Classic synth company Novation brings us a new virtual synth this time it’s for the iPad. Novation Launchkey is a powerful and unique analogue modelling synthesiser.
Launchkey includes 60 exciting synth sounds for you to use straight away in your performances and productions.
Launchkey gives you a fast and fun way to play with sound. Change each sound instantly using the interactive and hands on graphics to take your music to new dimensions. Just play a note and start moving things!
Launchkey is an iPad app and is not compatible with iPhone or iPod Touch.
Launchkey requires iOS5 and above and is recommended for iPad 2, iPad Mini and Retina iPad.
This free update adds killer new features including a Timeline Editor, MIDI Controller support, and Session Sharing. Plus the brand-new iMPC from Akai Professional works inside Tabletop as the first Tabletop-Ready App.
Ready. Set. Remix! The exclusive Soundtrack in this video was created in Tabletop by Richard Devine. You can find the song Glitch Breaker Demo inside the Tabletop in-app community, or on SoundCloud. To celebrate the new update for Tabletop we’re making a call for remixes! Download the Glitchbreaker Session right in Tabletop. You get access to all of the custom samples, sequencing, and arrangement. Remix to your heart’s content. We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
What’s New in Version 2.0
• Timeline Editor. Edit, arrange, create notes on a pianoroll style timeline!
• Midi Controller Support. Control Tabletop devices via Core Midi with hardware!
• Tabletop Ready Apps. Standalone apps that work in Tabletop! iMPC is the first!
• Share Sessions. Post and download sessions for remixing, backup and more.
• Improved stability and performance.
• Brand new UI look and feel.
• Panhander. Autopanning effect device.
• iOS 6 enhancements and improvements.
• Improved template system.
• Various bug fixes.
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NEW: Timeline Editor
The Timeline Editor is designed from the ground up to provide a fast and powerful way to create and edit notes in using intuitive multi-touch gestures:
• Piano Roll style timeline editor.
• Cut, copy, paste, duplicate, and create notes.
• Correct note timing with Fix to Grid.
• Edit note length and velocity.
• Undo any changes and edits with Tabletop’s History Menu.
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NEW: MIDI Controller Support
Users can control Tabletop devices with their favorite hardware MIDI controllers. Connect with USB via Apple’s Camera Connection Kit and use Tabletop’s “MIDI Learn” mode to painlessly map controls and set up MIDI devices:
• Features Core MIDI Support.
• Works with any MIDI-compatible hardware.
• Control Tabletop’s keyboards, drum pads, knobs, faders, and other parameters.
• Customize control mapping with Midi Learn mode.
• Connect multiple devices.
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NEW: Share Sessions
Share complete song projects on the built in SoundCloud Community. When you share on soundcloud, other Tabletop users can download your session! Browse and download from the community to remix and collaborate with other users.
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NEW: iMPC — First Tabletop-Ready App!
An important milestone in the evolution of music apps on iOS, Tabletop Ready Apps are stand-alone apps that work inside Tabletop. When users purchase a Tabletop Ready App, a free version is automatically unlocked inside Tabletop. iMPC from Akai Professional is the first Tabletop Ready App! See http://akaiprompc.com/impc/ for more info.
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About Tabletop
An Expandable Studio with 12 included musical devices!
Tabletop is a modular environment where you can mix and match different devices. Select from over 30 devices including samplers, mixers, effects, sequencers and more. Buy only the gear you need from an expanding catalog.
Virtual, Modular Gear.
Plug the output of a keyboard into a delay to add an echo, or wire it up to a mixer and adjust the pan. Chain up multiple effects to create new and evolving sounds. Tabletop is an audio playground where you can create beats, compose songs, mix live, make mashups with samples from your iPod library… the possibilities are wide open.
Composer Gregorio Zanon has released version 1.1 of uPhase+ a instrument for the iPad that allows the performer total control over phasing patterns which can then be “spatialized” on up to seven devices. The update adds Recording and AudioCopy to the mix, allowing uPhase+ to be used as a music production tool and not only a live instrument.
Solo Mode Improvements:
Record a stereo mix and AudioCopy
4 displays (3 before)
Pan slider for each display
Minor improvements and bug fixes
Below is a sound demo of the new recording and AudioCopy capabilities.
What do you get if you cross a Stylophone with the famous Roland SH-101? Well We have circuit-bent a virtual Stylophone and added Roland SH-101 modifications. You can create wacky and eerie sounds to meaty bass lines. As well as the Stylophone sound, you now have an extra oscillator driving a sawtooth wave with filter and resonance from the SH-101. You can adjust the mixer for each oscillator and the LFO can control oscillators and amp. We have increased the LFO speed and depth of the pitch modulation. We have also added an SH-101 style sequencer for creating bass lines or arpeggios. It is still monophonic but the notes will continue to decay if you release your finger before playing another key. You can also play over the top of the sequence while its playing.
I-phone 5 friendly
2 oscillator monophonic synth
oscillator 1: saw, tri, square
oscillator 2: SH-101 Saw with SH-101 filter, SH-101 resonance (4 preset levels) and detune
LFO-pitch
LFO-AMP
Master Transpose
Mixer for osc1 and osc2
Arp/sequencer with tempo
Release controls notes played and sequencer
Attack controls notes only
2 oscillator monophonic synth
oscillator 1: saw, tri, square
oscillator 2: SH-101 Saw with SH-101 filter, SH-101 resonance (4 preset levels) and detune
LFO-pitch
LFO-AMP
Master Transpose
Mixer for osc1 and osc2
Arp/sequencer with tempo
Release controls notes played and sequencer
Attack controls notes only
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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