This is a looper that’ll come out to play, but get down to work when you want to get serious. While other music creation apps tend to be either powerful but difficult to learn, or easy to use but limited in features, Loopy doesn’t compromise. Loopy offers a sleek, expressive, instantly understandable interface that beginners can start using effectively straight away. It’s fun, right from the start. More advanced users, however, will not be disappointed by Loopy’s rich feature set, with extra features many other loopers just don’t have. Plus, a sophisticated interactive tutorial system lets users discover Loopy’s more advanced features at their own pace.
What’s New in Version 1.3
– Added support for Bluetooth pedals like the AirTurn and Cicada, and Bluetooth keyboards
– Added iPhone 5 support
– Enhanced support for alternative time signatures
– Improved clock length manipulation, with more flexible behaviour for “+” and “-” buttons
– Rearranged Settings screen for easier understanding
– Added “Cancel pending actions” MIDI action
– Keep MIDI device connections over multiple sessions
– Ask for a session name when saving for the first time
– Multi channel audio interface support
– Retina support (New iPad)
– Big improvements in punch in/out interaction and track gestures, generally
– Count-in quantize length setting
– Toggle track sync via MIDI
– SoundCloud update
– Added Japanese localization, and updated Italian one
– Many assorted interface and workflow improvements
Play along with our free loops from the free loops tab and import them into Loopy HD through iTunes.CLICK HERE
NOW you can now synchronize the clock across multiple devices, over a cable and over WiFi/Bluetooth, and across multiple apps on the same device.
This version also includes fully trainable MIDI control, so you can connect a foot switch or any other MIDI input device, and bind actions to any MIDI events.
Loopy HD on the iPhone now also allows you to display up to 12 tracks on-screen.
RECORD AND LAYER
– Six, nine, or twelve beautifully rendered circular loops, with simple yet powerful controls.
– Count-in, count-out and record chaining lets you keep your hands free to play an instrument.
– Overdub, to build beautiful, complex soundscapes from many layers.
– Support for tracks of any multiple or fraction of a beat, for flexible and expressive looping.
– Sophisticated audio or visual metronome to keep you in time – no matter what time signature you choose.
– Perfectly synchronized, low latency audio engine.
IMPORT & CONSTRUCT
– Import loops from your computer via iTunes, with support for AIFF, WAV, MP3, M4A, CAF and more.
– Bring in audio from many other audio apps with integrated MAPI AudioPaste, with support for Intua general pasteboard format.
– Imported loops are automatically fit to your beat, no matter what tempo.
MANIPULATE AND TWEAK
– Full stereo audio, with pan controls for each track to create custom stereoscapes.
– Fix up timing by twisting tracks around to line up the beat, or make funky sound effects with dynamic time shifting.
– Drag a track onto another track to merge tracks, and clear up a space.
– Live, dynamic tempo adjustment to speed up or slow down your creations, without altering the pitch.
PERFORM AND SHARE
– Record whole performances with in-app session recording facilities.
– Upload performances or single loops straight to SoundCloud, and post to Twitter or Facebook.
– Email audio clips (with automatic conversion to compressed AAC audio).
– Share audio with many other audio apps with MAPI AudioCopy.
– Transfer loops or performances to your computer via iTunes.
iMASCHINE is an intuitive and powerful beat sketch pad for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad perfect for developing song ideas anytime, anywhere.
Play and record drums on the 16 pads, jam a melody on the keyboard, sing on top of your loops via the built-in audio recorder or create your own unique sample banks from any source – With iMASCHINE the focus is always on the music. And when you’re done, you can directly upload your track to SoundCloud and share with your friends, or finalize it in the studio if you own Native Instruments’ MASCHINE hardware.
iMASCHINE is a professional instrument designed for beat producers of all levels – you don’t need to have experience to create fresh beats. With its intuitive threshold-based pad sampling, note repeat, auto-loop length feature, professional onboard mixer with six studio effects and the unique audio recording function, iMASCHINE makes it easy to instantly create grooves whenever the mood hits.
Use the included drum kits and melodic sounds, all in professional WAV-format, or expand your library with the iMASCHINE Expansions – available directly from your device via the in-app store.
iMaschine For iPhone Screenshot
About MASCHINE – the computer-based groove production studio
Create tight rhythms, harmonies and melodies in moments with MASCHINE – the highly enjoyable computer-based instrument that combines a pattern-based sequencer, professional sampler, multi-effect unit and VST/AU plug-in host. Everything is intuitively controllable via the fully integrated hardware – once you touch the tactile controller the fun and intuitive workflow takes over, allowing you to stay focused on what matters – the music.
MASCHINE is constantly evolving; the latest 1.6 free update makes it possible to plug any VST® or Audio Unit™ plug in into MASCHINE, with parameters auto-mapped to the controller so you can immediately start tweaking your sounds.
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Key Features of iMaschine:
* 16 pads for playing the included drum and one-shot samples
* Library includes 10 projects, 26 kits and 466 individual samples (170MB of WAV sounds)
* Pad sampling mode: record your own one-shot sample through the built-in iPhone microphone
* Keyboard mode with two manuals for playing chords, bass and melodies
* Note repeat function with 4th, 8th, 16th, 16th triplets, 32th for keyboard and drum pad mode
* Audio recorder mode lets you record vocal ideas through the built-in iPhone microphone
* Assign any of the 4 groups to pad, keyboard or audio recorder mode (i.e. have a pocket 4-track recorder)
* Mixer page includes two send effects with Delay, Flanger, Chorus, LoFi, HP, BP and LP filters
* The live-mode sequencer automatically detects the recorded loop length
* Finished song idea can be exported with one touch as an audio file or uploaded to SoundCloud
* Project (including samples) can be exported to MASCHINE for finalizing in your studio environment
* Additional drum kits and instrument sounds can be easily purchased through the in-app store
An experiment in touch based controls of pitch and volume for multiple tones resulted in an app that’s fun to interact with, and produces a wide range of different sounds and textures.
Drag some dots into the work area and carefully position for controllable out of phasing, or shake the device to randomize the pattern.
Use touch to position up to 40 tones in the work space
Beats to set up rhythms, with individual tempo multipliers
Slider controls for motion setup
Pause so you can grab the fast moving ones
Save/load your patterns
Auto save/load of active composition when exiting/starting app
Shake device to randomize all active tones
Individual tone motion and beat randomisation button
Apply feedback to the pattern to put the ‘noise’ in noise machine
Help screen
A Noise Machine Screenshot
Jelly Biscuits Web SiteA Noise Machine HD Support
What’s New in Version 1.2
– Numerical display of global beats per second
– echo sliders: amount and delay
– reverb slider: activate a named preset
– beat decay slider: control how fast the off beats decay
– added an extra save slot
iDensity for iPad brings all the powerful Density/Pulsaret (Mac/Win standalone) Granular Synthesis tools to the world’s most popular tablet. http://www.densitygs.com
iDensity is a new real-time software designed for asynchronous sound file granulation, a genuine granular playground able to generate a wide range of usual and not so usual effects: time/pitch shifting, time/pitch jittering, intricate textures, grain fountain/pulverizer, recording and manipulation of buffers, complex scrub pad exploration, dynamic envelope shape and many more. iDensity for iPad will give you all the basic and advanced tools you need to manipulate sound in subtle and surprising ways. All these features are packed in an optimized, user-friendly, visually sharp interface that is easy to access when fast-improvising live, composing in a studio, or sound designing at home and on the go! You will have the power, freedom, and flexibility to create like never before – on your iPad! iDensity allows you to record audio directly with your iPad mic and load up to nine built-in sound sample or add your own WAV, AIFF, CAF, MP3, M4A or MP3 files via iTunes. With iDensity it is possible to record the stereo output (of granulation) into the documents folder while scrubbing in the wavepad or moving granulation parameters in real-time. The mixdown/audio results can then be syncronized with/in iTunes.
What’s New in Version 1.3
– Update to iOS 6
– iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch universal app (iPhone 5 supported)
– Exponential Slider for Density and Grano Length
– SnapshotsPad more fast (speed-limit update)
– Some UI improvements (FileManager and Dropbox)
– Waveform rotation size bug fixed
Control and shape grains, anytime, anywhere with Density for iPad.
– nine built-in sound samples
– record audio directly with iPad mic
– add WAV, AIFF, CAF, MP3, M4A or MP3 files via iTunes
– capture audio output
– up to eight shapes for the grain envelope
– record the granulation audio output
– wavepad zoom selection
– wavepad scrub
– wavepad peak normalize
– etc.
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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