our songs with your own. Sing-a-long with your favorite artists in a duet, as a backup singer or take over singing the lead vocal.
* Mix in space – See each individual audio track move on your screen, perfectly in time with the song.
* Mix in time – Manipulate individual tracks and clips to show your skills.
* Multi-touch – Move and manipulate 8 audio channels independently
* Automatic pitch adjustment for mixing, and pitch control at the clip level with Shapemix’s proprietary pitch adjustment algorithm.
* Adjust the BPM on the fly, and add effects to each of the tracks – reverb, delay, flanger and low pass – to create an original sound.
* Share mixes in the Shapemix community on Facebook and climb to the top of the Shapemix charts.
* Free tracks included with the app to get you started
* To enhance mixes, additional songs and loop kits are available for purchase
Check out my buddy Xander from Apple as he gives us a demo of the Garageband instruments.
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
GarageBand turns your iPad into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play pianos, organs, guitars, drums, and basses on your iPad. They sound and play like their counterparts, but let you do things you could never do on a real instrument. Enjoy a full range of Smart Instruments that make you sound like a pro — even if you’ve never played a note before. Plug an electric guitar into your iPad and play through classic amps and stompbox effects. Use the built-in microphone or a guitar to record, or capture any performance. Then mix up to eight tracks to create a song you can share.
Play your iPad like a musical instrument.
• Perform on dozens of musical instruments on the innovative Multi-Touch keyboard.
• Tap out beats from the seat of acoustic and electronic drum kits.
• Recreate legendary guitar rigs on your iPad with 9 amps and 10 stompbox effects.
• Record your voice using the built-in microphone, and apply fun sound effects.
• Use the Sampler to create an instrument from sounds you record, then play them on a keyboard.
Sound like a virtuoso with Smart Instruments.
• Tap chords to instantly create keyboard grooves with the Smart Keyboard.
• Strum chords on acoustic and electric Smart Guitars, or trigger fingerpicking patterns for popular chords.
• Groove with an onscreen electric or upright Smart Bass by tapping on chords.
• Drag drum instruments onto a grid to create your own beats with the Smart Drums.
Create a song anywhere you go.
• Arrange and mix your song with up to eight tracks using Touch Instruments, audio recordings, and loops.
• Trim and place musical regions exactly where you want them to play.
• Use the Mixer to fine-tune each track’s volume — solo or mute any track, or adjust pan, reverb, and echo.
• Use over 250 professionally prerecorded loops as a backing band to your song.
Share your songs.
• Email songs right from your iPad (AAC).
• Export your song and add it to the iTunes library on your Mac or PC.
• Send a project to your Mac and open it in GarageBand to continue refining your song.
Sound Trends does it again with Studio.HD Look out Apple and Sony, they beat you to it! It’s basically like Acid Pro and Garageband for the iPad. Import loops, slice them up, rearrange them and mix it down.
This video gives a quick overview of Soundtrends studio.HD
Features include:
* 8 tracks, with multiple layers per track for 24 total tracks of audio playback
* Tempo conforms automatically to BPM changes (aka time stretching)
* Easy zooming and auto-zoom to arrangement
* Mixing and effects (Low/Hi Pass Filter, Flanger, Delay and Bitcrusher)
* Recording with overdubbing
* Loop Library with in-arrangement audition/preview
* Editing (Cut/Copy/Paste) and Loop/Repeat
* Mix down and Export to Mac/PC
studio.HD is the multitrack app for songwriters, producers and musicians. It offers eight multilayered audio tracks (24 total of playback!) with recording, editing, loops and automated mixing plus effects controlled by an elegant touch interface. Get ideas down fast and work with them anywhere!
From recording a rap to a beat – to catching the spark of a song before it goes – to producing dance mixes in the airport – regardless of genre, studio.HD ignites creativity. Great for creating iMovie and Podcast soundtracks, or custom mixes for iTunes too!
“studio.HD is perfect for more pop/hiphop-oriented production including loops, remixing, etc… ”
-proaudioreview.com
FEATURES:
24 TOTAL TRACKS of AUDIO PLAYBACK!
studio.HD accommodates multiple layers per track to give you at least 24 tracks! Workflow is optimized to reduce the endless scrolling found in other apps. Record time limited only by storage!
LOOP RECORDING HELPS GET YOUR BEST TAKE
Hit Record and jam! Use Loop Record to lay down takes, then choose your best or edit together a hybrid. Touch control the track to switch between Record, Play or Mute.
WORKS WITH POPULAR AUDIO IO HARDWARE
Use common interfaces like Peavey AmpKit LINK, iRig and iRig Mic, Blue Yeti, Line 6 Mobile In, Behringer 202 (w/Camera Kit)
EDIT FASTER
Edit, Delete, Copy, Paste and Loop your parts to refine your production. Editing can snap to a Bar/Beat grid based on Zoom level or be grid can be turned off. Group parts through track layers that explode for selection. Grab the end/beginning of a Region to Loop/repeat it. Multitouch “2-finger” dragging copies a part. 10 levels of Undo just in case you make a mistake. SPLIT lets you cut longer files into smaller pieces and CROP feature lets you create new versions of your recordings that ONLY contain the part you want.
ARRANGE EASIER
The Loop Control Bar lets you loop a play/record area PLUS select all parts on all tracks within that area for editing together whole verses and choruses. “Auto-Zoom” lets you put your whole composition in view with a double-touch.
AUTOMATED MIXING WITH VOLUME, PANNING AND 14 EFFECTS!
Each track has volume control and up to 4 real time effects, all with automation. Effects include Low and High Pass Filtering, Compressor, Gate, Stutter Loop, Stutter Stepped, Stutter Gate, Bitcrusher, Flanger, Glitchy Repeater, Delay plus Pan and Reverb! An X-Y touch pad controls effects and faders control volume.
GLOBAL MASTER EFFECTS
Add four effects compression, reverb, etc.) to the overall mix to bind it together.
EXPORT YOUR MIX TO SOUNDCLOUD AND FACEBOOK!
Create a 16/44 AIFF mix and save it to your Mac/PC using iTunes or upload to your SoundCoud account and then into Facebook. Wow your friends with a mix of your song!
OVER 900 FREE LOOPS!
Get a great selection of Loop Sets (installed and via download) in Electronic, Rock, Pop, Industrial, Country, Funk styles and more. All the loops in Looptastic HD!
EASILY BROWSE AND AUDITION LOOPS
Loop Sets logically group instrument parts (drums, bass, guitars, keys, etc.) that work well together. Audition loops at current tempo playing with the current Project.
USE YOUR OWN LOOPS
Import your 44.1/16 bit AIF and WAV files from Mac and PC using iTunes File Sharing and App Documents.
IN-APP LOOP STORE
Hit a creative wall? Buy some loops and get the juices flowing or grab one of the free sets on the store.
FILE MANAGEMENT FEATURES AND MY LOOPS LIBRARY
See only recordings associated with your project. Delete recordings by simply dragging them off the timeline. Mistakes? Just hit “Undo”. New “My Loops” lets you reuse recordings across multiple projects.
SUPPORTS AUDIO COPY – PASTE!
Copy audio from an app that supports Sonoma Audio Copy/Paste and paste it to a track. Copy a recording out of studio.HD and paste it into another app for extra effects and/or editing.
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