2011
12/15
Proloop iPhone Looping App
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Proloop iPhone Looping App

ProLoop is a powerful and flexible loop instrument for professional musicians as well as hobbyists. Use it as a live electronic instrument by itself or as an addition to your other gear, or just play around with it and explore the possibilities!

It can play up to 6 loops simultaneously and besides changing the volume each loop can also be pitched/transposed, reversed, muted, panned, ring/frequency/phase-modulated by any other loop, and
synchronized to a masterloop.

Pitch can be smoothly adjusted or quantized to a musical unit such as octaves, semitones or a custom division of an octave. Or put it in sync-mode to automagically fit the length of the choosen masterloop.

The sync offset can be adjusted to have loops sync at other positions than their start, and the sync can be turned off individually to allow the loops to have different lengths to create ever-changing layers of soundtextures.

There is also a Freeze FX that lets you temporarily “freeze” a loop with adjustable grain size and position.

You can control all the loops in real-time, and multi-touch will let you adjust several parameters simultaneously, for example crossfading by changing the volume of two loops at the same time.

ProLoop comes bundled with many loops by professional musicians that you can use and play around with, and demo sessions to get you started, but the real power comes by the fact that you can record your own loops straight into ProLoop or upload your own professionally recorded soundfiles to ProLoop through your web-browser! You can also paste audio from other music apps into ProLoop.

What’s New in Version 1.2.1

– added support for Retina Display
– plays audio in “handsfree” speaker
– app now exits properly

Proloop is available for $5.99

2011
12/15
Musix Controller App
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Musix iPad App

A unique instrument/control surface where you can learn every Major/Minor chord in 2 minutes. The hexagon note layout allows songwriters to discover new melodies and musical relations, as well, novices can learn how to play music. If you want more sounds than the built in instrument Musix offers Midi (DSMI) and OSC out to control anything you want.

“Anyone who loves music, regardless of skill level, owes it to themselves to experience Musix. Simply exploring the app will open musical doors you never knew existed.” – 148apps.com

NOTE: Musix is NOT meant to teach you how to play a piano! It is it’s own instrument that has many benefits over a piano. By playing you will learn real relations between notes and patterns within music.

The definitive isomorphic keyboard.
Musix is a fully-customizable multiple-layout isomorphic musical keyboard.

Each hexagon on the screen is a note, and surrounding hexagons are harmonically related.

WHY MUSIX:

– Learn how to play every major and minor chord in minutes
– Play along with your favorite song without practicing for years
– Learn one shape, play in any key
– Explore music by the relationship between notes
not by placement on an instrument
– Play along with your friends without being an expert
– Release the song in your head

FEATURES:

✔ Different Key Sizes
✔ Slide the keys to show the notes you need
✔ Multiple Instrument Sounds
✔ OSC/Midi Support
– Inter-note expressivity
✔ Preset Layouts
✔ Create Your Own Layout (iPad only)
✔ Play along with your favourite songs

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

What this means is that once you have learned a pattern, say a chord
or a scale, that pattern is the same for all keys, even the dreaded
A-Flat! What’s more, you can learn to play melodies on a traditional
keyboard by playing them on the Musix keyboard and watching where the
sharps and flats go.

Songwriters benefit by discovering new melodies and musical
relationships. Novices find it easy to learn to play. Experienced
musicians are rewarded with an intuitive interface.

There are many isomorphic keyboards out there, from concertinas,
accordions, and “jammers” (which use the wicki-hayden layout) to
harmonic-table keyboards and more. You can have them all in one
application, and more besides.

Hexagonal isomorphic keyboards are defined by the harmonic
relationship between the keys. You can define the relationship in two
directions, say a major third and a minor third, and the third
direction is the difference of these two intervals (in this case, a
semitone).

Musix comes with a set of built-in layouts which use different
harmonic relationships between the notes. Each layout has its own
advantages and disadvantages. For example, the harmonic table layout
allows you to play a major or minor chord with one finger, by
touching at the intersection of any three hexagons. The Wicki-Hayden
layout puts all the white keys together. Try them all and find one
that works for you.

Musix has six real-time FM-synthesized instrument sounds. No wavetables
here. Each note sound is synthesized on-the-fly, meaning that you get
the full richness of bass and brightness of treble that the ipad
speaker or your headphones can generate.

You can change the size of the keys to fit your fingers and your
dexterity – start practicing with epic-sized keys and as you get
better you can make the keys smaller to give you more notes on the
screen. Keyboard layouts are fully customizable – create your own
isomorphic keyboard centred on any note. Remove the note labels for a
clean look.

Musix is available for $0.99

NO LONGER AVAILABLE

2011
12/09
Free Meta.DJ App For iPhone
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free meta.dj iphone dj app

Revolutionary app for the iPad Meta.Dj is now available for the iPhone and best of all it’s free!! Comes with Dj Puzzle‘s (the owner of this site) remix of Power by Jah Boogie, loops, and more!

Already a 5 star app on iPad, meta.DJ comes to the iPhone with guns blazing. Just when everything seemed like pretend vinyl, you get an app made for today’s digital DJ/producer.

Get a track rolling, throw-in a drum part, go crazy with effects and then slam in a new track – all using the power inside your humble iPhone.

Basic meta.DJ for iPhone is free, and it’s spec is below. However, if you do the in-app upgrade to the Full version you will get:

MORE CONTENT
• OVER 3X’s more beats for drumtron
• OVER 7X’s more Presets for SaMPL3R
• 130 more Loops in 13 Easy to use Loop Sets

OVER TWICE AS MANY EFFECTS!
Upgrade to the full version to get High-Pass Filter, Gate, Stutter Loop, Stutter Stepped, Bitcrusher, Flanger, Glitchy Repeater, Reverb, Pan and Compressor

HEADPHONE CUE AND HARDWARE CONTROL
Master your mix with headphone cueing and iDJ Live control using knobs and platters!

This download for meta.DJ for iPhone Free INCLUDES:

• iTunes LIBRARY INTEGRATION
Easily pull in any track from your iTunes library.

• EZ CUE/LOOP PRESETS
Set-up Cue points and Looped regions of your tracks as easy to use Presets. Auto-loop lets you throw in a loop on the fly and work it down to the sub-beat, bounce loop level. Work some effects on your loops to make it rise, then hit the drop.

• AUTOMATIC TEMPO/BPM MATCHING
meta.DJ analyzes your iTunes tracks, shows you the BPM, and can conform tracks to play back at whatever master BPM you select. Or turn it off if you just want the track to play at it’s original tempo.

• TWO VIRTUAL DEVICES – YOU CHOOSE WHAT TO USE!
Add any two virtual devices anytime. YOU decide between Track Decks, drum machines, synth parts and loop-based smart instruments and add them any time in your set.

• drumtron for INSTANT, DYNAMIC BEATS
A new take on the drum machine built for performance. You control the intensity/energy level of every drum part (kick, snare, etc) to push the mix or make ’em chill.

• SaMPL3R for a SPRINKLING OF SYNTH
Based on grüvtron, you get a smart instrument for getting quick access to arpeggios, bass parts and more in ANY key at any tempo.

• LOOPTASTIC
Mix and manipulate loops using a Looptastic device based on Sound Trends’ best-selling loop performance app Looptastic.

• COOL EFFECTS UNDER XY PAD CONTROL
You get EQ, Filter, Delay and Stutter Gate effects, up to four (4) effects per device. Upgrade from the Free to the Full version for even MORE effects.

• LOOP STORE
At the airport and at the last minute wish you had some cool, new House loops? Just go to the in-app Loop Store and select from offerings (some even free) that include loops from indie dance producers and established library companies (like beatport, Sonic Reality, AMG and others).

• CROSSFADER
’nuff said!

HAVE AN iPAD? THEN you WANT meta.DJ for iPad, which was carefully crafted for all your iPad has to offer.

meta.dj is available for free:

2011
12/03
Auto-Tune Your Phone Calls
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Auto-Tune Your Phone Calls For iPhone

Auto-Tune ALL your live phone calls. The only app that lets you use the one and only Auto-Tune vocal effect on live phone calls. Wish we had this back in the day when prank calls were not so easily traceable.

Auto-Tune Phone from Neil Trevick on Vimeo.

While previous apps have let you record your singing with Auto-Tune, now for the very first time you can achieve the same results over the phone… in Real Time!

Not just a recording but Live. Surprise, amuse and shock your friends with live Auto-Tune phone calls to any phone number in North America.

There is a practice area where you can hone your Auto-Tune skills. To achieve the best effect you do need to vary the pitch of your voice. So use the practice area as much as you like and record yourself to hear your progress. It is always free to practice. Check out our website to hear live Auto-Tune phone calls in the video. This will help you get it right!

There are Featured recordings in the app to help you along.

When you are ready to call someone, you can tune only yourself OR both yourself and the person you’re calling. Imagine the possibilities! Two way Auto-Tune calls and the other person doesn’t even know they are being tuned!

Record your calls and share them with your friends and the world via Facebook, Twitter & SMS.

The first 30 minutes of outbound calling time are free. Afterwards you can add time for just pennies a minute with the convenience of in app purchasing. So you can even use the app to make low cost long distance calls with no Auto-Tune effect. Just dial 8 before the 10 digit phone number.

You will be required to verify your Caller ID information. This is done the first time you open the app. After verification you will have to restart Auto-Tune Phone.

A WiFi or 3G connection is required, but WiFi usually produces the best results. Otherwise try 3G instead.

Auto Tune Phone is available for $1.99

NO LONGER AVAILABLE

2011
12/03
Glitch Machine Generative Music App
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Glitch Machine Generative Music App

Glitch Machine is a generative music synthesizer. Expressions are edited live to produce sound interactively.

The magic of Glitch Machine’s synthesis is in the BYTE, which wraps a final output value to a number between 0 – 255. The repeating patterns (or chaos) of this ‘wrapping’ produces waveforms and beats.

What’s New in Version 1.1

This version adds a bunch of requested features from fans of Glitch Machine…

– Interactive controls in the form of two XY pads/sliders, and eight code preset trigger pads. Along with these comes new input variables (x, y, u and v).
– FAST FORWARD and REWIND controls, so you can scrub through your glitchtune in forward and reverse at various speeds.
– PAUSE control for the expression, and combined with the FF and RW buttons, you can now single-step through your expression’s wave output in both forward and reverse.
– Fullscreen visualizations, and transparent overlay modes for all screens, so you never have to be apart from the funky waves.
– Multiple named session saving, so you can set it up just how you like for performance
– Extra MUTATE button so you can mutate code and numbers separately.
– New screen navigation methods for

Features:

– Interactive, live code editing
– Waveform and data visualizations
– Expression sharing via email and Twitter
– WAV export to iTunes
– Save and load expressions
– Supports all device orientations
– Configurable theme

Intua Pasteboard: copy an exported WAV of your tune to the pasteboard, and paste into apps that support audio paste.
Fixed incorrect update rate for the stack. If you’re using PICK for feedback effects, this may alter the sound of your tune. Check out the “guitarhead” example for how it should really sound.
Glitch codes are now stored in Documents, which means they are backed up via iTunes
Expanded the colour palette a little bit.
Extra confirmation dialogs so you don’t accidentally delete something.
If you set the text colour the same as the background colour, which is a silly thing to do, then when you exit and re-start the app it will reset those two colours so you can read again.

What is Bytebeat music? It’s a new genre of music involving algorithmic music and sounds. It’s basically a short computer program sometimes consisting of as few as three arithmetic operations in an infinite loop that generates sound when output as raw PCM audio. The basic idea is this:

1 main(t) {
2 for(t=0;;t++)
3 putchar( t * (((t>>12) | (t>>8) ) & ( 63 & (t>>4))));
4 }

This simple loop has one variable, t (time). We use t to calculate some output. Next, we take the output and pipe it into 8-bit 8-kHz PCM channel (for example /dev/audio!).

Glitch Machine is available for $2.99

  • 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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