2011
07/21
Rhythm Studio For iPad iPhone and iPod Touch
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Rhythm Studio Pulse Code Inc App

Giving the Propellerheads Rebirth a run for the money is Rhythm Studio. This app boasts a full electronic music production kit including TB-303 synth, TR-808 drum machine, and so much more. In fact, the updates and features list almost seem to never stop growing with this app.

Version 1.07:
1. FM-3 synthesizer included

The FM-3 is a 3 operator FM (frequency modulation) synthesizer capable of making gritty mean noise to sparkling digital chaos. Designed to make FM synthesis simple and accessible, the FM-3 allows you to get results fast. This synth is a lot of fun when you explore its sonic possibilities.

Rhythm Studio FM Synthesizer

Rhythm Studio FM Synthesizer

What’s New in Version 1.06

The third major update is now included in the app (you asked and we listened!):

1. Phoenix Synthesizer included – The famous Supersaw sound is now in your hands.
2. WIST support included!
3. Background Audio enabled allowing you to play other audio apps while Rhythm Studio is playing (multi-tasking iOS device required)
4. Share song via bluetooth

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Version 1.05:
1. Gemini Synthesizer included – 2 oscillators modeling analog waveforms – 24db resonant filter – oscillator sync – ring modulation.
2. New FX, including: Phaser, D-Verb, S-Verb, Amp Distortion, 2 band Equalizer, & Auto Filter.
3. Improved navigation with a zoom button and panning which snaps to each device.
4. Full multi-touch enabled. Now you can control and move as many knobs and switches as you like!
+ Optimizations and bug fixes.

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Version 1.04:
iOS 5 audio is fixed. Power cycling your device might be necessary to restore audio after the update.

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Version 1.03:
1. You can now have FOUR instrument devices in your song!
2. You now have the ability to choose what devices go into your song. Four TB-3’s? No problem!
3. The DR-9 Drum Machine has been added. This is a 909 style drum machine. Let the legend continue.
4. The Hornet Ribbon Synth has been added. The Hornet is a funky subtractive synth.
5. Export to Audio Paste has been added!
6. The Mixer and FX have been integrated into a single mixer device that fits on one screen.
7. The Control Pad has been improved with a larger control surface and the ability to erase mistakes.
8. You now have the choice to move the knobs linearly or angularly.
9. Email functionality has been added. Email us for support or email your song file to a friend.
10. The Gate FX has been added for slicing and dicing your sound.
11. You can now lock a song to prevent future editing.
12. Single tap from bird’s eye view to zoom into device.
13. Minor Bug Fixes.
14. Lots of optimization!
15. Improved Graphics.

Rhythm Studio by PulseCode Inc is a premier universal electronic music making app, boasting richly detailed graphics and incredible sound, with impeccable recreations of classic synths and drum machines such as the 303 and 808 along with other amazing studio hardware.

Rhythm Studio is a workspace style app with a studio of realistic electronic music instruments. It is a universal app available on all current iOS hardware.

Rhythm Studio balances advanced features by using an easy to understand interface resembling real instruments. This means that one button does one thing just like it would with real hardware. Knobs turn, switches slide, and buttons press. You won’t get lost in abstract interfaces or design. Rhythm Studio is the next best thing to having the real hardware.

Rhythm Studio includes a full 808 drum machine, 303 synthesizer, sample based synthesizer, XY style control pad, and mixer with FX.

Rhythm Studio has three ways of creating music.

Manually program the drum machine and synthesizers like the original hardware.
Use the Control Pad to play the drum machine or synthesizers live.
Create randomized patterns based on the key and scale of the song.

What makes Rhythm Studio stand out?

Imagine having a studio of rare vintage synths and drum machines in the palm of your hand. Beautifully rendered synthesizers make seeing the app as enjoyable as hearing it. Rhythm Studio is the next best thing to having the real hardware.

Rhythm Studio allows you to make music the way you want to by giving you three different ways to create your song.

1. Use the step sequencer like the real hardware.
2. Use the Control Pad to play the synths live.
3. Instantly create a random pattern.

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LEAGACY FEATURES

– Dynamic workspace full of awesome audio gear

– Intuitive pinch, double tap navigation

– Robust pattern and song sequencer

– 3 easy methods to making your songs

– Recreation of a classic drum machine

– Recreation of classic synthesizers

– Mixer

– FX

– X/Y style control pad

Rhythm Studio is available for $4.99

2011
07/20
Bjork Biophilia App For iPad iPhone & iPod Touch
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Bjork Biophelia iPad iPhone iPod Touch App

Björk Biophilia interactive music app for iPhone and iPod Touch. Listen, Learn, and Create.

This is not so much a music creation app but I thought it was pretty cool so here you go!

Bjork App Screenshot

“Biophilia” for iPad includes ten separate apps, all contained within one “mother” app. Each of the smaller apps relate to a different track from the album, allowing people to explore and interact with the song’s themes or even make a completely new version of them. It is considered to be an evolving entity that grows with new elements added over time.



Description

Biophilia is an extraordinary and innovative multimedia exploration of music, nature and technology by the musician Björk. Comprising a suite of original music and interactive, educational artworks and musical artifacts, Biophilia is released as ten in-app experiences that are accessed as you fly through a three-dimensional galaxy that accompanies the album’s theme song Cosmogony. All of the album’s songs gradually become available inside Biophilia as interactive experiences, beginning with the first single Crystalline.

Björk has collaborated with artists, designers, scientists, instrument makers, writers and software developers to create an extraordinary multimedia exploration of the universe and its physical forces, processes and structures – of which music is a part. Each in-app experience is inspired by and explores the relationships between musical structures and natural phenomena, from the atomic to the cosmic. You can use Biophilia to make and learn about music, to find out about natural phenomena, or to just enjoy Björk’s music.

Biophilia opens into a three-dimensional galaxy with a compass allowing navigation between the 3-dimensional universe and a two-dimensional track list. Take a closer look by tapping on stars within the constellations and you’ll see that each is an in-app purchase that gives access to the inspired combination of artifacts for each new Björk song: interactive art and games, music notation which can be used to sing along karaoke-style, abstract animations, lyrics, and essays that explore Björk’s inspirations for the track. These artifacts bring together conventional and alternative ways of representing and making music to create an environment for entertainment and learning. Biophilia challenges the way we think about music. Here, for the first time, is a music album that exploits the multimedia capabilities of mobile interactive technologies.

Biophilia was created by Björk in collaboration with interactive artist and app developer Scott Snibbe, and Björk’s longtime design collaborators M/M (Paris).

Features:

• Three-dimensional galactic interface with the song Cosmogony
• Access to new songs and apps immediately as they are released
• Music scores with karaoke playback
• Abstract song animation
• Lyrics
• Essay

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.1 or later

Get this app now in the AppStore

ALSO…

Check out this iPad app called Solar System. It features music from Bjork. Solar System for iPad Raises the Bar (Again) for Electronic Books :

Bjork Solar System App

Solar System for iPad, the first publication to emerge from the recently-announced partnership between Faber and Faber and Touch Press, is available today worldwide for sale from the Apple iTunes App Store.

Eight months in development, and with a production budget approaching 1 trillion dollars (if you count location filming by NASA), Solar System for iPad sets a new standard for interactive books.

The title combines stunning fully-manipulable 3D realisations of the planets and moons with an intelligent specially-written text by best-selling Faber author and radio astronomer Marcus Chown.

This new electronic book follows on from The Elements, the runaway best-seller published by Touch Press to coincide with the launch of the iPad. Over 160,000 copies have now been sold and the Elements has just won a place in the forthcoming Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2011 exhibition at the London Design Museum.

Theodore Gray, creator of The Elements, comments: “What sets Solar System for iPad apart more than anything is that it is not just an app or reference guide or tour, it’s a real honest-to-goodness book you can sit down and read.”

Like The Elements, the new title include a song that plays once on the very first launch: this haunting and majestic track has been specially adapted by Björk from her forthcoming Biophilia project and for the moment it is available only in Solar System for iPad.

Get it here in the AppStore

2011
07/19
Dub FX Beatboxing Loop App For iPhone
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Loopy 2 iPad App

Loopy 2 iPad App

Beatboxers, do what Dub FX does with his pedals on your iPhone using the Loopy 2 app.

Create music by layering looped recordings of singing, beatboxing, voice looping, or playing an instrument with a savvy, sophisticated, tactile new looper that totally reinvents the formula.

While other music creation apps tend to be either powerful but difficult to learn, or easy to use but limited in features, Loopy 2 doesn’t compromise.

NEW FEATURES:

Fully configurable fade-in and fade-out!
“Re-record” option when clearing, to re-record a track
Chained mute: Mute another track while counting-in recording, and the track will mute once recording ends
Option to disable shake to reset

RECORD AND LAYER

– Six beautifully rendered circular loops, with simple yet powerful controls.
– Count-in and count-out lets you keep your hands free to play an instrument.
– Overdub, to build beautiful, complex soundscapes from many layers.
– Support for tracks of any multiple or fraction of a beat, for flexible and expressive looping.
– Sophisticated audio or visual metronome to keep you in time – no matter what time signature you choose.
– Perfectly synchronized, low latency audio engine.

IMPORT AND CONSTRUCT

– Import loops from your computer via iTunes, with support for AIFF, WAV, MP3, M4A, CAF and more.
– Bring in audio from many other audio apps with integrated MAPI AudioPaste, with support for Intua general pasteboard format.
– Imported loops are automatically fit to your beat, no matter what tempo.

MANIPULATE AND TWEAK

– Full stereo audio, with pan controls for each track to create custom stereoscapes.
– Fix up timing by twisting tracks around to line up the beat, or make funky sound effects with dynamic time shifting.
– Drag a track onto another track to merge tracks, and clear up a space.
– Live, dynamic tempo adjustment to speed up or slow down your creations, without altering the pitch.

PERFORM AND SHARE

– Record whole performances with in-app session recording facilities.
– Upload performances or single loops straight to SoundCloud, and post to Twitter or Facebook.
– Email audio clips (with automatic conversion to compressed AAC audio).
– Share audio with many other audio apps with MAPI AudioCopy.
– Transfer loops or performances to your computer via iTunes.

Get it here on iTunes $2.99

2011
07/19
Free LoopMash Loop Editor
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Mangle loops on your iPhone or iPod with LoopMash

Free LoopMash version for iPhone and iPod touch users with iOS4 (link below). Great for mangling beats on the bus and train! =)

LoopMash compares and replaces similar musical elements, blending up to four two-bar loops together. The app comes with over 250 audio loops from different music styles plus more than 50 factory presets as well as an unlimited number of user presets. Each preset includes eight scenes; each scene blends up to four loops together.

By updating LoopMash to version 1.1, preset sharing and the in-app store are added to the app’s feature set. Users may now expand their LoopMash library with various content sets, each containing over 50 premium audio loops created by some of the finest musicians and sound designers around.

The newly featured in-app store is starting off with genre-specific content sets for rock, hip hop and funk as well as an additional three eclectic expansion packs, each available for EUR 0.79, GBP 0.59 and USD 0.99. Plus, created by multi-instrumentalist and producer Erran Baron Cohen is a special set comprising loops ranging from chill out to bossa nova, now available for EUR 1.59, GBP 1.19 and USD 1.99.

LoopMash Free offers iPhone and iPod touch users the chance to experience its innovative approach to mixing loops together at no charge at all. To enjoy the quality content in its entirety, however, users will want to upgrade to the full retail version.

“The in-app store in LoopMash 1.1 is a great way to add to your library. We’re now offering loops in various music styles that are so much fun to play with,” comments Carlos M. Rohde, marketing manager at Steinberg. “And with LoopMash Free, users can check out this ingenious tool without having to pay for it first.”

1) Download some of our free loop here Free Loops

2) Get the free LoopMash and make our loops your own!

2011
07/18
Synth and Sampler App For iPad
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Synth and Sampler App For iPad

Extremely inexpensive synth and sampler app for iPad by Retronyms

Synth is easy to use and fun to play! It comes packed with over 40 instruments and a series of effects to play with. Tweak the Mod wheel to adjust LFO or filters, while the delay and distortion knobs create a wide range of great sounding effects.

Re-live the Casio SK-1 days with the sampler! Sample anything with the iPad mic, and play it back on the keyboard! Just 99 cents! .99

Get it on iTunes here

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