Pro Music Apps

Play with the colors and find the composer in you!
You recognize this? You picked up a melody that keeps going on in your mind. You can hum it but can’t write the notes down unless you are a well educated musician. Playing it on a keyboard is even more difficult. At least up to now.
From now on there is the melody music maker. This great piece of software makes a composer out of everyone. It transforms every simple melody into a well composed and correct arranged master piece. Everything you need is a bit of time and an idea for a melody. The remaining part will be handled by this app. It is your private arranger and composer in one.
What have Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney and Ray Charles in common? They could not read scores but nevertheless their songs captured the world. With Melody Music Maker you are walking in the trails of these super talents. You can fully focus on one thing: the melody that you enjoy, without taking care for the notes and theoretical correctness. Colors guide the user through the composition of the song. In real-time the Melody Music Maker will provide you with options for well sounding chord progressions. With this method great songs are created in no time, songs that can keep up with the ones of your idols.
With Melody Music Maker it is fun to express intuitively your musical ideas, they grow as you play.

Melody music maker has the following features:
* This app adds theoretical composing knowledge to your musical ideas
* Presets provide you with suggestions for theoretical settings like root key, scale, tempo, etc.
* 127 sounds to enrich you composition with the right voice
* Modulation and glide features to enrich your sound
* Record several takes on top of each other
* Wizard function, improves the timing of your recording
* Seperate MIDI channels for chords and lead voice
* x and y controllers over lead voice area to control sound changes as you play
* Sync out for synchronization with arranger keyboards, sequencers, music work stations, etc.

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If you are fond of music and knows all about music apps for iOS, you will be delightful to find out that the second major update of Rhythm Studio for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad has beed just released. The app features such handy novelties as:

- New analog modeled synth with two oscillators modeling analog waveforms, a 24db resonant filter, oscillator sync and ring modulation
-New FX with Phaser, D-Verb, S-Verb, Amp Distortion, 2 band Equalizer and Auto Filter.
- Improved navigation with a zoom button and panning which snaps to each device.
- Full multi-touch allows users to control and move as many knobs and switches as they want.
- New ST-1 sound patches provided by professional music producer and Senior Sound Designer, Red-Eye.

Rhythm Studio takes the classic software to a whole new level making it a must-have for musicians of all levels. The app has been well received in the world music community reaching number 1 for the iPad music category in 12 countries and staying at the top of the iPhone and iPad charts for weeks upon release. The second major update takes music recording experience to the whole new level, introducing new instruments as well as improved controls that provide the smoothest recording experience then ever before.

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Animoog is Moog Music’s first professional synthesizer for iOS devices, and was the first music app in history to hit number one in the App Store on the day of release. Additionally, in the 2011 App Store Rewind, Apple named Animoog one of the best apps of the year.

Powered by Moog’s new Anisotropic Synth Engine (ASE), Animoog allows you to move dynamically through an X/Y space of unique timbres to create a constantly evolving and expressive soundscape.

Animoog captures the vast sonic vocabulary of Moog synthesizers and applies it to the modern touch surface paradigm, enabling you to sculpt incredibly fluid and dynamic sounds that live, breathe, and evolve as you play them.

Visually captivating and sonically immersive, Animoog brings iPad based music production to the next level. Whether you are new to synthesis or a professional, Animoog’s unique user interface gives you the power to easily create a visually vibrant and sonically rich universe. It is the ultimate tool for total creative expression!

Animoog’s diverse library of timbres is derived from analog waveforms captured from classic Moog oscillators, both vintage and modern, and run through a boutique’s worth of high-end outboard and analog signal processors. These include modular synth panels, Moogerfooger pedals and more.

Animoog is the newest innovation in creative tools from Moog Music, the legendary electronic musical instrument company founded by Bob Moog in Asheville, NC.

Key Features:

• Anisotropic Synth Engine (ASE) – An exciting new Moog technology that allows the user to move dynamically through an X/Y space of unique timbres to create an expressive and constantly evolving soundscape.

• Timbre page – Assemble unique sounds in the X/Y space from timbres of a wide variety of vintage and modern Moog synthesizers and pedals. Note: this is NOT simple sample playback.

• Polyphonic Modulation – Simply slide your fingers to control multiple modulation parameters in Animoog right from the keys.

• Polyphonic Pitch Shifting – Easily manipulate the exact pitch of each note in a chord by rotating or sliding your fingers.

• Delay Module – A classic analog style ping pong delay.

• Thick Module – From bit crushing to unison voice detuning and drive, this module adds depth, edge and character to Animoog’s already massive sound palette.

• Moog Filter – The classic four-pole Moog ladder filter with High Pass, Low Pass and Band Pass modes.

• Record Module – Record your performance and overdub new layers, or play along live. Transfer recordings between Animoog and any other apps which support the general pasteboard.

• Path Module – Direct ASE through Animoog’s X/Y space to create new expressive and shifting sounds that will blow your mind!

• Orbit Module – Control the rate of orbit in the X/Y space around the path you created for subtle to insane voice manipulation.

• Flexible Modulation Matrix – Amp, Filter and Mod Envelopes, LFO with infinitely variable wave shapes and sync, and four super flexible and assignable modulation slots.

• MIDI in – Use your Little Phatty or any other MIDI controller to control Animoog.

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Grain Science is a beautiful new iPad Synthesiser. Designed for musicians, soundscape artists and SFX engineers who want to go beyond our Sylo Synthesiser, Grain Science is built on similar principles of granular synthesis, but is vastly more powerful.

Use the built-in waveforms, or record or import your own — then use the sophisticated grain engine to create something completely new from them! Grain Science is easy to get to grips with, but offers lots of depth to explore: instead of offering one or two LFOs, almost any parameter in the system can be programmed to vary over time in complex ways.

Using new optimisations available in iOS 5, we can provide two grain units per voice, which you can combine for morphing or complex modulated sounds, then send through a configurable FX chain. Pick any 4 from the collection of FX units (including various types of distortion, high- and low-pass filters, phaser, resonance and echo), and connect them up in any order. Other audio tweaks include soft loop, reverb, glide and supercharger controls, and the ability to affect granular synthesis in realtime (live grainbending).

Also featured are an arpeggiator with both chord and step-sequence modes; Core MIDI support, including “tap & twist” learning for setting up controls; and a customisable performance screen with a collection of XY Pads and wheels.

Rounding it off, Grain Science plays nicely with others: Dropbox, Twitter and email integration are all included, for sharing or exporting your waveforms, recordings of your performances, and instrument (patch) designs.

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This new experimental music app is free, and probably only has niche appeal, but is probably a handy app (pun intended) to have in your musical arsenal.

A new app from Thounds designed exclusively for iPad, helping you to compose and manipulate music by using your fingers.
This is the first release and new features yet improvements are coming very soon (including full integration with the collaborative music platform Thounds.com)

Dingsaller Lite is a workspace for creating algorithmic compositions. Patch together a complex graph of music generating nodes, synths, and effects and control them with a touch.

PRAISE FOR DINGSALLER’S FULL VERSION
“There’s a lot of complexity hidden in a very simple interface.” – the-palm-sound.blogspot.com

“Music app junkies, this belongs in your collection” – Robert West

Key Features:
- Synths and Sampler Instruments
- Digital Effects
- Pattern Sequencer
- Random Note Generators
- Touch and Tilt Controllers

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- MIDI Input and Output
- Recording
- Audio Copy / Paste
- More Instrument and Effect Nodes

Nebula brings real-time granular synthesis to the iPad, including glissons and grainlets.
Granulation can be performed on several prototypal waveforms (sines, triangles,
squares, noise) and morphing can be applied between them.

It is possible to store presets and interpolate among them using a single finger through
the gesture mode (activable by the provided button or simply by going to landscape
mode). You can also save and load banks of presets and share them to your friends
through iTunes, using the App page.

In the motion mode, it is possible to control some parameter of the synthesis in a
physical manner by simply moving the iPad in your hands. Finally, all the produced
sounds can be recorded and exported to your favourite platform: the recorded sounds
will be found in iTunes under the App page.

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IK Multimedia’s pocket-friendly sampler has just gone universal, so iPad owners can now enjoy better use of the interface.

Here’s a list of the other new features in v1.1

- Universal app for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch
- Built-in 4-track MIDI recorder
- Enhanced drum pads interface
- More instruments included: 136 (132+4 after registering)
- More instruments available via in-app purchase for more than 500 total instruments
- More patterns: now includes more than 1,000 patterns
- Now compatible with every audio dock

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A touch on the pricey side, but certainly one of the more unique approaches I’ve seen to synths for the iPad!

Sketch Synth 3D gives you a completely new way of turning short sketches into sound loops. To draw sounds in 3D you can use a touchpad, accelerometers and automated envelopes. This gives you maximum control over the shapes that your sounds take on. Standard XY Pads can give you some extra control over parameters; but Sketch Synth 3D lets you add in that third dimension that can really let you smooth out and add shape to a sound.

You can either use Sketch Synth’s sound engine to apply effects to samples (including wav files of your own as of the next release: version 1.0.1), or you can use it to output OSC or Midi to your existing synths.

Sketch Synth can take input from a variety of devices using it’s OSC input, one Sketch Synth running on an iPad can control another Sketch Synth running on you main computer. You can even take input from a Kinect device using OSCeleton or OSCKinnection. As of version 1.0.1 we will add iPad 1 support, but performance with Kinect OSC input is poorer.

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TC-11 is the fully programmable, professional multi-touch synthesizer for the iPad. Choose from the 64 included presets, or build your own using touch controls, device motion, and on-board modules. Create music with the next evolution of synthesizer control!

FEATURES:

√ 64 built-in presets
√ Unlimited user patches
√ Fully controlled by multi-touch / device motion
√ 21 modular synthesis objects
√ 22 oscillator waveforms
√ 3 controller modules: AHDSR, LFO, Sequencer
√ Email custom patches to your friends
√ Full display customization

MULTI-TOUCH CONTROL:

There are no on-screen knobs, keys, or sliders to fiddle with; all synthesis is driven by your multi-touch performance. Touch relationships like distances / angles / timings perform all the controller functions. It’s just you and the full screen multi-touch performance area.

EVERY synthesis parameter can be controlled by ANY multi-touch controller. The patch possibilities are limitless!

DEVICE MOTION CONTROL:

Use the iPad’s accelerometer, gyroscope, and even the compass to attack your synthesis patch! Tilt and move the iPad to change any filter, effect, or module. You can create real vibrato by moving the iPad during performance, or change the speed of a sequencer by tilting forward and backward!

SYNTHESIS:
TC-11 has 8 voice polyphony for full, real-time synthesis. The audio engine has been highly optimized to deliver crisp, responsive performance. Choose from 22 oscillator waveforms, 3 oscillator types, 3 filter types, 4 unique effects, amplitude modulation, and panning control.

Fully programmable AHDSR, LFO, and sequencer modules make TC-11 the most capable iOS synthesizer in the world.

Use TC-11 in your band during live performances. Add TC-11 into your laptop orchestra. Experiment and create with the next evolution of synthesizer control!