2013
12/29
IK Multimedia Groovemaker 2 iPhone
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IK Multimedia Groovemaker 2

GrooveMaker® 2 is the latest version of this revolutionary iPhone/iPod touch app, designed for creating non-stop electronic, dance and hip-hop tracks in real-time by anyone anywhere, with results that sound like they were produced by a professional DJ. Making music with loops will never be the same.

GrooveMaker works with pre-arranged sets of loops (called “Songs”) that always sound good together. You can remix them in real-time in virtually limitless ways with our patented “groove generator” technology — all with just one touch.

As soon as you select a Song, you enter into the new Grid interface. Push the Randomix button, and you will immediately see the building blocks of your groove appear on the grid, and the music will start playing. You can change grooves with the Randomix function, or literally “draw” new grooves directly on the grid. You can lock loops, solo and mute them, change volume and pan, and freely associate loops to each of the 8 available tracks. When you’re satisfied with the results, just take a Snap (snapshot) to memorize it for further sequencing.

Enhance your grooves with the new Effects interface, where you have 16 high-quality DJ-oriented effects, from Filter to Delay, Stutter to Flanger, and Crush to Noise. You also get highly creative effects like Twist, Brake, Spin and Tail, that can only be found on sophisticated professional DJ gear.

All the effects can be operated with the X-Y touch surface, where you can even record automation within the 8-bar groove duration, for ultra-dynamic groove-effects progressions. You also have a new Master section, where you can give the finishing touch to your groove with a Compressor, an EQ and a Filter, for a professional sound that can be cut straight to a record.

GrooveMaker Packs offer over 3,600 loops. They come grouped “Song” packs that are each organized by categories such as bass drum, loop, bass, line, pads, effects and percussion. There are 70 collections available, featuring styles like House, Dubstep, Hip-Hop, Techno, Trance, Electro, D’n’B, Reggae, Reggaeton, and Rock. There are even artist packs from Ace of Skunk Anansie, Chris Domingo and Cool & Dre, with more to be released.

Additionally, GrooveMaker 2 lets you record your own loops with your device, and add them to your grooves. You can also import audio material directly from your Music Library or other sources, cut them into loops, and auto-sync them with your groove effortlessly.

GrooveMaker 2 features:

• Completely redesigned interface
• Single application allows you to have all your loop collections in one place, with in-app purchase
• 16 Packs available in 70 song collections including styles like EDM, Dubstep, House, Hip Hop, Techno, Trance, Electro, D’n’B, Reggae, Reggaeton, Rock plus artist packs (4 built-in Songs plus 16 packs available for in-app purchase)
• New Matrix interface for simplified loop remixing by drawing
• New flexible management of the Randomix algorithm
• Now single loop duration can be freely set
• New groove duration can be freely set from 1/2 bar to 8 bars, with new 1/4 to 1/32 live-loop functions on saved grooves for dramatic effects
• 16 FX with automation and touch-pad like interface (10 Filter FX built-in effect plus 6 more available for in-app purchase)
• New IMPORT functions allow you to easily import audio files or record your own, and integrate them with the existing collection
• New high-quality time-stretch for seamless groove tempo variation from 50% to 200% of original BPM without affecting the pitch
• New real-time recorder
• New master control with Compressor, EQ and Filter
• New sharing features includes Audio Copy, E-mail, Wi-Fi, FTP, SoundCloud
• Compatible with Audiobus, Inter-App Audio and X-Sync

Groovemaker 2 is available for $9.99

2013
12/20
Brute LFO Oscillator For CV Input via iPhone
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Brute LFO

The Brute LFO is a powerful low frequency oscillator that modulates your analog gear.

If you have a hardware synth that allows you to use external gear to modulate the pitch, the filter, or any other parameter, just plug the Brute LFO into the CV in and start playing.

It consists of three separate LFOs. LFO 1 and 2 can be controlled using the control elements in the top half of the screen. The big knob in he middle sets the rate of both the LFOs. Additionally you can change the waveforms of the LFOs, detune LFO 2 and change its phase. The amount knob in the top half also sets the overall amount of the modulation.
The elements on the bottom half (LFO 3) can be used to modulate the frequency of LFO 1 and 2.
And the brute switch destroys everything.

Brute LFO is available for $3.99

2013
12/20
VocaForm Formant Synthesizer For iPhone
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VocaForm 2 Formant Synth For iPhone

Vocaform is a polyphonic formant synthesizer for iPhone. It mimics resonant body sounds such as a voice or stringed instruments. The tone ranges from eerily haunting to gritty 8-Bit noise. A wide variety of additional sounds can be created with the included digital audio effects.

VocaForm2 Screen

Vocaform 2 has been completely rewritten for iOS 7. It features a new polyphonic audio engine and a beautifully simplified interface.

• Effects: Multi-Tap Delay, Filter, Auto-Vibrato, Chorus.
• Two pitch bend modes.
• XY-Pad and Vertical Key touch control parameters.
• ADSR envelope.
• MIDI Input from external USB keyboards.
• Virtual MIDI from 3rd party iOS sequencers.
• [Audiobus support coming soon!]

VocaForm 2 is available for $2.99

2013
11/08
Create beats and mangle them on an iPhone
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RicePad

Get Ricepad for a special price! The sale is only for a few days! Ricepad is the award-winning app for creating live music in a unique way. Check out the videos on ricecode.com

Loop, Resample, Remix, Filter and Create Sound Sequences

With Ricepad you create music by arranging objects called modules in a single chain. You start from existing sounds, freely available from the online library, importable from your computer (Mac/PC/Linux/…) or pastable from the clipboard of compatible apps, or you can use the mic line(*). Then the combination of modules you compose, divided between audio sources and effects, will manipulate the sound in an unexpectedly great number or ways.

What’s New in Version 1.5
– SoundCloud sharing support
– email sharing support

– set suitable default settings for Reverb
– fixed wrong autoscrolling while editing textual notes

Oriented To Live Music Performances

Ricepad allows you to create music that is immediately listenable to the audience: less editing and much more playing with the quick and simple interface. For example, if you like beat boxing, you can live record yourself through the mic, record a sequence and play it back as a loop, ready to be post processed or resampled, everything in sync with the bpm, e.g. quantized at 1/16. Nearly every interaction can be quantized, even the preview of audio clips when you want to set up a drum kit.

Inspirations On The Go With Your iPhone & iPod Touch

Ricepad has an extensive set of modules and offers many different techniques to create music easily and quickly, leaving room to unleash your creativity. Every new idea can be saved as a session to be later re-opened for future use. This makes Ricepad suitable for casual and short plays, as well as for long and more structured live performances, even while playing with other apps thanks to the multi-tasking support. You can even record the audio of your performance, copy it to another app through the pasteboard or save it to file and export it to your desktop computer, so to reuse your new groove in a studio environment. Finally you can also share your creations seamlessly in SoundCloud or by email.

Check out the main features.

General
– simple and original workflow to connect modules – audio sources or effects
– 16 bit 44100Hz quality
– very low latency
– low CPU consumption, for a smooth experience even on older devices
– built-in library of loops and sample kits
– constantly updating sound packs, downloadable for free
– optional temporal quantization of most interactions per module
– recoverable sessions (save and open functions) + autosave
– possibility to make long audio recordings to file
– import/export functions for personal audio files and sessions, supported in 3 ways including iTunes File Sharing
– SoundCloud and email sharing integrated support
– multi-tasking support

File Player / Recorder
– support for a lot of audio formats (wav, aif, mp3, m4a…) with different sample rates
– recording to file
– audio copy/paste, Intua compatible
– loop with programmable parameters
– set/get cue points for seeking in real time
– crossfader

Sampler & Resampler
– loading single files or sample kits (groups of 4 files)
– audio copy/paste, Intua compatible
– live resampling of the currently executing audio
– live sampling from the mic line with the microphonic variation of the module
– programmable step sequencer, 1/16 resolution, up to 4 bars
– live playing/recording of a sequence
– clip specific parameters: volume, pan, loop mode (none, hold or toggle), reverse, choke group

Effects
– compressor, decimator, dub delay, lowpass and highpass filters, phaser, reverb, ring modulator and wave shaper
– all with the same XY pad controller

Other
– microphone module (takes the mic line) with crossfader
– tempo control 60-200 bpm (not dynamically applicable with loops) + metronome
– peak indicators
– built-in tutorials
– built-in manual
– iPad compatibility in 2x mode
– plays along with iTunes music
– …and a lot of fun!

* if your device hasn’t an integrated microphone, you have to connect an external microphone for this function

Ricepad IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE

2013
11/07
Sonoria Ambient Soundscape App
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Sonoria Ambient Soundscape App

Sonoria is a touch musical generator. It is a part of an upcoming series of musical toys which can be used for fun of for artistic performances. Sonoria is particularly oriented towards noise, suggestive, deep musical soundscapes. Touch the screen to produce sounds. Combine touch with phone rotation to change panning and other sound parameters.

Sonaria is NO LONGER AVAILABLE

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