Pro Music Apps

Shapemix: Remix, Create and Share

A revolutionary and intuitive way to interact with music you love.

* Mix in space – See your audio as you hear it.
* Multi-touch – Move and manipulate several audio channels at once.
* Visual feedback – Understand how effects change sounds in real time.

Begin Mixing Immediately

* Start remixing immediately with access to nearly 100 free tracks within the App.

* To further enhance mixes, additional songs and tracks from a variety of artists will soon be available to purchase

Remix Music Anytime, Anywhere

* Simply drag and drop complete songs or tracks stored in your Shapemix Collection to create an original music mix.
* Import a vocal track, lower the drum beat, and extend the guitar solo all with the touch of your finger.
* Adjust the BPM on the fly.
* Add effects to each of the tracks – reverb, delay, flanger and low pass – to create an original sound.

Share Mixes

For more details, click here - http://www.shapemix.com

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Steinberg has finally taken the plunge into the iOS platform with its first app – LoopMash. Now this is no pocket-friendly version of Cubase or Wavelabs, but more of a simple virtual instrument with loop mixing capabilities.  The app definitely looks like a fun and creative way of generating some fresh loops.

LoopMash is an innovative virtual instrument that presents you with a new way to blend simultaneously up to four two-bar loops together by juggling similar elements across looped beats and tunes. Now ported to the iOS platform, this sizzling hot instrument lets you choose from over 40 presets and 250 included loops ranging all the way from ethno to electro. Quality content, intuitive control and 3-D navigation for effortless page browsing make this app a must-have for party-goers, music aficionados and pretty much everyone in between. LoopMash for iPhone and iPod touch brings the future of music technology to your fingertips.

Since its debut in Cubase (the most popular music production system the world over) many users have requested that Steinberg adapt this hot instrument to the iOS platform. Well, here it is: LoopMash, the app to mash up loops of different music styles like a pro.

Key features:
- More than 250 addictive audio loops included
- Over 40 presets to get you started right away
- Intuitive 3-D swipe-page navigation
- Load and play with up to 4 loops per scene
- 8 scenes available per preset
- 4 studio-grade effects for more sound control

For a full run down the app, click here - http://www.steinberg.net/en/products/apps_sounds_accessories/loopmash.html

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From the creator of modAxis, comes another unique music mincing app. Looks pretty straightforward. Grab it for free before April 1st.

This is a music sampler instrument to make glitchy sound from sound source. You can load about 4sec .wav file you want to use from iTune and play them intuitively. So,this instrument can be used for getting idea for your composition, sound design or live performance.

For more on this developer’s apps, click here - http://web.me.com/koutarofukui/on;(do)_studio/index_en.html

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Beat Twirl is a “beat slicer” app. The app lets you analyze existing sounds and detect their rhythm with its note onset algorithms. With Beat Twirl you can work with drum loops and rhythm patterns, easily enhancing them with additional percussion sound, or create new patterns.

With Beat Twirl you can:

• Change the tempo (time) of drum loops without changing the pitch.
• Analyze percussion patterns and find the underlying timing.
• Mix-in additional percussion sounds, or replace the original sounds
• Export single beats from a sound file.

How to use Beat Twirl?

• You can record yourself singing or clapping a rhythm, than add percussion instruments to the rhythm you created.
• You can extract a rhythmic/percussive section from a song and convert it to a loop you can play along with at different tempos.
• Mix-in percussion instruments to a song to enhance its’ rhythm.
• Extract beat samples from a song for use with a beat sequencer.

Features:
• Import audio from your ipod library, using iTunes file sharing or using audio copy/paste from supporting applications.
• Record using an external mic or the built in mic.
• Universal app. UI designed iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Supports retina displays.
• Two spectrum based note onset detection algorithms.
• Manual slicing capabilities on top of the automated algorithm.
• Mix in percussion beats from a library of 300 samples.
• Export audio as wav, caf or aac. Export using audio copy, iTunes files sharing or email.

For more details, click here - http://www.tivstudio.com

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If this does what it says it can, it sounds pretty impressive. So we’ll have to take a closer look when we get a chance. If you’ve tried it out, please let us know what you know think!

Create magical music with Mixtikl. Uniquely mix top quality generative music with loops + FX. It’s stunning!

What is Mixtikl?
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• A powerful 12 track cell-sequencer, mixer & generative music creativity app
• Lets you use loops you have made in other apps & mix them with generative music / FX
• From the devs of the SSEYO Koan (1990-2007) & Noatikl (2007-) Generative Music systems
• Is regularly updated, extended & improved: it’s alive, kicking & on 14th free update!
• Gets easier to use and more powerful with each release

Key Features of Mixtikl 12 Track Mixer of Generative Music, Loops & FX:
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• Includes over: 100 generative “parts”, 30 audio loop beats + 50 FX presets
• Extendable with in-app purchasable great value Tiklpaks of loops & generative content
• Use your mix recordings royalty free in films, videos, presentations, cds etc.*
• Copy / Paste audio files via Sonoma AudioCopy & AudioPaste + Apple General Pasteboard
• Export / import fun music mix “mixtikls” – for Tweeting, Email, Forum Posts & Web pages
• Transfer in / out your own loops, recordings & mix files via iTunes App File Sharing
• Transfer in your own zipped content Paks via iTunes App File Sharing and ZipCopy**
• Make microphone audio recordings for use in mixes (external mic required if no internal mic)
• Auto time stretch & pitch shift Tiklpak content, plus change mix tempo & root settings
• Set individual track volume & pans, global volume & solo / mute tracks
• Play at up to CD quality stereo output (user configurable, device dependent)
• Includes integrated Partikl multi-synth for per track and global FX with:
- MIDI DLS wavetable synth + chainable FX & Tone Generators***
- FX units (Chorus, Reverb, Filter, Distortion, ODrive, Delay, EQ, Compressor, Amp)
- FX control units (LFO, Envelope, Amp); Tone Generators (Oscillator, Particle, Dsynth, Wavetable)

Grab a full run down on this app here - http://intermorphic.com/tools/mixtikl/index.html

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Loopseque for the iPad has been out for a little while, but we just saw this over at Palmsounds

Loopseque Mini!

Loopseque is an incredibly simple app for creating music. With Loopseque making music is like playing a game. Create beats, switch fast between patterns and arrange compositions. You can access your music instantly and everywhere.

CONCEPT:

• Designed for fun and improvisation
• Attractive for both beginners and professionals
• Suitable for all ages

FEATURES:

• “Big Wheel” mode for easy pattern creation
• “Wheel Matrix” mode for fast switch between patterns
• Master Class. Learn to make music in different styles
• Tap and Sync for team play
• Swing option to add motion to the beat
• Cut, Copy and Paste
• Load & Save projects

LOOPING PLACES:

• At Home: on your own, together with a friend or even with the whole family
• At a Party: it’s fun in any setting. Amuse your friends, make music together
• On a Trip: on board of a plane, in a car, or on a train
• On Stage: improvise during live performances, create new beats on the fly

TECHNICAL INFO:

• 32-step circle sequencer
• 4 channels with 9 patterns per channel
• 17 professionally-designed electonic sample sets
• 5 sample sets for kids
• 14 preinstalled basic music compositions

DESIGN:

• * Special “mini” design for best usability on iPhone & iPod Touch
• * Pixel accurate desing for the exciting Retina Display

PERFORMANCE:

• * iPhone 4 & 3GS: great performance, smooth animations
• * iPhone 3G: high quality sound, but with limited animations

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This neat, if a little pricey, iPhone app does two things that make learning any tricky riffs and patterns, much easy thanks to its looping and slow-down options.

Capo helps you learn to play the music in your iPod library.

By slowing down the music without affecting its pitch, you can learn to play it slowly, and then speed it up as you improve. You can drop markers at key points in the song, and set loop points to repeat them.

In addition to letting you choose songs from your iPod library(*), Capo will let you quickly add the currently-playing song from your iPod, placing the cursor right where you left off listening.

For more information, and to watch some videos of Capo in action, check out the Capo website at http://capoapp.com.

(*) Capo supports WAV, AIFF, MP3, and Unprotected AAC formats. iTunes Plus purchases are supported, but older iTunes purchases are not. Most music can be upgraded to iTunes Plus—please see the iTunes store for more details.

For more details, check the official site – http://supermegaultragroovy.com/products/Capo/iphone.html

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iZotope continue to impress us with the amazing sound processing tools they continue to produce, and we’re also a fan of their growing library of iDrum apps. At last count there were around a dozen different musical style and artists covered, and although this fun, 8-bit video game themed version has been out for over a year, if you don’t have it already, now is the time to pick it up as all this month the app is FREE. Yes FREE!

We encourage you to check out the others too, as there is likely to be something else there that appeals as well.

Check out the full collection here – http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/idrum/iphone/

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Following a few simple, loop-based music apps, Hige Five has dropped the chilled beats (literally!) with their latest universal music app, Aura Flux. We’ll let them describe it for you -

Aura Flux is a unique and innovative ambient music creation App for iOS devices. Create unlimited, generative music by simply connecting nodes together drawing pictures. With a wealth of options available for each node the sound, frequency, pitch can be changed to your needs or set to random to create evolving music.

With 48 individual sounds and a wide variety of features for how each connection reacts with the next, Aura Flux offers limitless possibilities. Choose from one of 4 moods (keys) and adjust the background ambiance to create new music every time you play with Aura Flux. The entire screen also acts as a touch instrument letting you play along melodies with any of the 48 instruments included.

Featuring full save and load, keep your favorite scenes to recall and listen to later or tweak to suit your mood.

FEATURES

- 48 High quality stereo instruments
- 14 Stereo background ambience sounds
- 4 Seasons (keys)
- Unlimited generative music
- Full save and load of scenes
- Universal App
- Supports multitasking on iOS4
- All in under 8Mb!

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Check the developer’s site for all the details – http://www.higefive.com/apps/flux/

Well this one certainly came out of the blue. I’m eating toast and surfing the usual sites, when i stumble on Reactable Mobile.I spat vegemite and crumbs all over the table!

If you haven’t heard of Reactable, I suggest you go and look here. Explaining it will make my brain hurt.

Needless to say it’s a highly desirable piece of kit straight out of science fiction.

And now those clever kids have created a version for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

I’ve only started playing with it, but it looks, feels and sounds amazing.

Reactable Mobile is in a league of it’s own.

Check out the vids, I’m off to play some more.

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