Pro Music Apps

HyperSpace, the waveform-sculpting 3-D oscilloscope synth is the latest edition of our Space series.

HyperSpace uses a unique algorithm to generate endless mesmerizing images from sound. It works similarly to a harmonograph, but uses its 3 voice oscillators instead of pendulums to create images. Each oscillator is mapped to a dimension in 3-D space. Playing a single note creates a wave, like on an ordinary oscilloscope. Playing two notes at once creates a plane as with the harmonograph, and playing a three note chord creates a volume.

There are two oscillators to crossfade between. These can be set to standard shapes as with older synths, but HyperSpace also lets you sculpt the waves with touch! Changing the wave shapes of course alters the sound, but it also alters the generated imagery. The variety of imagery generated with this simple algorithm is truly astonishing.

Features:
• Selectable keyboard scales for easier jams
• Fat keys option for fat fingers
• Three voice polyphony
• Two LFO modulators
• Lowpass filter effect
• Echo effect
• Audio Copy
• iTunes file sharing
• Works on iPad and iPhone 4s/4/3GS

HyperSpace 3D Synthesizer
Developer: The Strange Agency LLC

Rated: 4+

Price: $0.99 Download Here

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WaveSynth Pro is “easy and full-fledged musical instrument app specialized in performance”, a wave table, 16 multi-timbral synthesizer application for iPad with 128 preset sound tones and 1 drum set defined by General MIDI specification.

WaveSynth Pro has 2 mode for playing various musical instruments sound tone such as piano, guitar, trumpet, strings, flute, drums, percussions and so on.
“Performance Mode”: Playing 2 layered instruments. 4 presets stores each instrument and various parameters.
“GM Mode”: Recommended for playing GM compatible MIDI files. Instrument and parameters of each part can be edited, and performance of each part is also displayed.

The keyboard can be selected by 1 octave keyboard or 2 octave keyboard on the display. In every sound tone, most suitable octave is assigned automatically or to be chosen by manual.
Also touch velocity support using accelerometer allows rich performance.
In addition to normal keyboard play, various expressions could be added by the Pitch Bend Controller, Portamento, Mono Mode.

Also WaveSynth Pro supports CoreMIDI compatible MIDI interfaces for full 16 channel MIDI Input / Output. Please use your iPad as a perfectly GM sound module !

Specifications:
* 128 preset sounds and 1 drum set defined by General MIDI specification
* Performance Mode / GM Mode
* Touch Velocity Supported
* Pitch Bend Change Control
* Portamento On / Off
* Mono Mode On / Off
* Hi-Quality Reverb / Chorus / Delay Effect
* Supported CoreMIDI compatible MIDI Interfaces
* 16 Part Multitimbral

WaveSynth Pro
Developer: CRIMSON TECHNOLOGY, Inc.

Rated: 4+

Price: $2.99 Download Here

6 or so months after the iPad version debut, here is a pocket friendly, though equally quirky, version of cascadr, which is also free.

Cascadr experiments with the idea of playing a sequence of notes and a number of speeds – simultaneously. Rather than the sequences being played in time with each other (for example, 30bpm, 60bpm, 120bpm…) they are played at intervals of 1bpm – which generates an interesting cascading effect.

There are eight notes in this sequence, and each note’s pitch can be chosen over a range of 2 octaves (on a chromatic scale) starting from A4 (or 440Hz). It’s also possible to alter the volume of each note, so emphasis can be placed on specific notes. Simply touch the column that represents the value you wish to change and drag up or down. When you change a note or note volume, the change will be heard straight away.

Perhaps most importantly, you can choose the speed of the sequences. As the idea of this application is to play sequences with this cascading effect, you can only choose the speed of the first sequence. So, if you choose a speed of 10bpm, the next sequence will be played at 11bpm, the next at 12bpm and so on.

Along with functions for starting and stopping the sequence, there is a ‘re-sync’ function that allows you to restart the sequence from the beginning, meaning that all of the sequences will be put back in sync again.

There are also 8 ‘save slots’. Just select ‘Switch slot’ from the menu at the bottom of the screen, touch a slot number, close, and continue composing! All changes you make are automatically saved to the current slot.

FInally, there is a ‘MIDI On’ button that will switch the app from outputting audio to outputting MIDI. You can connect the MIDI output to virtual MIDI ports between apps running on the same device and also MIDI via Wifi.

While there may be some ‘shock-horror’ at the lack of syncopation, Cascadr can produce some really ambient melodies and rhythms – along with some interesting chords as the sequences slide in and out of time. Just set your sequence, speed, play and listen.

Have fun with it!

cascadr xs
Developer: Michael Aldridge

Rated: 4+

Price: free Download Here

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Waves and Musicsoft Arts join forces to create Mashup, the first pro DJ iPad app.
Technical Grammy® award-winning Waves Audio and Musicsoft Arts join forces to bring you Mashup, the first iPad DJ app made by professionals, for professionals. Featuring an advanced playback engine and effects controlled by an intuitive interface, Mashup lets you play and mix songs directly from your iPad music library and download exclusive tracks from leading DJs like Junior Sanchez, Kris Menace and Jason Nevins. No need to spend thousands of dollars on gear, lug around records, turntables, labtops and mixers.
Fire up Mashup, a complete mobile DJ booth, with studio-quality EQ and analog-style resonant filters, Vinyl Touch™ glitch-free scratching, and independent time-stretch and pitch-shift for each of its two stereo decks. From the app store to the dance floor—with Mashup and an iPad, you’ll rock the house.
Dual stereo decks with studio-quality EQ and FX
Independent time-stretch and pitch-shift for each deck
Analog-style resonant high pass/low pass filters with exclusive touch ribbon control
Free downloadable music from top DJs and producers
Vinyl Touch™ glitch-free scratching
Record your stereo mixes, then drag and drop into your computer
Play back any track in your library
Use your iPhone or iPod to monitor on headphones and cue the next track over a WiFi or Bluetooth connection

Want to make your Mashup mixes sound even better? Maximize the performance of your headphones and external speakers with MaxxVolume and MaxxBass, powered by the same Technical Grammy® award-winning Waves technologies used by the world’s leading DJs, producers, engineers, and musicians. For loud, clear, steady output levels and enhanced bass response, mash it up with Maxx.

MaxxVolume all-in-one dynamics control dramatically increases output levels.
MaxxBass psycho-acoustic bass enhancement delivers deep, rich lows you can really feel.
Preset sound modes for earbuds, DJ headphones, docking station speakers, home stereos speakers and club systems

Mashup
Developer: MusicSoft arts

Rated: 4+

Price: $27.99 Download Here

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Owners of Moog’s excellent Animoog can now access this new sound set via an in-app purchase.

From ethereal lead sounds to sci-fi insanity, the Devine expansion pack takes total advantage of Animoog’s uniquely expressive keyboard, modulation and timbre array.

The Devine Expansion Pack includes 32 original presets handcrafted by Richard Devine himself. Also included are 43 new Timbres nearly doubling Animoog’s sonic vocabulary.

Check the official page - http://www.moogmusic.com/products/apps/devine-expansion-pack-animoog

Check out some of the sounds

Animoog
Developer: Moog Music Inc.

Rated: 4+

Price: $29.99 Download Here

Certainly a must for beat mashers and remix producers… I’m looking forward to getting my hands on this upcoming app from Alex Matheu.

Glitchbreaks is an iOS Universal manipulation tool for “Glitching” breakbeats. Glitchbreaks uses four audio channels setup like mute groups. You can quickly switch between them to construct new beats, or manipulate loop points to “Cut” or “Glitch” the breaks.

Included in the factory sound set are 90 high quality loops hand crafted by Daniel Myer from Haujobb / Architect / Destroid / and more, Juan Espinosa from Cellmod, Isaac Glendening from Cesium 137, Alex Matheu from Negative Format / Distraub / Parallel Project and more, and Loopmasters: a high quality sample boutique.

Glitchbreaks can be used as a performance tool to juggle breaksbeats or destroy sounds at a granular level. You can make interesting effect like sounds by manipulating pitch, loop start, length, and cutting the beats with fluid responsive controls.

You can record your performance and bring it into iTunes through file sharing, or copy it out into another iOS application via Audio Copy and Paste. You pre determine the length of your recording by bars to easily make pieces to bring into a song without the need for further sample editing.

Auto-BPM detection will detect the tempo of a sample you copy into Glitchbreaks (you just need to specify the bars between 1-4). You can turn this feature off in order to manipulate audio that doesn’t have tempo, this is especially useful for manipulating voice samples.

Glitchbreaks contains a 4 channel mixer to adjust the levels of each sample, as you change the levels the sounds are combined into the mix, on the iPad version this is displayed graphically with a rendered waveform that is combined to give you an indication of what the entire sound looks like.

All of this is very easy to operate and even a beginner will be glitching and juggling breaks like a pro in minutes.

Features :

90 high quality factory beat loops

Audio Copy and Paste and General Pasteboard support (Both Copy and Paste)

4 continuous looping channels with 4 channel mixer

Auto-BPM detection / with on/off setting

Set the BPM up to 2.9 times the original sample BPM

Waveform Display with accurate position indicator (iPad only)

XY-Pad Loop Modulation (Loop Length, Loop Start)

Cut Editor / Sequencer with 4 user save slots

XY-Pads for selecting 4 Glitch or Cut styles

Pitch Shift

Pitch Reset

Independent time settings Whole, Half, Quarter

Quantize for Cut and Glitch operations

Recording to 44.1khz 16bit Wav files

Set custom record length in bars

iTunes File Sharing

Mute

Reverse

Mixer view with volume faders per channel.

Master volume

Universal app

Load sounds while playing without hitting stop

Demo of Glitchbreaks

Check the app’s official site – http://www.glitchbreaks.com/

File this one under quirky noise generators. Could be handy for sound designers though…

[Description from the developer's website]

Welcome to The Droner, experimental noise & drone station for iPad.
On the left, you can see the routing schematics of the synthesizer.
Be careful, you don’t have a classic or a regular machine in your hands.
Indeed, it can produce very unique and strange sounds textures and you have to learn to handle it.

You have to use it with earphones or to use a line input on your
sound-system in order to render the best results.

You can record while playing with it.
The PCM file will be saved in the document folder of The Droner application on your iPad.
You use iTunes to manage the files in this folder to backup them on your computer, or remove them.

Click here for a demo of the type of sounds you can make.

The Droner
Developer: Julien Bayle

Rated: 4+

Price: $3.99 Download Here

Pretty handy app, that is, provided you have one of their sound systems!…

KB1 Remote allows to control via WiFi connection your KB1 audio system:

The KB1 is an innovative product. In this sense it fits perfectly into the K-array brand: innovation and quality.

What makes it special is that it is immediately recognisable as a product which was developed in an environment (K-array) which is orientated towards the “professional” sector. Some solutions which have been adopted are unique in the entire panorama of products offered, and are the same as those used in stage setup during concerts (e.g. the medium-high speaker has the ability to electronically vary the height of sound diffusion).

The completeness of the instrumentation: the capacity to load different presets simply and at any time from a PC, the control of entry sound through an integrated professional digital mixer, and the ability to electronically modify the extent and the coverage of the sound vertically, make the instrument versatile and applicable in any situation with notable levels of quality.

The materials are those present only in concert systems of high calibre: steel, aluminium and wood are high-quality materials, used in professional level products.

More details on these array speaker systems - http://www.kblueline.com/en/

KB1 Remote
Developer: K-array s.r.l. unipersonale

Rated: 4+

Price: free Download Here

Free update just in for owners of FL Studio Mobile, which is Image Lines portable version of the popular FL Studio. The feature list isn’t extensive, but still welcome nonetheless.

New 1.4 features & changes include:

• In-App shop (Instruments Tab), with 2 x instrument packs available free (HD version only)
• Purchases can be transferred between FL Mobile and FL Mobile HD by copying ‘.flmdlc’ files.
• WiFi server button (Setup Tab) for file sharing via your Internet Browser
• Double tapping an instrument category button opens/closes all folders
• Faster App launch
• Playback timing and performance improved
• Updated graphics to support iPad 3.

Note: If you have FL Studio Mobile (iPhone/iPod) and FL Studio Mobile HD (iPad) install both on your iPad to unlock all the sample packs.

FL Studio Mobile HD
Developer: image-line

Rated: 4+

Price: $19.99 Download Here

This one could be useful if you’re involved in tuning PA systems for live shows, or even want to improve the acoustics of your recording studio.

The Spectrograph displays and records spectrograms (visual representations of the spectral density over time) by processing the audio signal from the microphone input (or any external microphone connected to the input jack) in realtime. It offers a 2D view and an amazing 360 degrees fullscreen 3D view.

Use the Spectrograph for studying music, animal sounds, voices and speech or just have fun with the beautiful visualization of environmental sounds! Make use of the ability to store and load spectrograms and even reprocess them with different settings for discovering new details in your recordings!

Spectrograph features:
- 2D view with control panel for record, free run and store
- 3D view (free run only) with touch gesture controls of the viewing angle
- free choice of bandwidth and number of frequency bands (depending on device up to 800!)
- 3 buffer sizes: 1024 / 2048 / 4096 samples
- 3 gain modes for getting the best out of every acoustical situation
- 6 different color schemes
- logarithmic time frequency scale (detachable)
- record spectrograms (recording time between 30 seconds and 2 minutes – depending on your device)
- record preroll
- reprocessing of recorded spectrograms
- compensation for the low cut of the built-in microphone and selected external microphones utilizing the input jack (available as in app purchases)
- detailed help section within the Spectrograph with no need for internet connection

Spectrograph
Developer: DSP Mobile UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)

Rated: 4+

Price: $9.99 Download Here

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