Tablet apps

Thanks for the Sampletank recommendation. That pretty much does what I want - just some basic ballpark sounds to trigger from the MPC sequencer while composing away from my other gear.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/boom-80 ... 89660?mt=8

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/boom-90 ... 11142?mt=8

Do they sound 100% like the real things...no. But what emulation does? Do they sound good..yep. Do you get your .99 worth on each? Hell yes.

As you can see in the flicks they follow the input methodology of the original machines right down to a adaptation of the 909s accent implementation. On the right of the GUIs you see the +/- , those are used like this...you highlight one bar with the loop brackets tap it. Press + , tap another square, pasted. You can rock these apps so quickly.

Audiobus ready, they sound great through the Sugar Bytes FX, and all the excellent Holderness Media FX apps as well as the excellent Kymatica stuff.

http://www.holdernessmedia.com/home/ios-applications

http://kymatica.com/

Kymatica's Sector is the shizzle too.



If you cop Sector the easiest way to get into it is to load classic breaks and set it so the snares are likely to repeat. The app is clever probability based loop player with an interface that takes a few minutes to grasp but is fun as heel once you do. It works well with non percussive material.

Also please join us on the excellent Facebook group page iPad Musicians.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Ipadmusician/

Many app developers post there so direct support and feature requests are a regular thing there. The page is live and popping daily. Real communal vibe over their like we have here.

And check out Tim Webb's great blog Disschord for daily updates on new apps. You'll never miss a thing on the iOS landscape going there regularly.

http://discchord.com/

No Audiobus or Audiocopy yet, but it's coming to the excellent Oscilab. You are limited to the inbuilt waveforms and samples, but the whole thing is based in breakpoint envelopes even the note entry. It's weird at first but great fun, and sound quality is excellent.



https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oscilab ... 13913?mt=8

Released last night, the excellent Mitosynth. Powerful, quality sound and a very class GUI.



https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mitosyn ... 41340?mt=8

It's been awhile so I made sure to come with a Lampdog style epic post on the tablet world.

Nice ones Lamp.

TC Data I missed 50% off on by like 5 minutes. Was set to press buy went for a cigarette...boom missed it.

I have the Mastering app from the developer doing the verb, quality app maker. Technically there's already convolution verbs for Auria as IAP plugins. But point taken that's the first standalone one it seems.

I saw another custom Animoog controller the maker was sending to eBay. His was more a vertical layout. Fresh like that one you've posted. I'll look for it again.

The Oscilab I posted up top now has Audiobus support. And although I wish I could load my own samples for when you use those in place of the editable waveforms I am still loving that app. It has an immediacy to it like an MPC or Reason. Not in design but just in so far as you can fire it up and start generating heat in a couple minutes and the tool itslef kind of just stays out your way.

That Animoog controller looks nice! That's always been my go-to synth on the iPhone, and I have most of it's parameters mapped out to the Axiom 49. It does the job well. But I wouldn't mind upgrading to an iPad with this new controller.

I wish that Animoog controller would've been mass produced. I'm sure it would've been expensive. But it looks like it would've been worth the money.

New from Propellerheads:

https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/take-creative-vocal-recorder/id887834536?mt=8



Propellerheads release Take Creative Vocal Recorder for your iPhone


Well this is a surprise, a new app from the makers of Figure ...

•Sing, hum, rap, strum. Take captures your musical ideas—anytime, anywhere. With a single tap you’ll be recording, beatboxing, overdubbing, riffing, writing, trying out song ideas that you’ll want to share with the world.
•Feel the groove. Stay on the beat. Keep in time. Inspiring built-in clicks, loops and beats to kick start your creativity.
•Add new parts, double them up, create harmonies, sketch out the song
•Three tracks to build on your tune and flesh out your ideas
•Surprise yourself with how good you sound.
•Processing and effects that make your iPhone’s mic shine.
•Share on Facebook, Twitter, email.

Designed by Propellerhead Software—makers of Figure, Apple App of the Year 2012—Take is a creative recorder for musicians. It’s got the same drop-dead simplicity you’ve come to expect with your voice memos, with features custom-tailored to vocalists’ needs—like the ability to record harmonies along with your voice, blend in effects to sweeten the sound and sing along to an array of beats and rhythms. Take will soon become your go-to sketchpad for musical ideas.

Note: Take is optimized for the built-in microphone on your iOS device. Wear headphones to hear your backing tracks. Best results come from using headphones (the ones without an integrated microphone) and recording into your iPhone/iPod/iPad mic directly.

That's cool Propellerhead have made a new app. They always design well. I still want Kong adapted with basic step sequencer on iOS.

I got to get the last 4 or 5 Alchemy libraries. It was great to get rest for free having the desktop versions. I need to try the new use sample import too.

G-Stomper Studio is pretty sweet for a scratch pad, or more. Its just the bread and butter without a lot of fancy bells and whistles like syncing to facebook or anything.
Its got sample chopping and keys.
And the graphic case visually resembles the old EMU cases to boot.

ThobRom wrote:G-Stomper Studio is pretty sweet for a scratch pad, or more. Its just the bread and butter without a lot of fancy bells and whistles like syncing to facebook or anything.
Its got sample chopping and keys.
And the graphic case visually resembles the old EMU cases to boot.

G-Stomper looks cool. reminds me of Caustic. Glad to see Android has some music apps. too.

I tried caustic last week when I was on a flight... not bad but it felt cumbersome a bit. I didn't try all the stuff out that it could do but piano roll stuff was a bit irritating for anything more complex than a bassline. I did have fun with it though. I will youtube the g-stomper app to see how that looks.

Yeah Caustic is cool, but the 8 bit style GUI that helps it run so light and be able to load so many modules is a double edged sword when it comes to sequencing. It's like if Reason had dropped in 1990.