2017
01/09
Sexy Saxophone App For iPad and iPhone
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Introducing Embertone’s first Virtual Instrument for your iPhone/iPad: a deeply sampled iOS instrument with true legato, and the only virtual instrument with Sexiness Control. If you’re looking for that George Michael/”Careless Whispers” sound… look no further!

This is your digital solution to sax saturation. Bring your sax levels to 11… Try Sensual Sax today!

FEATURES:
– MIDI input / output
– IAA
– Audio Unit 3
– Audiobus
– True legato sampling for realistic note transitions
– Three sets of articulations

Controls include REVERB (with controllable AMOUNT and ROOM SIZE settings); VIBRATO (with dedicated DEPTH slider); DELAY (with control over AMOUNT and TIME); and switchable LEGATO, SUSTAIN, and STACCATO playing styles using the onscreen lockable keyboard (switchable to DOUBLE KEYBOARD for further flexibility). It goes without saying that it is compatible with all major iOS-based DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations), working with Apple’s Audio Unit Extensions technology — that brings the Audio Units system-level full plug-in architecture model (that was previously only available to third-party developers like Embertone in OS X) to iOS — as well as Inter-App Audio and Audiobus for full communication with the outside musical world.

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Founded by composer/orchestrator Alex Davis and composer/sound designer Jonathan Churchill, Embertone has been producing next-level virtual instruments since 2012. Its mission is simple: sample lots of great instruments, and bring them to market to inspire awesome new music! The co-founders seriously love what they do, admiring the likes of Tonehammer, Sample Modeling, and Sonic Couture — companies that have led the way to this new age of deeply-sampled virtual instruments, and aim to move that tradition forward by finding new ways to capture the essence of an instrument and program it in an intuitive and responsive package… and, of course, offer it to the composing community at an atttractive price! As the go-to company for musicians looking for realistic and fun virtual instruments since releasing the free Intimate Strings LITE for Native Instruments’ industry-standard KONTAKT (4.2.4+), the full-blown Friedlander Violin subsequently became the flagship solo product for the KONTAKT PLAYER platform while setting the production standard for future realistic-sounding releases.

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2017
01/04
Moodscaper Generative Music For Meditation
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Moodscaper is a generative music app and a great personal companion for studying, providing non-intrusive headphone music at work, relaxing, meditating and even sleeping. Just launch the app, tap automatic play, and moodscaper will produce melodic, atmospheric and evocative ambient music in a “light”, “dark”, “space”, “happy” or “sad” mood.

Moodscaper is also an easy to use instrument for creating epic-sounding pads and effects as part of a larger iPad-based music-making setup. You can even create your own custom instrument by loading your own samples, and taking advantage of moodscaper’s generative engine.

Main features:

· Unique generative atmospheric sample-based instrument
· Simple user interface
· Five scale-based moods
· Variable dynamics – from mellow and sparse to full-on drama!
· Five loopers with optional sync
· Provides tasteful auto-accompaniment to your playing in realtime or in loops
· Hints displayed on keys that should sound good with root notes or chords
· Samples are randomly stacked for a bigger sound with more variation
· Effects section with filter, dual-delay and reverb
· Effects tweaks can be recorded in loopers
· Additional 20 key instrument for each mood
· Add your own samples and create your own mood-based instrument
· Additional instruments available as free downloads at moodscaper.com
· IAA support (as a generator) with no special setup required

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Check out Pianoscaper while you’re at it!!

2017
01/04
TB-303 Acid Synth Audio Unit For iOS
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Bram Bos have announced their TB-303 Audio Unit app for iOS. The legendary TB-303 has magical properties; it is filled to the brim with analog shimmer. Its output jack is a gateway to a parallel universe and when you twiddle the filter knobs an army of highly trained pixies chisel the square waves from freshly harvested unicorn souls. So if you want a TB-303, you should buy a TB-303. But if you’re after *that sound* Troublemaker will give you everything you need in spades.

Troublemaker sports a carefully crafted diode filter emulation and among the available oscillators are the typical raspy, nasal sawtooth and rubbery squarewave with its oddball shape and shifting pulsewidth.

Troublemaker is fully Audio Unit (AUv3) compatible, so you can go wild running multiple instances in your favorite DAWs.

It also has:
– Ableton Link synchronization,
– MIDI CC mapping,
– Core Midi, Virtual Midi, Bluetooth Midi input,
– Audiobus support
– Exports MID and WAV files from the standalone sequencer

And unlike the TB-303, it can actually sound like a bass guitar 😉

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Note: Troublemaker requires iPad 4/Mini 2/iPhone 5S/iPod Touch 6 or higher

Testing some new features:
– MIDI start/stop
– MIDI clock sync
– Realtime mutation engine (probability settings)
– Audiobus playback triggers

Update coming soon!

2017
01/03
Geoshred and Roli Seaboard Rise 5D
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Geoshred MPE Midi and Indian Scales

Here’s some exciting news for Seaboard RISE users! Wizdom Music’s award-winning GeoShred instrument for iPad is now fully compatible with the RISE. The factory presets all support 5D Touch and can also be modulated with the XY Pad and and the three Touch Faders which are mapped to GeoShred’s control surface.

GeoShred, winner of a 2017 Electronic Musician Editor’s Choice Award as “one of the most innovative, groundbreaking products to emerge in the past twelve months”, has been enhanced with unprecedented MIDI/MPE I/O control, new effects, and additional model control parameters.



ROLI Seaboard RISE 25 MIDI Controller – more info here

GeoShred is highly expressive when being controlled by instruments like the RISE that use the “MPE” MIDI specification. It’s a fusion of Wizdom Music’s Geo Synthesizer user interface (Jordan Rudess), and moForte’s powerful, modeled guitar and effects chain based on the next generation Physical Modeling research of Dr. Julius O. Smith III of Stanford/CCRMA.

With GeoShred’s physical modeling synthesis, you can achieve realistic guitar sounds that bend, stretch and manipulate the sound into endless possibilities. You can explore, edit and control the physics of a guitar model – including solid or hollow body, nylon or metal strings, pick position, harmonics and more.

Free Seaboard 5D

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2017
01/03
Finger Pro LP-5 Loop Mixer Adds Link
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For those who don’t know about LP-5 yet it is an extremely fun FREE loop mixing app and you can get my Drum n Bass loop kit as an in app purchase. Fingerpro recently release a new update for the app and it’s even better than before with Link, Audiobux, and a better time stretching algorithm.

What’s New in Version 3.0
– Loop recording from hardware and other apps
– Time stretching by Superpowered
– 40 scenes per set
– iPad Slide Over and Split View Support
– Audiobus I/O
– LinkKit 2.0
– Bug fixes and improvements

Designed for live arranging and remixing, LP-5 allows you to play audio loops from an intuitive launch grid, while automatic tempo synchronization keeps you in time with the beat. Loop recording, real-time stretching, IAA effect hosting, and MIDI connectivity make LP-5 a powerful tool for your studio sessions, live performances, or DJ acts.

KEY FEATURES

– Five individual tracks that synchronize to the current tempo, without affecting the pitch.
– 5×40 launch grid.
– Ableton Link
– Audiobus
– Desktop-grade time stretching quality
– In-app store offering royalty-free sound packs.
– Performance Recorder
– Universal support for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

SAMPLING & IMPORT (Full version)

– Loop recording from hardware input and other apps (Inter-App Audio, Audiobus).
– Mix and match your own loops of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc. beats in length.
– Supported file formats include .wav, .mp3, AAC, and many more. No size limit.
– Import from document providers (iCloud Drive, Dropbox, …), pasteboard, iTunes File Sharing, or via “Open in…”
– Batch import from Zip file

INTER-APP AUDIO

– 2 Inter-App Audio effect slots (Bus A/B).
– IAA timeline sync support in both node and host mode.

MIDI FEATURES

– MIDI clock sync/generate support to play along an external MIDI sequencer, drum machine, or DAW.
– Scene launching from a MIDI keyboard.
– Mixer control via MIDI CCs.
– Hands-free scene trigger, tap tempo and start/stop by using a MIDI foot pedal.
– MIDI message routing to and from class-compliant USB hardware, other apps, and WLAN or Bluetooth LE wireless peripherals.

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