ExtraSlice by Strange Agency allows you to juggle beats, chop, screw, shuffle, dice, and slice audio loops on the fly. They also make one of my very favorite apps called MegaCurtis.
ExtraSlice For iPhone
ExtraSlice is available for $0.99
2012
07/23
Click Space is some kind of a glitch 5 track groovebox. Each track has assignable volume, pan, gate, speed (pitch), attack, and decay times.
Features:
25 samples.
Audio Copy/Paste.
Sample looping.
Pattern switch.
Master effect unit with LP distortion, digital lofi effect, and a short delay.
Click Space Screenshot
The interesting thing (which differs this app from other grooveboxes) is shuffle editor. You may define overall shuffling patterns in addition to common beat patterns. So you could make some jazzy grace notes and non straight beats. There is a bit of automation for pitch. You can use variation to bring more life into your beat sequence.
The word “lite” means it has NO RECORDING (only pattern saving) and song editor yet.
Click Space is NO LONGER AVAILABLE
2012
07/23
A cool retro style mono synthesizer based on the classic stylophone but with some cool modulation options.
* 3 different waveforms(sawtooth, square and triangle).
* Control the vibrato (pitch modulation) speed and depth.
* Transpose up each note to the next octave. (Handy for playing in another key)
* Adjust the amplitude envelope attack and release.
Plus a bender (-/+5 semitone)
Synthophone is available for $0.99
2012
07/18
Jordan Rudess is back again with another wicked app for the iPad. Ladies and gentlemen, Tachyon by Wizdom Music.
Do you want to play an electric guitar and a piano at the same time? What about choosing the electrifying buzz of a drill and blending it into the soothing tone of a human voice? Jordan Rudess and Kevin Chartier’s Tachyon gives you all these options and more.
From the makers of the award winning app, MorphWiz, comes a new creation that allows images and sound to become one as they magically blend under your fingertips. Each note you play is an individual expression, allowing independent control of pitch and tone far beyond that of traditional instruments.
Most instruments only allow you to play one sound at a time, but with Tachyon, you can seamlessly blend between any two sounds as you slide your fingers up and down the screen.
The visual experience of Tachyon is just as mesmerizing. As you move along the playing surface, a field of twinkling stars morphs into the shape of your selected instrument, allowing a direct correlation between sight and sound.
As described by Jordan Rudess, “Tachyon is simple to use and at the same time offers a unique musical expressive power. The sonic core of the app is a custom crafted sound set from my personal library, encompassing sounds as familiar as those you would find in your home toolbox, and as exclusive as the ones I use on tour with Dream Theater.”
Whether you’re a seasoned musician looking for a next generation instrument to further express your creativity, or just a regular Joe browsing the app store looking for a fun and simple purchase that will delight the whole family, Tachyon is the app for you!
“Tachyon will allow you to get very deep into the sonics of a sample. You can do things like get a hundred thousand points of automation inside of a ten second sample. You can freely draw your automation, you can put in points and you can put in steps. In addition to all that, you can also convert one kind of automation to another. You’ve got things like formant filters in it to get vowel-type sounds. It’s got bit crushers and ring modulators and other types of filters and ways to change the pitch. Basically you’re just drawing everything. The end result can be moved into anything that will play a .wav file or an .aiff file. You can put it directly into SampleWiz so you can play it in SampleWiz or GeoSynth.”
Tachyon is available for $1.99
2012
07/16
SUMMER NAMM2012 COVERAGE
Samson Carbon 61 Midi Controller with iPad Dock. Looks like they planned ahead by simply integrating an iPad stand instead of an actual fitted Dock. Basically it’s the Carbon 49 with more keys.
Cost $149
Samson’s Carbon 49 USB MIDI Controller was designed to make musical performance and production accessible to everyone. For seasoned musicians and young creators alike, the Carbon 49 offers versatile, yet easy-to-use features in a compact, lightweight controller that’s well-suited both stage use and in the studio. It offers you a semi-weighted keyboard comparable in feel to that of pro-level instruments. Its 49 velocity-sensitive keys allow you to accurately capture the full dynamics of a performance. In addition, the Carbon 49’s dedicated Transpose and Octave buttons, as well as its classic Pitch Bend and Modulation wheels, allow you to expand the keyboard and enhance your overall musical expression.
Take control of your music software with the Carbon 49’s assignable data encoder and volume slider. For easy editing, players can use the Shift key to adjust up to 14 performance-related control parameters. Also, the Carbon 49’s 3-digit, 7-segment LCD displays the behavior of every function in real time. For added versatility, the Carbon 49 includes traditional MIDI Out, sustain pedal input and USB connections.
Staying hip with today’s popular and convenient technology, the Carbon 49 features an integrated iPad stand and can be used with your favorite MIDI apps via Apple’s Camera Connection Kit. The Carbon 49 can even be directly powered by the iPad.
In addition, it’s bundled with Native Instrument’s KOMPLETE ELEMENTS software, which offers a vast range of instruments and effects for modern music production, composition and sound design for your desktop Mac OS X or Windows.
Carbon 49 is NO LONGER AVAILABLE
