Pro Music Apps

Thump is the ultimate pocket groove box for your iPhone or iPod Touch.

The highly intuitive interface allows you to dive in straight away to make music in seconds, then explore the wide array of options and settings to tweak your sound to perfection. Ideal as a musical sketch pad or a live performance tool.

Create huge basslines or warped synth sounds with the two powerful polyphonic synthesizers onboard. Modeled on the classics, these synths offer a wide palette of sounds with its subtractive synthesis engine.

Choose from 9 studio-quality different drumkits, create your own or share and download more. The sample-accurate sequencing engine ensures your beats are as tight as mathematically possible!

Mix up your sound with multi-state filters, echo, distortion and lo-fi effects. Perform your compositions live by switch between different patterns you’ve created and using the onboard mixer.

Upload your songs to thump’s website so you can share them with your friends.

Download the free version of Thump onto your computer, and you’ll discover how easy it is to dive int othe intuitive interface and make music in seconds (at http://www.mrkbrz.com/thump/)

STEP SEQUENCER
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* 16 step sequencer with sample accurate timing.
* Songs store up to 8 note sequences of up to 4 bars for each instrument.
* Save and load songs so you can play back your creations at any time and refine them.
* Share your songs with friends across the web.

SYNTHESIZERS
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* 2 synthesizers modeled on analog classics.
* 3 voice polyphony for each synthesizer.
* Synthesizers: 2 oscillators per voice, choose from saw, triangle and square.
* Envelopes for both volume and filter.

DRUMS
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* Sample-based drum machine with 9 sounds at 16bit/44kHz.
* 9 Included drumkits: Live Kit, Standard Kit, Techno, TR808, Trippy, Amen Brother, Bleep, Japanese Percussion, Electro
* Unlimited polyphony and variable speed playback.
* Download your own samples from your computer (WAV format) using free ThumpUploader software.

MIXER
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* Volume and filters easily accessible from the main mixer page
* Hi, Low and Band-Pass filters for each instrument
* Digital Delay, Lo-Fi bitcrusher and distortion effects for each instrument

Video demo of Thump

iSyn has been out for a little while now but still holds it’s own. the synths sound great. for more details check out the official site www.isynapp.com

audiomidi and virsyn proudly present iSyn, a virtual music studio for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch that puts an unbelievable number of features including two studio-quality, fully-programmable monophonic virtual analog synthesizers and a drum machine in the palm of your hand! Play iSyn live with the onscreen keyboard or eight drum pads for fun live jam sessions or let iSyn do the playing for you with its grid sequencer for pattern-based music creation. iSyn can even play a beat and synth track while you jam over sequence tracks for a one-man iPhone band!

Create compelling, original music on your iPhone or iPod touch with PatternMusic.

PatternMusic was designed to inspire creativity, learning and experimentation in music enthusiasts and experts alike.

PatternMusic is three music tools in one:

1. •Intuitive song creation using layered instrument patterns.
2. •An interactive polyphonic musical instrument with over 50 different voices.
3. •Play along with your iPod® Music Library without leaving the app

The latest simple demo video of iSample 2.0. iSample 2.0 is the latest update to iSample from Way Out Ware, Inc. It includes a ton of new features that turn iSample into a powerful and fun beat and song creation tool.

iSample 2.0 demo

DopplerPad 2 is available in the App Store! This free update appears to add some tasty new features……

Here’s what we like the look of -

Effects -

The first thing you may notice is that the pads now have an effect button next to the instrument button. This pops open a menu similar to the instrument menu. Tapping effects toggles them on and off. The great thing about this is that you can now apply any effect to any instrument (including samplers and drum kits)!


New Tools -

The heart of this update is in the Tools menu where we find 2 new items. Synths and Effects. These are powerful editors that let you create and edit your own custom synth instruments and effects.

Synths -

In the Synths Tool, you’ll find that you can freely edit the parameters of the synthesizer that powers DopplerPad. This editor gives you access to every parameter we had when creating the original set of factory instruments.

• 2 Oscillators – including 5 waveforms, phase control, frequency difference and more
• Amplification Envelope
• Filter – Low Pass or High Pass
• Mod Envelope
• LFO – which includes beat sync, waveform, destination and more
• Mod Y – which lets you control how the Y axis of a pad effects different synth parameters
• Velocity – which lets you control how tap velocity effects different synth parameters

Each item above gets its own panel in the Synths editor, and they all have many more parameters than I’ve listed here. If you ever want more details on what a given parameter does, tap the info button on the panel for a detailed description.

Effects -

Similar to the Synths Tool, Effects lets you create and edit custom Effects to use on the pads. When editing Effects, you’ll find

• Delay – which can be beat-synced
• Delay Filter – which lets you apply a Filter to the Delay
• Distortion
• Mod Y – Similar to Effects, this lets you control parameters of the Effect on the Y axis

For more details head to – www.dopplerpad.com

AKAI PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCES iPK25 AND
SynthStation Studio FOR iPhone® AND iPod® Touch

Cumberland, R.I. (Jan 14, 2010) – Akai Professional, the name synonymous with music production, announces the iPK25 keyboard controller and the SynthStation Studio music production app, both for iPhone and iPod Touch. Akai Pro will unveil the iPK25 and SynthStation Studio at the 2010 Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA, booth 6400, January 14–17.

The iPK25 and SynthStation Studio transform a musician’s iPhone or iPod Touch into a portable music production studio for mobile music creation. While the SynthStation Studio app is powerful enough for professional musicians, virtually anyone can use it to easily create music. The app gives musicians three synthesizers for creating and modifying sonic textures used for melodies, chords and bass lines. Built around Akai Professional’s history in synthesis and drawing on the company’s newest MINIAK synth, the SynthStation Studio app sounds great and offers wide-ranging sonic flexibility with its virtual analog synthesis.

SynthStation Studio users can create and save sequences and complete songs. The app contains three different three-oscillator synths, and drum kits, which musicians can sequence and mix right in the SynthStation Studio. For creating melodic and accompaniment parts, the SynthStation Studio contains an arpeggiator with preset patterns, built-in effects and filters and an XY control interface for expressive control of key parameters.

The SynthStation Studio features an on-screen keyboard for use on the go. It is also designed for use with its companion keyboard, the iPK25. This 25-key MIDI keyboard features a built-in dock for the iPhone or iPod Touch. It gives users two octaves of velocity-sensitive, synth-action keys, pitch and modulation wheels, and physical buttons for the most commonly used controls including octave up and down and sound-bank selections. The iPK25 also features a stereo pair of RCA line outputs and a headphone output for connection to recording and sound reinforcement systems. The iPK25 also has a USB/MIDI output for use as a controller for other MIDI software on Mac or PC and MIDI hardware devices.

“The package of the iPK25 keyboard and the SynthStation Studio app transform the iPhone into a professional musical instrument,” said Adam Cohen, Director of Business Development, Akai Professional.

The iPK25 will be available from pro audio and musical instrument retailers in March 2010. The SynthStation Studio app will be available from the iTunes App Store in January 2010.