2012
06/20
Wind Instrument For iPhone
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Wind Instrument For iPhone

Blow into your phone, play the notes, feel the magic as Ocarina 2 responds to your breath, touch and movement. Turn your phone into an ancient flute-like instrument with Ocarina 2, and play the songs you love. Ocarina 2 brings all the magic from the classic Ocarina – one of Apple’s All-Time Top 20 Apps – and more!

The sequel to the original, Ocarina 2 now includes a completely new song mode. Easily play and learn your favorite songs as scores light up to guide your fingers. You control the notes, speed and tempo, allowing your expressiveness to shine.

From classical to pop, video game themes to traditional songs, there is something for everyone! New and free songs released weekly. Choose from songs including:
– Theme from Zelda
– Mario Brothers Theme
– X-Files
– Apologize – One Republic
– Baby – Justin Bieber
– Bad Romance – Lady Gaga
– Clocks – Coldplay
– The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
– Ave Maria – Bach
– Clair de Lune – Debussy
– And much, much more!

Play your Ocarina in the new “whistle mode” (we find it particularly fun to play “X-Files” and “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”).

Make progress towards mastery and achievements such as:
– “Iron-Lung” (25,000 breath points)
– Breath points accumulate as you blow into your Ocarina
– Or, attain status such as “Ocarina Jedi” by mastering 100 songs

Hear people playing around the world:
– Listen in on Ocarina players all over the world by visiting – – the interactive Smule globe
– Love & comment on your favorite performances
– Share your favorite performances through Facebook or e-mail

Ocarina 2 is available for FREE

2012
06/20
WhoSampled For iPhone
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Find Samples With A WhoSampled App

How about an that app scans your music library, tells you if a song was sampled, and answers the question (you guessed it) “who sampled it?”. It can also tell you “Who covered my favorite artists?” and “What remixes were made for this track?”. From the creators of the popular website www.whosampled.com it’s WhoSampled.WhoSampled is a unique music DNA discovery app that lets you explore the music connections in your music collection. Access the world’s largest database of sample-based music, cover songs and remixes, and discover who your favorite artists have sampled, or whether your favorite songs have been covered or remixed! It’s a truly essential music discovery tool if you’re into Hip-Hop, Electronic music or any other genre.

Go on a journey of musical discovery built around your own music collection. Scan your music library and discover amazing connections for the tracks in it.

Beautiful, ad-free, clean interface. Simple and intuitive navigation makes music exploration easy.

whosampled app screenshot

whosampled app screenshot

Features include:

The ability to compare tracks side-by-side and listen to full‐length tracks, streamed through YouTube.

“Now Playing” feature – double-tap from your music player to WhoSampled to discover all the musical connections for the song you’re listening to right now.

Easy access to the world’s largest and richest database of music DNA, with 150,000 tracks, 50,000 artists and continuous daily additions.

Highly detailed information on any sample (sample timing, sample type, part sampled) lets you pinpoint where the sample was used and compare it with the original.

Share your amazing finds with your Facebook friends and Twitter followers.

Deep and unique music charts that show you trending and top-rated content as well as the all-time most influential artists and tracks.

Engage with the WhoSampled community from within the app; comment on and rate any entry in the WhoSampled database.

A host of other features and functionality including links to buy tracks from iTunes, personal favorites list plus intelligent contextual recommendations from every sample, cover and remix.

Dig deeper into the music you love. Dig into the WhoSampled app.

WhoSampled is available for $2.99

2012
06/19
Guitar Teaching App For iPhone
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Guitar Teaching App For iPad

Strumify is the music teaching app that listens to you play a real instrument. Featuring a powerful real-time listening engine, easy-to-read graphics, and multi-touch interface – Strumify makes practicing and learning to play fun.

Strumify has built-in support for Guitar, Ukulele, Baritone Ukulele and Mandolin. It works with both acoustic and electric instruments. (Electric instruments require the use of an instrument adapter.)

Strumify will help you become a better musician because it emulates many of things a real teacher does:
– Adapts to your speed and abilities
– Shows you clearly what to do
– Plays it for you so you can hear how it sounds
– Listens as you play,
– Gives you feedback on what you’re doing well and how you can improve

The built-in Progression Maker lets you dial in thousands of combinations of chord progressions and strumming patterns.* Find a sound you like and play along to get in the groove. Strumify will show you the chord diagrams and strumming direction.

Add songs and exercises via in-app purchase, or import your own songs in PowerTab and chopro formats.*

Use the simple yet powerful Song and Progression Editor to quickly edit and save your own songs. Customize progressions and strumming patterns. Share the songs and exercises you create with others via e-mail – great for music teachers, classes and bands!*

(*Note: song import, song/progression editor and full-access to progression maker require In-App Purchase to unlock.)

Strumify will let you slow down the music to match your ability. Or, learn new songs and tricky parts by stepping through them one beat at a time. When you reach the end of a song, Strumify generates a report card showing you your rhythm and pitch accuracy overall, by chord, and even by chord transition.

Other key features:
– Built-in tuner
– Support for multi-track songs and many instrument sounds
– Piano tracks show you which keys to play
– Drum tracks highlight which drums to play on a drum kit view
– Multi-track volume controls.
– Alternate scrolling tablature view
– Built-in help videos.

Works on iPhone4, iPhone4S, iPad, and iPad2 or greater. Also works on iPhone3GS, but very fast complicated music may cause some hiccups.

Strumify is available for free

2012
06/19
Simple iPhone Sampler
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Simple iPhone Sampler

I Am Sampler is a very straight forward grab and go sampler for the iPhone and iPad. The UI is very minimal yet to the point.

Features include:
NEW – auto trimming
-up to 10 sec sampling via mic
-4 sample banks
-Lo-Fi effect
-LFO for pitch : sine,saw,pulse,noise
-envelope for amplitude : attack time,release time
-delay : up to 2 sec , it can be also used for looper
-keyboard : shake for ribbon controller mode which you can play forward or reverse your sample at your favorite speed
-import wavs (mono,44.1khz,16bit) via the sharing folder on iTunes

I Am Sampler is available for $1.00

2012
06/19
Turn Pictures Into Playable Sounds
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Turn Pictures Into Playable Sounds

A Pollisynth is a free app for the iphone that takes a picture of something, and then translates that picture into a unique sound-wave. In order to fully understand the colors that surround us we must engage an additional sense. A Pollisynth can be the gateway to your mindbrain, and can give you a good time doing it.

Remember that the spark to take a picture begins in the MIND, and funny enough, ends in the MIND once a song is made. There are a lot of ways to play with a Pollisynth – two people taking a picture of the same thing and then playing it, a gang of kids taking pictures of SLUSHIES and then making a harmonized song out of the soundwaves…

Pollisynth iPhone App Screenshot

Pollisynth iPhone App Screenshot

By logging into Facebook with Pollisynth you can post your sound-waves to your timeline as Presets. Your Facebook friends will be able to see and try out these Presets with their own Pollisynth and listen to your imagery. You can also re-download Presets you have uploaded and use Facebook as a Pollisynth sound bank online. For those who have reservations about Facebook, SMS and Email can be used to share images from your photo library that you know to generate worthy sounds. This works because the sounds are not random but entirely derived from the image, so rescanning an image will always result in the same sound so long as it hasn’t been manipulated. Your photo library will always serve as your offline sound bank.

The Pollisynth app IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE

  • 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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