Music Production on iPad. iOS music apps reviews and tutorials (iOS DAWs, Synths, Drum Machines, Samplers etc.)
"Yes, MIDI and virtual instrument support are high on our list for future upgrades to Auria. We wanted to concentrate on the audio features first and get that right before we moved on to adding MIDI. We're already talking with virtual instrument vendors about porting their instruments."
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So finally Apple approved Figure for iPhone.
It is really awesome application to make electronic music with 3 instruments: Drums, Bass and Lead. Sounds rally great. And Figure is really for inspiration "on the run". Have a couple of minutes - try to "figure"!
This is how Propellerhead describes this app:
Got three minutes and want to make some music?
Figure is the fun music-making app for instant inspiration.
Create an addictive beat before the next bus stop or lay down a beefy bass line while waiting in line at the bank. Figure will have you making music within seconds yet is deep enough for endless play on a transatlantic flight.
Figure highlights
• Make songs with Drums, Bass and Lead Synth
• Play by sliding your finger across the play pad
• Always stay in key and on the beat
• No previous playing skills required
• Tweak and twist your track on the fly
• Sounding amazing has never been this easy
• The sound of Reason on your phone!
Truly designed for mobile user on the go, Figure gives you drums, bass and lead synth, controlled by an incredibly easy to use touch interface that gets you sounding great literally in seconds. Slide your finger across the play pad and hear your bass line play. Tweak the Rhythm, Range and Scale Step wheels to get the result you’re after. Programming drumbeats is just as easy. Set the rhythm and play the drums with your fingers. You won’t want to stop. You won’t believe how amazing you and your phone can sound.
If you are new to music making, getting started making great sounding tracks has never been this easy — and sounded so great!
If you are a seasoned musician – music creation has never been this fun!
The nitty gritty details:
• Bass & lead parts use Reason’s Thor synthesizer
• Drums powered by Reason’s Kong drum machine
• Play in different keys & modes. Set once or change on the fly.
• Increase the Shuffle to loosen up your beats
• Turn up Pump to add a club sound to your tracks
• Adjust levels using Propellerhead’s legendary mixer
Get your copy in iTunes - 0.99$
Waldorf and Rolf Wöhrmann design pioneering new iPad synthesizer
A long tradition of wavetable synthesis – from first PPG synthesizers to the latestdevelopments in terms of Blofeld and Largo – and Rolf Wöhrmann’s (TempoRubatos) vast experience with the iPad synthesis made it only natural to come up with a wavetable concept for the iPad, which, as a mobile platform, is becoming increasingly more significant to professional and semi-professional musicians and producers.
Thanks to intelligent gesture recognition and plenty of available graphic performance the iPad is perfect for bringing wavetable synthesis to a new level. For the first time it will be possible to plunge into the depths of wavetables and to make their sound content visible with advanced 3-D technology. The cooperation between Waldorf and TempoRubato, also known for their product line NLog Synth, doesn’t stop here: The application will also offer new possibilities for sound manipulation based on Waldorf’s very latest spectral research.
Completely new and unheard sounds
An innovative approach to wavetable synthesis allows for the transposition of the spectrum and the balance of periodic and sound spectra entirely independent from a wave’s position. The existing wavetable technology is thereby extended by two new dimensions, and it allows for formant shifts as well as numerous other unheard sounds. Also, unlike with typical wavetable instruments, the number and length of waves in a wavetable will no longer be restricted. It’s the era of wavetable synthesis V2.0! This app will support a huge number of hardware MIDI interfaces, e. g. all Core MIDI compatible interfaces by IK Multimedia, iConnectMIDI, MIDI Mobilizer II by Line6, ioDock or the Camera Connection Kit by Apple, as well as proprietary interfaces such as the SynthStation by Akai. App collaboration standards like Sonoma‘s Audio Copy/Paste, Intua‘s Audio Pasteboard and Virtual Core MIDI will also be supported like the upcoming AudioBus standard and KORG’s WIST synchronization technology.
Joachim Flor, executive manager at Waldorf Music GmbH is pleased: “We are truly excited about our collaboration with Rolf Wöhrmann from TempoRubato. Considering his great experience with the iPad synthesis we are planning to release this excellent synthesiser this summer. Then it will be available at the Apple App Store. It’s going to be an exciting time!“ Rolf Wöhrmann is also looking forward to the challenge: “The cooperation with Waldorf Music and the Waldorf developers is a great honour. Waldorf‘s long history in wave table synthesis and the new and innovative possibilities of the iPad will create an astonishing synthesizer for musicians, sound designers and producers.”
A lot of new great things for iOS musicians were introduced last weeks on NAMM 2012. And may be the most important announcement for iPad is Auria by Wave Machine Labs: DAW studio for iPad 2 with VST's support and more...
Auria is the 48-track music studio for the iPad. It supports AAF so users can copy their session files to their Mac/PC DAW like Ableton Live, Logic, ProTools etc. What is more interesting Auria comes with VST plugins support (VST should be in special Auria iOS format so you can't use yours which is sad). Optional VST plugins from PSPaudioware, Fabfilter and more will be available as in-app purchases. And WaveMachine Labs is helping VST developers to migrate their plugins to iOS platform so we will see a lot of different plugins soon.
Price: 49 USD
Developers site: http://auriaapp.com/
Auria will be available in the AppStore in 2 months (March-April 2012).
Here are the best music iPad apps of 2011:
Music app of the year: 1. GarageBand for iPad 2. iKaossilator 3. KORG iMS-20
Best touch instruments apps: 1. GarageBand 2. SoundPrism Pro 3. MorphWiz
Best synthesizer: 1. iMS-20 2. Animoog 3. Sunrizer
Best music studio: 1. GarageBand 2. NanoStudio 3. FL studio
Best pro app: 1. Lemur 2. iMS-20 3. Filtatron
Best electo-music app: 1. iKaossilator 2. iElectribe 3. Loopstatic HD
Best guitar app: 1. AmpliTube 2. StompBox 3. Shredder
Get amazing iPad music applications for lowest price in AppStore. iPad Music Apps on sale for Christmas days:
Price: 14.99 4.99
iSequence is one of the most powerful music creation studio designed exclusively for iPad.
Thanks to intuitive 8-track sequencer, tons of instruments, flexible mixer with DSP effects you can easily program and record profesional loops, beats and melodies. Now you control every aspect of your music project.
iPadMusic comment: One of the best applications for electronic music creation
Price: 9.99 4.99 (price drop till December 29th)
The Guitar Pro application allows all guitarists to enjoy the display, playback, as well as an easy tablatures writing tool, right from their device. This mobile version of the famous Guitar Pro tab-editing program is the ideal companion for you to practice your favorite songs and share them at any time, anywhere! An arpeggio, a riff, a chord sequence ringing in your head? You can now note and save all this on the tablature notepad available with the iPhone update.
iPadMusic comment: Absolutely must have for all guitar players
Looptastic HD
Price: 14.99 0.99
Create your own non-stop remixes and electronic compositions in an incredibly intuitive way. Simply drag and drop some loops, mix it up with a DJ-style mixer and add effects with Touch Pad control. Record your moves and export the performance as CD-ready audio files or to your SoundCloud account. Contains over 900 loops across major dance styles (Trance, Hip Hop, Dubstep, Ambient, Breakbeat, Drum ’n’ Bass, Minimal, Progressive House, and Reggaeton, etc).
Price: 2.99 FREE
SoundPrism enables you to create beautiful music immediately without any previous knowledge. With its unique visualization of pitches and intuitive controls composing sophisticated melodies, tone and chord patterns becomes child's play.
Price: 29.99 9.99
Animoog, powered by the new Anisotropic Synth Engine (ASE), is Moog Music's first professional polyphonic synthesizer designed exclusively for the iPad. ASE 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 quickly 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!
iPadMusic comment: One of the best iPad synths. Great for Ambient music.
Price: 7.99 3.99
Create music by layering looped recordings of singing, beatboxing, or playing an instrument with a savvy, sophisticated, tactile new looper that totally reinvents the formula.
Price: 14.99 0.99
The heart of Tabletop is a modular environment where you can mix and match different devices. Select from more than 25 devices including samplers, mixers, effects, sequencers and more. Buy only the gear you need from an expanding catalog.
Tabletop is the first musical environment designed from the ground up exclusively for the iPad. Each device has its own uses, characteristics, personality — ranging from classics like drum pad samplers to touchscreen effects
Price: 3.99 0.99
Rhythm Studio is a must have app for musicians! It is a premier universal electronic music making app, boasting richly detailed graphics and incredible sound, with impeccable recreations of classic synths and drum machines along with other amazing studio hardware.
The only drum you will need is here: Drum Canvas - 4.99$ in AppStore.Drum Canvas looks the best drum application available for iPad today. It contains fully customizable canvas which can be filled with different drums (there are different sets of drums: Acoustic, Rock, Electronic, Hip-Hop). Each drum have several settings, even you can change the pitch of a drum.
Music production on the iPad: tutorials on how create music with iPad music apps. iOS music apps reviews. iOS DAWs (Auria, Cubasis, NanoStudio, GarageBand, BeatMaker), synths (Animoog, Magellan, Sunrizer) , drum machines (DM1, DrumJam), midi controllers (Lemur, MIDI studio) etc.
