iOS Special #14 – iPhone und iPad Apps für Musiker

OneTrack FREE
Von Sean Bergin
Gratis, iTunes

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„The Professional Music Player for Solo Performers, Theatre Sound, Dancers and Choreographers.

This is the FREE version which is the full version of OneTrack Version 4.0. Please check out Version 5.0 to run on newer devices and newer versions of iOS.
– Select a Playlist
– Choose a Track
– Nudge In and Out points
– Set a Count-In of a few seconds
– Tweak the volume – for Each Track
– Lock the Playlist down – and you’re ready to go… „

MusicJOT
Von Mona Lisa Sound, Inc.
€49.99, iTunes

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„MusicJOT is a powerful music notation app that’s also easy to use. Write quickly and naturally on a staff and watch it rendered into beautifully notated music. Interact directly, quickly dragging notes around to change their pitch or duration and choose advanced features from pop-up palettes. Listen to your composition with our full-featured audio playback engine, featuring unlimited tracks and 128 built-in General MIDI instruments. Export your scores in MusicXML or MIDI and pick them up in any desktop notation app such as Finale® or Sibelius® for final tweaking and printing.‟

Ops
Von Jonathan Mackenzie
€9,99, iTunes

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„Ops is a modular synthesiser designed to make it easy to create and explore sound interactively with a touch screen. Ops does away with patch cords, instead using a system of connected blocks with a clear signal flow.
The blocks, called ops, are joined together into structures by dragging and dropping them on screen. Structures can easily be copied and varied to build-up rich, interesting results.
There are ops to perform a wide range of functions, including interaction, signal generation, effects processing, control, audio input, MIDI input, and pitch and rhythm manipulation.‟

LCW-1
Von Itoh Tomoaki
1,99, iTunes

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„LCW-1 is app with 8 monophonic synthesizers. MIDI is supported only „Note On“, „Note Off“ and „All Note Off“. Using 1-8 channels, it operates as 8 monophonic synthesizers. Support Inter-App Audio (Generator only). To receive MIDI on LCW-1, Camera Connection Kit and MIDI device (ex. USB MIDI Interface) is required.‟

FuxEQ
Von mattoncino software
€5.99, iTunes

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„FuxEQ is a new 7-band parametric equalizer (audio unit) plugin for your music or sound production environment. A bunch of exceptional features, some of them not found in any other EQ software makes it truly unique.‟

Lofionic Mani Analogue Chorus Effect
Von Chris Rivers
€0.99, iTunes

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„Lofionic Mani is a rich and evocative analogue-modelled chorus effect for iOS, supporting AudioUnit, Inter-App Audio and AudioBus. In addition to the standard mix, rate and depth controls, Mani adds a switchable feedback control, for metallic flanger-like effects, and a pre-delay switch for extra body.‟

KRFT – Sound Inspired
Von Studio Amplify
€4.99, iTunes

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„KRFT is a new approach to music creation. Build beautiful interfaces from a toolset of musical cells. Make anything from a funky groove box to a full composition, and everything in-between. Open the door to new workflows and inspiration.

Moving away from the typical 80s multi-track paradigm found in most music making software, KRFT is a unique and inspiring way to create music. By combining a variety of loops, dials, effects and more, you build your own customized musical Surface. These interfaces are a collection of musical functions and ideas that can be controlled and interpreted in real time. „

Baervaag – FM Synthesizer, AUv3
Von Klevgränd produkter AB
€7.99, iTunes

„Baervaag brings FM synthesis to the masses! An easy to use but still powerful and tweakable synthesizer, accessible to everyone. Several parameters are sensitive to velocity which makes Baervaag very expressive and fun to play.
The additional LP filter, ”Wobbler”, and a simple stereo chorus makes this synthesizer versatile and a joy to tweak.‟

NoLimits Audio Unit Limiter by DDMF, AUv3
Von Christian Siedschlag
€9.99, iTunes

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„At the end of a long day at the mixing desk, when everything has finally fallen into place, comes the best moment (just before pouring that glass of whisky): load an instance of NoLimits at the end of the chain, turn that one knob, lean back and enjoy. This look-ahead limiter completes DDMF’s mixing and mastering portfolio and will be your weapon of choice to bring you up to competitive levels. „

Forever Beats
Von John Hussey
€5.99, iTunes

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„Forever Beats is an iPad app for making new beats and hooks, jamming with new ideas and building new compositions. Intuitively input beats and melodies with touch based gestures and jam with them live using the breaks feature. Establish your own sound with the Forever Beats synth engine. Synthesised percussive, bass and ambient instruments are included.
Bring the sound to life with 2 LFOs assignable to every synth parameter.
Use MIDI output to control your own hardware using the Forever Beats step sequencer.‟

Synclavier® Touch
Von Cameron Jones
Gratis, iTunes

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„Synclavier® Touch is an iPad app that faithfully recreates the original Synclavier® Velocity-Pressure Keyboard button interface using modern touch-screen technology.
Synclavier® Touch communicates with your Synclavier³ installation using custom MIDI messages. The integration with the Synclavier® hardware is complete – touching a button on the iPad lights the button on the VK for example.‟

DA ONE Synth
Von MN Signal Processing
€7.99, iTunes

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„The DA ONE synthesizer app provides you with a powerful synthesis engine combining digital and (virtual) analog synthesis methods, such as wavetable synthesis, vector waveform mixing, subtractive, additive, and frequency modulation synthesis. The individual blocks of this synthesizer are connected using an innovative and highly flexible routing system that allows millions of different configurations of oscillators, filters, and distortion blocks.‟

•nodal•
Von Armen Karamian
€1.99, iTunes

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„Nodal is an iPad sampler based on the research of Andrey Markov, a Russian mathematician who lived a very long time ago and had a very crazy beard. You know what else is crazy? The sounds you’ll get from this iPad app. Just pick some of the gnarly sounds included with it or record your own and link them together to hear the sweet sounds of probability theory.‟

Z-Drums 2 Pro
Von XME Inc.
€0.99, iTunes

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„XME Inc. has created BeatPad, Pocket Studio, Music Healing and other apps that have been featured by Apple & iTunes.  CoreMidi – Plug in a MIDI-keyboard to control the drum racks.‟

Launch Buttons
By Alexander Nowak
Free-Version: Gratis, iTunes
Pro: €4.99

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„Works with virtually any DAW after a very simple set up. Ableton + Launchpad 95 script is recommended.
This free version gives you access to all 64 buttons on the 8×8 grid, 8 scene launch buttons, 8 buttons to navigate and 7 buttons for transport controls. The Launchpad95 script gives you a step sequencer, scale mode, and many more functions.
It includes the the „old“ colors (red-orange-yellow-green) – if you want to upgrade, Launch Buttons Plus provides you with
– full color support
– 16 more functions buttons (in addition to the 16 you already have)
– 16 freely assignable knobs‟

Harmonizer audio effect, AUv3
Von Aleksandar Mlazev
€1.99, iTunes

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„Harmonizer is real time audio pitch shifter effect that can mix harmonies into the original signal or run as realtime pitch shifter. The app works as an Audio Unit plugin and can also be used as stand alone real time effect via the device microphone or using iRig or similar device. The pitch shifting does NOT affect timing so the tempo stays the same.

Features:
– smooth pitch shift control – half tones and cents
– dry volume (original voice)
– efx volume (pitch shifted voice volume)
– reverb (master reverb)‟

LayR – Multi Timbral Synthesizer
Von Living Memory Software
€19,99, iTunes

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„LayR is a massively polyphonic, multi-timbral synthesizer for iPad and iPhone, optimized for modern 64 bit devices delivering up to 256 voices of rich, multi-layered and textured sounds.
FEATURES
– Optimised 32 bit Audio Engine.
– Up to 128 Voices ( 256 on iPad Pro ).
– Multi-Timbral with 8 individual stereo instrument outputs + full mix output.
– Multi Channel Arpeggiator with 16 step event sequencer.
– Stereo Delay, Reverb and EQ on output section.
– Ranged MIDI control for all parameters.
– AudioBus and Inter-App Audio compatible.
– Performance and Program preset import & export via iTunes.
– Performance and Program preset sharing via iCloud Drive.
– Built-in Help‟

Deep Synth : FM Synthesizer
Von Aleksandar Mlazev
€1,99, iTunes

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„Deep Synth is innovative FM synthesizer with powerful features.
You can create fully custom wave forms in real time.

The synth also has:
– simple envelope filter
– reverb effect
– tremolo sound effect
– hair – high frequency modulation.
– 5 points wave form modulation
– polyphonic keyboard
– 5 octaves range selector

The sound generator inside the synthesizer is producing the exact wave form as the one you have created.
You can control the position and width of the picks in real time.‟

Seaquence
Von Okaynokay
Grundversion Gratis, iTunes
IAP: Vollversion €6.99

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„Seaquence is a unique music app that allows you to compose with collections of musical creatures. As they swim around your view, a spatialized mix emerges as only the closest can be heard, resulting in organic sounding compositions.
eaquence features a pro-level synthesizer and timing engine controlled by a fun and direct interface.‟
Eigenschaften: CoreMIDI – Noten, CCs und Clock

Skoove – Klavier lernen
Von Learnfield GmbH
Grundversion Gratis, iTunes
IAP:
– 1 Monat für €19,99
– 3 Monate für €39,99
– 12 Monate für €119,99#

iTunes-Beschreibung (Auszug):
„Lerne Klavier spielen mit Skoove! Du wolltest schon immer Klavier lernen und wusstest nicht, wo du anfangen sollst? Skoove begleitet dich dabei, dir deinen Wunsch zu erfüllen!

Beginne deine Reise in die Welt der Musik jetzt! Skoove beinhaltet 250 Lektionen mit umfassenden Kursen für Einsteiger bis Fortgeschrittene.
Vielseitige Kurse vom Grundkursniveau bis zum Fortgeschrittenen zwischen Pop, Rock und Jazz bis Klassik.‟

Das App war bisher nur auf iPhone zugeschnitten, doch im März 2017 wurde sie universell und der größere Bildschirm des iPads kann nun effektiv genutzt werden.