2012
07/26
Free Node Synthesizer App For iOS
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Free Node Synthesizer App For iOS

Network of nodes make a novel sound.

Each node has a distinct tone. Tapping a node makes it “excited” and it makes a different sound. Once the node is tapped, it is ready to connect it’s edge to other nodes (indicated by surrounding circles). The excitement of nodes are spread via edges. The cycle of the edges will produce an interesting sequence of sounds.

***Unfortunately, this app does not run properly iPodTouch 2ndG or earlier due to hardware limitation.***

SYnC SYnTHE is available for free.

2012
07/26
Drum Synthesizer For iOS
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Drum Synthesizer For iOS

MoDrum for iOS is a virtual analog drum machine with a 32-step grid sequencer, plenty of sound-sculpting parameters, a tempo-matching delay effect, dynamic compression, reverb processor, sophisticated MIDI support, audio looper, performance recorder, and more.

This is a beat-making app that features real-time synthesis of drum sounds that range from TR-808 style to real. As a synth and not sampler, sound characteristics can be tweaked from authentic to affected.

What’s New in Version 3.5

– Stereo Processing (Pan)
– Reverb Processor (iOS 5+)
– x0x style Handclap Synth
– Rimshot “Drive” parameter
– Bass Drum “Time” parameter
– Allow manual Start/Stop while sync’d to external MIDI clock
– OMAC Fast Switch sender support
– Audio Sharing via “Open in…”
– Various bugfixes and improvements

Key Features

• 11 real time operating synth modules (NO SAMPLED SOUNDS are used):
– Bass Drum: Tune, Pitch, Time, Click, Decay
– Snare Drum: Tune, Tone, Muffle, Decay
– Low Tom (*): Tune, Noise, Decay
– Mid Tom (*): Tune, Noise, Decay
– High Tom (*): Tune, Noise, Decay
– Rim Shot: Tune, Drive, Decay
– Hand Clap (*): Tone, Decay
– Cowbell (*): Tune, Decay
– Cymbal: Color, Tone, Peak, Decay
– Open Hi-hat: Tone, Peak, Hold, Decay
– Closed Hi-hat: Tone, Peak, Decay

• Integrated Audio Looper for tempo-synchronous playback of backing tracks or sampled phrases (iOS 5+). Sound files can be imported via pasteboard, “Open In…”, or iTunes.

• Programmable sequencer with 32 steps and global accent pattern
• Beat clock with tap tempo and rhythmic shuffle (swing)

• Dotted eighth delay effect unit

• Hard knee dynamic range compressor

• Tube amp overdrive effect processor

• Reverb processor (iOS 5+)

• Audio Snapshot Recorder for live recordings (iPad only)

• MIDI Clock sync/generate
• MIDI Note in/out (GM drum mapping)

• Comprehensive MIDI routing capabilities:
– Connect to virtual MIDI ports provided by apps running in the background
– Connect to nearby iPads, iPhones, Mac OS X and Windows computers
– Connect to compatible MIDI hardware attached to the dock connector

• Wireless MIDI via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi WLAN using Apple’s built-in CoreMIDI network driver
• Wired MIDI using the USB Camera Connection Kit for iPad with class-compliant USB hardware
• Wired MIDI using a Core MIDI interface built for iOS

• Wireless Sync-Start via Korg’s WIST

• Energy-saving Background Audio/MIDI Processing

• OMAC Fast App Switching support

• WAVE file export and extensive sharing options:
– “Open In…”
– Pasteboard (compatible with BeatMaker and Garageband for iPhone/iPad)
– AudioCopy by Sonoma Wire Works
– E-Mail
– iTunes File Sharing

• Including twenty patterns by DJ/producer Myagi (www.popandlockrecords.com)

• Pattern Shop

• Universal support for iPod touch, iPhone and iPad

MoDrum is available for $5.99

2012
07/18
Tachyon iPad Sampler Synthesizer
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Tachyon iPad Sampler Synthesizer

Jordan Rudess is back again with another wicked app for the iPad. Ladies and gentlemen, Tachyon by Wizdom Music.

Do you want to play an electric guitar and a piano at the same time? What about choosing the electrifying buzz of a drill and blending it into the soothing tone of a human voice? Jordan Rudess and Kevin Chartier’s Tachyon gives you all these options and more.

From the makers of the award winning app, MorphWiz, comes a new creation that allows images and sound to become one as they magically blend under your fingertips. Each note you play is an individual expression, allowing independent control of pitch and tone far beyond that of traditional instruments.

Most instruments only allow you to play one sound at a time, but with Tachyon, you can seamlessly blend between any two sounds as you slide your fingers up and down the screen.

The visual experience of Tachyon is just as mesmerizing. As you move along the playing surface, a field of twinkling stars morphs into the shape of your selected instrument, allowing a direct correlation between sight and sound.

As described by Jordan Rudess, “Tachyon is simple to use and at the same time offers a unique musical expressive power. The sonic core of the app is a custom crafted sound set from my personal library, encompassing sounds as familiar as those you would find in your home toolbox, and as exclusive as the ones I use on tour with Dream Theater.”

Whether you’re a seasoned musician looking for a next generation instrument to further express your creativity, or just a regular Joe browsing the app store looking for a fun and simple purchase that will delight the whole family, Tachyon is the app for you!

“Tachyon will allow you to get very deep into the sonics of a sample. You can do things like get a hundred thousand points of automation inside of a ten second sample. You can freely draw your automation, you can put in points and you can put in steps. In addition to all that, you can also convert one kind of automation to another. You’ve got things like formant filters in it to get vowel-type sounds. It’s got bit crushers and ring modulators and other types of filters and ways to change the pitch. Basically you’re just drawing everything. The end result can be moved into anything that will play a .wav file or an .aiff file. You can put it directly into SampleWiz so you can play it in SampleWiz or GeoSynth.”

Tachyon is available for $1.99

2012
07/15
Fender Amp On iPad
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Fender Guitar Amps On iPad

Amplitube Fender Edition

THE LEGENDARY FENDER™ TONE ON YOUR iPAD. MAJOR UPDATE WITH DIGITAL AUDIO, MIDI CONTROL, NEW MIXER/RECORDER, COPY/PASTE, FULL RETINA SUPPORT, FTP AND SOUNDCLOUD UPLOAD AND MORE …

Turn your iPad® into the ultimate mobile Fender guitar, bass and mobile recording studio! Use iRig or iRig STOMP interface to connect your guitar to your iPhone®/iPod touch®/iPad, and use iRig MIDI to control AmpliTube with your floor controller. Or use StealthPlug with the Apple® Camera Connection Kit to take full advantages of the new digital audio in/out support.

The AmpliTube Fender app was developed with careful guidance and critical tone testing from the tone gurus at Fender to ensure the authenticity of the sound. Derived from the award-winning desktop recording studio version AmpliTube Fender, you can choose from 5 Fender amp models and 6 Fender Stompbox models.

Speedtrainer is AmpliTube Fender’s robust practicing tool that lets you import audio and change the tempo without affecting pitch. You can load songs, backing tracks or loops from your iPod library on your device or from your computer, then play along through your guitar signal chain. Slow down material (-50%) to learn complex riffs, or speed up material (+200%) to enhance your playing skills.

As a Multi-FX Processor for guitar, bass or any instrument, you can build your Fender rig with 4 simultaneous stompbox effects that go into an amplifier head, speaker cabinet and microphone. Each element of your tone is individually selectable with full controls for ultimate ‘tweak-ability’.

AmpliTube Fender is also a recording and production studio. With a built-in single-track recorder with re-amping ability, you can expand to a full-featured 8-Track Recorder with master effects section via in-app purchase. Capture your ideas quickly, then share your work by exporting high quality audio files or M4As. You can record your band or produce full songs directly in AmpliTube Fender.

AmpliTube Fender for iPad features:

– Real-time guitar and bass mobile + recording app
– Full rig with 4 simultaneous stompboxes + amp with effects + cabinet + mic
– Inter-App Audio support (available on iOS 7 only)
– Audiobus compatible: works in any of the 3 Audiobus “slots”
– 6 Fender stomps — Fender Phaser, Fender Blender™, Fender Tape Echo, Overdrive, Compressor (by registering) and Noise Filter
– 5 Fender amps with matching Cabinets — ’65 Deluxe Reverb™, ’65 Twin Reverb™, ’59 Bassman™ LTD, Super-Sonic™ and Pro Junior™
– Dynamic + condenser mic models
– Ultra-realistic tones derived from the AmpliTube Fender™ Mac/PC software
– Single track recorder (with re-amping and preroll) expandable to 8-track studio with master effects through in-app purchase
– AutoFreeze allows for separate, tweakable effects per track on the multitrack recorder
– Import songs/backing tracks directly from your Music library on your device or from your computer
– Export via E-mail, SoundCloud, FTP or File Sharing
– NO VOICE feature removes the lead vocal or guitar solo from imported songs
– Change the tempo (-50% to +200%) of imported songs without affecting their pitch
– Digital audio in/out
– MIDI controllable (available as in-app purchase and free for iRig MIDI users)
– Powerful preset system
– New Global Menu
– Includes tuner and metronome
– Low-latency for real time playing
– Can be incorporated into AmpliTube 3 for iPad app via in-app purchase
– FREE version also available – can be expanded by individual gear model purchases, or bundle purchase via in-app purchase

Amplitube Fender Edition is available for $14.99

2012
07/12
Midi Guitar App For iPad
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Midi Guitar App For iPad

Turn ANY guitar into a polyphonic guitar-synthesizer or record tablature by playing it.

✮✮✮✮✮ Introductory discount: 75% off WIFI-MIDI upgrade

MIDI Guitar is the world’s first app to transcribe guitar playing into MIDI. The transcription runs in real-time, with latency and accuracy comparable to inconvenient hardware MIDI guitar solutions.

MIDI guitar is 5 years under development and based upon new patent-pending polyphonic pitch detection and –prediction technology that can accurately recognize polyphonic signals, such as complex chords or finger-playing with very low latency and without spurious hits.

MIDI Guitar uses WIFI-MIDI to communicate with digital audio workstations in a frictionless setup or Cable-based MIDI (recommended) for lowest possible latency. It also drives other iOS synth apps using Apple’s virtual MIDI standard.

In order to use MIDI Guitar you need a iPhone 4 or newer, iPod 4th generation, or any iPad. You also need a guitar interface for best results. We recommend the iRig and are currently testing other interfaces. Using an acoustic guitar with the built in microphone might work for some purposes but is not optimal.

The app is FREELY available for evaluation with built in piano sounds. MIDI output (WIFI-MIDI, Virtual-MIDI and Cable-MIDI) is offered as an in-app purchase.

Note that WIFI-MIDI is only supported on the Windows platform via 3rd party apps, and might cause latency issues for some.

Midi Guitar is 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). 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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