This is the iPhone version of WerkBench. It has been completely redesigned for the iPhone and touch devices!
WerkBench is a new type of beat box with a playful interface and powerful features.
At the heart of WerkBench for iPhone is a step sequencer that let you instantly sample sounds into any place in the rhythm and then alter those sounds in real-time.
The concept is simple and powerful. You will be making beats and cool rhythms in seconds… and all of the sounds will be unique to you!
WerkBench features:
–“Fancy Controls” (pitch, lowpass filters, envelopes, and more!)
–Edit pitch and level independently for every step!
–Funky lo-fi tape echo for spacey effects.
–Save and load loops or whole sets of 4 patterns.
–Export loops and recordings via Audio Copy, iTunes file sharing, and email.
SessionBand is a new composition tool for creating musicians. It doesn’t take a of musical ability to create something with SessionBand but it does take a good ear.
Now anyone can create pro quality music in minutes with the world’s only chord-based loop app. With over 80,000 perfectly played audio loops created by the UK’s best session musicians and producers, SessionBand instantly converts the chords you select into great sounding music – wherever you are and whatever your level of ability.
What’s New in Version 2.1
– ‘Live’ recording. Record ‘live’ playback straight to audio. Includes all the real-time mixer, tempo, looping and transpose changes you make. Customise your music in a whole new way!
– ‘High-speed’ recording. Quickly record your saved tracks to audio
– Email audio. Export your tracks in m4a audio format via email – together with .sbf files so others can import into their SessionBand
– iTunes file sharing in WAV format
– AudioCopy support. Paste your music directly into other music apps
– Auto-transpose. Instantly change the key of your entire track
– Stability improvements and bug fixes from version 1
– Plus Style delete function, Edit zoom, Online help and more
So whether you’re making music for a living or just for the love of it, you’ve got everything you need to create, play, practice, jam and share in one amazing app.
A simpler way to make great music
•Start by selecting a musical style from a choice of 71 (20 diverse styles are included with the initial download)
•Select any chords in any key and watch them instantly turn into pro quality musical audio loops
•Stretch or shorten loops as you wish
•Build up your songs…in minutes. Any chord. Any key
•Hit ‘Play’ at any time to hear SessionBand play your track
Mix and ‘Flip’ tracks in real time
•’Flip’ your track instantly between totally different musical styles – and listen to your R&B track with a Reggae vibe or your Deep House track in Dubstep
•Mix and arrange your track on the go
•Speed it up with the touch of a button
•Slow it down just as easily
THIS TUTORIAL IS VERY HELPFUL
Get the UK’s best musicians and producers working on your songs!
•Draw on the talents of the UK’s leading session musicians and producers
•Benefit from the people who record with some of the world’s biggest stars including Mariah Carey, Kylie Minogue, Leona Lewis, Mel C, Van Morrison, Mark Knopfler, Sugababes and Cheryl Cole
•Get access to over 80,000 audio loops they have created exclusively for SessionBand
Make music where you want. When you want
•Now you can create, play, record, rehearse, jam, sing and share wherever you are
•Once you’ve downloaded SessionBand, you don’t need internet access to make full use of it. It’s truly designed for the mobile user on the go
•Create the music you want, from cutting-edge Guetta-style Pop/Dance, through authentic Deep House to Britpop or Bluegrass
•Save your songs and share them with the world
Anyone can sound great with SessionBand!
•Creating your own pro music really is easy with SessionBand
•You don’t need any musical knowledge to create professional tracks with it
•A simple and intuitive interface makes the process of building up songs child’s play. (We should know – we tested it on them as well!)
•Chord preview function lets you audition the chord of the loop you are about to insert. If it doesn’t sound right, simply audition another one until you’ve got the one that suits your song
•Use copy and paste to speed up the song-building process
•Help tutorials on every screen overlay clear instructions if you do get stuck
Get more for your money
•The initial download includes 20 full sets of audio loops covering a wide range of 20 different styles. These range from Acoustic, Blues and Dance all the way through to Hip Hop/Rap, Rock and Urban/R&B
•All SessionBand loops are copyright free so you can include them freely in your music whether its for commercial release or just for fun
•Fall in love with SessionBand then choose additional multiple loop sets from a wide range of add-on ‘Style Packs’ available via in-app purchase
•’Style Packs’ range in price and are available in the following broad genres: Acoustic, Blues, Country/Folk, Dance/Electronic, Hip Hop/Rap, Latin, Piano, Pop/Electropop, Rock and Urban/R&B
AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™ – JIMI HENDRIX™ TONE ON YOUR iPHONE and iPAD.
AmpliTube bring us a new Jimi Hendrix™ app. Play through the legendary guitar icon’s pedals and amplifiers, all from the convenience of your iPhone®.
AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™ is a full-featured mobile guitar effects processor and recording studio app that lets you play, practice and record with Jimi Hendrix’s gear, anytime and everywhere. Use the iRig or iRig STOMP interface to connect your guitar to your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad®, and use iRig MIDI to control AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™ with your floor controller.
AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™ lets you build a flexible guitar signal chain complete with 3 stompbox effects and an amplifier head with cabinet, plus a single-track recorder (expandable to 4 tracks) for capturing your musical ideas quickly and easily.
AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™ features models of all the legendary gear used by Hendrix, both in the studio and in his live performances. Now you can rock his legendary amplifiers like the JH GOLD based on the Marshall® JTM45™ and the JH DUAL based on the Fender® Dual Showman™.
You can also rock the guitar pedals that allowed Hendrix to make his sonic breakthroughs, as he experimented with the full expressive possibilities of electronic effects while creating his pioneering guitar tones.
You can import/purchase and play along with Hendrix’s™ extensive discography or any music from your music library. Also included is a large collection of Jimi Hendrix guitar tone preset settings, provided as starting points for your own tone tweaking or for just playing along.
AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™ also features a robust Song player section that allows you to play along with songs or backing tracks by importing them directly from your device’s iPod library or from your computer. The song section also features links to Jimi Hendrix™ music available for purchase on the iTunes store that can be downloaded and added to your library and the app for play-along.
The Song section also includes our popular SpeedTrainer learning/practice feature, which can slow down or speed up the tempo of audio material without affecting pitch. A digital chromatic tuner and metronome are also included.
Jimi Hendrix AmpliTube Screenshot
AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™ features:
– Real-time guitar mobile multiFX + recording app with Jimi Hendrix tone
Sir Sampleton is an easy to use sampling musical keyboard that allows you to record sounds through the microphone and then play them on dual piano keyboards. You can sample your voice, your pets, synthesizers, drums, or anything that makes noise. Samples can be looped and customized, and the app includes a rhythm machine to accompany your music.
Sampleton’s warm sound and simple interface are inspired by sampling Casio and Yamaha keyboards of the 80’s, but with many additional modern features like MIDI, Audiobus, and adjustable sound parameters.
Supports CoreMIDI, Audiobus, Line6 MIDI Mobilizer 1 and 2, and AKAI Synthstation 25 keyboard. Compatible with Beatmaker 2 and Genome sequencer.
• Sample through the microphone and then play your sounds on the dual keyboards
• Save and email sample packs to friends, or to yourself for backup or transfer
• Download samples from our website and send in your own samples for others to download
• Built-in beats and computer beat generator
• Adjustable sound parameters like vibrato, note trail length, sample time, and more
• Record, add effects, and sample from other apps (requires Audiobus app)
• Put one sample on each keyboard in dual-sample mode
• Multitouch with 18 voices for rich sound
• Automatic smart microphone level adjustment
• Supports all CoreMIDI devices, Line6 MIDI Mobilizer 1 and 2, and AKAI Synthstation 25
• Virtual MIDI and background audio, works with Genome sequencer and Beatmaker 2
• Multichannel MIDI mode places different samples on each MIDI channel, up to 24 samples
• Supports iRig external audio input adapter and iRig microphone
• Low latency
• Coming soon: better iPad control layouts, additional sample storage, and more!
TO SAMPLE: press the red button and speak into the microphone. It will sample for about 3 seconds.
TO PLAY A DRUM BEAT: press the drum icon button in the upper left to open the Rhythm Menu, and then select the beat you want to play. To change the tempo or beat volume, use the buttons on the right. Press the X to return to the keyboard.
TO GENERATE A RANDOM BEAT: press the drum icon button to open the Rhythm Menu, and then press the RANDOM button. To generate a new random beat, press the button again.
TO SAVE A SAMPLE: press the keyboard icon button in the upper left to open the Sounds Menu. Press SAVE and then choose one of the flashing numbered buttons. Your sample is then saved on that button. Press the X to return to the keyboard.
TO LOAD A SAMPLE: press the keyboard icon button in the upper left to open the Sounds Menu. Press the numbered button where you saved the sample. Press the X to return to the keyboard.
TO PREVIEW A SAVED SAMPLE: press and hold the numbered button in the Sounds Menu.
TO SAVE CHANGES TO A SAMPLE’S SOUND SETTINGS: press and hold the ‘save’ button in the Sounds Menu.
Audiobus by A Tasty Pixel Audiobus allows you to use live, app-to-app, audio streaming. This means you can link the audio stream from each app. The following videos demonstrate some things you can do with Audiobus. It’s kinda like Rewire for iOS.
NOTE: AUDIOBUS REQUIRES IPAD 2, IPHONE 4S, OR NEWER. DO NOT BUY IF YOU HAVE AN OLDER DEVICE.
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).
You might know me from my royalty free loop packs and sound design. Some of the apps that contain my sounds are Synth One, EG Segments, Hammerhead, Retronyms AudioCopy, Audio Evolution Mobile, LP-5, iPRO.DJSAMPLER, Looptastic. My work is published by Roland, Antares, Magix, Soundtrack Loops, Sample Logic, Acoustica, Loopmasters and many more. Subscribe to our RSS feed below to get updated when new apps are posted.
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