PRAXIS BEATS version 2 is here and it is a very important update. Many users will be happy to now have MIDI, AudioCopy, and AudioShare support. you also have an option to unlock 2500 new samples for the app but a twitter account is required. This is done by using an in app link which involves tweeting a message about the app.
Praxis Beats redefines what a drum machine can do. Control the beat with individual parameters down to 128th notes in a simple, intuitive interface. Instantly program complex loops with maximum precision. Make your beats expressive and dynamic with a few taps. Sub-millisecond accuracy and advanced streamlined DSP all at the tip of your fingers. Glitch and roll and fill to your heart’s desire. The drum machine you never knew you needed.
What’s New in Version 2.0
MASSIVE update. Everything you know and love is back and better than ever! Including:
• MIDI support
• AudioCopy and AudioShare support
• Access to over 2500 exclusive samples
• Effects automation
FEATURING:
• 2 Effects Pads with automation. Choose from 9 available effects.
• 14 Drum kits out of the box. Over 200 samples to start with.
• Dropbox and iTunes File Sharing sync for samples, drum kits, and song files.
• MIDI integration, powered in part by the Spectacular Sync Engine.
• AudioCopy and AudioShare support.
• Audiobus and Inter-App Audio support.
• Numerous recording options, including live recording, loop export, and track export.
• Over 2500 exclusive extra samples available for FREE by posting a tweet.
Triqtraq will soon support Ableton Link. Link is a technology that keeps devices in time over a wireless network, so you can forget the hassle of setting up and focus on playing music. Link will soon be available to the wider music-making community as a built-in feature of a growing number of iOS apps.
Triqtraq is a sort of all in one Groovebox type app with an intuitive easy to use interface. It’s perfect for creating beats and sampling.
SUPER QUICK INTERFACE
• Compose and tweak beats fluently in an all-in-one window interface, without ever hitting stop.
• It’s all about touch: build up, vary, mangle and break your patterns with a swipe of your finger.
• Compose up to 16 patterns, and arrange them in the 16 step queue to build entire songs.
TWEAK YOUR (OWN!) SOUNDS
• Have endless fun with the real-time sound manipulation by recording various effect and parameter sliders.
• Add that personal touch and record your own sounds while jamming, with the super fast microphone recording feature.
• Get creative with a large library of over 400 included samples in 4 categories: Drums, Bass, Percussion and Keys.
• Take your custom sample library on the road by importing or pasting sounds from other apps.
GO DEEP WITH THE ADVANCED POSSIBILITIES
• Surprise yourself and make endless variations of one loop: give each of the four channels a different length.
• Every recorded parameter automation can have its own length too, resulting in ever evolving rhythms or melodies.
• Create your own original grooves by changing the swing amount and BPM per step.
SHARE IT & PLAY TOGETHER
• Get your recorded tunes out there and export your tracks to Soundcloud or Mail.
• Move ideas to other apps and store audio recordings on Dropbox (via Open in…).
• Get an even bigger sonic palette by using it along other apps with Audiobus and Inter-app-audio.
What’s New in Version 1.5.3
– User Guide and Kick Start tutorial (in menu)
– reduced latency on the sample pads
– 64-bit support
– removed Korg Wist support
– AudioBus SDK 2.2
– AudioCopy SDK 3
COMING SOON ABLETON LINK
Key Features:
• Four channels, each containing 8 sample pads
• Up to 16 patterns in one session
• Live input or step editor
• Automation (recording slider movements) of all effects in real-time
• Multi-editing and recording by selecting multiple channels
• Unique amount and speed of sequencer steps per channel (Loop Range)
• Sample swapping during playback
• Sample recording with the internal microphone, also during playback
• Library with more than 400 one-shot samples included
• Queue feature for arranging patterns into a full track
• Real-time switching between patterns
• Export of real-time jams, patterns or queues to SoundCloud, Audio Copy, E-mail or iTunes
• Open In… export option to open recordings in apps like Dropbox
• Import of sounds via iTunes file sharing or Audio Paste
• Audiobus support
• Inter-App Audio: use triqtraq as a generator in Inter-App Audio compatible hosts
• Background Audio option in the App Settings menu
• User manual included
For all creatures in the ocean of sound – Sonic textures from other worlds, Analog signature sounds, Cut-through-the-mix leads and silkily smooth pads: Poseidon sets a new standard for sound design and ease of use. All of this was made possible through a combination of the familiar, conceptual simplicity of the analog synthesis and our frequency domain based Spectral modelling synthesis technology.
What’s New in Version 1.2.0
– Ableton Link support
– Direct sample analysing via AudioShare
– Cpu efficiency switch
– Bugfixes
Spectral model oscillator
Select a basic sound model from over hundred delivered with Poseidon. The basic sound model determines the sound characteristic you want to start: taking a artificial model like “Sawtooth” gives you analog style sounds. Use complex models from analyzed samples for earth shaking ambients and evolving pads.
Model parameters
High level controls allow for changing the spectral shape, the harmonicity and balances the level of residual noise and spectral amount of the oscillator model.
F-Domain Filter
The newly developed F-Domain filter allow for drastic changes in the resulting sound spectrum. Five filter types including lowpass/highpass characteristic can be used to shape the sound. They have the usual controls like cutoff but also very unusual ones like a variable slope ranging from 0 dB to 72 dB / Octave and independent controls for resonance and bandwidth! This kind of controls are only possible in the context of our F-Domain synthesis technology. This results in an extremely clear filter sound with breathtaking fast modulation possibilities. The filter type “Inverse” interprets the sound model as a “Source” and a resonant body “Filter”. The cutoff parameter shifts the filterbase – this is the equivalent to making the instrument body smaller or bigger.
Spatializer
This simple control gives your sound a distinctive moving distribution in the stereo panorama. Every atomic sound particle has it´s own path through the space !
Sound browser
The sound browser in Poseidon gives you a fast selection of sounds based on category and timbre.
• Pitch modulation / Harmonicity control
• Time machine
• Timbre control
• Frequency Domain Filter
• Spatializer
Arpeggiator
• Uses programmable sequences with up to 32 steps.
• Can trigger single notes and chords.
• Unique randomiser generates Arpeggios with 100% usability.
• 32 Arpeggios included, unlimited user arpeggios possible.
• For each step you can program tie, accent, transposition and note order
Notion is a notation editor and playback tool for your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, (any iOS8 compatible device) giving you the convenience of an easy-to-use music creation tool right at your fingertips. An incredible composition app for any music lover, Notion gives you the ability to compose, edit, and playback scores using real audio samples performed by The London Symphony Orchestra recorded at Abbey Road Studios. You can capture your musical ideas anytime, and take this helpful application anywhere.
With a user-friendly interface and simple interactive piano keyboard, fretboard, and drum pad; Notion makes it easy to get started composing your music. And, with Notion’s abundance of advanced functions you can take your most basic ideas to an entirely new level right on your iOS device.
In addition to the notation editor you can also hear your music performed with real audio samples, giving you the most realistic playback possible. Notion comes bundled with piano and orchestral samples recorded by The London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios as well as popular instruments such as guitar, bass, and much more. The initial app download contains piano – you can then manage which of the bundled sounds to have on your device, or keep in the cloud, just tap on Sounds.
Begin your project by using the simple score setup tool or choose a template. You can also open MusicXML, Guitar Pro, and MIDI files. You can continue to alter your score and playback using a palette full of articulations, expressions, and dynamics. Or create the perfect balance using the full-featured multi-track mixer with effects.
Once you are happy with your creation you can share your work by emailing the Notion file. Or you can send MIDI or MusicXML files, or send an audio or PDF file. You can sync your scores across devices, and with Notion for Windows and Mac, by using iCloud and Dropbox.
What’s New in Version 2.0.143
– Handwriting in-app purchase for iPad now available
Notion can now turn your handwriting into notation! Write with your finger, stylus or Apple Pencil and Notion will convert it. Open Notion on iPad and open/create a score. Tap Settings cogwheel and select Handwriting> Purchase
– Handwriting recognizes the following notation elements:
Standard notehead
Ledger lines
All Notion clefs
Whole note to 64th note (and rests)
Dotted and double dotted notes (and rests)
Chords
Single, final, double, repeat measure lines
Accidentals including double sharps/flats
Triplets, custom tuplets and ratios
Time signatures including common and cut-time symbols
Ties and slurs
Beams
Articulations: accents, staccato, staccatissimo, tenuto, marcato
Stopped note +, Upbow, downbow
Powered by MyScript®
– Support for Apple Pencil with Handwriting
As you write your notation, you can press harder for a thicker line, which gives a much more natural feel. Apple Pencil also gives you greater accuracy not just in recognition but in selecting and adjusting other elements
– Other Fixes:
All chords now enter on iPhone
Score setup images now correct resolution on iPad Mini
Notion Features:
– Handwriting in-app purchase for iPad now available
– Enter, edit, and playback notation, tab, or both
– Orchestral samples by The London Symphony Orchestra recorded at Abbey Road Studios.
– Piano, keyboards, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, electric bass
– MIDI step-time entry with your favorite MIDI device or MIDI Bluetooth device
– Record real-time MIDI input into your score.
– Audition Mode: Use the on-screen virtual instruments to hear sounds before entering them into your score.
– Clean and intuitive user interface
– Support for retina display
– Native 64-bit support
– Option to tap in notes with finger or stylus
– Interactive piano keyboard, 24-fret guitar fretboard and drumpad for step, and realtime, entry
– Quick and simple selection palette
– Distortion and reverb effects
– Full audio mixer
– Full range of orchestral functions and articulations including: Staccato, Flutter tongues, Trills, Vibrato, and much more…
– Full range of guitar functions and articulations including: bends, vibrato, slides, hammer on, pull off, mutes, whammy bar techniques, bass slap, harmonics, and more…
– Drag score items such as dynamics
– Switch Instruments
– Transposition
– Insert text
– Rehearsal Marks
– Lyrics
– Chord Symbols and Diagrams
– Rhythm Slashes
– Cross staff beaming for grand staff instruments
– Swing
– Continuous and Page View
– Quick “Undo” and “Redo” functions
– Chord and melody modes
– Easy delete and erase capabilities
– Enter and edit title and composer information
– Save as an audio file
– Import .notion, MIDI, MusicXML, GuitarPro 3-5 files
– Export/email .notion, PDF, MusicXML, .WAV, AAC or MIDI files
– Sync with iCloud, Dropbox or iTunes File Sharing
– Print to AirPrint enabled printers
– Expand your bundled sound library with in-app purchases
– Help Files
– And much more…
Zerodebug announces that in honour of touchAble’s fifth birthday, it is offering 5 days of special deals and discounts on its iOS controller apps dedicated to Ableton Live.
Released in 2010, the acclaimed IOS controller which has continuously evolved since its first version, has been updated to version 3.1 today, and marking the 5th anniversary of an app positioned as a serious alternative to hardware controllers.
“Just five years ago we launched touchAble, the first complete iOS controller dedicated to Ableton Live and one of the first iOS music Apps massively embraced by pro musicians, djs and producers. Multi-touch controllers have proven their undeniable utility ever since. With every new version of touchAble we have introduced new features, ideas and new technologies.
With the release of touchAble 3.1 today and our apps fifth birthday, we would like to celebrate with our current and future users by offering 5 days of special deals on our complete lineup.”
touchable 3.1 brings several new features requested by its user community such as a Modulation wheel for keyboards, a variable font-size, new follow modes, as well as many performance enhancements and bug fixes.
The Live Device Template Pack, which is available as an in-app purchase and adds specialised templates for most of Lives Devices, now offers an additional 13 Templates for Max for Live devices.
touchAble 3.1 is fully compatible with LaunchSync and the forthcoming LaunchSync 2 by Isotonik which allows to sync touchAble and all grid-based control surfaces available for Ableton Live, such as Ableton Push, Novation Launchpad, LaunchControl or Akai APC40 series.
“If you’ve been waiting to jump on multitouch to control Ableton Live or simply want to expand your touchAble setup, the next five days is the time to do it. touchAble is THE solution for multi-touch and Ableton Live and we are very proud to celebrate five years of touchAble with our community.
touchAble 5 years Anniversary Special
touchAble for iPad: $4,99 (regular price is $24,99) – This special offer is valid from 17:00 (CEST) to 22:00 (CEST) on October 20, 2015, then $12,99 until 24:00 October 25 2015.
• 50% off on touchAble Mini ($9,99 to $4,99)
• 50% off on touchAble Bundle ($30,99 to $14,99)
• 50% off on the “Live Device Templates Pack” available as in-app purchase ($21,99$ to $10,99)
This special offer is valid until 24:00 October 25 2015.
Device/System Requirements:
* Compatible with all generations of iPad, iPhone and iPod running IOS 5 and above.
* Ableton Live 8.4 and above or Live 9.2 and above.
* Mac OSX 10.5 and above or Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10.
* touchAble PC or MAC server software (downloadable for free).
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).
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