Soundtrack Loops intros Light & Shadows: Ambient Loops & One-shots produced by Doug Woods of The Sound Test Room.
Light & Shadows is a set of ideas that bring big cinematic themes, delicate piano motifs, and classic ambient textures to your timeline. The thematic elements include dark and heavy drones, full of foreboding; these are full mixes produced with lush textures and baked-in organics. Here you’ll also find non-melodic soundscapes that explore classic film score environments—some with a dark, swampy feel that brings to mind the boggy gestures of Eno’s On Land, and some that recall the off-world colonial feel of Peter Namlook’s legendary FAX recordings. The piano material is ethereal—reverb-drenched, distant, and semi-remote; the longest piano samples cover about 80 seconds—easily long enough to serve as fully produced free-standing compositions. This level of flexibility sets Light & Shadows apart from the pack, along with the quality of its textures, which are instantly recognizable as being sonic staples of the ambient genre. The intersection of ambient music and film score is a sweet spot in modern music. One of the keys to it is coming up with high-drama feels that blend well without being too heavy handed. It’s all about space, and Light & Shadows provides plenty of it. Composed and produced by Doug Woods of The Sound Test Room. Price $20
Features: 86 Royalty Free Ambient Soundtracks (Loops) | 20 One-shots | Universal .WAV, & Apple Looped .AIFF Included | 48kHz 24 bit stereo files. Works in Logic Pro for iPad and Garageband plus any other DAW that imports audio.
Soundtrack Loops announces Armored Bass House Apple loops and MIDI files. Soundtrack Loops is a leading provider of professionally Apple-looped packages for music production in Logic Pro and Garageband. This current set features 150 Royalty Free Bass House Loops, 144 One-shots, 39 MIDI, in formats ACIDized .WAV, Apple Looped .AIFF, & Recycle .RX2 Included | 48kHz 24 bit stereo files.
Take these 150 loops, 144 one shots, and 39 MIDI files and be on your way, with everything you need to churn out instant house tracks at a crispy 128 BPM. Your end product is guaranteed to emerge glamorous and intense, deep, stabby, and angular. For best results, blend this title with its counterparts: Drip Melodic House, Dark Bass House and Slap House, all by Soundtrack Loops veteran producer Jordan Aguirre (aka bLiND, Jordan Steven, Jordan Aguirre, Steven Silo). Armored Bass House—it’s retro, it’s modern, it’s an instant classic! PRICE $28.00
Armored Bass House is available from the Soundtrack Loops website HERE
Combining music production tools that were behind the success of countless artists, BeatMaker 2 is a powerful, easy-to-use composition interface for amateurs and professionals alike.
New features in version 2.4
► Stereo bus recording on audio tracks
► Four audio sends available per mixer tracks
► New 6-band parametric equalizer (LPF, low shelf,band pass, peak, notch, high shelf, HPF)
► New side-chain option in compressor effect
► Double-tapping track handles in the sequencer brings instrument/audio track configuration
► iPhone 5 specific graphical update
► UI and engine improvements
► Time-stretch and pitch-shift quality/settings have been improved
► Ability to zoom vertically in the sequencer
► Faster graphic rendering on iPad 3 with iOS 6 installed
Improvements/Fixes
► Fix a bug in empty keyboard sampler when LFO settings were changed
► Dropbox will now work when background mode is disabled
► Fix file transfer lock issue on iOS 6
► Fix QUICK LOAD browser files not showing up (uppercase extensions)
► Improve virtual MIDI
► Background mode has been enabled back by default
► MIDI OUT enabled by defaultNew features
► Stereo bus recording on audio tracks
► Four audio sends available per mixer tracks
► New 6-band parametric equalizer (LPF, low shelf,band pass, peak, notch, high shelf, HPF)
► New side-chain option in compressor effect
► Double-tapping track handles in the sequencer brings instrument/audio track configuration
► iPhone 5 specific graphical update
► UI and engine improvements
► Time-stretch and pitch-shift quality/settings have been improved
► Ability to zoom vertically in the sequencer
► Faster graphic rendering on iPad 3 with iOS 6 installed
Combining music production tools that were behind the success of countless artists, BeatMaker 2 is a powerful, easy-to-use composition interface for amateurs and professionals alike.
Build your own virtual home-studio, create multiple instruments and connect them to a full-range of audio effects.
Compose, record, arrange and transform your ideas into complete songs, ready to be shared with others.
Import your own sounds or use the sound library provided: more than 170 high-quality instrument and drum presets from synthesizers to realistic orchestral sounds. You can even import songs from your iPod library!
Connect your MIDI accessories for an external control of BeatMaker’s instruments, effects and mixer, ideal for home-studio productions and live performances.
BeatMaker 2 is an universal application. Works on all iPhone, iPod and iPad models starting with third generation devices (iPhone3GS, iPod3G 32GB, iPad 1 & 2).
* STUDIO:
– Create multiple instruments with Drum Machine or Keyboard interface
– 10 effects: Reverb, Compressor, Filter, Delay, EQ, Flanger, Chorus, AutoPan, BitCrusher, Overdrive.
– 3 effect slots for each instrument, unlimited global effects racks, with customizable cross controllers.
– CoreMIDI support: connect your MIDI accessories to control instruments, effects and mixer.
* DRUM MACHINE:
– 128 trigger pads: 16 pads over 8 banks
– Chop Lab: Slice audio loops to automatically create new sound presets
– Control sound parameters on individual pad: volume, pan, mute, output bus, semitone, fine tune, reverse and autoscaling
– Low/high pass filter per pad
– Pad trigger modes: one-shot, hold & loop
– ADSR Envelope ADSR control for each pad
– Exclusive groups and polyphony management
– “Live” modes: trigger, mute, reverse, velocity and tune spreading.
– Pad copy & paste
* KEYBOARD SAMPLER
– 128-key keyboard with pitch wheel, double keyboard mode, note display and zoom controls
– Easily create your own instruments from any sample combination with the keygroup editor
– Volume and filter ADSR envelopes
– Low/high pass filter with key tracking
– 2 LFOs to control volume, pitch and filter parameters
– Polyphony control, up to 32 voices
– Legato play mode with glide
* MULTI-TRACK SEQUENCER
– Create unlimited instrument and FX tracks
– Automations: Record, edit and replay instrument and effect parameters
– Record, draw, arrange and resize patterns along the timeline to build your song
– Compose and modify patterns with a piano-roll interface. Edit notes, parameters and automations.
– Instrument and effect recording options: Quantize, take or partial undo, pre-roll, Overdub, note erasing.
* WAVE EDITOR
– Full-fledged wave editor with intuitive interface for manipulating samples
– Basic edition tools: trim, cut, copy, paste, with undo/redo
– High quality time-stretching and pitch-shifting algorithms
– Audio tools: normalize, silence, reverse, fade in and out, cross-fade
– Record new samples from microphone or instruments
– Loop points and tempo/signature editor
* MIXER CONSOLE
– Realistic multi-track mixer with level meters
– Edit volume, pan, solo, mute and bus routing features for each track
* LARGE SOUND BANK INCLUDED
– 68 Drum Machine presets from all genres
– 111 Keyboard Sampler presets, from synthesizers to realistic orchestral instruments.
– More than 1800 quality samples available
* SHARING & GLOBAL OPTIONS
– Native iPad & iPhone interfaces, Retina display
– Import MIDI files
– Export your songs to Audio or MIDI files
– MIDI Out, Sync, Thru support
– Virtual MIDI support: connect multiple music iOS apps together
– Korg’s WIST support
– Transfer and manage your files from your computer
– Import songs from your iPod library to create new remixes
– Upload songs to your SoundCloud account
– DropBox support
– Share audio content with other music applications using the iOS pasteboard
Works on all iPhone, iPod and iPad models beginning with third generation devices (iPhone3GS, iPod3G 32GB). iPad 2 support is coming in the next update.
Beatmaker 2 is available for $19.99
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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