2015
11/02
Apple TV Music Production Apps
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Back in September of 2015 Apple announced the future of TV is apps. This will open up a whole new world of composing music and interacting with apps. The world has already embraced tablets, phones, and other hand held touch screen devices. It’s time we change the way we interact with the TV.

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Check out the Apple event on Youtube for more info about the Apple TV appstore https://youtu.be/0qwALOOvUik?t=53m1s

The first music instrument for iPhone to hit the Apple TV appstore is TWYST. Twyst for Apple TV lets you play and control the Twyst iOS instrument with the remote and I believe also from your iOS while running the app on the Apple TV screen. The only catch is old Apple TVs won’t run the new tvOS so you’ll have to upgrade your Apple TV 3rd gen to the latest version in order to get access to all the cool music apps that come out for tvOS.

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Twyst is a professional instrument for iPhone—and now Apple TV! Unlike other instrument apps that attempt to shrink down a full set of piano keys or a guitar neck, we designed Twyst from the ground-up to work beautifully with iPhone and do things analog instruments can’t. With just five buttons, Twyst is a real instrument that’s not only easy to learn, but easy to master.

Twyst Apple TV App

• Start an impromptu jam session with your friends anytime, anywhere
• Plug in a pair of headphones and play along with your favorite tunes
• Play the entire scale using just three note buttons
• Raise or lower the pitch with sharp and flat buttons
• “Twyst” iPhone away from you to jump up an octave
• Shake for vibrato that feels and sounds natural

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MidiTV

The music IO team has put together a set of apps to bring MIDI to the Apple TV. Check out MidiTV Host for the Mac, and MidiITV Orchestra and Clock for the Apple TV.

MidiTV connectivity is built-in to music IO on iOS. The MidiTV apps will be free for a short period!

MidiTV coming soon!

2015
11/02
Elastic Drums Integrates Ableton Link Sync
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Elastic Drums announced it will integrate Ableton Link sync into the app by end of November.

Introducing Link
Link is a new technology developed by Ableton that lets you play in time with multiple iOS devices and multiple instances of Ableton Live music software over a wireless network. It’s not JUST MIDI over Wi-Fi so don’t worry it actually works and works well based on a new type of development that sends song position and tempo information and that’s all.

How Link works
To set up, just switch on Link, connect to the same network and start jamming. Anyone can start and stop their part while others keep playing. And anyone can adjust the tempo and the rest will follow. No MIDI cables, no installation, just free-flowing sync that works.

Elastic Drums is a music app showcasing an interactive drum kit, that enables to create a huge range of rhythmic grids, ranging from classical analog drumkits up to experimental soundscapes.

It contains six channels of high quality synthesized drum sounds, a step sequencer and 4 effect channels. All important control parameters are automatable. The result: Elastic drum composition!

Features:
– 6 synth channels with 12 different percussion synth engines (kick, snare, hihat, clap, tom, wobble, fm, fm4, square, grain, synth, drone)
– 12 parameters for each synth engine
– automation for each parameter via knob recording or velocity
– 4 send effect channels with 2×11 mono effects and 2 x 9 stereo effects
– automation for all of the 8 possible effect parameters via xy pad
– master effects (stutter, delay, compressor …)
– 16 step sequencer for the 6 channels, each with it’s own tempo multiplier & length
– record audio and export to Soundcloud or Audioshare
– email audio recordings and presets
– iOS 8 supported
– Audiobus supported
– Inter-App audio (IAA) supported with transport control
– Midi start/stop/sync

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Because all sounds get generated in realtime, the app is cpu heavy! iPhones 5 and greater can handle it with no problem, on iPhone 4s effects 3 and 4 get switched off by the engine automatically to save some cpu power. iPhone 4 and iPad1 are NOT recommended!

Elastic Drums is published by MoMinstruments, the instruments app label of Mouse on Mars and friends.

Plans for upcoming versions:
– Midi notes recording
– native screen size for iPhone 6, 6+
– new sequencer features (rolls, etc.)
– new synth engines (other percussions, sampler, etc)

Elastic Drums

2015
10/29
Gestrument and ScaleGen Bundle
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Halloween Sale!

Gestrument and ScaleGen let you go far deeper into any genre you choose, or even further out to create your own new styles. With full and deep music theoretical control you can then intuitively improvise within the framework of the “musical DNA” you have created.

Gestrument – the revolutionary gesture instrument is an award winning app that lets you delve into practically any musical style with just the swipe of your finger.

ScaleGen redefines musical scales by letting you generate and edit scale in almost limitless ways.

With the combination of both apps you can delve deeper into any kind of “musical DNA” and even use any MIDI file as a base for a new composition. Explore music in completely new ways with Gestrument and ScaleGen.

Gestrument & ScaleGen

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2015
10/28
Tribal Electro Grooves With Different Drummer
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Compose tribal electro grooves with little or no effort with the Different Drummer app by Techné Media.

Using patent pending Cyclophone Technology, Different Drummer taps into the primal source of all rhythm—waves. Different Drummer puts out multi-track music which is lifelike or primal at times and out of this world at others. It’s not a drum synthesizer but a music synthesizer that uses waves to play any sound in amazing ways that vary from electro to dubstep to tribal to classical.

This software was created with music in mind—but in the spirit of discovering what is next in music, not just finding a new way to do the same thing like so many music apps do so well. If you are a pioneer or care about where music is going, this app is for you.

What’s New in Version 4.0.0
• New Zenterface provides a new, simpler way to interact with Different Drummer—it’s cool (in-app purchase for full unlock)!
• Master tuning control
• Drum sets
• Two new wave styles: mirrored and clipped
• New Zoom control for Wave View
• New Settings and Mixer
• Custom color themes
• New template chooser
• Plays nicer when in background (music player is now entirely independent of interface)

Create dynamic drum parts, saving hours of tedious pattern and loop creation. Drums created with DD are pretty much assured to be copyright free and unique!

It only takes a few minutes before you realize how powerful the DD waves are. Adjust note, rest, tie, panning, beat and dynamics waves for the ultimate range of expression.

You will never exhaust the endless possibilities of Different Drummer and you are guaranteed to discover legit beats that no one has ever heard before.

No matter how many apps you have…not having Different Drummer is just sad. For the price of a few cups of coffee…to not possess this musical wonder is committing a groove crime.

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Features:
• 8 Sampler Tracks + Jam-along track with 6-wave Cyclophone Controls
• AudioBus 2 with State Saving, Remote Triggers and Inter-App audio (iOS7) out plus background play
• Stereo audio recording. Export via Audioshare, Drop box or iTunes or AudioCopy or General Pasteboard (to GarageBand for example)
• Progression Composer makes it easy to create guide tracks or multi-track arpeggios
• Jammer panel to play along with the music
• Control drum pitches, rests, ties, dynamics, panning and beat value using complex waves
• Instant Capture in case you hear a killer beat you want saved
• Save Wave Presets to Wave Library and share with other users in Community
• String Wave Sets together in saved Sequences and share in Community
• Export Wave Sets or Sequences as MIDI Files (via iTunes, Email or Dropbox)
• Over 190 drum and sound FX samples with more added every update
• Add your own samples via iTunes (WAV or CAF), AudioPaste or DropBox
• Over 70 musical scales to assign drums or instruments to as well as key
• Channel Volume, Filter, Distortion and Reverb Mixer
• Set Key, Tempo, Swing and Time Signature
• Automation for randomizing and morphing playback
• MIDI Sync Out and In
• Up to 8 Channels of MIDI Out
• Dedicated Wave for any Midi CC
• Core MIDI lets you play other synthesizers and drum machines on your iPad such as Animoog and NLog Pro or external hardware

Different Drummer

2015
10/28
Free Halloween Sound Effects and Loops
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Download this set of free Halloween sound effects and loops.

Here is a bit of history behind it. My buddy Aaron (inventor of Mixmeister) created this app Looptastic back in 2008 and he contacted me about producing content for it so I had a nice 3-4 year stretch creating loop content for all versions of Looptastic and other Sound Trend apps. This particular Halloween set was a free promo. All of the sounds you hear in the pack were recorded in my apartment back in Chicago a long time ago. In fact some of the vocals are from my friend Johann who sings in my Industrial EBM side project Khemique which was just used in the TV show Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown last week! The episode is called “Bay Area” and our song plays during a scene where Anthony is battling someone in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. ANYWAY here are the raw loop files I sent to Aaron way back then!!

I’ve uploaded the loops for you here https://ipadloops.com/free-loops/iPadLoops_Halloween.zip

Load them into your apps!! Some recommending loop apps are Launchpad, LP-5, Beatmaker, and Beathawk.

Here is the original video from back in 2009 (sorry for the poor video quality).

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