iOS Special #16 – iPad APPs zum Musik machen

ZhSh
Von Savelii Kaliupanov

1,09 €, iTunes

Noise-centered and barely musical audio-effect application.
Treat it like Self-a-Fuzz small brother.
ZhSh can work as left-field distortion pedal or audio texture creator: generate and filter mix of white and pink(flicker) noise to fill night with pleasant sounds or use resulting sounds to blend-mix-shape your audio-input to add distortions.

Features:
+ White and Pink noise generator
+ Filter eq9 to gate noise
+ Pitch detector for eq9
+ Mutonic with 5 components
+ Output pure, filtered or blended audio
+ Presets system
+ Audiobus and IAA
+ Randomizers for every parameter
+ Oscillographs
+ Occasionally universal

Minimum requirements: iPhone 4s and iOS 8.

Shaper : smart audio destroyer
Von K-Devices
6,99 €, iTunes

iTunes Beschreibung (Auszug):

Shaper is a multi-fx processor that allows you to redefine or totally destroy any kind of source.

Shaper is perfect in any iOS music workflow:
– as stand alone app to process your outboard equipment
– as inter-app audio in Aubiobus or other compatible daw apps as AUM, Modstep, GarageBand, and so on
– moreover, Shaper is also an awesome Audio Unit Extension!!

Hyperion Synthesizer
Von Aleksandar Mlazev
5,49 €, iTunes

iTunes Beschreibung (Auszug):

Morphing waves technology for great space sounds. AUV3 (Audio Unit) and midi keyboard support!
In Hyperion I have used everything I know so far to create most full and nice sounding FM synth based on my sound engine.

Hyperion Synthesizer has:

– supports MIDI keyboards via USB (full velocity and pitch shift support)
– works as Audio Unit instrument plug-in AUV3

iSoundBank
Von Supertintin Co., Ltd
1,09 €, iTunes

iTunes Beschreibung (Auszug):

iSoundBank is a sound bank player for SF2 and DLS format files.

Main Features:

– Build in a GM sound bank.
– import and load SF2 and DLS.
– MIDI In available (From Core MIDI devices or virtual MIDI In)

Mercury Drum Sequencer
Von Marcus Spangenberg
5,49 €, iTunes


iTunes Beschreibung (Auszug):

Mercury Drum Sequencer is a sample based drum machine and step sequencer.

Features:

– Five tracks with two sound sources (osc) each.
– Osc and track sound tweaking parameters.
– Individual track effects.
– Each osc and track parameter can be overridden per step, by holding the desired step and changing the parameter in question.
– Supports syncing with other music apps using Ableton Link.
– AudioBus and inter-app audio support.
– Support for sample import using AudioShare.

Stereo Phaser
Von Aleksandar Mlazev
1,09 €, iTunes


iTunes Beschreibung (Auszug):

That is nice phaser effect that can run in stereo mode. The app is Audio Unit AUv3.
In stereo mode the signal is split and run through 2 phaser effects with different frequency settings but same rate, depth and feedback that are shifted in stereo space with the same rate(same as the phasers’)

The app is an Audio Unit Effect AUV3 and can be used inside GarageBand or other AU host apps as an effect plug-in. Stereo Phaser can also run as a stand alone app adding effect to the audio input so you can play your guitar, bass or synth directly through the app if you have the connector to do so.

Stereo Phaser controls:
– Rate – that is the phaser speed
– Depth – phaser depth
– Feedback – effect feedback
– Stereo – stereo spread

SynthScaper – Soundscapes synthesizer
Von iMusicAlbum
10,99 €, iTunes

iTunes Beschreibung (Auszug):

Synthesizer specially designed for creating and experiments with ambient soundscapes in wide range from noises to melodic instruments and everything in between.

You can construct melodic pads or atonal soundscapes from different kind of built-in or downloaded samples by using all power of multi-layered oscillators, chains of filters and effects, envelope generators and low frequency oscillators. Or just use predefined scenes and creating your own scenes from library of oscillators presets.

Very flexible settings of each module give you a great opportunity for creating unique and colorful sounding from usual instruments or natural samples and adding automated changes and spatial effects for an endless variations. Different ways of assigning screen and MIDI keyboards to the oscillators provide very advanced features to control the sound. The on-screen keyboard is adapted to create special effects and varying the continuous textures and drones.

CURiOS: wie alle iMusicAlben ist auch dieses App mal wieder ein Highlight geworden und führt die Scaper-Serie erfolgreich fort.

Audio Pitch and Speed Player Pro
Von Harald Meyer
7,99 €, iTunes

iTunes Beschreibung (Auszug):

Die APS Player App ermöglicht die einfache Anpassung der Abspielgeschwindigkeit (Tempo) und der Tonhöhe (Pitch) in Echtzeit und unabhängig voneinander. Die Anwendung unterstützt weiters Video (mit Zoom), Untertitel (z.B. für Karaoke), Bilder (z.B. für Noten), und Text.
Hilfe: http://www.tequnique.com/apshelp
Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EKstKlM6v0

FAC Chorus, AUv3
Von Frederic Corvest
3,49 €, iTunes

iTunes Beschreibung (Auszug):

FAC Chorus is a versatile chorus effect emulation designed to simulate the characteristics of the classic chorus modules with the flexibility of customising the parameters of the main components involved in the signal path.

The interface has a unique sober look and provides a great user experience. The knobs are very responsive, natural and follow a specific curve according to the parameters type.

KASPAR
Von Yonac Inc.
10,99 €, iTunes

iTunes Beschreibung (Auszug):

Harness the enormous power of 8 polyphonic synths: meet KASPAR Supersynthesizer! Featuring our cutting edge Multi-Engine Automorphing SuperSynthesis technology, KASPAR is a gigantic machine. A total of 24 oscillators, 8 filters, 8 arps; extensive morphing, automorphing, and layering abilities; a powerful modulation system; poly aftertouch; 2 FX Busses filled with fully stereo Yonac effects — just a few of the amazing features of this behemoth synth!

KASPAR comes with tons of pro features. In addition to extensive MIDI capabilities, Inter-App Audio, and Audiobus, it also works as an Audio Unit plug in. Just fire it up in GarageBand or your favorite DAW for even more KASPAR goodness!

Beatonal – Easy Music Maker
Von Luuk van der Graaff

Grundversion Gratis, iTunes
IAP: Pro License 3,99 €

Beatonal is an accessible music making app, enabling you to easily create and share your musical ideas using the built-in synthesizers and drum machine.
Create drum loops using pattern pads, and effortlessly sketch bass lines, chord progressions and melodies.

This app is free to try, but requires an in-app purchase to unlock all advanced features and project saving.

other features include:
– 4 audio channels: drum machine, bass, chords and lead
– Input is automatically fixed to a user selectable scale
– Contains demo tracks to get you started
– Analog synth with two oscillators, FM, AM and pitch modulation, lowpass filter, and various effects
– Contains 60 built-in synth presets, but you can also create and store your own presets
– Store tracks on your device
– User friendly track sharing via track-url’s
– Export track as MIDI so you can continue your work inside other apps or a DAW
– Export track as wav
– Output realtime midi to other apps on multiple channels, or to an external device such as your DAW
– Small app size
– Load your own drumsamples through iTunes on your mac
– Synchronize with other music apps using Ableton Link

NFM, AUv3
Von Nikolozi Pty Ltd
16,99 €, iTunes

iTunes Beschreibung (Auszug):

NFM is an intuitive FM synthesizer with a streamlined interface. It works as an Audio Unit extension inside a host application such as GarageBand, Cubasis, Auria Pro, modstep and AUM.

Key features
• Six stereo operators
• Fully customisable FM algorithm
• Oscillators: sinusoid, noise, fixed frequency
• Envelopes with adjustable level, time and curve parameters
• Operator amplitude can be modulated by the stereo LFO, key or velocity
• Pitch envelope, vibrato
• Build-in effects: distortion, delay, flanger
• Voice modes: monophonic, polyphonic, legato, glide
• Preset management inside the app
• Numeric pad for entering parameter values precisely

Speak Unit
Von Audiodog
1,09 €, iTunes

iTunes Beschreibung (Auszug):

Speak Unit is a speech synthesiser audio extension for use in Garageband and other compatible music software. You enter up to twelve phrases that are each triggered by a unique note.

Ideal if you need robotic vocal for your musical compositions, or any other creative uses.

The stand alone app can be used to speak the phrases triggered by a row of note buttons.

Jubal Flute
Von Embertone

10,99 €, iTunes

iTunes Beschreibung (Auszug):

We discovered this one-of-a-kind instrument collecting dust in our favorite local music shop. It’s made out of hemlock, light as a feather, and sounds like elven magic.

Programmed with true legato (a rarity for iOS instruments) the Jubal flute is a simple and inspiring instrument. It has an earthy sound, evoking images of folk dances, mountainscapes, and encounters with Bilbo Baggins.

The Jubal flute is named after its maker… Jubal. This mysterious man stopped by the music shop to put his instrument on consignment, and never showed up again. Maybe he moved away? Passed away? Or, what we like to believe, journeyed to Valinor with Frodo and the rest of his Elven kind.

Features:
– Audio Unit 3
– Audiobus
– Inter-App Audio
– MIDI in / out

Bark Filter
Von VirSyn

7,99 €, iTunes

iTunes Beschreibung (Auszug):

### requires iPhone5s / iPad mini 2 / iPad Air or better ###

The multi band filter in Bark takes the approach to match the reception characteristic of the gate where all sounds must pass through: the human ear. The ear behaves as if it contains a bank of filters, each filter passing frequencies within their respective critical band. Two tones apart more than the frequency dependant critical bandwidth are perceived as separate tones. For this reason Bark contains a filter bank with 27 very steep bandpass filters matching the critical bandwidth characteristic of the human ear. In fact, the human ear have also its own built in multi band compression system which are based on the critical bands.