Pro Music Apps

iSyn has been out for a little while now but still holds it’s own. the synths sound great. for more details check out the official site www.isynapp.com

audiomidi and virsyn proudly present iSyn, a virtual music studio for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch that puts an unbelievable number of features including two studio-quality, fully-programmable monophonic virtual analog synthesizers and a drum machine in the palm of your hand! Play iSyn live with the onscreen keyboard or eight drum pads for fun live jam sessions or let iSyn do the playing for you with its grid sequencer for pattern-based music creation. iSyn can even play a beat and synth track while you jam over sequence tracks for a one-man iPhone band!

Create compelling, original music on your iPhone or iPod touch with PatternMusic.

PatternMusic was designed to inspire creativity, learning and experimentation in music enthusiasts and experts alike.

PatternMusic is three music tools in one:

1. •Intuitive song creation using layered instrument patterns.
2. •An interactive polyphonic musical instrument with over 50 different voices.
3. •Play along with your iPod® Music Library without leaving the app

The latest simple demo video of iSample 2.0. iSample 2.0 is the latest update to iSample from Way Out Ware, Inc. It includes a ton of new features that turn iSample into a powerful and fun beat and song creation tool.

iSample 2.0 demo

Xewton Music Studio offers a complete music production environment on the iPhone/iPod touch with features and a sound quality previously only known to desktop applications and expensive audio hardware.

It combines a piano keyboard, 21 professionally sampled instruments with sustain, a fully fledged 128-track sequencer, a note editor, reverb, real-time effects and much more on a user-friendly interface.

Just found a few videos that demonstrate the main features of this music app. Check em out -

Trailer -

Tutorial: Quick Start Guide

Tutorial: Advanced Recording

For more details head to – http://www.xewton.com/musicstudio

DopplerPad 2 is available in the App Store! This free update appears to add some tasty new features……

Here’s what we like the look of -

Effects -

The first thing you may notice is that the pads now have an effect button next to the instrument button. This pops open a menu similar to the instrument menu. Tapping effects toggles them on and off. The great thing about this is that you can now apply any effect to any instrument (including samplers and drum kits)!


New Tools -

The heart of this update is in the Tools menu where we find 2 new items. Synths and Effects. These are powerful editors that let you create and edit your own custom synth instruments and effects.

Synths -

In the Synths Tool, you’ll find that you can freely edit the parameters of the synthesizer that powers DopplerPad. This editor gives you access to every parameter we had when creating the original set of factory instruments.

• 2 Oscillators – including 5 waveforms, phase control, frequency difference and more
• Amplification Envelope
• Filter – Low Pass or High Pass
• Mod Envelope
• LFO – which includes beat sync, waveform, destination and more
• Mod Y – which lets you control how the Y axis of a pad effects different synth parameters
• Velocity – which lets you control how tap velocity effects different synth parameters

Each item above gets its own panel in the Synths editor, and they all have many more parameters than I’ve listed here. If you ever want more details on what a given parameter does, tap the info button on the panel for a detailed description.

Effects -

Similar to the Synths Tool, Effects lets you create and edit custom Effects to use on the pads. When editing Effects, you’ll find

• Delay – which can be beat-synced
• Delay Filter – which lets you apply a Filter to the Delay
• Distortion
• Mod Y – Similar to Effects, this lets you control parameters of the Effect on the Y axis

For more details head to – www.dopplerpad.com

Argon is a monophonic virtual analog synthesizer for the iphone from icegear.

As the name suggests, the argon is monophonic (i.e. only one note can be played at a time) but has a slew sound mangling goodness at it’s disposal.

Below is a list of the key features.

High-quality 32bit floating point Synth-engine

Three Oscillator

• Osc1

◦ Modulatable Sawtooth waveforms Oscillator

◦ Modulatable Pulse width Oscillator

◦ Modulatable Oscillator to Triangle wave from Sine wave

◦ Modulatable Noise Oscillator

◦ Formant Oscillator

• Osc2,3

◦ Sawtooth waveform

◦ Square waveform

◦ Sine Waveform

◦ NoiseArgon monophonic synth

• FM (Frequency Modulation)

• AM (Amplitude Modulation)

• Oscillator Sync

• Oscillator modulation

◦ LFO, Envelope exclusive Oscillator

◦ Modulatable Pitch and Level using LFO, Envelope

◦ Modulatable FM depth using LFO, Envelope(Only Oscillator 1)

Filter

• Low Pass Filter (24dB/Oct)

• Low Pass Filter (12dB/Oct)

• Mid Pass Filter

• High Pass Filter

• Envelope, LFO exclusive for Filter

AMP

• Overdrive (saturator)

• 3 Band EQ

• Panpot

• Envelope, LFO exclusive for AMP

Three Envelope Generator (EG)

• Envelope Generator exclusive for each Osc, Filter, AMP

• ADSR (Attack-Decay-Sustain-Release)

Three LFO (Low Frequency Oscilator)

• Sawthooth Wave

• Square Wave

• Sine Wave

• Random waveforms by Sample, Hold

• Tempo-synced Speed

• KeySync Mode

• LFO Delay Parameter

Delay Effect

• Adjustable L,R Delay (0.1ms – 2000ms)

• TempoSync Mode

• Left and Right Feedback

• Cross-feed-back

• Color Parameter for controlling delay sound

• LFO for modulating delay time

• Spread Parameter(Modulating phase between left and right channels)

Step Sequencer

• 16 Step Sequencer

• 8 Pattern in 1 Tone

• Position-returning KeySync Mode

keyboard

• Three sized scrollable keyboard

• Key transpose

• Customized key scale

• Key Holding

• Note Portamento

Preset

512 user preset

64 factory preset

Argon is a fully realized synth with plenty of control over every aspect of your sound.

You access the various oscillators, filters, amp, effects through side scrolling the top half of the screen.

Exactly the same way you access the pages of apps on the iphone.

The octaves of the keyboard are accessed the same way, only the bottom of the screen scrolls.

The presets that come with it are delicious. Thick and warm, shiny and smooth dirty and noisy; and with the amount of control you have, you can completely destroy these and save them in one of 512 user patches and annoy your friends with synth noise for all occasions.

I really dig the formant oscillator, you can create some awesome vowel like sounds with it. Halloween soundtracks anyone?

The built in step sequencer is nice. It allows you to sequence a one bar pattern that can be saved to 8 different memory locations, effectively having eight variations. I personally like to bore my listeners stupid with monotonous music so i won’t be varying anything.

If you must, you can get some great squelchy sequences going; which are very reminiscent of the tb-303.

I found the sequencer a little small for fingers though. I think you should have the option to blow it up to full screen. It would make it a lot faster and accurate to program.

On the subject of finger size, one great feature of argon, is you can change the size of the scrolling keyboard. Small, medium, large. so if you have fingers like hotdogs, there’s a size for you!

As you can see from the screen shots, Argon is a beautiful looking app and the controls work extremely well. All the knobs and buttons are accurate to the touch so  you don’t find yourself getting frustrated because you can’t hit the control you want.

They are very precise. I dare say Icegear spent some time getting this just right.

I like Argon a lot. Check out the video to get a better sense of how it all works.

And please let us know what you think. Does it deserve a place on your iphone or would you rather eat a toilet?

Darren

AKAI PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCES iPK25 AND
SynthStation Studio FOR iPhone® AND iPod® Touch

Cumberland, R.I. (Jan 14, 2010) – Akai Professional, the name synonymous with music production, announces the iPK25 keyboard controller and the SynthStation Studio music production app, both for iPhone and iPod Touch. Akai Pro will unveil the iPK25 and SynthStation Studio at the 2010 Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA, booth 6400, January 14–17.

The iPK25 and SynthStation Studio transform a musician’s iPhone or iPod Touch into a portable music production studio for mobile music creation. While the SynthStation Studio app is powerful enough for professional musicians, virtually anyone can use it to easily create music. The app gives musicians three synthesizers for creating and modifying sonic textures used for melodies, chords and bass lines. Built around Akai Professional’s history in synthesis and drawing on the company’s newest MINIAK synth, the SynthStation Studio app sounds great and offers wide-ranging sonic flexibility with its virtual analog synthesis.

SynthStation Studio users can create and save sequences and complete songs. The app contains three different three-oscillator synths, and drum kits, which musicians can sequence and mix right in the SynthStation Studio. For creating melodic and accompaniment parts, the SynthStation Studio contains an arpeggiator with preset patterns, built-in effects and filters and an XY control interface for expressive control of key parameters.

The SynthStation Studio features an on-screen keyboard for use on the go. It is also designed for use with its companion keyboard, the iPK25. This 25-key MIDI keyboard features a built-in dock for the iPhone or iPod Touch. It gives users two octaves of velocity-sensitive, synth-action keys, pitch and modulation wheels, and physical buttons for the most commonly used controls including octave up and down and sound-bank selections. The iPK25 also features a stereo pair of RCA line outputs and a headphone output for connection to recording and sound reinforcement systems. The iPK25 also has a USB/MIDI output for use as a controller for other MIDI software on Mac or PC and MIDI hardware devices.

“The package of the iPK25 keyboard and the SynthStation Studio app transform the iPhone into a professional musical instrument,” said Adam Cohen, Director of Business Development, Akai Professional.

The iPK25 will be available from pro audio and musical instrument retailers in March 2010. The SynthStation Studio app will be available from the iTunes App Store in January 2010.

Put a little funk in your pocket with the FunkBox vintage drum machine app from Synthetic Bits. Based on classic beatboxes from the 70s and 80s, FunkBox lets you push, tap, mix, and groove your way to some seriously funky beats. Designed to look, feel, and sound like a classic beatbox, FunkBox uses original audio samples taken directly from our own personal collection of vintage drum machines. It’s got all the boom snap and tsshhhh you love and crave, plus some bleeps and bloops from the new school thrown in for good measure.

We designed the FunkBox to be fun and quirky, and it’s focused on doing only what you really need to make yourself some quick funky beats. So what exactly do you need to do that? FunkBox lets you:
Push to play the preset patterns, if you just want to listen and play around.
Slide to adjust tempo, if you want things to move a little slower or faster.
Choose some dirty funky sounds from a collection of our favorite classic drum boxes.
Tap to play sounds along in real time and add your own fills to the patterns.
Tweak and mute the volumes for each part to get the mix you’re hearing in your head.
Go real deep and edit the patterns themselves using an easy x0x style drum programming grid.
And even a few more fun little things…

Rectools08pro Multi Track Recorder -

Rectools08 is a recording application by Yudo who also is the creator of the in japan top ranked (all categories) Matrix Music Pad and 8 Bitone.
Rectools is different from other normal recording applications. You can make high quality recordings without compression, record up to 8 tracks, edit your audio clips directly in the application and more! For more information please watch our homepage. If you are looking for a voice recording application please look up our Rectools02 chich can record up to 12 hours!

2009/10/28
A version up with the following new features is in review:

* The delay of the click is now adjustable (fast, delayed, normal)
* Looping
* Import audio from your PC via WIFI.
* With some fixes to the engine the project max time has been extended to 15minutes and we plan to extend it further)

Yudo Rectools08pro with it’s easy-to-use interface is the perfect tool for music creation . It is also the first 8 channel multi track recorder for the iPhone / iPod Touch! Perfect for band or chorus recordings.

Furthermore rectools is tested and compatible with the iPhone microphone and several external 3rd party iPhone/iPod microphones. and records in 44.1kHz / 16bit top quality. Thanks to the wave edit feature it is also possible to edit and process your recorded data afterwards.

Features:
* 8 channel multi track recording (note that mono track takes up 1 channel and a stereo track takes up 2 channels)

* Wave edit function
Edit & process your recorded data.

Equalizer
Comes with a 3 band equalizer one for each channel.
Frequency range of 20hz ~ 20kHz and gain ±12dB.

Mixer;
Like a real mixing console volume fader, panning pot and equalizer, mute, solo is supported for all channels also input and output channels can have their volume and panning position adjusted (note that the input channel volume is done in software)

Audio Pool:
Lets you access all the recorded data in your project, delete and upload to your computer in the local network is also possible.

Metronome:
Helps you to keep the beat when recording.

PC-SYNC:
Send your recordings to a computer n the same local network as your iPhone / iPod Touch via WI-FI.

Compatible with 3rd party microphone:
Tested and works with various 3rd party microphones.

Specs:
Recording format: Linear PCM (WAV) 44.1kHz / 16bit in stereo or mono.
Recording length: max 7 min