This is huge update that I hope you’ll love. Any questions, issues or ideas please let me know at dave@collect3.com.au.
NEW DESIGN
Fresh new design that supports all devices including the new iPad Pro 3rd Generation and iOS 12.
UNLIMITED TRACKS.
Now you can layer as many instruments as you want.
EXTENDED GRID
Play notes over 5 octaves with the extended note grid.
KEYBOARD AND DRUM PAD
Perform and create melodies and beats in real time with keyboard and drum pad.
MIX LOOPS
Mix and loop your arrangements to create the perfect song.
NEW SOUNDS
New starter sounds and demo songs.
MIX
Mix and loop your arrangements to create the perfect song. Beatwave allows to mix your loops so you can easily explore and refine your musical ideas. Layer multiple tracks and sound to create rich tracks.
CREATE
The Beatwave grid lets you construct beats and melodies easily. Never play a wrong note with auto tuned notes and auto chords. Use the built in rhythm keyboard and drum generator to build great melodies and drum tracks without any music knowledge.
PRODUCE
Beatwave comes with 15 great sounds. Download up to 200 more with Beatwave Pro. Every sound lets you tweak, and tune so you can produce the perfect sound. Add filters, sweeps, and other effects to your mix.
DESIGN
Create your own instruments. Import and create your own sounds for custom synths and drum kits.
ANYWHERE
Beatwave is a free and universal download for iPhone and iPad. So anywhere inspiration hits, you’ll have Beatwave available.
Riffer is a creative MIDI sequencer that generates random patterns and melodies for you. it is an audio unit AUv3 designed to feed any Synth, Sampler, Drum Machine and anything that accepts MIDI signal both software and hardware. You can choose scales, complexity, steps, start and end points, playback motion, set pitch, transpose, measures and many more.
Generate fresh ideas, sequences, melodies, riffs and musical patterns. Turn them into something of your own, or let it run endlessly using the Infinity mode. Riffer is built both for studio and live performance. The app includes a huge variety of scales, from western to eastern and you can save your favorite Riffs for quick access.
Featuring MIDI output support over WiFi or MIDI cable. Riffer also supports Ableton Link for tight sync between apps on the same network.
Electrogene is a low fidelity audio effect combining bit-crusher, modulation, saturation and filter with scope visualizer. Refined algorithms can produce warm or harsh sound reminding of retro digital or analog audio system.
Electrogene features:
– Modify sample rate and bit resolution
– Apply drift variance to the bit-crusher sample rate value
– Add frequency modulation to input signal
– Low pass or High pass filter
– Set pre-gain and dry/wet levels
– Ability to save and randomize parameters
– Audio Unit Extension, Audiobus, Inter-App Audio support
– 20 built-in presets
– Background audio
– Realtime waveform scope visualizer
Elsa is a retro style sampling keyboard with tempo based looping. Record, save, load, reverse samples with a multi octave on screen keyboard or plug in your core midi device of choice, soft- or hardware. Elsa comes with three built in effects, a reverb, a resonant filter and a sample rate/bit crusher. Samples are looped in three different modes, one off, forward and/or forward-reverse. The start and end of playback also comes in three modes, one set of start and stop for all, one set per note and/or one set per octave, allowing for many different types of samples. Additionally at playback time, sample length can also be controlled by a set of sample dividers, 1-8.
What’s NEW:
1.8Nov 3, 2018
+ Adding AUv3 support, run as a plugin in multiple host apps.
+ Adding AUv3 host beat/tempo sync.
+ Adding additional mode that switches off pitch length compensation, allowing single cycle waveforms.
+ Redesigning arpeggio view to always be visible.
+ Adding lfo to sample crush and filter.
+ Updating bit crush to allow non integer bit settings.
+ Changing filter to run one per voice and relative cut off frequency instead of one absolute filter.
+ Adding new presets.
+ Adding preset and audio sharing capability, drag n drop from files app.
+ Fixing midi buffer quirk seen with some controllers, for example Roli seaboard
Features:
+++ Sample keyboard
+++ Tempo based looping
+++ ADSR
+++ Bit/sample rate crush
+++ Reverb
+++ Resonant band pass filter
+++ Record, trim, normalise, reverse, pre note shift, zoom
+++ Multi octave keyboard
+++ 3 loop modes (one off, forward, forward-reverse)
+++ 3 start/stop modes (one for all, one per note, one per octave)
+++ Playback length dividers (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)
+++ Arpeggiator
+++ Presets, save/load settings
+++ Import/export ACP 2.0
+++ AUv3
+++ Inter app audio
+++ Audiobus
+++ Core Midi
+++ Link
ChordFlow is a songwriting sketchpad that will help you create amazing chord progressions and melodies for your songs fast and easily.
CHORD SELECTOR INTERFACE COMPLETELY REMADE
– Scale support added. You can now select a scale of your chord progression.
– The key selector is now represented as a 12th-sector wheel.
– Depending of the selected scale, keys that match the scale are highlighted. But you still have the power to select any key, even if it is not in the scale.
– To change a key of the selected chord you tap on a wheel sector with the needed key.
– To change a key of the scale you rotate the wheel with a dragging gesture.
– If you want to lock the already created chords so they won’t be affected(transposed) when the key wheel is rotated, the lock control(a little lock button) should be in the locked mode.
If it is unlocked, rotation of the wheel will cause the transposition of the selected scale and of all the chords as well.
– Chord type selector is now represented as two rows of buttons. First row contains chord families and second row contains chord types from the selected family.
– Depending on the selected scale and the key of the selected chord, chord type buttons could be painted in three different colors: green, yellow, red.
Green means all the notes of the selected chord match the scale. Yellow – one note of the chord is out of the scale. Red – two or more notes is out of the scale.
– As an additional feature, in the inner part of the key wheel you can see the notes of the selected chord and of the chord just before the selected and of the chord just after the selected.
BUG FIXES AND OVERALL IMPROVEMENTS
– Fixed the bug when the playhead jumps to next section when deleting the last chord of a section.
– Fixed the bug when internal synth would not play after a phone call is recieved on the device.
– UI and performance improvements.
HOW TO USE IT?
1. Create a chord progression.
2. Draw an arpeggio – a rythmic pattern for your chords.
3. Compose a melody.
4. Build a complete song adding more sections.
5. Save your song, share or export to your favourite DAW as a MIDI file.
CHORD PROGRESSION
– Create chord progression of any length using intuitive chord selector providing a huge choice of chords.
– Select a scale of your chord progreession.
– The chord selector will show you which chords are matching the selected scale.
– Move chords around within chord progression using drag and drop gestures.
– Transpose the chord progression by rotating the key wheel (with the lock button unlocked). Or transpose the key of the scale while keeping the existing chords unchanged (with locked mode).
– See the notes of the selected chord and how the relate to the notes of the chord before and the one after the selected.
ARPEGGIO
– When you draw the arpeggio you are not specifying absolute notes but relative steps of the chords. When played, the pattern will be translated to the absolute notes depending on the currently played chord.
– Specify the length and rate of the arpeggio grid. Length defines the number of steps in the sequence and rate define the speed at which the sequence is played.
– Add up to 4 tracks to your arpeggio grid. Each track has it’s color, octave and number of parallel voices.
To edit a track you select it with the track selection button, and then choose the required tool.
– Draw complex curves spanning several rows and columns of the arpeggio grid with just one move with Dots tool
– Draw long horizontal lines with Line tool
– Move entire track along the grid using the Move tool
– Clear a region of the selected track with the Eraser tool
– Remove the selected track entirely using the Trash button
– Set Loop region to repeatedly play only the selected section of your arpeggio.
MELODY
– Create up to 4 melody tracks.
– Melodies are edited in their own grid, which also has length and rate params as the arpeggio grid.
– Select the root note and the scale for the melody grid. You can also show and hide non-scale notes using the “Chromatic” switch.
– Melody grid features the same collection of drawing tool as the arpeggio grid does.
– While drawing your melody you will see which chords correspond to the specific steps and also which notes of the grid match the notes of the chords.
– You can also set a loop region as in the arpeggio grid view.
– Undo/Redo aslo works the same way as in arpeggio grid.
SONG STRUCTURE
– A song can contain unlimited number of sections
– Each section has its own chord progression, arpeggio and melody parts
– Add, remove, reorder, rename and clone sections
– Make quantized or immediate jumps between sections while playing.
– Set a song loop mode. Loop one section. Loop entire song. Or play whole song once.
CONNECTIVITY
– Control any CoreMIDI compatible app
– Control desktop synths through USB or Wi-Fi
– Control hardware synths
– Specify MIDI destination and channel for each track
– Use ChordFlow as MIDI or Audio sender in Audiobus (http://audiob.us/)
– Play in sync with other apps running on the same device or on other devices in same Wi-Fi network using a new technology, Ableton Link (http://www.ableton.com/link/)
SHARE/EXPORT
– Share your projects by AirDrop, Mail, Dropbox or any other app supporting sharing .
– Export to Standard MIDI file and open it in the DAW of your choice(Ableton Live, Logic, GarageBand, etc. )
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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