This is a looper that’ll come out to play, but get down to work when you want to get serious. While other music creation apps tend to be either powerful but difficult to learn, or easy to use but limited in features, Loopy doesn’t compromise. Loopy offers a sleek, expressive, instantly understandable interface that beginners can start using effectively straight away. It’s fun, right from the start. More advanced users, however, will not be disappointed by Loopy’s rich feature set, with extra features many other loopers just don’t have. Plus, a sophisticated interactive tutorial system lets users discover Loopy’s more advanced features at their own pace.
What’s New in Version 1.3
– Added support for Bluetooth pedals like the AirTurn and Cicada, and Bluetooth keyboards
– Added iPhone 5 support
– Enhanced support for alternative time signatures
– Improved clock length manipulation, with more flexible behaviour for “+” and “-” buttons
– Rearranged Settings screen for easier understanding
– Added “Cancel pending actions” MIDI action
– Keep MIDI device connections over multiple sessions
– Ask for a session name when saving for the first time
– Multi channel audio interface support
– Retina support (New iPad)
– Big improvements in punch in/out interaction and track gestures, generally
– Count-in quantize length setting
– Toggle track sync via MIDI
– SoundCloud update
– Added Japanese localization, and updated Italian one
– Many assorted interface and workflow improvements
Play along with our free loops from the free loops tab and import them into Loopy HD through iTunes.CLICK HERE
NOW you can now synchronize the clock across multiple devices, over a cable and over WiFi/Bluetooth, and across multiple apps on the same device.
This version also includes fully trainable MIDI control, so you can connect a foot switch or any other MIDI input device, and bind actions to any MIDI events.
Loopy HD on the iPhone now also allows you to display up to 12 tracks on-screen.
RECORD AND LAYER
– Six, nine, or twelve beautifully rendered circular loops, with simple yet powerful controls.
– Count-in, count-out and record chaining 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 & 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.
An experiment in touch based controls of pitch and volume for multiple tones resulted in an app that’s fun to interact with, and produces a wide range of different sounds and textures.
Drag some dots into the work area and carefully position for controllable out of phasing, or shake the device to randomize the pattern.
Use touch to position up to 40 tones in the work space
Beats to set up rhythms, with individual tempo multipliers
Slider controls for motion setup
Pause so you can grab the fast moving ones
Save/load your patterns
Auto save/load of active composition when exiting/starting app
Shake device to randomize all active tones
Individual tone motion and beat randomisation button
Apply feedback to the pattern to put the ‘noise’ in noise machine
Help screen
A Noise Machine Screenshot
Jelly Biscuits Web SiteA Noise Machine HD Support
What’s New in Version 1.2
– Numerical display of global beats per second
– echo sliders: amount and delay
– reverb slider: activate a named preset
– beat decay slider: control how fast the off beats decay
– added an extra save slot
iDensity for iPad brings all the powerful Density/Pulsaret (Mac/Win standalone) Granular Synthesis tools to the world’s most popular tablet. http://www.densitygs.com
iDensity is a new real-time software designed for asynchronous sound file granulation, a genuine granular playground able to generate a wide range of usual and not so usual effects: time/pitch shifting, time/pitch jittering, intricate textures, grain fountain/pulverizer, recording and manipulation of buffers, complex scrub pad exploration, dynamic envelope shape and many more. iDensity for iPad will give you all the basic and advanced tools you need to manipulate sound in subtle and surprising ways. All these features are packed in an optimized, user-friendly, visually sharp interface that is easy to access when fast-improvising live, composing in a studio, or sound designing at home and on the go! You will have the power, freedom, and flexibility to create like never before – on your iPad! iDensity allows you to record audio directly with your iPad mic and load up to nine built-in sound sample or add your own WAV, AIFF, CAF, MP3, M4A or MP3 files via iTunes. With iDensity it is possible to record the stereo output (of granulation) into the documents folder while scrubbing in the wavepad or moving granulation parameters in real-time. The mixdown/audio results can then be syncronized with/in iTunes.
What’s New in Version 1.3
– Update to iOS 6
– iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch universal app (iPhone 5 supported)
– Exponential Slider for Density and Grano Length
– SnapshotsPad more fast (speed-limit update)
– Some UI improvements (FileManager and Dropbox)
– Waveform rotation size bug fixed
Control and shape grains, anytime, anywhere with Density for iPad.
– nine built-in sound samples
– record audio directly with iPad mic
– add WAV, AIFF, CAF, MP3, M4A or MP3 files via iTunes
– capture audio output
– up to eight shapes for the grain envelope
– record the granulation audio output
– wavepad zoom selection
– wavepad scrub
– wavepad peak normalize
– etc.
Red Bull BPM HD is now Red Bull BPM Dj. It is now a free app with limited features and upgrades are available as in app purchases. It fulfills all requirements of modern-day DJing by offering the 21st century digital equivalent of a traditional DJ set-up with two decks and a mixer. The app is custom-made for the iPad screen, focused on performance, low latency and core functionality rather than silly graphics effects. It is a high quality tool for the performing DJ with high-precision track control and real time response providing a new experience for DJing, so you can perform a set while leaving your laptop at home. All this and it’s easy to install. Plug it in, switch to line and you’re good to go…
BPM DJ offers the 21st century digital equivalent of a professional DJ setup with 2 decks, 2 effect engines and a mixer. A high quality tool with focus on performance, low latency, usability and stability, designed for the real club’s DJ booth.
Start with 4 fixed tracks to learn the basics, then unlock the “Use Your Music” feature to play more. Or buy the “Premium Pack” to unlock all features on a discount price.
Output modes for hardware mixer:
– Classic Club mode to use two iOS devices as two separate decks, connected to a hardware mixer. The two devices can sync the current BPM value wirelessly.
– Double Deck mode to use one device, connected to a hardware mixer. Headphone left is deck A, headphone right is deck B.
Output modes for the Split Cable Adapter (check djplayer.net to buy):
– Split Cable. Headphone left is master, headphone right is pre-listening.
– Auto Stereo. Same as before, but full stereo when PFL buttons are off.
Output modes with 2 independent stereo outputs:
– Home mode: headphone out is pre-listening, master output is transmitted to our MasterOut app over the network.
– Club Master mode: headphone out is master, pre-listening is transmitted to MasterOut. Our unique MasterOut audio transmission is a special design for ultra-low latency DJ monitoring.
Deck:
– 8 gapless cue/loop points (6 on iPhone and iPod touch), play like a sampler. Modify on-the-fly, while playback/loop goes.
– Frame precise or waveform positioning.
– Vinyl Vision or waveform display, touch on it to search (jump, beat and block aligned).
– Pitch control with four ranges (±4, ±8, ±16 and ±100%), fine adjust pitch step buttons with AutoStep, adjustable pitch bend strength.
– Reverse play (tap before or after the pitch fader head to change direction). Automatic slip mode for reverse lengths below 16 beats.
– BPM sync, automatic bpm and beatgrid detection.
Mixer:
– Crossfader with 3 curves and morph: attach additional low and highpass filters to each end of the crossfader.
– For each channel: fader with 2 curves (smooth, hard), gain, PFL switch, low/mid/high ±6 db adjust eq, low/mid/high mixing eq from -96 to 0 db, hidden cutoff switch below each mixing eq.
– Punch control for channel faders and cross (similar to in/out).
– Calibrated VU meter per channel and stereo VU meter for master (with peak hold off/fade/run), balance control.
– Pre-listening: master/PFL ratio, headphone volume. Split or stereo PFL (in Home or Club Master mode).
– EQ reset on track load (do nothing, or reset all bands, or reset mid/high and cut bass).
– Gain set on track load (do nothing, reset to 0 or auto set to loudness).
Effects:
– Adjustable effect parameters with touch or accelerometer.
– Gapless auto or bounce looping, from 128 beats to 1/256 beat (including triolic 3/4, 1/3 values on iPad).
– Slip mode for looping.
– Temp pitch control, beat snap and reloop.
– BPM-based echo, reverb, lo-fi, flanger, highpass, lowpass, bandpass, notch and peak.
– Sharp or smooth echo/reverb release, beatcounter.
Tracks:
– Mass analyze of selected tracks.
– Convenient track search with textual search/filter.
– Sort by playlist, artist, title, comment or BPM, section views by first letter or BPM range.
– Natural sort for playlists (tracks appear in “iTunes order”).
– Automatic marker shows if a track was played in the last 4 hours. Manual marker on/off for each track.
– Serato and Traktor metadata support (BPM and cue points/loops).
– The internal database keeps all bpm and cue points even if a track is removed from the device. (Standard SQLite, import/export.)
Other:
– Day or night background. Set manually, or automatically according to your location’s sunrise/sunset.
– iPad only: CPU meter, sunrise and sunset display.
– Audio buffer size, from 512 to 128.
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).
Some of the apps that contain my sounds are Synth One, EG Segments, Hammerhead, Retronyms AudioCopy, Audio Evolution Mobile, and iMPC Pro. My work is published by Roland, Antares, Magix, Soundtrack Loops, Sample Logic, Acoustica, Native Instruments, The Grammt Museum and many more. Subscribe to our RSS feed below to get updated when new apps are posted.
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