Traditional EQs influence the spectrum of the whole stereo field simultaneously. L/R or Mid-Side-EQs allow you to treat the two channels or the mid and the side signal simultaneously. DirectionalEQ takes this concept one big step further: now you can equalize all directions in the stereo field independently! With five bands, each of them providing state-of-the-art filter types (including 64 bit processing and 2x oversampling) plus the unique ability to specify the direction in which the channel is operational. So you need more bass at 2 o’clock, less midrange at 11 o’clock and a bit more treble from the left? No problem at all, that’s exactly what this EQ has been made for.
This app is intended to work as an Audio Unit plugin within a compatible host app like Garageband, Cubasis or Auria.
ExpressionPad is a new kind of musical instrument. Continuous multi-touch support means you can control pitch bend, dynamics, and modulation with each touch, even as you change notes.
We’ve created a flexible and intuitive interface so you can focus on music. Watch our video and see for yourself!
Tune your expressionPad in fourths, fifths, or in guitar tunings such as standard or Open C.
expressionPad features a built-in polyphonic synthesizer/sampler so you can start making music right away. Experience the flexibility of polyphonic portamento — an electronic music first!
Connect to your music studio via Core MIDI, Apple’s inter-app music protocol. With expressionPad, you can play Reason, Ableton Live, Logic, Garage Band, and Logic more expressively than ever!
A clean interface, a flexible synthesizer/sampler, and lightning-fast MIDI response. Push your musical ideas to new limits with expressionPad.
sequencism is a music sketchbook tool that allows the creation of short and simple pieces of music. It is designed to provide a traditional user interface of track and piano roll editors, while taking advantage of the touch-screen capabilities of the iPad. It also includes other helper tools, such as chord helper tracks.
Note that the main goal of this app is to work as a sketchbook, thus it is not recommended to use sequencism to produce complex songs or to play songs live on stage.
Features
• Simple track mixer and visual mixer (volume, pan)
• Multitrack editor: MIDI instrument tracks, chord helper tracks
• Support for SF2* and AUv3 instruments (*lightweight SF2 files only)
• AUv3 Effects
• Piano roll editor: add, move, copy notes within blocks
• MIDI keyboard, supports multiple scales, including user-defined scales
• Support for diatonic and chromatic chords
• Automatic transposing when changing chords or scales
• Supports Audiobus 3 and Ableton Link
• Support for MIDI keyboards, including Bluetooth keyboards
• Export to MIDI
ChordFlow is a chord sequencer with a polyphonic matrix arpeggiator.
What’s New in Version 2.0.0
SECTIONS VIEW REDESIGNED
– Each section row now contains a play button with the section name, an arpeggiator pattern view and a chord sequence view. You can start playing a section or jump to another section just by tapping on a section’s play button. You can now see arpeggiator patterns and chord sequences of all your sections right on the main view. So it is now much easier to see what is currently playing and what you need to play next.
– Custom names for sections. You can now give your sections custom names. Tap on the edit button at the right of the navigation bar. Press rename on the required section.
– Section reordering was improved. Now to reorder a section just long-press on it and move it around.
CHORD SEQUENCE EDITOR REDESIGNED
– Each chord is now represented as a tile instead of a row. So it is now a lot more compact and allows you to fit more chords into one screen. The currently edited chord is indicated by a color frame around it. You can now edit the selected chord while the whole chord sequence is playing. It is much more convenient because you can hear the changes you make in the context of the full sequence.
– Duration slider was removed. Now, to change a chord duration you use the new picker control’s column with label “Beats”.
– Now when you add a new chord, instead of adding a default C major chord to the end of the sequence, the currently selected chord is copied and inserted after the selected chord. Selection is then moved to the newly added chord allowing you to edit it right away if you need to.
– If the sequence is currently playing and you select a chord that was not selected before, the playhead will not jump to that chord. This allows you to edit the chords of the sequence without disrupting the music flow. But if you still want to jump between chords, tap on a chord one more time, and it will start playing after the currently played chord is played to the end. If you want to jump to the selected chord right away, tap on it two times more after the selection tap. To summarize: 1 tap = selection, 2 taps = selection and quantized jump, 3 taps = selection and immediate jump.
– Chord reordering was also improved. To change a chord position, long-press on it and move it wherever you want it to be.
ARPEGGIATOR EDITOR
– Per-track mute buttons were added.
– Move tool added. You can now move the selected track along the arpeggiator grid.
– Per-track octave param added. You can now change the octave of the selected track.
– Per-track voice number param added. You can now set the number of voices per a track. When you set this param to the value more than one, the track will be splitted to the multiple parallel lines. You can use it to quickly create full chord parts with just one track(color). Before that improvement, you would need to use multiple tracks for that task.
– Portrait orientation support for iPhone. You can now edit arpeggiator sequence in both portrait and landscape orientations. When you are in the portrait orientation on an iPhone, you see only a part of the arpeggiator sequence. To scroll through it you use a two finger pan gesture (put two fingers on the arpeggiator grid and slide them left and right). On the landscape orientation on an iPhone, the grid is fit to the screen so you can see the whole sequence.
– Undo/redo buttons added. You can now go back and forth in the history of edits in the arpeggiator editor.
– “Clear all” button added. You can now clear the whole arpeggiator pattern at once.
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS
– Several unexpected crash cases were fixed.
– Editing performance is improved. The chord sequence and arpeggiator sequence editing procedures were optimized to provide much smoother experience when editing a section while the app is playing.
Scythe is a powerful wavetable synthesizer with modulation and Inter-App-Audio Support.
Import your own sounds using iTunes file sharing and AudioPaste and generate wavetables from these. Please note that loading sounds with low frequency content is required for best wavetable generation results.
Top Features:
– High quality wavetable synthesis
– Inter-App-Audio for connecting straight to Logic Pro X/Ableton or other apps
– Modulation control of all oscillator parameters
– Global tempo control for syncing LFOs to note duration
– Easily record, playback and export audio
– Library wavetables and presets
– Max waves = 48 = 3 voices * 2 oscillators * 8 unison
– Dark and Light modes
Full feature set:
Synthesis
– 2 Wavetable oscillators with full modulation control
– Load audio files from iTunes file sharing
– Load audio from other apps using audio paste
– Load library wavetables
– Save wavetables
– Unison up to 8 waves
Modulation
– Global tempo control in top bar
– 2 Envelope generators with controllable ADSR graph
– 3 LFOs with 8 wave modes, Note duration sync, lfo wave amplitude, 3 run modes
– Global modulation matrix control
– Modulation override
Keyboard
– Currently max voices is 3
– Scrollable keyboard
– Hold mode (enabled by tapping octave control in scroll section)
Presets
– Library presets
– Save your own presets
Recording
– Record audio
– export audio using iOS export options, e.g. Dropbox
Notes:
– Hardware capabilities will impact max number of waves. If your device CPU cannot synthesize the max number of waves, either adjust the unison value/modulation or reduce the number of simultaneous keys pressed
– Modulation is initially enabled by dragging the modulation link icons onto the control to be modulated.
– Hold mode is enabled/disabled by pressing the control in the keyboard scroll section
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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