SoundGrid is powerful yet easy to use matrix sequencer for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, allowing to create melodies in a moment and wherever you are. It was inspired by famous Tenori-on by Yamaha and popular ToneMatrix web app. Folks that have bought this app seem to be pleased with it. The price is good for what you get.
Video shows app for iPhone. It is also available for iPad.
Even if you have never composed music, you will find SoundGrid simple and exciting to play with and will start creating unique compositions in minutes with just the tips of your fingers. Then easily share them with other users and in turn browse, download and rate their creations. You can also record tracks and live performances to audio file, upload it directly to SoundCloud or export to a computer. For more experienced users SoundGrid offers advanced features and has everything you need to create longer and rich compositions and live performances.
** Please also check our application SoundGrid Live! – it’s similar to SoundGrid but focused on live performances and has more performance modes.
Check out these songs made with SoundGrid
= FEATURES =
✔ Up to eight 16×16 matrix layers with up to 8 patterns per layer with different melodies
– Song Mode to automatically play one pattern after another
– Live Play Mode made specially for live performances
– Draw mode to play sounds as you multi-touch or draw over the screen
✔ Various instruments
– More than 20 instruments available with high-quality stereo samples
– Download and install additional instruments right from the app for FREE (no additional in-app purchases)
– Web Console to create instruments with your own samples
✔ High quality fast audio engine
– Real-time sound effects: Amp Envelope, Delay and Lowpass/Highpass/Bandpass/Notch resonant filter
– True 128 note polyphony with all effects turned on (on iPhone 4, older devices have lower limits)
✔ Share your compositions with other users, browse, download and rate their creations
✔ Recording to audio file
– Directly upload to SoundCloud, send via email or download using Web Console
– Export in WAV, AAC and ringtone formats
✔ Adjustable project tempo, adjustable looping range for each pattern, pattern randomization, switchable musical scales, patterns copy/paste
I had the pleasure to contribute content for this app. You’ll find many of my loops, midi files, and a remix called Power by Jah Boogie.
meta.DJ iPad App By Sound Trends
What’s New in Version 1.4
Version 1.4 includes:
– Recording
– Riser synth for creating risers using noise and tones with filtering and modulation.
– Posting mixes via email and SoundCloud
Other great features:
Version 1.1 of meta.dj update adds a split cueing mode for headphone cueing, EQ, and support for the Numark iDJ Live PLUS bulk import of multiple iTunes tracks.
Track Deck allows you to load MP3s from your iTunes collection and mix them, beat match them, and completely mangle them with the multi effects processor. TrackDeck includes auto BPM detection, four programmable cue points, x/y effects pad, scrolling waveforms, cross faders, an line fader. Features a free song from Jah Boogie called Power Dj Puzzle‘s Club mix and Dj Puzzle loops. Music provided by Desha Music Inc.
Looptastic allows you to combine a huge selection of included loops with your own beats to make a masterpiece. Bend the mix into submission with powerful sound manipulation tools. Share your mixes and performances with the world via SoundCloud! Import your own loops or download loop packs from the in app store. Looptastic automatically syncs up to all of the apps loaded within the meta.DJ app’s cells.
SaMPL3R (aka Grüvtron) is an arpeggiator synth/sampler. Choose a Preset and grüvtron selects the right sequences and instrument sounds to create the foundation for your own new instrument parts. It’s the Smart Instrument for Electronic Musicians, DJs and Dance Producers. Grüvtron comes preloaded with performances and sounds created for Techno, Trance, Dubstep and other electronic styles. Gruvtron automatically syncs up to all of the apps loaded within the meta.DJ app’s cells.
Drumtron is a drum sequencer that comes with preset drum patterns that can be customized and synced up to all of the apps loaded within the meta.DJ app’s cells.
OFFICIAL INFO
Are you ½ producer and ½ DJ? Has your style outgrown the abilities of 2 virtual decks, digital wax and a mixer?
meta.DJ is targeted at modern DJ-style performances and lets you blend your iTunes music tracks with drum machine beats, sound fx, synthesized instrument parts, mix effects like delays, stutters, filters and more! Each iTunes track can get it’s own reusable Cue and Loop presets, to let you work the track to the fullest.
All from an easy-to-use touch interface!
meta.DJ gives you:
QUAD DEVICE SUPPORT – TRACKS, LOOPS, INSTRUMENTS AND MORE!
Use of up to 4 virtual devices at any one time. Use any combination of devices during your set including Track Decks (for iTunes tracks) plus Looptastic, SaMPL3R and drumtron instruments based on Sound Trends grüvtron technology.
TRACK DECKS
Load your track into a Track Deck and breath new life into your library.
• iTunes Integration
Easily import tracks from your iTunes library.
• Automatic BPM Detection
Automatic tempo detection plus x2, /2 and Beat Grid adjustment tools let you nail down those tricky tracks.
• Cues/Loop Presets
Use the waveform display to help gets things just right. Playback automatically plays back on the beat.
• Auto Loop for Tracks
Use for creating Loop Presets or to quickly throw in 1/2/4/8/16/32 bar loops as you play the tracks during your Live Set!
LOOPTASTIC
The loop-based remix instrument for playing, mixing and adding effects to audio loops. Every loop’s a fader!
• Scratch Strip for scratching and interactive control of loop playback.
• ACID file support
• LoopSet Editing to create your own sets with loops from Mac/PC/Audio Copy/Paste
• Metadata support for key, BPM, genre and instrument part.
DRUMTRON
A new take on the drum machine. Mix together Kick, Snare, HiHat and other parts to build the mix how you feel it. You get FIVE pounding kits loaded with parts. All done without using audio loops so the sound stays tight with a cool pitch control for some freaky FX!
SaMPL3R
Based on grüvtron, SaMPL3R lets you easily add instrument parts (arpeggios, chord stabs, basses, leads, etc) to the mix in any key and morph them together. Plus a Control Strip lets you add filter and modulation to the sound. Key Mode can help you find the key of your tracks, and/or play the sound live.
15 MASSIVE EFFECTS WITH XY PAD CONTROL
Each device has it’s own mixer fader and can have up to FOUR (4) FX assigned at once. FX include Low/High Pass Filter, Gate, Stutter Loop, Stutter Stepped, Stutter gate, Bitcrusher, Flanger, Glitchy Repeater, Delay, Reverb, Pan, Compressor and Pump. All are controlled by an XY pad with “Hold” feature for setting an FX setting like a preset.
RISER
Create dramatic rise and fall effects with noise and pitch with filters and modulation. All using simple XY controls!
ONE SHOT
Import a group of WAV files and trigger them via on screen pads during your set.
SETS and SNAPS
Each Set Document includes user-defined combinations of Devices with a collection of Snaps. Each Device Snap includes the content in the Device (music tracks w-Cues/Loops, Instruments Presets, audio loops, etc.) and mix information (effects, volume level),stored as easily recalled snapshots.
Fermion–much like a true classic hardware analog synthesizer–makes all synthesis parameters concurrently visible, available and tweak-able, for greater real-time performance control.
For playing hard core dance and techno, nothing beats the classic sound of a monophonic synth. Easily create and play sounds like a classic Moog or or a Roland TB-303.
Animoog, powered by Moog’s new Anisotropic Synth Engine (ASE), is the first professional polyphonic synthesiser designed exclusively for the iPad. ASE allows you to move dynamically through an X/Y space of unique timbres to create a constantly evolving and expressive soundscape.
Animoog captures the vast sonic vocabulary of Moog synthesisers and applies it to the modern touch surface paradigm, enabling you to quickly sculpt incredibly fluid and dynamic sounds that live, breathe, and evolve as you play them.
Visually captivating and sonically immersive, Animoog brings iPad based music production to the next level. Whether you are new to synthisis or a professional, Animoog’s unique user interface gives you the power to easily create a visually vibrant and sonically rich universe. It is the ultimate tool for total creative expression.
Key features:
– Anisotropic Synth Engine (ASE): An exciting new Moog technology that allows the user to move dynamically through an X/Y space of unique timbres to create an expressive and constantly evvoling soundscape.
– Timbre page – Assemble unique sounds in the X/Y sapce from timbres of a wide variety of vintage and modern Moog synthesisiers and pedals. Note, this is not simple sample playback.
– Plolyphonic Modulation – Simply slide your finger to control multiple modulation parameters in Animoog right from the keys.
– Polyphonic Pitch Shifting – Easily manipulate the exact pitch of each note in a chord by rotating or sliding your fingers.
– Delay Module – A classic analog style ping pong delay
– Thick Module – From bit crushing to unison voice detuning and drive, this module adds depth, edge, and character to Animoog’s already massive sound palette.
– Moog Filter – The classic four-pole Moog ladder filter with Higgh Pass, Low Pass, and Band Pass modes.
Animoog is available for $1 for a limited time and then $30
Don’t forget…
FILTATRON is much more than your average sound app. It’s a phenomenal real-time audio effects suite and powerful studio tool for your iPhone or iPod Touch.
It’s not a toy, but go ahead and play with it.
The Moog Filtatron is a realtime audio filter and effects engine. Use sound from any of three sources:
– Line/microphone input,
– Sampler, or
– Built-in oscillator
NEW: Import any song on your iDevice into the Sampler.
Run the sound through a virtual version of the famous Moog filter with a little (or a lot) of filter modulation, delay, and overdrive to create your own musical statement.
Multi-touch X-Y pads provide highly tweakable performance control for live use.
NEW: Switch Pad to “Pitch Lock” mode to play chromatic scales.
KEY FEATURES:
OSCILLATOR – A high-resolution, alias-free DSP oscillator with sawtooth and square waveforms, adjustable frequency from 0.3 Hz to 2kHz.
FX MODULES – Amp provides warm, smooth overdrive with feedback control. Delay can be modulated by its own LFO (with rate and depth controls) and delay time is smoothly interpolated for analog-style delay time tweaks.
LFO – Five waveforms: sine, ramp, sawtooth, square, sample & hold, with crossfade and morph between adjacent LFO shapes.
ENVELOPE FOLLOWER – Uses the volume envelope of sound inputs to sweep the filter, with controls for amount and speed.
PRESETS – Filtatron comes loaded with edgy presets to kick-start your sound.
RECORD AND PLAYBACK – All audio processed in stereo, 16bit, 44.1kHz resolution. Filtatron will record samples up to 10MB.
FILE SHARING – Easily move audio files back and forth between the Filtatron and your computer. Built-in email function allows sharing presets with your Filtatron bandmates.
Loopseque is a groovebox for the iPad with a circular based step sequencer inspired by certain hardware devices like the Future-Retro UV Orb Limited Edition Step Sequencer and the genoQs octopus tabletop sequencer.
It is an incredibly simple app for creating music. With Loopseque making music is like playing a game. Create beats, switch fast between patterns and arrange compositions. You can access your music instantly and everywhere.
The new version of Loopseque includes:
• Onboard Samples library
• Audio copy/paste (General Pasteboard with import and export)
• WIST support for syncing with other iOS music apps
… and finally the brand new Extra effects for live performance
CONCEPT:
* Designed for fun and improvisation
* Attractive for both beginners and professionals
* Suitable for all ages
FEATURES:
* “Big Wheel” mode for easy pattern creation
* “Wheel Matrix” mode for fast switch between patterns
* “Tap” and “Sync” for team play
* Load/Save projects
LOOPING PLACES:
* At Home: on your own, together with a friend or even with the whole family.
* At a Party: it’s fun in any setting. Amuse your friends, make music together.
* On a Trip: on board of a plane, in a car, or on a train.
* On Stage: improvise during live performances, create new beats on the fly.
TECHNICAL INFO:
* 32-step circle sequencer
* 4 channels with 9 patterns per channel
* 14 professionally-designed electonic sample sets
* 5 sample sets for kids
* 11 pre-installed basic music compositions
MAIN FEATURES
• Easy to use sequencer
• Sample editor, uploader & browser
• Onboard Samples library
• Audio effects
• Live track recording & loop bouncing
• SoundCloud sharing
• Project sharing via e-mail
• 22 professionally designed electronic sample sets
• 14 original project presets
• Loopseque Store with new projects and tracks by talented artists
• Dropbox Sync and iTunes File Sharing for your own sounds
• Audio copy/paste (General Pasteboard with import and export)
• WIST support for syncing with other iOS music apps
• Master Classes & Tutorials
TECHNICAL INFO
• 32 bit internal audio engine
• 32-step circle sequencer
• 4×4 channels of audio tracks
• 9 patterns per channel
• Volume control for each channel
• Tap tempo & cue sync
• Swing enhance
• Cross-project sample set transfer
• Simple FX set: Filter (LP & HP mode in one amazing control), Beat Repeater with automatic quantize, Reverb
• Extra FX set: Delay (two modes: stereo and mono), Filter (LP, HP) with LFO, new Reverb and Repeater with reverse mode and manual quantize)
• All FXs can be assigned to each of 4 channels (one-button extra fast routing)
P.S.
All features announced for Loopseque Extra will be available as free updates for Loopseque on iPad.
Loopseque iPad is available for $.99 for limited time
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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