2012
03/10
Songineer Song Writing App For iPhone
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Songineer Song Writing App For iPhone

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

Songineer is NO LONGER AVAILABLE

2012
03/09
Changeling Midi Sequencer For iPad
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Changeling Midi Sequencer For iPad

Meet Changeling; the super easy, flexible, diatonic chord sequencer from the future.

This sequencer has its foundation in musical improvisation theory; All recorded musical notes remain relative, and can be changed in various ways during playback.

It’s a simple tool for people that like to create music, but don’t have the discipline or time for studying music theory, or years of piano improvisation practice. Changeling does not generate compositions, you remain in full creative control over the music that you come up with.

iPad Changeling Sequencer Screenshot

Instructions:

Just start by recording a simple melody-line with one finger.
Change the scale and root by sliding the ribbons.
Transform the melody to a chord progression by turning the chord knob. Play around with the available voicings and transition modes that affect chord inversions.
Finally spread out the chord notes over time using the arpeggiator.

Use Changeling’s MIDI output to record patterns to your DAW or other MIDI capable IOS apps.

Changeling Sequencer is available for $4.99

2012
03/09
MegaCurtis Granular Synth For iPhone
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MegaCurtis Granular Synth For iPhone

Awesome successor to Curtis! We are HUGE fans of Curtis for iPad. Glad to see this optimized version for the iPhone 4.

Completely rewritten for better performance, longer recording time, session recording, polyphony, high-res display and more!

New features:
Control layout adjustments
Grain overlap control
Grain overlap LFO
MIDI input
Portamento
Position slew
Improved grain jitter control
Optional old-school Curtis glide mode setting
MegaCurtis has been completely rewritten for better performance, longer recording time, session recording, polyphony, copy/paste, high-res display and more!

More features:

• Selectable keyboard scales for easier jams
• Fat keys option for fat fingers
• Four voice polyphony
• Three LFO modulators
• Lowpass filter effect
• Echo effect
• Granular jitter effects
• Audio Copy/Paste
• iTunes file sharing
• Works on iPad and iPhone 4s/4/3GS

Granular synthesis works by combining many tiny grains of sound from an existing recording, generally creating new sounds with the textural properties of the original.

Granular synthesis allows you to regenerate the recording, playing it forward or backward at any speed, to skip around the recording playing tiny slices of it at random, or to loop a small portion with a varying loop size.

Check out Curtis Heavy, the free original version for a taste and come back here for more!

Please note: MegaCurtis is currently only supported on the iPhone 4 and 4s.

MegaCurtis is available for $4.99 for a limited time.

2012
03/08
Ambient Music Generator For iPad
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Ambient Music Generator For iPad

50,000+ fans across the world! To celebrate there has been a complete redesign for version 3.0

Tonalverse is a new ambient universe generator, allowing you to distract your mind by creating ambient tones and infinite sequences in an abstract graphical universe.

• Get creative in bouncing tonal spheres across a multi-dimensional landscape, designing new patterns and cellular interactions.

• Tonalverse utilizes the physical properties of simulated planetary bodies in space and unbounded cellular automation to generate infinitely unique tonal soundscapes.

• Take five minutes to immerse yourself with wholly relaxing tones generated by simply interfacing with gorgeous planetary bodies in a tonalverse of your own.

• Tonalverse is your temporary escape from reality, allowing you to reset your mind, refocus and succeed.

Tonalverse is NO LONGER AVAILABLE

2012
03/08
Logic Control App For iPad
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Logic Control App For iPad

An intuitive, powerful control surface app optimized for the Apple Logic DAW application program. Has great reviews on iTunes.

lpTouch provides mobility and touch screen controls for Logic’s commonly used functions. With lpTouch & Wi-Fi, you can control record and playback from anywhere in your studio, edit your software instruments, or adjust effects settings. Tired of trying to manipulate tiny controls on the Logic screen with a mouse? lpTouch offers large, usable multi-touch faders and rotary controls to edit send effects, inserts, plug-in instrument parameters, and EQ settings so you can get just the right sound.

Mute or solo any track to evaluate your mix during playback. Arm one or more tracks for recording. Know where you’re at with the timecode and bar-beat display, and track name and number identification.

Screenshots of iPad
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One great way to reap the benefits of lpTouch is to use Logic on your Mac to get some tracks down in your composition, then sit back with your iPad – or move around your studio – and use lpTouch’s track and transport functions to evaluate your mix. It makes recording a breeze.

lpTouch works with the built-in “TouchOSC” control surface driver that is provided by Apple as part of your Logic installation. It uses Logic’s new Open Sound Control (OSC) control surface support. NO NEED TO INSTALL ANY SPECIAL APPLICATIONS OR FILES TO USE LOGIC AND LPTOUCH. All you need is a working Wi-Fi connection between your Mac and your iPad.

REQUIREMENTS

* iPad running iOS 5
* Apple Logic Pro 9.1.6 or higher music application installed on your Mac
* Wi-Fi access to Mac running Logic
* iPad Bluetooth must be set to OFF to insure reliable communications

FEATURES

* Transport controls on all screens, including metronome, cycle and replace-record
* Track name and number shown
* Adjust each track’s volume with multi-touch faders; values displayed
* Edit pan and up to 5 send levels; value displayed
* Edit software instrument parameters; parameter values displayed
* Select, mute, solo and record enable any track
* Enable/bypass and edit parameter settings up to 12 insert effect plugins
* Adjust master volume & 3 Aux channels
* Dedicated EQ screen mimics Logic’s Channel EQ editing capability
* “LCD” displays timecode & bar-beat playhead location
* Move Loop Cycle location, or navigate by Markers
* Reset Solo to Off on all tracks
* Set automation mode per track
* Double tap most faders and rotaries to return to default position
* Preference settings: disable iPad sleep mode (Autolock); faders “jump on touch”; choose vertical rotary manipulation

LP Touch is available for $4.99

  • 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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