The harder you hit the drums, the louder they sound. Swirl your finger around for slower or faster rolls. The drum sound varies slightly from hit to hit, just like real drums. With the fastest response time of any drum app, it feels incredibly good to play.
Choose from one of the four included bongo sets. Unlock a hidden bonus set.
Features:
☆ The harder you hit the drums, the louder they sound! A first for an iPhone app!
☆ The fastest response time — more than 60% faster than the competition!
☆ Professionally recorded drum sounds at 44.1khz high fidelity!
☆ Natural drum rolling — the faster you drag your finger, the faster the roll!
☆ Realistic modeling of drum strikes so drum rolls blend and repeat hits don’t sound like machine guns!
☆ Pitch bending depending on where you hit the drums!
☆ Try our “Dueling Congas” so two people can rock out with their own set on one device!
☆ So much more!
“Ratatap Drums is exactly what you need and whatever you want it to be, all at the same time. It is the complete package and absolutely fun at the same time. If you are into music or percussion, this app is a must buy.” – AppAdvice.com Review (Ratatap Drums)
Shakie is an expressive motion controlled percussion instrument for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Pellets create sounds and rhythms as you move and shake them. Shakie’s built in pellets include maraca, shakers, tambourine, castanet, bells and spoon.
• Now you can adjust the width of the pellet container. There have also been some improvements to the Maraca pellets.
• Realistic physics engine models individual pellets as they hit and bounce.
• Responds to quick and subtle movements allowing you to create complex rhythms and sounds
• Pellet movement is captured using your device’s accelerometer and gyroscope
• Realtime pitch shifter. Shift the pitch as you swirl and shake the pellets.
Create different sounds depending on how you hold and move it.
Shake it fast. Shake it slow. Swirl the pellets. Hold it vertically. Hold it horizontally.
Pug Synth by Lucky Frame is a multi-touch two voice synthesizer.
Features:
Choose from many different presets
Backing beats
Ability to change tempo
Multiple scales to choose from
Reminds me of Bebot but with drum beats. Dress your pugs up in costumes for different voices – everything from a snowy wonderful bleepy voice to a swampy Pugstep rumble. Give them hats for beats – mix and match for thousands of variations!
I originally wrote this review for Beat Slice version 1.0 by WeBothKnow but there has been an update since. There are now more songs bundled with the app AND he added a Phaser effect. This app allows you to mangle songs from your iTunes library. The concept is similar to the VST effects Dblue Glitch and Effectrix. A similar iOS app would be Steinberg’s LoopMash. It’s very simple to use and comes with a pretty good song by Vouga – I never lie. The interface is a grid which can be divided by 2,3,4,and 8 slices per measure on the iPhone/iPod and 2,3,46,8,12,16 on the iPad. You can create up to four patterns each 1 measure in length on the iPhone/iPod and eight patterns on the iPad. The iPad version also allows you to link a sequence of patterns and loop the sequence. I had a good two minutes of fun with this app but then it crashed on my iPhone 4. I then loaded it up on my iPad and that is when I noticed the additional features stated above. Some features I would like to see in a future version are : tap tempo with time-stretching like a Dj app, ability to save patterns, and audio export. Overall the effects are good. They lock up to the beat. You can get some decent results. Seems like the animation could follow the beat more accurately. Seems kinda clunky. The song in this video is “Time Change” by Jason Donnelly (Dj Puzzle)
The Reverser – does just that. Reverses the specified slice on beat. Sounds good.
Low n High – Pitches the specified slice up an octave or down an Octave. The High pitching also seems to stutter the audio slice as well.
Slicer – Stutter/Repeater effect. Can get up to as high as 64 note repeats (maybe even 128th notes I lost count lol). Hits perfectly on beat. Can even get triplets.
Electrify – Quick millisecond delay effect. Low and high settings.
LoFi – Filter effect. This one is more of a slider interface used to change the frequency.
Mute It – Rhythmic gating effect. Can get up to as high as 64 note gates (maybe even 128th notes I lost count lol). Hits perfectly on beat. Can even get triplets.
Phaser – Classic Phaser effect.
So if you’re looking for something similar to Dblue Glitch for the iPhone, iPod, and iPad OR something similar to Effectrix for the iPhone, iPod, and iPad this is your app. Use it at your next iPod Dj gig to create your own remixes on the fly.
Official description:
Crush it, Mix it, Slice it, Shift it.
Take a perfect good song from your music library and destroy it with style!
Beat Slice is an expressive remixing tool that allows you to take your existing music and transform it in multiple creative ways.
Built in effects include:
• Reverser: Reverse a beat
• low n high: Play a beat high or low
• Slicer: Cut it up and slice and glue it back together
• Electricity: Electrify the song with some shocking grooves
• Lo-Fi: Good old vinyl sound…
• Mute It: Skip it off and on like a DJ
Universal Piper (UPiper) is a virtual instrument that reproduces faithfully the Sound of legendary bagpipes : An Irish Uileann Pipe, two Great Highland Bagpipes and a Galician Gaita. These sounds come from marvelous genuine Bagpipes that we recorded with great care.
The following video demonstrates Universal Piper along with the Fagerstrom TechnoPipes controller and a Line 6 Midi Mobilizer Interface.
You can use Universal Piper different ways:
– to play Bagpipe on your iPhone/iPad screen,
– to accompany you playing your practice with great bagpipe drones,
– to listen to electronic scores in MIDI or BWW format
Full Feature List :
– genuine natural and perfectly tuned bagpipe sound,
– start/stop the drones,
– pitch control of the bagpipe
– drone/chanter balance control,
– piano like keyboard,
– BWW and MIDI file reader with tempo and articulation control
– coreMIDI compatible devices supported,
– MIDI keyboard and practice supported (technopipe, red pip, mastergaita, degerpipe, e-pipe)
Universal Piper works with 4, 4-s generations of the iPhone as well as iPad. It also runs on 3GS versions but without midi device support.
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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