2012
07/26
Drum Synthesizer For iOS
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Drum Synthesizer For iOS

MoDrum for iOS is a virtual analog drum machine with a 32-step grid sequencer, plenty of sound-sculpting parameters, a tempo-matching delay effect, dynamic compression, reverb processor, sophisticated MIDI support, audio looper, performance recorder, and more.

This is a beat-making app that features real-time synthesis of drum sounds that range from TR-808 style to real. As a synth and not sampler, sound characteristics can be tweaked from authentic to affected.

What’s New in Version 3.5

– Stereo Processing (Pan)
– Reverb Processor (iOS 5+)
– x0x style Handclap Synth
– Rimshot “Drive” parameter
– Bass Drum “Time” parameter
– Allow manual Start/Stop while sync’d to external MIDI clock
– OMAC Fast Switch sender support
– Audio Sharing via “Open in…”
– Various bugfixes and improvements

Key Features

• 11 real time operating synth modules (NO SAMPLED SOUNDS are used):
– Bass Drum: Tune, Pitch, Time, Click, Decay
– Snare Drum: Tune, Tone, Muffle, Decay
– Low Tom (*): Tune, Noise, Decay
– Mid Tom (*): Tune, Noise, Decay
– High Tom (*): Tune, Noise, Decay
– Rim Shot: Tune, Drive, Decay
– Hand Clap (*): Tone, Decay
– Cowbell (*): Tune, Decay
– Cymbal: Color, Tone, Peak, Decay
– Open Hi-hat: Tone, Peak, Hold, Decay
– Closed Hi-hat: Tone, Peak, Decay

• Integrated Audio Looper for tempo-synchronous playback of backing tracks or sampled phrases (iOS 5+). Sound files can be imported via pasteboard, “Open In…”, or iTunes.

• Programmable sequencer with 32 steps and global accent pattern
• Beat clock with tap tempo and rhythmic shuffle (swing)

• Dotted eighth delay effect unit

• Hard knee dynamic range compressor

• Tube amp overdrive effect processor

• Reverb processor (iOS 5+)

• Audio Snapshot Recorder for live recordings (iPad only)

• MIDI Clock sync/generate
• MIDI Note in/out (GM drum mapping)

• Comprehensive MIDI routing capabilities:
– Connect to virtual MIDI ports provided by apps running in the background
– Connect to nearby iPads, iPhones, Mac OS X and Windows computers
– Connect to compatible MIDI hardware attached to the dock connector

• Wireless MIDI via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi WLAN using Apple’s built-in CoreMIDI network driver
• Wired MIDI using the USB Camera Connection Kit for iPad with class-compliant USB hardware
• Wired MIDI using a Core MIDI interface built for iOS

• Wireless Sync-Start via Korg’s WIST

• Energy-saving Background Audio/MIDI Processing

• OMAC Fast App Switching support

• WAVE file export and extensive sharing options:
– “Open In…”
– Pasteboard (compatible with BeatMaker and Garageband for iPhone/iPad)
– AudioCopy by Sonoma Wire Works
– E-Mail
– iTunes File Sharing

• Including twenty patterns by DJ/producer Myagi (www.popandlockrecords.com)

• Pattern Shop

• Universal support for iPod touch, iPhone and iPad

MoDrum is available for $5.99

2012
07/25
Mangle Audio On Beat With ExtraSlice For iPhone
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ExtraSlice iPhone App

ExtraSlice by Strange Agency allows you to juggle beats, chop, screw, shuffle, dice, and slice audio loops on the fly. They also make one of my very favorite apps called MegaCurtis.

ExtraSlice For iPhone

ExtraSlice For iPhone

ExtraSlice is available for $0.99

2012
07/23
Click Space Glitch App For iPhone
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Click Space Glitch App For iPhone

Click Space is some kind of a glitch 5 track groovebox. Each track has assignable volume, pan, gate, speed (pitch), attack, and decay times.

Features:
25 samples.
Audio Copy/Paste.
Sample looping.
Pattern switch.
Master effect unit with LP distortion, digital lofi effect, and a short delay.

Click Space Screenshot

Click Space Screenshot

The interesting thing (which differs this app from other grooveboxes) is shuffle editor. You may define overall shuffling patterns in addition to common beat patterns. So you could make some jazzy grace notes and non straight beats. There is a bit of automation for pitch. You can use variation to bring more life into your beat sequence.

The word “lite” means it has NO RECORDING (only pattern saving) and song editor yet.

Click Space is NO LONGER AVAILABLE

2012
07/23
Stylophone For iPad
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Stylophone For iPad

A cool retro style mono synthesizer based on the classic stylophone but with some cool modulation options.

* 3 different waveforms(sawtooth, square and triangle).
* Control the vibrato (pitch modulation) speed and depth.
* Transpose up each note to the next octave. (Handy for playing in another key)
* Adjust the amplitude envelope attack and release.
Plus a bender (-/+5 semitone)

Synthophone is available for $0.99

2012
07/18
Tachyon iPad Sampler Synthesizer
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Tachyon iPad Sampler Synthesizer

Jordan Rudess is back again with another wicked app for the iPad. Ladies and gentlemen, Tachyon by Wizdom Music.

Do you want to play an electric guitar and a piano at the same time? What about choosing the electrifying buzz of a drill and blending it into the soothing tone of a human voice? Jordan Rudess and Kevin Chartier’s Tachyon gives you all these options and more.

From the makers of the award winning app, MorphWiz, comes a new creation that allows images and sound to become one as they magically blend under your fingertips. Each note you play is an individual expression, allowing independent control of pitch and tone far beyond that of traditional instruments.

Most instruments only allow you to play one sound at a time, but with Tachyon, you can seamlessly blend between any two sounds as you slide your fingers up and down the screen.

The visual experience of Tachyon is just as mesmerizing. As you move along the playing surface, a field of twinkling stars morphs into the shape of your selected instrument, allowing a direct correlation between sight and sound.

As described by Jordan Rudess, “Tachyon is simple to use and at the same time offers a unique musical expressive power. The sonic core of the app is a custom crafted sound set from my personal library, encompassing sounds as familiar as those you would find in your home toolbox, and as exclusive as the ones I use on tour with Dream Theater.”

Whether you’re a seasoned musician looking for a next generation instrument to further express your creativity, or just a regular Joe browsing the app store looking for a fun and simple purchase that will delight the whole family, Tachyon is the app for you!

“Tachyon will allow you to get very deep into the sonics of a sample. You can do things like get a hundred thousand points of automation inside of a ten second sample. You can freely draw your automation, you can put in points and you can put in steps. In addition to all that, you can also convert one kind of automation to another. You’ve got things like formant filters in it to get vowel-type sounds. It’s got bit crushers and ring modulators and other types of filters and ways to change the pitch. Basically you’re just drawing everything. The end result can be moved into anything that will play a .wav file or an .aiff file. You can put it directly into SampleWiz so you can play it in SampleWiz or GeoSynth.”

Tachyon is available for $1.99

  • 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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