csGrain is a real-time audio processing and recording tool that lets you create new sounds and new musical textures by transforming your voice, your instrument, or your favorite songs from your iTunes library in subtle or dramatic ways – all with the power of CSOUND. Under the hood is a stereo granular sound processor and 10 additional professional audio effects – all realized through a single Csound orchestra that is simultaneously: rendering, processing, sampling, resampling, synthesizing, resynthesizing, playing, reversing, delaying, triggering, gating, compressing, limiting, chorusing, flanging, echoing, filtering, pitch-shifting, harmonizing, granulizing, and recording – in any combination – all in real-time, and all 100% being done with the power and exquisite sound quality of CSOUND – the world’s premier software synthesizer and signal processor.
csGrain Screenshot
Features:
A Live Audio Multi-Effects Processor
Import and Remix Songs from iTunes or “myTunes” (your Tunes!)
Audio Processing
Live Recording
Soundfile Editing
DropBox Integration
Email-based File Transfer
AudioCopy/AudioPaste to/from other iPad Apps
MIDI Trigger and Control of All Paramaters
Support for Professional External Audio and MIDI Interfaces
Sample Loops
Exquisite and Imaginative Presets
A Comprehensive User Manual
AmpKit is a great app for simulating guitar amps, effects and recording app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch*, now with iPad Retina display graphics and an even greater selection of gear in the Gear Store, including the first full-featured, modern bass amp available on iOS.
To enjoy the best possible tone with AmpKit, use Peavey AmpKit LiNK to connect your guitar or bass to your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch*.
AmpKit offers:
– The largest guitar and bass gear selection of any amp sim app: 36 amp channels, 24 effects, 21 cabinets, and 8 mics.
– A massive collection of presets: 114 in total!
– Five great cost-saving bundles including the new Summer ‘11 Pack with 6 brand-new amps, 6 cabs, and 4 new effect pedals.
– Powerful features including recording session mix down, Audio Copy & Paste, background audio support, and much more.
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Premier Guitar: “AmpKit is the most impressive amp modeling software that I’ve encountered for the iPhone.”
CrunchGear: “AmpKit’s guitar tones are great! From crushing distortion to kooky tremolo, there are many tones to choose from and it is easy to navigate through the options with speed and efficiency.”
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This AmpKit+ version includes everything in the free version PLUS a huge set of additional gear at less than half their individual prices.
All the gear from the free version: Peavey ValveKing amp (clean and lead channels), 4×12 and 1×12 cabinets, noise gate, overdrive pedal, two mics.
PLUS:
– Peavey 3120 amp with clean, rhythm, and lead channels and 4×12 cabinet.
– Colonel Vintage amp with 4×10 and 1×12 cabinets.
– Vintage Brit amp with matching 2×12 cabinet.
– Additional pedals include distortion, fuzz, compressor, chorus, phaser, flanger, reverb, and 10-band EQ!
An amazing array of additional gear is available for purchase through AmpKit’s in-app Gear Store, for a total of:
– 20 amps with 36 separate amp channels, each modeled after the actual circuitry of amplifiers from leading manufacturers.
– 24 effects pedals, including advanced noise reduction, tremolo, distortion, fuzz, reverb, delay, 10-band EQ, octaver, flanger, phaser, vibrato, chorus, boost, compressor, overdrive, and an all-in-one envelope filter + auto-wah + manual wah with accelerometer tilt support.
– 21 cabinets
– 8 mics
– More gear on the way!
Guitar Effects For iPad
FEATURES
– Support for true high-gain operation.
– Run a dozen or more effects at once.
– Hear the difference dual-stage amp simulation makes
– Amazing flexibility and tone control: place pedals virtually anywhere in the effects chain including after the cabinet and before and after the amp.
– Effects Only Mode allows you to use AmpKit as an effects processor connected into an actual amp.
– Mic positioning control.
– 114 predefined amp / pedal presets.
– Create and save an unlimited number of your own custom setups with Favorites and Locking.
– Share your favorite setups with friends via email.
– QuickJump: jump from one favorite setup or preset to another.
– Advanced recording: AmpKit creates both “dry” and “wet” recordings.
– Ability to “re-amp”: re-record a previous session, applying a new amp and pedals setup.
– Recording session mix down: mix down a wet guitar recording with the backing track it was played with.
– Audio Copy & Paste: copy AmpKit recordings and paste them in other iOS apps.
– Paste audio from other apps into AmpKit, a great solution for multi-track recording.
– Instant access to your complete iPod music library so you can jam along.
– Download AmpKit recordings to your computer, email recordings, or share using SoundCloud.
– Multitasking Support / Background Audio: AmpKit can operate and produce audio when running in the background.
Beat Time by Tiv Studio allows you to change the pitch and time of audio AND video. A great tool for any musician. Slow down video recordings of your favorite guitarist and slow it down without altering the pitch. Check out this demo video of Jordan Rudess showing off both his insane skills and Beat Time.
Beat Time plays audio & video and can change the tempo (time stretch) and/or pitch and does note & chord detection. It is aimed as a practice / study tool for musicians and as a helper tool for transcribing audio & video.
Reviews:
“Beat Time! is a gem of an app that’s just waiting for musicians around the world to discover it. It’s almost to good to be true! You’ve got to check it out!!”
Jordan Rudess
Dream Theater/Wizdom Music.
Main app features:
• Time stretch video and audio from 1/4x to 2x without affecting pitch.
• Pitch shift audio and video up to an octave up or down.
• Natural pitch shifting, pitch shift a male voice keeping it sounding male, pitch shift a female voice keep it sounding female.
• High quality, state of the art, time stretching / pitch shifting using DIRAC technology.
• Pitch analysis for note & chord detection.
• Annotate the track with multiple markers.
• Seamless looping of segments in the track.
• Optionally pause between loops.
• Easy file transfer: Open audio/video files from any app that supports iOS “Open In…” menu or using iTunes file sharing.
• Built in dropbox integration.
• Open tracks from your iPod audio, video library or video camera roll
• Export time stretched / pitch shifted audio or movies.
• Universal application (iPhone/iPod/iPad).
• Supports video and audio formats that are playable using iOS music/video player, including: mp4, m4v, m4a, mp3, WAV, mov, (AVI provided it’s mpeg 4 encoded)
Propellerhead Software Figure for iPhone & iPod Touch. Figure is said to be built on the Reason engine and will give you a full featured music studio on your iOS device for FREE.
Create an addictive beat before the next bus stop or lay down a beefy bass line while waiting in line at the bank. Share your creations on Propellerhead, the free music collaboration and sharing service, and see where other music makers will take your ideas. Figure will have you making music within seconds yet is deep enough for endless play on a transatlantic flight.
What’s New in Version 2.0
• Arpeggiator: turn chords into melodies
• New drum kit, basses, and leads
• Easier and faster sharing on Propellerhead
Figure highlights
• Make songs with Drums, Bass and Lead Synth
• Play by sliding your finger across the play pad
• Always stay in key and on the beat
• Remix other Figure users’ music from Discover
• Share your music on Propellerhead and let other remix or develop in other apps
• No previous playing skills required
• Tweak and twist your track on the fly
• Sounding amazing has never been this easy
• The sound of Reason on your phone!
Truly designed for mobile user on the go, Figure gives you drums, bass and lead synth, controlled by an incredibly easy to use touch interface that gets you sounding great literally in seconds. Slide your finger across the play pad and hear your bass line play. Tweak the Rhythm, Range and Scale Step wheels to get the result you’re after. Programming drumbeats is just as easy. Set the rhythm and play the drums with your fingers. You won’t want to stop. You won’t believe how amazing you and your phone can sound.
If you are new to music making, getting started making great sounding tracks has never been this easy — and sounded so great!
If you are a seasoned musician – music creation has never been this fun!
The nitty gritty details:
• Bass & lead parts use Reason’s Thor synthesizer
• Drums powered by Reason’s Kong drum machine
• Play in different keys & modes. Set once or change on the fly.
• Use the arpeggiator to create melody lines from chords
• Increase the Shuffle to loosen up your beats
• Turn up Pump to add a club sound to your tracks
• Adjust levels using Propellerhead’s legendary mixer
• Save, browse and load song files
• Set length of loop (1,2,4,8 bars)
• Export audio to iTunes File Sharing
• Share music on Propellerhead
• SoundCloud Sharing
• Audiobus support: Stream live audio directly to other Audiobus-compatible apps! See http://audiob.us for more information
• Background audio (in device Settings)
Spacelab Monophonic Synthesiver for iPad V 1.1 by Iglesia Intermedia – Waaaaay cool synth by the makers of MiniMash. Glad to see something from them. The UI design is very intuitive. There is no other synth like this. What really makes it stand out are the various layouts for playing it. It has four ways to play: keyboard, graph, guitar, and wind controller. Underneath those interfaces is a fully programmable subtractive synth with oscillators, filters, envelopes, effects, FM, presets, an arpeggiator, full MIDI control, and much more.
Spacelab Synthesizer Screenshot 1
What’s New in Version 1.0.3
-Fix crash on saving presets
-Manually rotate orientation
-Creates virtual MIDI port for intra-app communication
-Optional run audio while in background (for use with iOS sequencers)
Spacelab Synthesizer Screenshot 2
You get two oscillators and both can sync to BPM! Also get an arpeggiator, tap tempo, Bit Crusher, FM, gestures such as tilt, and X/Y pad.
Seems like there are still a few glitches with this app. I noticed some clicking/interrupted tones. The X/Y pad could be a bit smoother. I didn’t like swiping to select the different layouts. I would prefer that to be a simple button.
This is a universal app so it’s also works great on an iPhone.
Things I would like to see in future updates: a poly version, a step sequencer, strum mode for guitar, different tunings for guitar, normal pitch bend wheel or slider, modulation wheel or slider.
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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