Pro Music Apps

Adding the growing collection of drumpads for iPad (and iPhone/Touch) comes this pretty tidy app from developer, OutOfTheBit, who has already produced a handful of percussion flavoured iPhone apps, including one of my faves, Vintage Drum. Shiny Drum is much the same style app, offering a range of classic drum machine sounds, and some normal acoustic drum kits all mapped to 12 decent size virtual ‘Octopad’ style pads. Nice!

Shiny Drum is a music application for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad designed by OutOfTheBit and Leo Di Angilla, the creators of Vintage Drum (app featured by Apple in many countries), iBongos, iCongas, iTimbales, iPandeiro.

If you love percussions then Shiny Drum is the app for you!
With Shiny Drum you can play the sounds featured on our popular music apps on your iPad, for free!!

Show your friends what a good drummer and percussionist you are!
Download Shiny Drum now and start playing in a few seconds!

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What’s new

* Added a new acoustic set: JazzSet!
* Improved pampot on acoustic drums;
* Added support for iOS 4;
* Fixed a bug that could crash the application under weak 3G signal.

Here’s a link to the developer’s site for more info on all the apps – http://www.outofthebit.com/index.php

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This was already a chunky music creation tool back on iPhone. Now enjoy the extra screen real estate on the iPad for improved operation of mixing and editing features.

Whether you are an experienced musician or don’t have a musical bone in your body, you can make great music on your iPad

Aurora is our pattern based musical sequencing software. 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 beatboxing 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.

The online Aurora Song Library allows Aurora users to share their tracks with the rest of the Aurora Community. Browse the library to download the latest tracks, or search the library to see what your favorite Aurora Artist has published. The Aurora Song Library can be found at http://aurora.4pockets.com/

The program includes a comprehensive help facility and video tutorials are available on YouTube.

Features Include

14 Instrument tracks
12 Notes polyphony per track
4 Independent Engines – Drum Machine, Analog Synth, Pad Synth and Sampler
32 Patterns per song
Chain up to 199 Patterns in Song mode
3 Effect sends per track.
9 Effects including – Delay, Reverb, Chorus etc
Allows creation of custom instrument patches.
Layer Automation
XY Mode
Splice and Dice Audio with Atomizer Mode
Inbuilt Sample Recording
Export Songs as WAV and AAC

Aurora for the iPad expands on the iPhone version making use of the extra screen size to offer additional functionality such:

Full Screen Mixer
New Effects Rack View
Ability to Solo and Mute Individual Layers
New Layer Mix Palette
Synth Engine Features Combined into Single Screen
File Sharing via FTP
Use Accelerometer to Control XY Mode
Upload and Share Songs on the Online Song Library
MIDI Export (coming soon)

What’s new

MIDI Export Facility

HQ Mode added to Program Settings.

Added an easy way to turn off / reduce visual effects.

Added an expression bar in Play Mode. This allows you to apply pitch bend, vibrato, volume and filter glides and modulation in real time whilst soloing over a sequence. You can even pitch shift drum notes, or even a whole drum layer!

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Another step-time beat maker enters the fray! Promises quality samples, and creative freedom to build the grooves the way you want them sound…

Explore countless rhythmic possibilities by looping drum patterns of different lengths. Infinitely entertaining, never the same twice, and you don’t have to be a drummer, musician, or engineer to have fun with it! Just press play and start clicking!

USING POLYRHYTHMS:
The two groups of buttons control the fast and slow rhythms. Start by activating a few the fast rhythms on the left side work your way to the slow rhythms on the right to get a sense of the master loop.

THE MASTER LOOP:
The leftmost beat in every row all play simultaneously at the beginning of the master loop, and will never all coincide again until the long pattern repeats each 2-6 minutes depending on the tempo. The progress indicator (bottom) lets you know where you are in the master loop.

LEFT (FAST) SIDE:
Each successive row of buttons on the left represents a looping rhythm of a different length, and each button represents a pulse in that loop. The top left button plays every single pulse and the bottom loops a pattern with 15 pulses. These buttons can be touched on and off during playback to adjust the rhythms as they cycle through the master loop.

RIGHT (SLOW) SIDE:
Each row of buttons on the right represents a different equal subdivision of the master loop, and each individual button is a unique location in the loop. These play only once each per cycle of the master loop and mark your place in the long cycle.

FEATURES:
- High quality drum samples create a rich audio experience.
- Audio controls (top right) include Play/Pause, Restart, and Tempo.
- Tempo can also be varied smoothly in real time.
- Progress indicator (bottom) lets you know where you are in the master loop.
- Sessions (top left) can be saved and loaded back in during playback.

This is an ongoing project and we welcome your feedback. Please email your questions and comments to polyrhythms@xapnet.com.

Check the developer’s site for more details – http://www.xapnet.com/polyrhythms/index.php

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If you’re stuck for some melodic inspiration, this app might offer some random riffs for you. Could end up with some nice sounding accidents along the way.

This App Budgie HD is the Melody Generator and the Melody Maker on iPad. it helps with your composing work. it may be a good assistant of composer. Budgie creates many melodies from musical scale and note beats. You can use 15 scales preset and you can set and register the scale you want as private scales. You can edit the note beats by touch and slide.

other functions:
- regenerate parts of notes.
- edit drums.
- play as tune.
- blocks : for generate melodies and touch play.

Good luck!

Thanks: icon designed by Asami Tatsuzawa.

More info here – http://m.currach.net/i/budgieHD/

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I’d like to give this a try, as it ‘sounds’ like a lot of fun. Rather than explain it myself, the developer’s description is far more entertaining!

The SOUND TABLE is the new amazing App to make music by senses:

- LOOK FOR the best loops and the most suitable effects
- GET & MOVE the objects by your fingers
- LISTEN the sounds through headphones or speakers

Easy to use with a clean and simple interface, the SOUND TABLE allows you to make music as never before.

Pump up the volume, there is a party in your hands!

Features:

. Move objects, adjust frequency, tempo and amplitude…
. Sync loops with a single tap…
. Link cascade filters…
. Record your sessions and layouts…
. Enjoy!!

We will move forward based on your feedback!
Just use: soundtable@gluak.com to set the course!

New loops available daily!!

Or just send your own to: soundtable@gluak.com, reporting:
. Tempo
. Genre
. Author – your name
…and we will do the rest!!

ADD: maybe there is something you should know
. You can sync loops start/pause by dragging one over another and placing a tap on it.
. If you sync to a playing loop, your playback will change status when the other one crosses the zero – or when you pause it.
. Tap on Tempo control – while in pause – will reset it to 1.0!
. Tap on mixer will pause everything, so, if you will face with a big freezing… maybe you hit the mixer

We are really happy to share with you new features, improvements and bugs.

For now, thank you!

Not a great deal extra to go on, but here’s the developer’s site – http://sx.gluak.com/st/info

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We’ve said it hear before, and we’re not ashamed.. We love drum apps! So get excited with us about this collection of flexible, customisable kits!…

Play it your way!
The Rock’n'Roll drum set you always wanted.

Customize your drum set; rearrange it any way you like; make it yours.. and play!

Features:
- Completely customizable; all instruments can be rearranged, added or removed as you see fit.

- Create your own rhythm to play-along to, by combining up to three instruments into a unique loop…

- Record your own sessions

- Use your recorded sessions as a loop to play-along to

- Speed-up and slow down function for each loop

- Volume slider for each loop

- Create your own drum-sets

- Use metronome to keep you in the beat

- Everything is customizable, even the background image of the app (use one of ours or add your own, whatever makes you play it your way!

Get details on the different versions of this app here – http://www.d-volution.me/

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From the maker of the iPhone app, MIDI Player 2.0 comes this upsized iPad version. Apart from more screen real estate to play with, you get access to more of the editing parameters and compatability with Midi Mobilizer from Line 6. Neat, but it’s not cheap!!

This application is designed for live performance using the Midi Mobilizer from Line 6. It provides realtime modification of midi file parameters including:

* Song Tempo
* Key Change
* Instrument Assignment
* Song Cue
* Mixing Parameters

It is possible to alter these parameters while the song is playing or save for future playback. Playlists are also supported. Songs can be freely downloaded from the internet or loaded from your laptop.

Note: This application does not make sound on its own, it requires the Midi Mobilizer from Line 6.

More info here – http://interactiveblueprints.com

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Nice to see an app released that focuses on synth bass, and bass alone. iPad support and some useful import/export options are welcome additions, plus the lean towards live performance!

BassLine is a virtual analog bass synthesizer with built-in step sequencer and on-board effects. It’s unique filter (the heart of any subtractive synth), a never self-oscillating, cascaded low-pass, allows you to produce the well known high-resonance filter sweeps, typical for vintage synths like the legendary TB-303.

Feature List:
• Monophonic synthesis engine
• Individual pattern lengths & downbeat-aligned switches
• Overdrive with tube-like distortion characteristic
• Tape delay with tempo-synchronous delay times
• Pattern randomizer
• Four oscillator waveforms (sawtooth, square, pulse, and saw/triangle)
• Low frequency oscillator (LFO) for cutoff modulation
• Tap tempo & MIDI Clock sync support
• Accelerometer-driven cutoff frequency control
• Audio export via AudioCopy by Sonoma Wire Works, via General Pasteboard (Beatmaker compatible), or via E-Mail

Designed for live performance, and with the capability to interchange audio data with other apps or via mail, BassLine is for anybody who’s in creating electronic music, producer or deejay

For more info and sound samples – http://www.finger-pro.com/bassline.html

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Tiction is an open landscape for creating rich, evolving music.

Thousands of people have been using the Mac and PC versions of Tiction to create generative melodies and mesmerizing visuals. Now, Tiction AV takes the natural step onto the iPad.

How it works:
- Create nodes by tapping on the screen.
- Connect nodes together. Create long, complex sequences by chaining together many nodes.
- When triggered, a node plays a note with pitch determined by its position on the screen.
- Nodes can also send OpenSoundControl (OSC) messages when triggered.
- Nodes perform physical actions (jiggle, attract others, repel others) when triggered.

Features:
- High-quality sound sets
- Smooth, life-like physics
- Nodes can be assigned to one of four color-coded groups
- Nodes can be locked in place or allowed to roam free
- OpenSoundControl (OSC) support

Planned for next release:
- Ability to save and recall your compositions
- Import your own samples
- Change keys/modes

For more details, head to the developer’s site – http://www.tinkthank.net/software/tictionav/

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As far as UIs go, you couldn’t ask for a cleaner looking synth. We haven’t had a chance to play with olsynth, so let us know if you’ve downloaded it for your iPad.

A classic monophonic synthesizer with a clean and simple interface. Allows virtually infinite sound design possibilities.

7 Settings Modules :

Dual oscillator with 4 waveforms : square , triangle, sawtooth, reverse sawtooth / Glide

Oscillator frequency fine tune

Modulation

Filter Module

Envelope – volume

Envelope – filter

Arpeggio

olsynth includes open source code from MobileSynth developed by Allen Porter

For further details (although there aren’t many more) head to – http://www.olsonvox.com/

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