During his misspent youth, Robby was a prominent “session player” performing live and on numerous records with such household names as Steve Winwood, Mick Jagger, James Taylor, Eric Clapton and Cyndi Lauper. He is also a Grammy Award winning composer and producer with several film and television scores to his credit.
Drum Toy uses an admittedly weird drum machine architecture and concept. You create basic loops using Drum Toy’s Every and Offset knobs, and then feather in the secret ingredient: Probability!
In a way, Drum Toy ‘thinks’ the way drummers do. Find the pocket, lay down the main groove and sprinkle lightly with a few tasty fills or variations here and there to keep things fresh. Drum Toy is set up to force certain beats while leaving others to just the right amount of chance. This simple mechanism yields a surprising array of personality.
Drum Toy – the world’s funkiest practice metronome.
Navigate around your live set with the touch of a finger, tweak Lives mixer, instruments and fx with full automapping and unlimited tracks & parameters.
touchAble allows live users to walk away from their computer and perform live from anywhere within Wi-Fi range while keeping latency at a minimum.
Play your favorite synths with the unique double keyboard or record your rhythms with the 16 drum pads, including 5 velocity steps & octave selectors.
Extend your creativity with the multi dots XY Pad and record, play and morph your mouvements.
Access the most important transport and clip functions without losing focus on your set and tweak the same set with two iPads with the unique Dual-User-Mode.
do you need to adjust volume, launch a new clip and play a device? Don’t worry – a smart and intuitive screen menu empowers the user to arrange and switch modules on the fly.
touchAble does not require any midi-mappings as it uses LiveOSC to communicate directly with the LiveAPI.
Requirements:
Ableton Live 8 with latest update running on a computer on the same WiFi network
Windows XP, Vista, 7 with MIDI-YOKE or similar MIDI-utility installed
Mac OS X 10.5 or newer
touchAbleServer-software from our website www.touch-able.com
Installation could not be any simpler:
– Download touchAbleServer from our website http://www.touch-able.com and install it on your Mac or PC
– Enter your Hosts Ip-Address on your iPad
– Press connect.
– Within a few seconds your set will be ready.
FEATURES:
– Scrollable representation of your Session View in Live
– Clips, tracks & scenes with full color, name and status feedback
– Scalable Clipgrid from 4×2 to 15×8
– Access to arm, solo, mute & stop functions
– Access to Volumes, returns A-D, panning, monitors, resets, master & return volumes of up to 16 tracks at once
– Scared of clipping? Output-meters provide feedback of each tracks/masters/returns output-levels
– Choose between relative / absolute faders
– Access your vsts, audiounits and native live plugins or toggle them on & off from a scrollable overview
– Navigate and control unlimited parameters with bank switches
– Native Templates
– Snap Mode
-Toggle, Multitoggle, Fader & centered Fader available for live and max4live devices
– Never lose a parameter in the heat of a set: parameter name & value feedback directly inside the faders.
– Control 2 devices at the same time
– 128 note velocity sensitive Keyboard
– Perform with 2 keyboards in full screen mode
– 8/16 velocity sensitive Drum Pads with Access to all 128 Sample slots within Live
– 4 dots XY PAD controlling Mixer and Devices parameters including record and playback automations, bouncing ball fx, snapshots, morphing, save function
– Change parameters of clips : pitch, detune, loop, length, position
– Easy access to transport functions: play/stop, record, tempo, midi overdub, cue level, metronome, nudge up/down, midi record and launch quantization
The Strange Agency is known for developing strange and unique audio apps. This iPad app is for recording and mangling sound loops.
You can use it like a phrase looper, by recording horizontally while using the step controls to step through vertical recording position. You can use it as a realtime processor by using ThruRecord mode. You can record and playback at completely differently speeds. You can even record backwards! You can record and playback diagonally across the Donut surface, creating glitchy staccato sounds. You can record and playback with multiple heads, recording or playing multiple positions at once. You can spread the heads vertically to access different portions of the Donut, or you can spread them horizontally to create an echo effect.
Let me introduce The most advanced composing app in the world. The smartest composing app. for ipad (and iPhone). This pro version supports ez Sequencer and this is incredibly easy because of the mouse like finger interface.
The user just arrange the chord progression and set the style for each instruments. The ezComposer Pro sequences midi notes instead of you. If the chords changed, ezComposer Pro immediately does midi sequencing automatically. The melody can be easily recorded by keyboard and it supports UNDO to cancel current recording. You can edit each note with ez Sequencer.
You can easily make moving music through the special composing system in the ezComposer Pro. ezComposer Pro supports 144 chords set and about 400s styles set for major instruments. What you need to make a song is just drag-and-drop the chord and style. No more midi sequencing in the smartphone.
ezComposer Pro is the only professional composing app. in various situation like in the subway, in the bed, when you walk …
First, arrange the chords and styles for each instrument, Second, record major melody using the velocity-aware keyboard. That’s all. It’s amazing app. You can also easily edit each notes with mouse-action-like smart midi sequencer, ez Sequencer.
Also it supports chord progression recommendation system based on 500s chords set for each key. Ofcourse, you can export your project as a midi file to use in your favorite sequencer like cubase, sonar, logic.
ezComposer Pro will be useful for
1. Beginners for midi composing
– who have no idea about midi sequencing
– who want to sequence various chords without chord knowledge.
– who want to make various chord progression
– You can open your project through exporting midifile and you can see the midi notes!
2. People who are interest in composing, and professional composers
– who don’t want to be bothered by ordinary midi sequencing.
– who want to see various chord progression
– You can sketch anyplace with the combination of various chord sets and style set
*** Features ***
+ Drag-and-drop based chord and style editing
– 144 chords : major, minor, 7th, 6th, m7, m7, m7-5, aug, dim, dim7, Maj7, sus4 chords
– 132 drum styles : 4 beat, 8 beat, 16 beat and various feel-ins
– 132 piano styles : Well-sequenced midi playing sets like professional pianist’s play
– 72 guitar styles : various sets from stroke to arpeggio (A1-1 ~ B9-3)
– 60 base guitar styles : various bass guitar styles (C1-1 ~ D6-3)
– Double tapping support to insert chord and style.
+ Chord recommendation system
– Next chord recommendation system based on current chord progression.
– instant chord progression guide
– 500s various chord progression for each Key(12 Major Keys, 12 Minor Keys)
+ ez Sequencer
– If you’re familiar with mouse sequencing, the ezComposer Pro will be the best app for you.
– In the sequencer, your index finger will be the mouse pointer and if you locate the pointer, then click the screen with middle finger like mouse click. It’s really natural and easy way to use sequencer.
– In other words, you can use your fingers as a mouse.
– It supports two fingers scrolling and three fingers actions like note length editing and velocity editing.
+ Keyboard and Drumpad
– Velocity-aware Drumpad : for drumkit, you can use drumpad to record drum notes!
– Velocity-aware Keyboard : 2-layered Keyboard.
+ Instruments
– 49 various high quality instruments with 16bit 44.1khz
– Standard, Jazz, Rock, House,…. 7 various drum kits.
+ Editing
– User-friendly made user interface and interactive instant help system
– midi file exporting
– Copy & paste
– Volume and pan control for each track
– midi tempo control
– Block the auto sequencing ( double tapping the the style editor )
The design looks a lot like a Monome. Newly added Dubstep samples!
FEATURES:
D-Pad comes with 3 different sections: the mixer, the grid and the effect rack.
The Mixer offers you:
To individually change the Volume, the Pan and the Tune of each track
To play each track in live mode with dedicated pads, where changes and effects also apply
To record in live mode with a quantize functionality
The Grid allows you:
To have a full overview of the rhythm you are creating
To quickly assign events to each track with the multi-touch enable. Just swipe the pads with your fingers.
To easily identify when one or more tracks are in solo
The Effect view allows you:
To control which effect is applied on the whole track
To set each single parameters of each effect. Here again, the multi -touch enable allows you to modify many parameters at the same time.
D-Pad also comes with the great audio Mix-down feature: create a rhythm (with the sequencer or with the live mode) and record it. The corresponding audio file is stored in the document folder of the D-Pad Application.
Complete specifications:
8 track Sequencer (bpm from 40 to 240)
4 bars: sequenced play mode, single bar edit, copy and paste between bars
Swing feature
Live pad mode with recording capability (length up to 32 bars or 64 seconds)
Volume, pan and tune adjustment for each individual track
Manage your sequence through the sequence menu
Kit selection menu
Mixer view, Sequencer Grid view and Effect Rack view
7 effects: Reverb, compressor, Filter LPHP, Delay, Bitcrusher, Phaser and 3 band EQ
Audio Mix-down to reuse your tracks in other audio applications (Wav files)
Info screen (touch the logo) with parameters modifications (mix-down and swing)
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