2015
04/01
Medly Music Composition App For iPad
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Medly is a FREE and easy way to get your musical ideas down. Simply draw in the notes and select from various sounds. Use the preset drum patterns to accompany your melodies and chords.

What’s New in Version 3.2.2
◆◆◆ Best of App Store 2016 ◆◆◆

New Future Bass Pack!
– 16 new instruments
– 4 are LFO based instruments
– Free download for Band Pack purchasers

4 New Essential Pack Instruments
– 2 new Vox synths
– 2 new high quality pianos

A few more notes:
– “Made In Medly” feed features user-made songs (posted to SoundCloud)
– Updated mastering settings
– Bug Fixes

Medly takes a new approach to the way music is made, letting both seasoned and new musicians make epic music. Just pick your instruments and start drawing notes.

UNIVERSAL SUPPORT
Use Medly on your iPhone, iPad, and iPad Pro. Medly supports all screen orientations and sizes, including Split View and Slide Over.

READY TO HANDLE YOUR MUSIC
Medly breaks up your song into Sections that you can easily pick up, move, delete, copy, and link together to make loops. Then arrange your Sections, using up to 8 instrument tracks, to make epic music.

112 INSTRUMENTS
Start off with 12 free instruments, and unlock 100 more across a variety of genres in the Medly store.

SHARE AND PLAY
Quickly upload your song to SoundCloud, or share it as a video*, audio, MIDI, or Medly file. You can also connect Medly to other apps using Audiobus, Inter-App Audio or play in time using Ableton Link.

MIXER & EFFECTS
Change the volume of each track and apply effects and filters to make to customize your sounds. You can also add fades and automate volume and effects over time.*

MEDLY FOR APPLE WATCH
Open, play and control Medly songs right from your wrist. Perfect for running in the background and using Inter-App Audio or Audiobus.

3D TOUCH SUPPORT**
Use 3D Touch to quickly create and open a song from your iPhone home screen, or Peek & Pop your Albums and Songs. You can also press harder when drawing notes to make them louder.

Medly is free. Additional sounds can be purchased via in-app store.

2015
03/09
Peter Vogel CMI Pro Ver 2
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Fairlight for iPhone, iPad, and iPod

Peter Vogel CMI Pro Ver 2 is a Fairlight CMI brought to the future on iOS. Experience music making ‘80s style with this awesome retro app, modelled on the legendary Fairlight* Computer Musical Instrument. Preloaded with 500+ CMI Series II sounds and 100+ Series III sounds, for the first time a byte-perfect re-issue of the classic CMI sounds of the 80s. 
This app includes the famous ‘Page R’, which was the world’s first screen-based rhythm sequencer. Today every sampler, digital synthesiser, sequencer and audio workstation can trace its lineage back to this legendary machine. Now you can make music using tools like those used by artists including Alan Parsons, Jean Michel Jarre, Trevor Horn, Thomas Dolby, Brian Eno, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder and so many more. This app is a part midi player, part creative tool and part history lesson – developed by Peter Vogel and his nerds who worked on the Fairlight CMI in the ’80s.

What’s New in Version 2.1
• compatibility with iOS 9
• compatibility with Audiobus 2.2.1
• adds Audiobus Remote support, with extra controls for Page R
• fixes Page R hang in iOS 9 in pattern repeat mode

FEATURES:

– entire original CMI IIX Sound library containing 564 voices*

– 100+ selected CMI III sounds 

- play the CMI voices from an external MIDI input (supports Core Midi, Line6 MidiMobilizer II or Akai SynthStation), or use the on-screen keyboard*

– Sample your own voices from the microphone or line in, then use them in your compositions

– display voices graphically using the iconic Page D, and change your viewpoint by tilting your iPhone/iPad*

– authentic CMI user interface experience, including floppy disk quirks*

– 8 track composition using ‘Page R’ pattern-based sequencer

– create instrument sets that store settings for all 8 channels, including the voices, pitch shifts, volumes, release times etc.

– import/export voices, compositions, MIDI and instruments and exchange with others.

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2015
02/23
Groove Machine Mobile iPad
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About Groove Machine Mobile – Synthesizer: Load from the extensive library of bass, keys, lead, pad, sfx and synth sounds. The flexible dual-oscillator, wave-shape driven, design with filters, 3 envelopes and LFO architecture will ensure you can create fresh and unique sounds for years to come. Listen to the presets and you will know how powerful the Groove Machine Mobiles synths are.

Sample Player: Choose from over 20 multi-sampled instruments covering Piano, strings, organ, bass, guitar, flute, harp and more.

Drums & percussion: Punch out a beat on the 10 drum pads. The velocity-through-position feature will allow you to play with feeling to get the right groove. Layer two samples per-pad for complex sample mash-ups. A comprehensive library of percussion samples is included covering kicks, snares, toms, hats, cymbals, sfx and more.

Keyboards: Take control over the synthesizers with Groove Machine Mobiles two-tier touch keyboard, perfect for playing chords and melodies. The visual feedback will even help you to learn to play music just by watching the existing projects play.

Effects: A wide array of modern and classic effects are available including a Bit Crusher (for lo-fi gritty sounds), Flanger & Phaser (to create complex stereo washes and spacey effects), Filters (low, high pass & vowel-voice simulation), Delay (echoes), Reverb (to simulate the sound of large halls through to tight spaces), Panning (so you can spread your sounds across your speakers) and Ring modulation (creating screaming-feedback type sounds).

Sequencing: After recording a performance Groove Machine Mobile’s touch-optimized easy editing features make it a breeze. You can edit in all the musical parts from scratch here too. The Piano-roll allows note entry and step-entry for percussion tracks. Finally, record and edit the movement of almost any knob or control with the Automation editor.

Groove Machine Mobile IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE

2015
02/17
Download Zip Files To iPad With AudioShare
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Audioshare-2
Audioshare allows you to download zip files and loop packs straight from the internet to your iPad and iPhone. The following video tutorial is a how to instructional guide to show you how simple it is to browse to the location of a zip file, download it, unpack it, and use the audio contents in your music project.

Audioshare is a sound file manager with powerful import and export abilities. If you are using music-making apps, then this tool is a must-have! Organize all your soundfiles and midifiles on your device. Record, trim, convert, normalize, upload, download, export, import, zip, unzip. Create folders, rename and move files and folders around, put everything where you can find it.

What’s New in Version 2.7
MAJOR NEW FEATURES

• New and improved visual design.
• Auto-zoom when trimming audio.
• Apply fade in/out when trimming audio.
• New built-in text editor for taking notes.
• WiFi Drive: Access the library and upload files from any web browser on your local network.
• Allow access to Document Providers from within AudioShare on iOS 8, for example iCloud Drive.
• Include a Document Picker app extension to allow other apps to access the AudioShare library directly on iOS 8.
• Support iPhone 6 and 6+ screen resolutions.
• Scroll up to reveal a Search Bar to search the current folder.
• Support 24 and 32 bits recording and conversion.

MORE NEWS AND FIXES

• New waveform display with doubled resolution, that shows RMS as well as peak levels.
• Waveform display now reads both channels for stereo files.
• Allow sorting on size as well as name and date.
• Auto-start a file when opening it if another file was already playing.
• Tap navigation bar folder title to show navigation menu.
• Group multiple Inter-App Audio node ports in ‘folders’.
• Inter-App Audio sync: send play & rec flags to connected nodes when recording.
• Show play progress on preview buttons.
• Display helpful instructions when Inter-App Audio zombie node detected.
• When opening a zip file, ask to unpack instead of opening an empty detail view.
• Check microphone permissions before starting recording.
• Use a separate iTunes File Sharing folder for access from computer (iTunes, iFunBox, etc). This folder is not available in the Document Picker extension.
• Fix crash in case of web download timeout.
• Fix crash when clearing general pasteboard.
• Update TheAmazingAudioEngine for upstream bug fixes.
• Update Audiobus SDK for upstream bug fixes.
• Several small and big tweaks of the user interface.
• Update file listing in background, improves user experience and startup time on big folders and/or slow devices.

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2015
02/02
Zillidrone groovebox glitch box for iPad
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Zilldrone

Zillidrone (*iOS 8 required) is a sample-based groovebox for creating, performing and interacting with 32-step sequences for snares, kicks, hi-hats, sampler and two multioscillator synthesizers. With Zillidrone you can easily create, modify, save sequences and arrange them on the fly during a live performance. Use drum pads for making extra drum shots over the saved drum patterns. Shuffle samples, randomize patterns, use synth preset sequencers, apply DSP effects with automations to produce a wide range of sound transformations for your composition. Upload your own samples and use the magic of randomization without any editing to discover more ideas for your music. Record loops or full tracks in real-time, export recordings to other applications or share them via dropbox or email.

Features:
– Drum machine and drum pads for real-time groove production with 4 types of touches. Tap or swipe drum pads within different areas to produce different shots.
– Change samples manually or shuffle samples randomly during performance.
– Two oscillator synth with 5 presets, preset sequencers and automations for each controller.
– Sampler with piano keyboard (6 octaves).
– 5 real-time DSP effects: distortion, free verb, pitch shifter, wah-wah, ring modulator , one non-realtime “looper” effect and global delay effect.
– Mixer for panning and sending to global delay effect for each instrument and DSP effect.
– Arrangement editor for storing 16 different scenes. Each scene saves all states of controls, sequences, automations. You can change scenes manualy, randomly or create a song arrangement.
– Included library of 397 samples (99 per each drum instrument and 100 for sampler).
– Upload sample packs (wav, aif, aiff formats) via iTunes and assign them to each instrument separately.
– Real time recording for loops or long tracks. There’s an option to record instruments and effects into different WAV files.
– Export recordings to Dropbox or open in applications with audio file import support.
– MIDI input and output. MIDI Sync input.
– Demo projects, help and video tutorial are included.

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