Waviary is an interactive musical artwork that is part instrument, part generative ambient music machine, and part virtual wind chimes.
What’s New:
5 new tone sets!
New Pitch Cycler effect!
New visual fx when audio fx are engaged
Reduced app size
New pitch ramp up/down buttons!
New wow and flutter effect!
New choppy/tremolo effect!
Save/recall current settings as user snapshots/presets
Tone sets are now selected via popup row/table for quick access
Background color now changes color with pitch change
Bugfix: pitch and volume sliders now respond correctly to multi-touch
Simple multi-touch control allows anyone to effortlessly create lush ambient soundscapes and environments, or simply listen as Waviary generates it’s own “forest-like” sonic environments.
The generative player can run while you play as well, allowing for a randomized ambient jam session.
A sleep timer is included…put on headphones and let Waviary’s weird, wonderful sounds lull you to sleep.
Features:
– Rich ambient tones and textures
– Multi-touch controls allow expressive creation of rich ambient soundscapes
– Generative mode creates endlessly evolving sonic environments
– 10 Tone sets (more added with free updates)
– pitch control
– octave up/down buttons
– lock button to lock orbs in place, or unlock to move freely
– Sleep Timer
I am very excited to hear about this new Waldorf synth coming for the iPad. I’ve been a fan of Waldorf ever since the original Q series. Will be nice to have their wicked wavetables on an iPad.
Thanks to intelligent gesture recognition and plenty of available graphic performance the iPad is perfect for bringing wavetable synthesis to a new level. For the first time it will be possible to plunge into the depths of wavetables and to make their sound content visible with advanced 3-D technology.
The cooperation between Waldorf and TempoRubato, also known for their product line NLog Synth, doesn’t stop here: The application will also offer new possibilities for sound manipulation based on Waldorfs very latest spectral research.
Completely new and unheard sounds
An innovative approach to wavetable synthesis allows for the transposition of the spectrum and the balance of periodic and sound spectra entirely independent from a wave’s position. The existing wavetable technology is thereby extended by two new dimensions, and it allows for formant shifts as well as numerous other unheard sounds. Also, unlike with typical wavetable instruments, the number and length of waves in a wavetable will no longer be restricted. Itís the era of wavetable synthesis V2.0!
This app will support a huge number of hardware MIDI interfaces, e. g. all Core MIDI compatible interfaces by IK Multimedia, iConnectMIDI, MIDI Mobilizer II by Line6, ioDock or the Camera Connection Kit by Apple, as well as proprietary interfaces such as the SynthStation by Akai.
App collaboration standards like Sonomas Audio Copy/Paste, Intuas Audio Pasteboard and Virtual Core MIDI will also be supported like the upcoming AudioBus standard and KORGs WIST synchronization technology.
Joachim Flor, executive manager at Waldorf Music GmbH is pleased: “We are truly excited about our collaboration with Rolf Wöhrmann from TempoRubato. Considering his great experience with the iPad synthesis we are planning to release this excellent synthesiser this summer. Then it will be available at the Apple App Store. It’s going to be an exciting time!”
Rolf Wöhrmann is also looking forward to the challenge: “The cooperation with Waldorf Music and the Waldorf developers is a great honour. Waldorfs long history in wave table synthesis and the new and innovative possibilities of the iPad will create an astonishing synthesizer for musicians, sound designers and producers.”
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.
This is the type of app I like to post about. DJ Remixer2 is wicked mashup app for iPad. Remix and re-sequence your favorite music live as it plays without ever breaking the beat. Great for making Dj edits.
What’s New in Version 2.2
– Improved BPM detection algorithm.
– New instant mode (seek to different measures instantly without breaking the beat).
– Master BPM can be set to manual (you control the output BPM and not the fader).
See Dj Remixer2 in action.
Features:
✔ High-resolution graphics for the new iPad retina display.
✔ Load songs and music videos directly from your iPod library (can not load DRM protected files).
✔ Auto-detect song measures (groups of 4 beats) and re-sequence then on the fly.
✔ Auto-fader crates automatic mashups that are always aligned to the beat. You can choose between 1, 2, 4 and 8 beats for each deck (fader animates automatically).
✔ Song is represented by color coded nodes, one for each song measure. Usually blue indicates strong bass and bass drum, green for voice/guitar and red for tom-tom and cymbal.
✔ Music picker with songs sorted by BPM lets you select songs with similar tempo.
✔ Automatically adds loaded tracks to ‘Songs by BPM’ list. Optionally batch process BPM for all your tracks (this will take a while but can be interrupted and resumed at anytime).
✔ A color waveform scrubber lets you visualize the entire song waveform including the color for each node. You can touch anywhere in the waveform scrubber to quickly seek to that part of the song. A red cursor shows the current play position and a yellow frame the current view window.
✔ One high quality 3-band equalizer per deck.
✔ One X/Y effect pads per deck including filters for Low Pass, Flanger and Echo.
✔ Two timelines per deck… one with the original music sequence and the other, editable for use in longer loops or entire track remixes.
✔ Tap any node to set it as the next one to play (yellow frame). Currently playing node shows with a red frame.
✔ Swipe down on a node from the track timeline to add it at the end of loop timeline. Swipe down on a node form the loop timeline to remove it.
✔ Touch and hold over a node to grab it. You can add, remove and re-arrange nodes in the loop timeline.
✔ Automatically saves your custom remix for each track. Just reload a track and the last remix for that track will be automatically restored in the loop timeline.
✔ Advanced offset edit mode allows you to manually align the loops by sliding the loop window offset up or down by one beat or 1% of the window size. Custom offsets are stored for next time you reload the track.
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)
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).
You might know me from my royalty free loop packs and sound design. Some of the apps that contain my sounds are Synth One, EG Segments, Hammerhead, Retronyms AudioCopy, Audio Evolution Mobile, LP-5, iPRO.DJSAMPLER, Looptastic. My work is published by Roland, Antares, Magix, Soundtrack Loops, Sample Logic, Acoustica, Loopmasters and many more. Subscribe to our RSS feed below to get updated when new apps are posted.
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