2017
08/24
Free Groovebox Update Adds Bluetooth
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Groovebox is a free, beautifully designed music studio app packed with inspiring synths and drum machines. In minutes you’ll be making beats, melodies, and playing with world-class instruments. Expand your own collection with more sounds and instruments available in the store. From the creators of Launchpad, Groovebox helps you produce music on iPhone & iPad.

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What’s New in Version 1.4
This free update allows you to play Groovebox instruments using your USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard. It also adds a chromatic on-screen keyboard, full-range pattern editing and multi-step pattern undo. Thanks for supporting Groovebox.

1.4 Improvements:
• MIDI support – Play Groovebox with your MIDI controller
• Chromatic on-screen keyboard
• Full-octave pattern editing
• Multi-step pattern undo
• Fine-tune volume for notes in pattern editor
• Fixed bug whereby first drum hit sometimes wouldn’t play
• Various bug fixes

Other Recent Improvements:
• Ducker. Easily add Pump your mix using either Kicks, or two preset patterns.
• Swing. Make your tracks bounce with either 16th or 8th note swing.
• Much improved performance, which takes far less power from your phone.

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2017
06/13
Novation Groovebox For iOS
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If you love making electronic music, you’ll love Groovebox. Enter an inspiring world of music production on your iPhone & iPad.

Groovebox is a free, beautifully designed music studio app packed with inspiring synths and drum machines. In minutes you’ll be making beats, melodies, and playing with world-class instruments. Expand your own collection with more sounds and instruments available in the store. From the creators of Launchpad, Groovebox helps you produce music on iPhone & iPad.

• A BEATS & SYNTH MUSIC STUDIO
Play with touchable instruments to quickly create your own beats and melodies, or draw in notes. Need inspiration? Groovebox has hundreds of patterns and sounds to get you started. Two powerful synthesisers, designed in partnership with Novation, deliver deep retro basslines and analogue harmonic melodies. The modern drum machine, with expanding drumkit library, will turn Groovebox into your go-to beat production studio.

• SYNTHS DESIGNED WITH NOVATION
Designed in partnership with Novation, legendary synth pioneers, Groovebox packs a world-class sound. Each instrument uses a new powerful synth engine capable of recreating classic warm analogue sounds and rich modern harmonics.

• EASY TO START, DEEP ENOUGH TO MASTER
Groovebox is designed to kick-start ideas, but it has serious features for artists and producers too. The advanced synth parameters* let you sculpt your own sounds. Included iPad mixer, note sequencer, key and scale modes let you control your sound. Export your sounds easily to a laptop to produce further. Sync to other apps or a laptop with Ableton Link. Connect using Audiobus, Inter-App Audio and even Export to Ableton Live seamlessly.

FEATURES
• Discover and build ideas – Quickly explore sounds with hundreds of melody and rhythm patterns
• Play touchable instruments – Create your own melodies and beats
• Three powerful instruments – Drumbox, Retrobass and Poly-8
• Build beats – Play drum pads or keys, sequence notes or use patterns
• Sound innovation – Synths developed in partnership with synth pioneers Novation
• Expand your sounds – Regular, fresh-content drumpacks, presets and patterns*
• Production-ready sounds – Crafted by world-class sound designers and artists
• Extendable Instruments – Expose more tweakable synth controls
• Sequence your music – Draw notes and build patterns instead of playing them
• Stay in time and key – Choose from any tempo, key or musical scale
• Mix your music – 8-track mixer on iPad. Instrument focus mixer on iPhone.
• Share your music – Easily create a mix of your music to share with others
*Requires In-App Purchase

ADVANCED FEATURES
• Jam with others – Audiobus, Inter-App Audio, Ableton Link and Ableton Export
• Ableton Export – Easily send your project to Ableton Live
• Full scale support – All keys and major, minor and modes supported
• Project management – Rename, duplicate and delete
• iPad Pro support – Optimised to use the entire iPad Pro screen
• Send your ideas to a laptop – Batch export your pads as a .zip file, or use Ableton Export
• Bluetooth speaker supported

SUPPORTED DEVICES
Groovebox is compatible with iPad 4th Generation, iPad Air 1/2, iPad Pro 9.7/12.9, iPad Mini 2/3/4, iPod Touch 6th Generation, iPhone 5/5C/5S, iPhone 6/6S, iPhone 6S/6S Plus, iPhone 7/7 Plus. Requires iOS 10.

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2017
02/22
Blocs Export Wave To Launchpad
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What’s New in Version 11.0
Introducing Blocs Export: send your Blocs Wave creations directly to Launchpad, and continue your music making. Use your sounds with Launchpad’s in-built effects, play and record your performances, then jump back to Blocs Wave to tweak or add more sounds.

Highlight New Features
• Blocs Export: send your projects from Blocs Wave to Launchpad for iOS.

Other Minor Updates
• Various bugfixes and improvements

Recent Features
• Maximiser – New volume-leveling tool that improves the app’s output volume compared with other apps.
• Launchpad Soundpack Sharing – Open Launchpad soundpacks in Blocs Wave.
• Ableton Export – Send your Blocs Wave projects to Ableton Live.
• Loop Start Marker – Create interesting variations by tweaking the start position of each loop.
• Better Importing – Use Google Drive, Dropbox and many others with the document picker

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2016
10/16
Shame iPad and Novation Circuit Performance
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ruslan

Ruslan Cebrail is having another go at his live setup and it sounds wicked!. Check out his latest jam entitled “Shame”.

Inspired by a move with the same title.

Apps used:

Blocs Wave – Make & Record Music – Novation
AUM – Audio Mixer – Kymatica (Jonatan Liljedahl)
AUFX – Kymatica (Jonatan Liljedahl)
Samplr – Touch the Music – Marcos Alonso
KORG Module – KORG INC.

Follow Ruslan’s music on his Youtube here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFWPni0jHD5RSeu_f4W0ekQ

2016
09/07
Free Chill Out Loops For Blocs Wave iOS
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Novation Blocs Wave iOS

We teamed up with music producer and product specialist Quincas Moreira to bring you a free chill out loop kit for Blocs Wave. Quincas imported sounds from Soundtrack Loops to show you what can be done with them when combined with the Blocs Wave app for iOS.

DOWNLOAD INFO:

Free loop pack formatted specifically for Blocs Wave https://www.dropbox.com/s/orwzvwnylo540zw/SL_Blocs_Chill_Out.zip?dl=0
Iced Chill Out by Soundtrack Loops full pack (use coupon code IPADLOOPS for a 20% discount ) http://soundtrackloops.com/shop/genre/iced-chillout-lounge/

Get Blocs https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blocs-wave-make-record-music/id1085697317?mt=8&at=10laUK

Follow Quincas http://www.soundcloud.com/drdubastein

MORE LOOPS FOR BLOCS WAVE COMING SOON!

Blocs Wave

Blocs Wave is a powerful and beautifully designed app for making and recording new music quickly.

Start new ideas by discovering new sound combinations across different genres. Make your ideas unique by slicing and rearranging your sounds. Play with beautiful touchable waveforms and build up loops in real-time by recording your voice or other sounds. Blocs Wave is also great for live looping, thanks to its real-time stretch and pitch engine.

Blocs Wave is the most powerful music-making app you never knew you needed.

Features
• Find ideas quickly – Combine sounds across genres
• Chop up sounds – Use Slice Mode to make every sound unique
• Play with sounds – Beautiful, touchable waveforms
• Record new sounds – Capture your own vocals and instruments
• Explore a huge sound library – Find amazing sounds across genres from EDM to dubstep, indie to songwriting, and more
• Expand your collection – Download more sounds from an ever-expanding soundpack library
• Export your music – Create a mixdown or export individual tracks

Advanced Features
• Real-time stretching – Change tempo while playing
• Real-time recording – Build up live recorded loops in real-time
• Export and Import – Bring in your own sounds from other apps, or export to them
• Key aware – All library sounds stay in-key with each other
• User library – Manage your recorded and imported sounds
• Works well with others – Supports Audiobus, AudioCopy/AudioShare and hardware input
• Jam in sync – Supports Ableton Link

Compatible with iPad 2, iPad (3rd Generation), iPad (4th Generation), iPad Air, iPad Air 2, iPad Mini, iPad Mini 2, iPad Mini 3, iPad Pro (12.9 inch and 9.7 inch), iPhone SE, 6/6s Plus, 6/6s, 5/5s/5c, 4s.

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