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
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.
Djs looking for a free audio filter app to run their rig through need not look further. Hook your microphone up to pass through various types of digital audio filters before going to speaker or headphones. Design digital audio filters by touch. Select from a variety of filters and set cut-off frequency and rolloff or stopband level. You can use this effect as a live performance tool on your iPhone iPod Touch or iPad. For processing the microphone, you’ll need a direct connection via audio interface or Y-Adapter to avoid feedback noise.
Current free version allows design of Butterworth, Chebyshev, Remez, and Maxflat subband filter types for low-pass filtering in addition to a simple notch filters such as 50 Hertz Notch.
In App purchase allows upgrade to use more filter types as well as enabling band-pass and high-pass filters. In addition background processing of audio is enabled.
Audio Filter App Screenshot
What’s New in Version 1.37
Add (free) Audio Effects from AudioEffects App.
These include, speed (for iTunes library tracks), L-R, echo, tremelo, reverb, etc
Older effects now part of Filters tab
More bug fixes.
Background audio works for iTunes without upgrade
Remove some splash screens to reduce app size
MAJOR UPDATE WITH NEW SLASH GEAR MODELS! Plus Digital Audio, MIDI control, new Mixer/Recorder, new Copy/Paste, full retina support, FTP and SoundCloud upload and more…
Turn your iPad® into the ultimate mobile guitar and bass multi-effect processor and mobile recording studio! Use iRig or iRig STOMP interface to connect your guitar to your iPhone®/iPod touch®/iPad and use iRig MIDI to control AmpliTube with your floor controller. Or use StealthPlug with the Apple® Camera Connection Kit to take full advantages of the new digital audio in/out support.
Play, practice and record anytime, anywhere with world-class guitar and bass ultra-realistic tones and effects, including Fender™ and the newly released Slash gear models, plus full multitrack from the leader in analog gear modeling software for professional recording studios.
AmpliTube for iPad puts an entire guitar/bass rig at your fingertips with 4 stompbox effects amp-head, cabinet and microphone. Choose from 11 built-in stompbox effects (delay, fuzz, overdrive, wah, envelope filter, chorus, flanger, phaser, octave, noise filter + distortion once registered), 5 amps (clean, crunch, lead, metal, bass) with full controls, 5 speaker cabinets and 2 microphones (dynamic and condenser).
Plus you can expand your rig à la carte with more effects – compressor, reverb, parametric EQ, graphic EQ and limiter – also suitable for other instruments and vocals – as well as add the entire suite of 5 amps and 5 effects of AmpliTube Fender™, 2 amps and 6 effects of AmpliTube Slash or 5 effects from VocaLive available via in-app purchase.
Capture ideas quickly with the built-in recorder and mixer featuring re-amping effects capabilities, and then share your track by exporting high quality audio files or M4As with FTP and SoundCloud upload.
You can expand the included recorder to a full professional multitrack studio by adding the 8-track recorder plus master effects section (via in-app purchase) to record your band or produce full songs directly in AmpliTube.
Play along with songs or backing tracks by importing them directly from your device iPod library or from your computer. 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.
AmpliTube for iPad features:
– Real-time guitar and bass mobile multiFX + recording app
– Full rig with 4 simultaneous stompboxes + amp head + cabinet + mic
– 11 Stomps, 5 Amps, 5 Cabinets, 2 Mics
– Expandable with more gear models (via in-app purchase): 5 effects suitable for other instruments/vocals, 5 official Fender™ amps and 5 stomp models, 2 official Slash amps and 6 stomp models, 5 VocaLive vocal-oriented effects
– Single track recorder expandable to 8-track studio with master effects (via in-app purchase)
– Import and play songs as backing tracks from your iPod library or computer
– Export via E-mail, SoundCloud, FTP or File Sharing
– Audio Copy/Paste
– Slow down/speed up the tempo of imported songs without affecting pitch
– NO VOICE feature removes the lead vocal or guitar solo from imported songs
– Powerful preset system to manage presets and favorites
– Tuner/metronome
– Digital audio in/out
– MIDI controllable (available as in-app purchase and free for iRig MIDI users)
– Low-latency for real time playing
– FREE version also available
Amplitube is available for both iPad and iPhone. iPad $19.99
Mobile Mood Machine (aka MoMoM ) is a brand new app by French IDM artist and programmer Julien Bayle aka Protofuse. Mobile Mood Machine provides a musical playground you can touch with your fingers.
Rules are really easy and minimalistic:
– touch the screen to create spherical creatures popping out sine waves sounds
– the more the touch is made at the top, the more the creatures pop out high pitched sounds
– the more the touch duration is, the more the sound popped it will have a long decay
– choose a Mood which consists in color gradient, sequences rules, scale
– choose to listen special designed soundscapes in the background or not
– adjust the delay and the effect of time over the age of those digital creatures
– enjoy !
Minimalism, Zen & Quietness are the main words that could describe this iOS application.
The Mobile Mood Machine ‘s engine works with circular buffers recording til 8 sequences represented by 8 colors.
Each sequence is repeated according to specific rules related to the current chosen Mood.
Some Moods are minor, some are major with a lot of time between sequence repetitions, some are hypnotically repetitive.
You can choose to make creatures becoming old. In that case, they will progressively disappear and their sounds will have a bigger attack til their end, when they will completely disappear.
Some Moods make them to be old faster, or slower.
You can also start it and choose the automatic induction mode of the Mobile Mood Machine
In that case, you just have to close your eyes, to let those waves envelope you into a sweet bubble of zen protection.
These sounds can cancel all annoying aggressive noises surrounding us every time.
Here are some possible uses:
– walking in the street
– being in the train
– trying to sleep
– before going to a boring meeting
– together with your loved one in relaxation or possibly romance
TriqTraq Jam Sequencer for the iPhone. It is extremely fun and intuitive. Some say it’s like Nanoloop making love with an Electribe. I actually had reservations getting it originally because I thought it would just be like nanostudio, beatmaker2, or Sunvox, but less. It truly is unique and just feels creative. I enjoy all of the capability and great sounds come together quickly; very intuitively. I don’t regret getting this unique and expressive sequencer at all.
And now for something completely different… get into the flow of triqtraq, and jam out your tracks in realtime!
Are you a DJ or electronic music producer? You will find dozens of possibilities inside triqtraq to compose and tweak your beats on the fly.
Or are you just starting out making electronic music? Triqtraq is straightforward enough to get you good sounding results quickly.
Grab your iPhone and start to improvise; live, in your studio or on your couch. Pick sounds from the included sample library, or import your own samples to get that unique sound.
Triqtraq strikes the right balance between musical possibilities and limitations and lets you focus on the most important part of making music… having FUN!
KEY FEATURES
▪ create musical patterns fast and intuitively, by programming live or by using the ‘step edit’-feature
▪ automate parameters like pitch, filter, delay, decay and level in real-time
▪ change samples or sample kits on-the-fly while jamming
▪ edit multiple tracks simultaneously
▪ store up to 16 patterns and 32 samples per session
▪ specify the length of a sequence per track, or set the automation length for each parameter individually
▪ switch seamlessly between patterns
▪ use the loop range feature to create poly-rhythmic sequences
▪ use sounds from the 350+ factory sample library
▪ import your own sounds via iTunes file sharing
TriqTraq is available for $1.99 for a limited time!
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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