Pro Music Apps

For those that love minimal beats and glitchy grooves, this will ripple right up your alley -

chipPad is a multi-track sample and loop playback and performance application.

It is made for the musician who creates loop-based music and is looking to experiment with on-the-fly arrangements or to glitch it up a notch.

By adding your own pre-cut loops on up to 8 tracks you can perform using various “grid-based” controller techniques and develop new ones that are only capable on a multi-touch device.

Sliding one or multiple fingers back and forth on various tracks or tapping rhythms like on a drum machine can yield some amazing results you can’t hear elsewhere.

chipPad comes with a few sample sessions to get you started. Simply select Help from the Gear menu to get started or load your own AIF or WAV audio files into the app using File Sharing via iTunes.

More detailed help available in the app.

FEATURES AT A GLANCE

8 stereo tracks · AIF/WAV support · up to 128 steps per track · saves sessions and loads them quickly · half/double speed · 4 mute groups · loop mode · reverse · per track volume faders · per track mute & solo · microfades · optional track display · master volume fader · multi-touch · portrait or landscape · practically zero latency · built-in help and sample sessions · made for musicians who create their own music · supports audio files of practically any length · manage audio files using file sharing via iTunes · load audio, create some sessions, take it with you and jam on the commute · amazing performance feel

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The talented team at Limelight Software Limited have turned their game making skills into sweet sequencing melodies with the new iPhone app, Aurora Sound Studio. The app has been submitted to Apple, so it’s not far away from hitting the App Store. We’ve been told an iPad version is also on the drawing board….of course

Here’s the official presser -

Limelight Software Limited are expanding their range of 4Pockets.com mobile software will the addition of Aurora Sound Studio for the iPhone.

Aurora is an exciting Pattern based Musical Sequencing App, that enables you to make great music on your iPhone, whether you are an experienced musician or don’t have a musical bone in your body. By simply choosing a musical scale every note you play is in perfect tune, leaving you to make your own great sounding music.

If you are a more accomplished musician you simply switch Aurora to advanced mode and you get full control over the built in instruments and effects, as well as many advanced modes such as the Atomizer and XY Mode which allows you to manipulate sound in real-time. You can create your own instrument from recordings made using the built in microphone. Just think, a full drum kit of you beat boxing into the microphone!

Aurora allows a mixture of pattern based recording and live performance. You can piece together complete compositions or simply improvise a performance. All of which can be captured to a file, for use as a ringtones, or to share with others.

An integrated mixer, combined with the ability to add audio effects and layer automation means that you achieve a sophisticated sound in a fun and user friendly way.

Aurora Sound Studio has been submitted to Apple and is currently awaiting review.

The 4Pockets.com range includes games and music applications for the iPhone, Windows Mobile and Nintendo DSi. Other iPhone titles include Pocket RTA a Spectrum Analyser for music/sound professionals & enthusiasts and Marble Worlds 2.

More details from – www.4pockets.com

The guys behind midipad have just produced some videos that demonstrate the app in use. By the look of these, this is shaping up very nicely indeed.

midipad mackiecontrol mode

midipad – multitouch midicontoller

The team at MooCowMusic have just let us in on what to expect from the next update due to appear in the coming days.

Utilising OSC support and a wireless network, Pianist Pro can now be used to control a number of different music/audio software applications, plus any MIDI keyboards and sound modules.

Check the video below to see it action….

Simply brilliant we say! Here’s what they said……

We’ve added OSC support so that you can use your iPad to control your DAW or hardware synths wirelessly.  All you need to do is install a simple (and free) application called “Pure Data”  onto a PC / Mac on the same wireless network as your iPad, and use the provided patch to convert the OSC messages sent by Pianist Pro into MIDI messages.  Those MIDI messages can be recorded on your DAW, and control soft or hardware synthesisers.  Pure Data patches are easily configured to suit your setup.   Play your digital piano from your sofa, or even from another room!

For the latest on this app, head to the developer’s site - http://moocowmusic.com/PianistPro/index.html

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Just when you thought you’d seen every kind of interface, along comes O-Gawa.

Yudo are no slouches in the music app world, having brought you Matrix Music Pad, 8Bitone, Rectools and Vocoder SV-5 amongst others.

And now they drop O-Gawa for iPad.

What amazes me about all the apps coming out are the innovative interfaces people come up with, and this one is awesome!

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Integrated Synthesizer Keyboard with 6 musical intruments:

Now you can listened six special musical instruments for your family and friends.
Here you have these instruments that have been picked from real ones. They are Piano, Saxophone, Marimba, Fingbass, Guitar and Ocarina

Just by touching the screen you´ll active the keyboard , and you´ll see on the solfa screen the stave with the played musical notes and their right position to learn solfa.
Using this wonderful application you can learn musical notation by playing any of these four instruments.

The objective of this application is that you can find easily the correct notes and their sounds in the stave.

You can learn some basic solfa withthis music app with six diferents musical instrumens.

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One of the most exciting iPad music apps so far since launch has to be this little gem from Retonyms, who have already given us DopplerPad, FourTrack, StudioTrack and more. As the video below explains, this app is basically the DopplerPad synth engine with a keyboard overlay. Looks like lots of fun to play!

An incredible polyphonic synthesizer for your iPad.

* More than 40 instruments
* Mod wheel
* Adjustable delay
* Adjustable distortion
* Sampler included. Create your own sounds with the microphone! (remember the Casio SK1?)

For the latest on this app, head to the developer’s site - http://retronyms.com/synth/

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We’ve had a quick play with the LE version of this app, and the sounds are spot on, although the interface could use some dressing up. Fans of the vintage TR 909 will love it!

This App is ’909 sound’ rhythm pads of the house music orders who thought only about the hitting. I reduced a function daringly to make a response better. (There is even no volume adjustment. )

Installed sound:
Bass Drum 1-2, Snare Drum 1-2, Hi-Hat(close), Hi-Hat(open),Hi-Tom,Mid-Tom,Lo-Tom,Hand Clap

A function unlike iTR-909

*Write and Play of simple drum pattern. (Only as for of 1 bar.)
*Re-sampled a sound newly.
*Made a sound a stereo.

For the latest on this app, head to the developer’s site - http://studioiproducts.seesaa.net/tag/iTR-909V2

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There is a growing number of MIDI controllers appearing in the apps store that all do the same thing. We haven’t had a chance to try everyone of them, so if you’ve had any experience with them, let us know below or in the forums.

MIDI keyboard via WiFi.

iphone –(WiFi)–> PC –> MIDI

“DSMI server” is needed for PC.
You can find the software for MAC OS and Windows.

http://code.google.com/p/dsmi/downloads/list

Multi tap is supported.
Range of note number is 0 to 126.

To find out more about how this app workd, head to the developer’s site – http://tma.main.jp/remotekb/

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Through an undying passion for drum related apps, I feel the need to mention this new one even though it’s a little, how you say, lacking in any real features or originality!

This app simulate famous Electric Drums part2.
The sound inspired by the SDS5.
I heard the fast time in my younger days.
In the Album “On the line” Lee Ritenour.
You can play like Harvey Mason, Bill Bruford.

We develop more and more drum app, like TR505 or TRX etc.

Please enjoy it.

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