Pro Music Apps

There’s been a growing number of success stories through the crowd-funding site Kickstarter.com. I’ve donated to several in the past, and this is another one I plan to support. Looking forward to the free samples, as well as seeing the finished project!

Watford, UK: April 2^nd, 2013  –  Wired Productions has today announced that it will be giving away 1,500 free eJay samples during the course of the eJay Pure Kickstarter campaign  – 100 samples for every £10,000 it receives towards its goal.

These samples can be downloaded from the Kickstarter page by anyone, whether they are a backer or not – but with rewards starting from as little as £1, there’s no excuse not to join the adventure.

eJay Pure is a complete reinvention of the pioneering eJay series, which has been a huge success on PCs since 1996. For the first time, the series will move to tablets, offering the same flexibility and quality – but on the move.

The tablet edition will mark the first time the series has offered multiple genres of music within one package – so users can quickly and easily create original tracks no matter what their taste. Whether it’s pop, rock, dubstep, rave, dance, or virtually any other type of music, eJay Pure will allow users to compose and share their creations wherever they are.

“Stretch goals promise jam tomorrow – we want enable our users to create musical jams today,”says Leo Zullo, managing director, Wired Productions. “We’re eager to offer free samples that users can play with now as the support for eJay Pure grows – not as a carrot to bust us beyond our target. eJay Pure will be all about community – sharing music and samples around the world. We’re delighted to have found a way to do this from the start.”

Fans can pledge their support for eJay Pure at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wiredproductions/ejay-pure from as little as £1, which see supporters of eJay Pure rewarded with 1,000 Exclusive samples with a retail value of £20.

Other rewards include eJay Pure merchandise – and even the opportunity to record your own song for inclusion within the final version.

I’ve only just had a quick play with this new instrument tuner, ear training, and more, and it’s a refreshing spin on one of the oldest tools in any musician’s belt. Check it out!

From the creators of NodeBeat comes Tunable, the most intuitive visual toolkit for musicians.

Tunable is a chromatic tuner, tone/chord generator and metronome that helps you learn to play steadily, in tune, and on beat. Featuring a unique “tuning history” display for visualizing pitch over time, Tunable is the perfect toolkit for professional and beginning musicians.

★ Learn to play in tune with sustained pitch history ★
Visualize how steadily you play or sing. As notes are held out, a white line draws how steady the pitch is. The straighter the line, the more consistent the pitch.

★ Improve your ear with tone and chord generator ★
Need a reference tone or chord? Use the tone and chord generator to play and sustain chords with various tone options. Choose from different temperaments to hear how they compare.

★ Keep tempo with an accurate and simple metronome ★
See the pulse with a visual metronome. View subdivision and current beat, with a large display and visual flash.

★ Overview ★

Tuner
• Large, colorful tuning indicator clearly shows when in tune (green fills the screen)
• Clear, visual tuner with note, octave, cents (+\-), and frequency (hz) display
• Tuning history to see how well you’re sustaining notes over time
• Especially suited for wind instruments and strings with note detection from Tuba to Piccolo (24hz to 15khz+)
• Horizontal and vertical tuning displays
• Adjustable A=440 reference tone
• Change between equal, just, pythagorean, and 18 other tuning temperaments

Tone and Chord Generator
• Chromatic Tone Generator with multiple tone options and sustain
• Play and sustain chords
• Auto Octave rounding for easy note access

Metronome
• Large number display with visual flash to see the downbeat, subdivision, and pulse
• Adjust tempo, beats per measure, and subdivision
• See tempo markings to quickly jump between standard tempos
• Tempo Tap (tap metronome center to set a tempo)
• Continues to play when screen is locked or in the background

Other
• Highly accurate (1/100 of a cent) and responsive
• Transpose notes to any instrument
• AppleTV/AirPlay mirroring to an HDMI projector or TV on iPad2, iPhone4S, iPhone5
• Background Audio enables the metronome to continue playing when the screen is locked or closed.
• Dark and light themes

Check it out running -

For the latest on this app - http://tunable.affinityblue.com/

Tunable - Instrument Tuner
Developer: Seth Sandler

Rated: 4+

Price: Free Download Here

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The Midi Loop Station is an app for the performing musician. Easily specify loop boundaries in a midi file and supplement each loop with 16 tracks of your own. All of which can be remote controlled by a midi controller via coremidi. Starting from scratch, gradually build up the sound by playing and adding instruments to amaze your audience.

Features Include:
* Up to 10 loops per midi file
* 16 Audio Tracks per loop (44.1K wav)
* Change tempo, key, mix
* All changes are saved
* Dynamic control of tracks
* Access to 100′s of midi files
* Universal App (iPhone, iPad, iTouch)
* Simple interface
* Playlist support

More information - http://www.midiloopstation.com/

Midi Loop Station
Developer: Theodore Ellis

Rated: 4+

Price: $6.99 Download Here

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ScorePlayer allows for network-synchronised scrolling of proportional colour music scores on multiple iPads. This is designed to facilitate the reading of scores featuring predominantly graphic notation in rehearsal and performance.

Key Features:

Comes with four built in scores, created by composers in Decibel new music ensemble, Cat Hope and Lindsay Vickery.

Ability to change scroll speed of the piece.

Easy to use slider to navigate to different sections of the piece for rehearsal purposes.

View full score or individual parts.

Works across any wi-fi connection.

Easy network check to verify which devices are on the network.

Modular structure enables easy updates, with more scores to come. Upload facilities, audio output and OSC communication are planned in future releases.

Decibel ScorePlayer
Developer: Edith Cowan University

Rated: 4+

Price: $2.99 Download Here

d(- -)b, the first Modular DJ App for the iPad.

Mаԁе bу thе people behind touchAble, d(- -)b provides endless possibilities for DJs with an iPad. Its modular approach lets the app adapt to the user, not the other way around.
DJs can choose from pre-installed templates or create their own interface with up to 6 decks – on one or several pages – making it the perfect tool for any use-case.

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on some devices (especially ipad3) the app can currently crash while loading – an update that fixes this issue has been sent to apple and is waiting for approval at this time – we are very sorry for the incovenience – and would like to thank you for your patience!
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The comprehensive in app editor makes it simple to configure your very own DJ setup. The numerous modules include everything a DJ needs, and allow for an incredible amount of flexibility and customization.

With beautiful color-coded waveforms instead of fake vinyl platters, and accurate tools for both worlds of beat-matching: Grid & Sync or Pitch & Nudge – it opens the door to a whole new world of touchable DJing.

With support for Multi-Route Audio, d(- -)b turns the iPad into into a professional DJ setup – powerful, customizable, portable.

Introductory Price of $9,99 – get it while it lasts!

Features

+ Zoomable realtime waveforms with spectrum colorcoding

+ 4 cue points per deck
+ 3 band EQ with kill switches
+ loops from 1/64th to 8 bars
+ loop roll while track keeps playing

+ automatic beat & grid detection
+ manually grid tracks if the detection is off
+ pitch coarse & fine faders for 10% / 1% pitch control

+ custom browser with access to the iTunes library

+ record stereo mixes – even without multi-route (optionally listen to the dry/wet monitor signal instead of the recorded main signal)

+ multi-route audio to precue tracks in stereo
-> use any class compilant USB Audio Interface as a secondary stereo output

+ split output audio to do mono monitoring

d(- -)b
Developer: Christian Blomert

Rated: 4+

Price: $0.99 Download Here

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Piano Companion is a flexible chord/scale dictionary with user libraries and reverse mode. Piano Companion allows you to find a chord or scale by its name. If you don’t remember what’s the name of a chord/scale, it helps you to find it by keys. Piano Companion shows chord/scale notes, degrees, fingering for both hands in major and minor scales. You can listen how a scale or chord sounds. You can see the list of compatible chords in the selected scale. The great advantage of Piano Companion is the fact that it’s a growing application, so we will be glad to consider any new features which helps you to increase usability.

Key features:
✓ 1500+ piano chords, up to 6th inversions
✓ 500+ scales
✓ 12 root keys
✓ Circle of Fifths
✓ List of available chords in Circle of Fifths
✓ Key notations: English, Italian, Japanese, Russian, etc.
✓ Reverse chord & scale lookup
✓ Ability to display chord on the staff
✓ Plays chords
✓ Plays scales
✓ Plays arpeggiated chords
✓ Audio support
✓ Relative scale suggestions
✓ Compatible scale chords
✓ Scale lookup with major & minor scale fingering
✓ Flexible chord & scale search using keyboard
✓ User libraries
✓ Ability to create custom chords for a user library

Piano Companion: chords, scales, stave, circle of fifths, chord progression
Developer: SIA BINITEX

Rated: 4+

Price: $2.99 Download Here

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Level.24 is a pro-quality real-time spectrum analyzer, EQ, Compressor and Limiter. With up to 1/24 octave band analysis precision and 12 parallel parametric equalizers and ultra low latency, Level.24 redefines audio control on the iPad.
Fully Audiobus compatible to receive, process and record sound from other Audiobus apps.

Special introduction price $9.99
Rated *Killer App* by Apps4iDevices

Level.24 helps you get perfect sound. In a live sound situation, a (home) studio or an Audiobus configuration, analyze the incoming audio to find peaks and dips and inspect the overall spectral balance. Shape the sound with up to twelve parametric EQ’s, and adjust the output levels with the Compressor/Limiter to add maximum punch.

Specifications:

• Input: microphone, external hardware, Audiobus.

• Real-time analysis: 3, 6, 12 and 24 bands per octave spectrum analyzer with average and peak display.

• EQ: up to twelve parametric EQ’s in parallel, with adjustable center frequency, gain and Q factor.

• Dynamics: compressor with graphically controllable threshold and ratio, 10 dB soft-knee mode and switchable Automatic Attack and Release. Peak Limiter.

• 32-bit floating point internal signal bus.

• Ultra low latency mode with 1.5 ms delay.

• Recording: uncompressed recording and playback; EQ and dynamics stages can be applied to playback as well.

More info @ http://www.elephantcandy.com/

Level.24
Developer: Elephant Candy

Rated: 4+

Price: $9.99 Download Here

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JACK is more than just one app. It is a system that connects the music and audio world on your iOS device. JACK allows audio channels and MIDI ports of your audio & music apps to be connected with each other. It does not force a predefined schema in which way apps shall be connected with each other. You can freely connect them in any way you want, intuitively like drawing on a paper. Besides audio & MIDI interconnection, JACK provides other very useful mechanisms to let your audio apps work together like never before. For example record/playback synchronization between DAWs and sequencer apps. Arbitrary data sharing among apps and much more. Even though JACK is quite new on iOS, it already came a long way. Providing you the most professional and powerful environment for your audio apps, highly optimized with explicit multi core support, low latency and maturity which it gained over many years of usage and development on other operating systems already. JACK is an open standard, which can freely be supported by anybody.

Current Features:
- Audio connections between apps and external devices¹.
- MIDI connections between apps and external devices¹.
- Record/Playback synchronization between apps.
- Multi Core CPU support for high performance (parallelized internal audio graph).
- Low Latency Performance (configurable, i.e. 2ms buffer sizes).
- Arbitrary, custom data sharing among apps (allows easy extensions of the system).
- Arbitrary amount of audio & MIDI ports per app, changeable at runtime.
- Intuitive user interface that allows you to easily manage all audio and MIDI connections, environment settings, monitor current overall CPU usage and more …

For more info head here - http://www.crudebyte.com/jack-ios

JACK Audio Connection Kit
Developer: Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte

Rated: 4+

Price: Free Download Here

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Chordion is a new way to make music on the iPad. Choose chords with one hand and play melodies with the other – never hit a wrong note! Chordion is great for performing, writing songs, jamming, or having sing-alongs with friends.

Chordion makes it easy to play common chord changes in any key. In “auto” mode, Chordion’s keyboard follows the chords you play, letting you strum up and down or pluck out melodies. Chordion includes a built-in drum machine & arpeggiator for keeping the beat.

More experienced users will love the wide range of customization options – from the layout of chords to synthesis parameters to exotic scales.

Chordion’s built-in synth engine is highly tweekable and easy to use – create organy drones, echo-y lead lines, or shimmery chimes.

Chordion also supports MIDI, allowing you to play other instruments using Chordion’s unique interface. The chord buttons and keyboard can even be set to different MIDI ports and channels so you can control two instruments at once!

Chordion
Developer: Olympia Noise Co.

Rated: 4+

Price: $3.99 Download Here

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Protein Der Klang is a fresh audio sampler fit for public performances.

Play, record and manipulate your audio samples on stage or in your bed using an intuitive multi-touch musical application.

Features:

- Play with 12 simultaneous samples on the 3 coloured tracks.
- Scratch, revert, slice, pause, fade & resync up to 4 clips on each track.
- Play with an effect on each track & a master effect.
- 5 sound effects: Crusher, Repeater, Delay, Phaser, LP Filter.
- Import and export your samples and patches using iTunes Sharing.
- Record live loops from audio-input and internal mixer.
- Exclusive playback resync feature.
- BPM-synced clip trigger and playback & metronome.
- Smart controls for faster actions.
- Low latency audio engine.
- 4 fresh demo patches.
- 140+ audio samples included.
- Support for 16bit wav samples.
- Embedded user manual and feedback.

What’s next:

- Audio Copy & Paste
- Audiobus support

Available for iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch.

Protein Der Klang
Developer: Pierre Guilluy

Rated: 4+

Price: $4.99 Download Here

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