Pro Music Apps

Attention all DubSteppers, if there are still any around these days. This simple synth and drum loops app is aimed straight at you. The controls and features are simple, but if you look at is as a free bass synth app, it’s still pretty good value.

Make wobbles bass sounds, dubstep loops and throw in some drops and fx at the touch of a few fingers by sliding, touching and tapping the screen; no musical knowledge is required.

This easy to use app is perfect for dub steppers, bass heads and music producers, musicians and non-musicians alike.

Making dubstep has never been so easy and enjoyable!

Features:
◆ Studio quality samples, created by professional musicians and producers.
◆ Over 300 wobble bass variatons, 10 drum loops and 10 extra FX.
◆ Colour assigned buttons, for clear and straightforward use.
◆ Pitch resample all of the built in samples.
◆ 12 fully editable sample pads
◆ 1 octave keyboard (13 keys) with pitch shifting spanning 5 octaves.
◆ 3 different wobble synthesizers
◆ ADSR

☐ Sample Pads
Select a sample for each pad and customise its volume, pitch, and loop duration. Layer up to 12 looping or touch triggered pads at once.

☐ Wobble Synth
Choose from 3 different wobble bass synth types. Select the central octave with the octave + or – buttons, and pitch shift up to three notes at once in real time with the pitch shift wheel. Use the LFO buttons to change the wobble speed and make intuitive wobble bass riffs!
☐ ADSR
Use the rotating potometers to alter the attack, decay, release and sustain of your wobble synth to get the perfect sound to fit your creation.

Check the site for details and videos - http://www.freshtouchmedia.com/

Bass Drop
Developer: Ben Frost

Rated: 4+

Price: $0.99 Download Here

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And now for something completely different… get into the flow of triqtraq, and jam out your tracks in realtime!

Are you a DJ or electronic music producer? You will find dozens of possibilities inside triqtraq to compose and tweak your beats on the fly.
Or are you just starting out making electronic music? Triqtraq is straightforward enough to get you good sounding results quickly.

Grab your iPhone and start to improvise; live, in your studio or on your couch. Pick sounds from the included sample library, or import your own samples to get that unique sound.

Triqtraq strikes the right balance between musical possibilities and limitations and lets you focus on the most important part of making music… having FUN!
KEY FEATURES
▪ create musical patterns fast and intuitively, by programming live or by using the ‘step edit’-feature
▪ automate parameters like pitch, filter, delay, decay and level in real-time
▪ change samples or sample kits on-the-fly while jamming
▪ edit multiple tracks simultaneously
▪ store up to 16 patterns and 32 samples per session
▪ specify the length of a sequence per track, or set the automation length for each parameter individually
▪ switch seamlessly between patterns
▪ use the loop range feature to create poly-rhythmic sequences
▪ use sounds from the 350+ factory sample library
▪ import your own sounds via iTunes file sharing

For more details, check the official site - http://www.triqtraq.com/

Demo of some of the features-

triqtraq - jam sequencer
Developer: Sebastian Schatz

Rated: 4+

Price: $2.99 Download Here

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An inspiring fun music sequencer. There are no menus, just buttons waiting to be pressed.
Designed for electronic style music like 80s electro, disco, dub-step, house, drum & bass and techno.
“STEP” button to offset the pad/hit sounds to the beat
Featuring 8 tracks including 4 drum tracks, a baseline track, a synthesiser track, a chord/pad track and an effects track.
6 patterns can be recalled at any time.
Two of the tracks step at different speeds for less repetition.
High quality sounds taken from well known and respected synthesisers and drum machines like Access, Waldorf, Novation and Korg.
Other functions such as tempo, a write-protect button to avoid accidental pattern saving, volume control, mute tracks, and an auto-un-mute function for jumping into a pattern after a build-up.
Save all your patterns for later.
Sounds great on headphones or Hi-Fi.

For more details - http://beatsnbobs.com/tictacbeatselectrodescription.html

Demo video of the features

Tic Tac Beatz Electro
Developer: Rob Wilmot

Rated: 4+

Price: $1.99 Download Here

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This one certainly peeks on the side of quirky and experimental, but shows great potential for free form sound scape creation

luanna is an audio-visual application designed for the iPad that allows you to control sonic artist manabu shimada’s music artwork through the manipulation of moving images.
The luanna app has been designed to be visually simple and intuitive, whilst retaining a set of rich and comprehensive functions.
Through hand gestures you can touch, tap and manipulate the image, as if you were touching the sound. The image changes dynamically with your hand movements, engaging you with the iPad’s environment.

The luanna app offers many possibilities to create unique audio-visual designs.

Check out this vid for a tutorial/demo -

Click here

luanna
Developer: Manabu Shimada

Rated: 4+

Price: $16.99 Download Here

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This app combines a 3-voice FM synthesizer with an implementation of the Logique Analogique sequencer, which triggers notes when a weighted sum of different signals exceeds a threshold.

The app was created from a Simulink* model without writing app-specific code, using the Audio Plugin Generator source code. For more information, please visit our website.

For more details, check out the developer’s site - http://audioplugingenerator.com/

APG Composer
Developer: dlab GmbH

Rated: 4+

Price: Free Download Here

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Got yourself one of Roland’s new Jupiter-80s? This should be a must have app then….

Synth Tone Editor for JUPITER-80/50

● “JP Synth Editor” is an iPad app that allows you to edit the SuperNATURAL Synth Tones of the Roland JUPITER-80 and JUPITER-50.

* Synthesizer sound generator not included.
* Roland JUPITER-80 or JUPITER-50 required to use this app.

● You can use the large display of the iPad to control the parameters of a Synth Tone and turn layers on/off.

● This allows you to visually control the parameters in a graphical editing screen not only for the JUPITER-80 but also for the JUPITER-50.

For more details on this hot new synth (the real one) - http://www.roland.com/synth/JUPITER/features.html

JP Synth Editor
Developer: Roland Corporation

Rated: 4+

Price: Free Download Here

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Word just in from developer, Ron Gerrist, who created the Super Jupiter 8V Programmer app last year (more info - http://www.4littlefonzies.nl/), that he is currently working on a  controller for the Arturia Moog modular virtual synth software.

Still chasing further details on what to expect feature wise from this app, but here’s a few early screenshots.

The world’s first FM synthesis music workstation app,iYM2151.
80′s game and computer sound is back!

YM2151, aka OPM is a single-chip FM synthesis implementation, an eight-channel four-operator sound chip. it was used in many 80′s arcade games and home computers.iYM2151 is the The world’s first FM synthesis music workstation app using YM2151 simulator engine for iApp.

[iYM2151 for iPad]
-uses YM2151 simulator engine for iApp
-4 operators per 8 Algorithms
-8 voices
-3 software LFOs
-max 99scenes (1scene with 64 steps)
-easy FM edit mode
-MML mode : programable huge FM parameters in every steps
-DUMP mode : realtime all FM operator parameters viewer
-song data file sharing and mail attachment
-good old days 80′s design user interface

If you’re Japanese is any good this video will make a little more sense

Check out more videos here - http://www.detune.co.jp/detune/iym2151

iYM2151
Developer: DETUNE Ltd.

Rated: 4+

Price: $34.99 Download Here

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Pianola HD is a beautiful electronic keyboard synthesizer, capable of reproducing sound only obtainable with the more famous and expensive audio synthesizers on the market.

You can try your arrangements, agreements at any time of day and in any place, simply launch HD Pianola.

Consists of an electronic keyboard and a good 8 control panels all at your tap thanks to the large iPad screen, allowing you to change the sounds played in every detail, giving your performances of incredible features.

Control panels and main characteristics:

- Oscillator Module
- Oscillator Level 1
- Oscillator Level 2
- Glide Rate
- Waveforms (Square, Triangle, Sawtooth, Reverse Sawtooth waves)
- Oscillator Freq Fine Tune
- Level Semis
- Cents
- Oscillator 1/2 Sync
- Low Pass Filter Module
- Modulation LFO rate
- Modulation Amount
- Filter / Pitch / Wave
- Volume Envelope Generator (4 stages)
- Filter CutOff
- Filter Resonance
- Filter Envelope Generator (4 Phases)
- Rate Arpeggio
- ADSR (Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release)
- Octaves selector, supporting 5 octaves
- Step Mode (Up-Down-Up/Down-Random)

For more details - http://voyagerft.dynalias.net/

PianolaHD
Developer: Francesco Tripicchio

Rated: 4+

Price: $1.99 Download Here

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Get your nerd on with new app, that generates sounds and patterns based on raw programming code. Looks intriguing, if a little hardcore.

BitWiz Audio Synth translates C-like code expressions into lo-fi 8-bit generative audio in real-time.

Explore the algorithmic music of simple bitwise arithmetic operations!

BitWiz comes bundled with lots of examples, and you can easily add your own codes to the built-in library.
You can also share your codes by e-mail.

The entered code expression is used to calculate each audio frame, and can optionally include the microphone input as a variable, for crazy distortion effects!

Demo of app making music via code -

 

BitWiz Audio Synth
Developer: jonatan liljedahl

Rated: 4+

Price: $2.99 Download Here

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