With a name no other than iSynthesizer can you really go wrong especially when it’s FREE? Well you can. Sounds great but there is no midi support and it’s upside down when my ipad is in the Alesis iO Dock. Tried flipping it but no go. Anyway , if those things don’t matter to you then get it because it’s free =)
iSynthesizer Pro by Amitech is a monophonic virtual analog synth that, according to the developer, is designed for live performance.
Features:
Monophonic, playing one note at a time like a class synthesizer
Designed for live performance
Configurable Presets, save your favorite settings
Oscillator Module
Dual oscillators
Square, Triangle, Sawtooth, Reverse Sawtooth waves
Octave selector, supporting 5 octaves
Glide between notes (Lag Processor)
Oscillator fine tune (more than one full octave)
Oscillator sync
Low Pass Filter Module
Modulation module
Tremelo/Wave
Vibrato/Pitch
Filter
Envelope Generator module
Supports ADSR (Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release)
Volume
Filter (amount of low pass filter)
Arpeggio
One of my FAVORITE apps for the iPad just keeps getting better. This is a new approach to controlling synths.
What is SoundPrism Pro?
* a professional composition tool and midi controller
* an interactive generator for harmonic sound textures and epic cinema tracks
* a completely new way to control existing VSTis, synthesizers and sound modules
* an intuitive way to visualize and internalize musical relationships
* an innovative way to interact musically with geometric pitch space visualizations
* a way to define awesome pitch layouts by using the new PitchClassShifter
What can I do with it?
* compose film soundtracks
* find new chord progressions for your tracks
* create loops with advanced tonality
* compose epic sound textures for your next video game
* provide your media presentations with self made music
***New Expression feature:***
– SoundPrism Pro now supports Accelerometer Input to control MIDI CC Events
What’s new in 2.5:
* Retina Support for the new iPad
* MIDI-In: Control SoundPrism with other MIDI controllers and apps
* Vastly improved MIDI-capabilities (local-off, dedicated Virtual-MIDI-ports, etc.)
* Improvements in usabilty
* Fullscreen Mode has been moved to the Settings App so it won’t be triggered by accident
SoundPrism connects to your favorite DAW or hardware synth
… via WiFi (iPhone, iPod touch or iPad) or USB (iPad only)
allows individual control of multiple instruments at the same time
support for non-diatonic scales (iPad only)
turns your iOS device into a wireless 3D MIDI controller
SoundPrism controlling a Moog Voyager
SoundPrism is available for $7.99 for a limited time.
DM1 is an advanced Drum Machine for iOS. It turns your iPad into a fun and creative beat making machine. Beautiful UI, easy to use, and loaded with TONS of electronic drum kits. You can import your own samples as well.
Try “The Randomizer” and “The Automation” for instant and fun beat making. Patterns are now also expandable to 32 Steps for extra creativity. Also supports AudioCopy, WIST synchronisation between two iPads, MIDI In and more cool features.
Here’s what’s new in DM1 v2.1:
3 new FXs (Reverb, Formant, and Dalek filter)
Facebook & SoundCloud exports
Retina Display
Midi Settings popup added with Midi Channel and Velocity On/Off
Midi recording with velocity
“The Randomizer” – a new exciting tool to unleash the creative potential of the Mixer step by step. Just press ‘Go” and have fun!
“The Automation Panel” for a precise and intuitive control of any Mixer parameter over time. Powerful and easy.
16 or 32 Steps per patterns. Even more complex beats.
24 New Drum Kits for a total of 64 Drum Kits.
WIST synchronisation technology by Korg for syncing 2 iPads together.
Reversed sounds. Long-Tap the Play button on any track of the Mixer to reverse the sound.
AudioCopy on exporting
Colored Song Patterns
New help screens with tips & tricks
As electronic musicians ourselves, we, at Fingerlab, have developed DM1 with the intention of delivering the perfect mix between fun playability and powerful sonic capacities. We always keep in mind the importance of a beautiful design with the right balance of powerful abilities while avoiding clumsy, overbusy interfaces.
Check our 24 electronic drum kits. 12 classic vintage drum kits plus 12 in-house produced electronic kits, edited and mastered at Fingerlab professional studio.
DM1 offers 5 main sections:
1 – THE STEP SEQUENCER frees your imagination with a smart use of the multi-touch screen. Just turn on and off steps in your sequence with the tip of your fingers to create cool beats, or unexpected rhythms!
2 – THE DRUM PADS simply lets you play and record the beat that tickles your fingers. No need to be a first-class drummer, automatic quantize does the work for you.
3 – THE MIXER for quick and subtle sound mixing of your drum kits. Featuring settings for volume, pitch, sample length, custom drum kit element for each channel, mute and solo mode.
4 – THE FX TRACKPADS a creative duo of FX trackpads to distort, modulate and transform your beats. The effects include: Phaser, Overdrive, Delay, Texturizer* and Robotizer* (* for iPad 2 only).
5 – THE SONG COMPOSER allows you to quickly make a song with the beat patterns you have created. Just drag and drop the patterns onto the timeline. Fast and easy.
Specifications:
✔ Graphic design by Jonas Eriksson
✔ Smart ergonomy for fast creativity and fun
✔ 24 vintage and produced drum kits, mastered at in-house Fingerlab Sound Studios
✔ Mixer page with pitch, length and level rotary controls, and custom drum kit per channel
✔ Extra fast drum kit loading
✔ Playable pattern selection for extra creativity
✔ 9 Big Drum pads, quantized recording and MPC-like Repeat touch-stripe
✔ Step Sequencer with multi-touch matrix
✔ Duo FX Trackpads for real-time sonic destruction and multi-FX
✔ Mode song with intuitive editing
Coming soon:
✔ More FX
✔ High-quality export to email or iTunes shared folder
Apple announced that it is now possible to import loops in Garageband for the iPad meaning you can import your OWN loops. This is a tutorial to show you how to import your loops into Garageband for the iPad. You can learn how to install loops into the desktop version of Garageband here http://soundtrackloops.com/how-to-install-apple-loops-in-garageband/
Import Loops In Garageband
Import an audio file
You can import an audio file from your computer into Tracks view. GarageBand for iPad supports uncompressed audio files with a 44.1 kHz sample rate and 16-bit depth (the standard for audio CDs). You can also import Apple Loops. If the audio file is an unsupported sample rate or bit depth it will be unavailable in the import window.
Sunrizer, otherwise known as Horizon, synth is a virtual analog synthesizer that takes the definition of iOs synthesizer to the next level. Thanks to carefully designed architecture and heavy usage of coprocessor it blurs the boundaries between iOs and hardware synthesizers. Sunrizer was built to perform and works perfectly with any MIDI keyboard or sequencer. A lot of research has been done in order to achieve unheard warmth and clarity.
What’s New in Version 2.5
* Update requires minimum iOS 5.0 *
– New effects: rotary speaker, equalizer as a separate module
– Dual band effects processing
– New filter types: Analog LP12, Waveshaper, Resonator, Resampler, LPF + Resampler, Frequency shifter. Filter key tracking for filter B.
– Stereo filters in parallel mode
– Phrase sequencer
– Keyboard velocity simulation
– ARP: random mode added
– Recordings export via DropBox
– Support for AudioBus v.1.0.1
– 2 banks added: New Horizon and app-sound.com ( 135 new presets )
– Adjustable polyphony
– Bug fixes and performance improvements
Kinda looks like a Roland JP8000
Demo of some presets:
HIGHLIGHTS
· True SuperSaw sound emulation, first found in the legendary Roland JP-8000 synthesizer. SuperSaw is a layered waveform consisting of multiple saw waves which are detuned to create an extremely full and epic sound.
· Two filters per voice with configurable routing. 15 filter types available, including less common like Comb, Formant or Frequency shifter.
· The Morph Group function lets you continuously morph of up to 30 parameters in a sound (including effects), using only the modulation wheel.
· Full support for CoreMidi, MIDI mapping, Virtual Midi Ports and background audio.
· Multi mode lets you multiply oscillators to get unbelievably fat and full sound.
OSCILLATORS
· 2 warm-sounding analog modelled oscillators, 2 sub-oscillators (except SuperSaw). Available waveforms: Saw, PWM pulse,Triangle, SuperSaw, FM (frequency of phase modulation). 6 oscillators per voice in multi-sono mode.
· Oscillator 2 hard-sync and configurable routing
· FM (true frequency modulation) and PM mode
· Osc-mix, ring modulator
· White noise oscillator
FLEXIBLE MULTI FILTERS
· Two independent filters per voice with configurable routing. Filter types: LPF, HPF, BPF, Analog LPF, Notch, Comb, All pass, Power LPF, Power BPF, Wave shaper, Resonator, Resampler, LPF+Resampler, Frequency shifter.
· Configurable routing: serial or parallel with bypass option.
· ADSR envelope, keyboard tracking and full LFO control.
MODULATION
· Two LFOs per voice. It’s possible to assign each LFO to almost any parameter. 3 LFO running modes: trigger, 1 shot, global. 6 waveforms, phase and fade-in knobs.
· The Morph Group function lets you continuously morph of up to 30 parameters in a sound (including effects), using only the modulation wheel.
· Two Modulation ADSR Envelopes for amplitude and filters cutoff.
· Pitch and modulation wheels.
EFFECTS
· A number of effects are built in: distortion, hi-q reverb, chorus, rotary speaker simulation, equalizer, phaser and stereo delay. Dual-band FX processing.
ARPEGGIATOR
· Sunrizer incorporates very powerful programmable arpeggiator. You should think of it more like a small step sequencer.
OTHER FEATURES
· Over 380 presets, 7 additional banks available for FREE in web library (more coming soon)
· Hold button allows you to to keep notes sustaining until you play new notes
· With Chord Memory function you can play the chord by only pressing single keys
· Phrase sequencer
· Compatible with AudioBus
· Adjustable polyphony: 6-20 voices
· Playback modes: poly, solo, arp
· Built-in recorder supporting AudioCopy, DropBox and iTunes file sharing.
· Supports CoreMidi and MidiMobilizer. MIDI key velocity can affect up to 3 parameters.
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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