2016
06/07
Beat Twirl Is Like Recycle For iOS. Slice And Export Audio Slices.
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Beat Twirl

Hello hello welcome to the sound mix lab I am your host Jason Donnelly aka Dj Puzzle reporting for my website www.ipadloops.com and today we’re gonna do a little sampling with an iPad and an app called Beat Twirl. Beat Twirl is an app inspired by Propellerheads Recycle. What it allows us to do is record a stream of audio hits and automatically slice them up and export the slices so that we can easily import then into our sampler or drum machine app of choice.

Our audio source will be these two Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators. We’ve got a simple mini plug Y adapter and two 1/4 inch adapters going into the iTrack Dock. The pocket operators are good for producing chiptune. Use these free samples in your mixes. Samples from PO-28 Robot and PO-20 Arcade.

Goal: Sample and export slices with an iPad.
Results: Free Teenage Engineering samples.

Download
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bop0s7aannwk1yq/TeenageEngineering_ROBOT_DRUMS.zip?dl=0
Download
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kz3sgtr782d56aj/TeenageEngineering_ARCADE_DRUMS.zip?dl=0

Let’s start recording. Here you will see the record options. Have the wait for audio enabled. What this will do is tell the app to start recording right when it picks up the first sound. Now the record button will become a small square when it is armed and you should see your VU meters dancing. Make sure you adjust the gain accordingly and leave a bit of head room. Hit the record button again to name and save your samples. Now lets adjust the slice sensitivity to place our slice points. You can also adjust the silence parameter to remove silence from each slice. Next we will export the individual slices in a zip file to our dropbox. Now we can open and extract the zip pack into Audioshare and open them in our app of choice. Let’s choose patterning. Suppose I’ll have a little jam. Thanks for watching and please remember to subscribe to my channel. You can download the free samples via a link I placed in the video desciption below.

Beat Twirl is a “beat slicer” app. The app lets you analyze existing sounds and detect their rhythm with its note onset algorithms. With Beat Twirl you can work with drum loops and rhythm patterns, easily enhancing them with additional percussion sound, or create new patterns.

Beat Twirl

With Beat Twirl you can:

• Change the tempo (time) of drum loops without changing the pitch.
• Analyze percussion patterns and find the underlying timing.
• Mix-in additional percussion sounds, or replace the original sounds
• Export single beats from a sound file.

How to use Beat Twirl?

• You can record yourself singing or clapping a rhythm, than add percussion instruments to the rhythm you created.
• You can extract a rhythmic/percussive section from a song and convert it to a loop you can play along with at different tempos.
• Mix-in percussion instruments to a song to enhance its’ rhythm.
• Extract beat samples from a song for use with a beat sequencer.

Features:
• Import audio from your ipod library, using iTunes file sharing or using audio copy/paste from supporting applications.
• Record using an external mic or the built in mic.
• Universal app. UI designed iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Supports retina displays.
• Two spectrum based note onset detection algorithms.
• Manual slicing capabilities on top of the automated algorithm.
• Mix in percussion beats from a library of 300 samples.
• Export audio as wav, caf or aac. Export using audio copy, iTunes files sharing or email.
• Audiobus input/output support.

Beat Twirl

2016
04/17
Elastic Drums Synthesizer Drum App For iOS
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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 with a unique character.

What’s New in Version 1.7.4

* debugged swing function
* reworked jam screen with xy pad for master effects
* song audio recording starts from pattern 1 now
* now you can audio record all 6 drum channels separate, additionally to the master output record. Recordings will land in the documents folder, accessible via iTunes
* new presets from Shadow Dancer

Shadow Dancer Elastic Drums

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

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

2016
04/12
Liine Skram Electronic Music Groovebox For iPad
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Liine Skram

Skram lets you create heavy-hitting electronic music, not just music app doodles. For everyone wanting a fast, inspiring music-maker; both studio pros & first time musicians. Skram is basically three synths and a drum machine with sequencers. It is all self contained much like Korg’s Gadget. There is no audiobus or IAA support in this current version.

Skram Instruments

We recommend using headphones or speakers large enough to annoy the neighbours to get the full impact of this app.

Skram is made in Berlin – the world capital of electronic music.

Requires 64-bit iPad and iOS 9.0 or higher.

Skram

2016
03/30
Blamsoft Audio Unit Effects and Instruments For iOS
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Blamsoft

Blamsoft makes a killer suite of audio unit effects (AUX) for iOS and a really awesome Moog Voyager emulator. They are all universal now. I recommend getting all of them!

Blamsoft Viking Synth
Viking Synth – Blamsoft, Inc. ON SALE

Blamsoft Filter
F-16 Filter – Blamsoft, Inc.

Blamsoft Zero Reverb
Zero Reverb – Blamsoft, Inc.

Blamsoft Zero Chorus
Zero Chorus – Blamsoft, Inc.

Blamsoft Resampler
Resampler Bitcrusher – Blamsoft, Inc.

Audio Unit is a type of plug it app that works with host apps.

Host apps are:

Ferrite Recording Studio (Wooji Juice Ltd) *effects only Ferrite Recording Studio – Wooji Juice Ltd
GarageBand (Apple) *instruments only GarageBand – Apple
midiSTEPS (Arthur Kerns) *instruments only midiSTEPs – midi step sequencer toy – Arthur Kerns
MultitrackStrackStudio (Giel Bremmers) MultiTrack DAW – Harmonicdog
VoiceJam Studio (vocal processing, but VoiceJam only acts as a host for VoiceRack) VoiceJam Studio: Live Looper & Vocal Effects Processor – TC-Helicon
Cubasis (iOS DAW, now with AU support) Cubasis – Music Production System – Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
AUM (audio mixer from Kymatica) AUM – Audio Mixer – Kymatica (Jonatan Liljedahl)

Expand your sound palette by adding Blamsoft Audio Unit effects and instruments to one of those hosts.

2015
12/03
Klimper Helps You Discover Chords And Notes
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Klimper

klimper shows scales and chords as markings on the keyboard, enabling you to improvise fluently even on complex chords and scales you don’t have internalized yet. With Klimper you can find scales and chords by a given set of notes with ease. klimper also shows suitable chords based on what you are playing on the keyboard.

Klimper

— create chord progressions —
just drag and drop chords to your idea space to create chord progressions, harmonize your ideas by inverting chords

— store and share your ideas —
save your ideas for later use or send it to other musicians by e-mail

MIDI-Out is available as an In-App-Purchase.

Klimper

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