Here’s another Sampler for iOS with an innovative and interesting interface called SpheroSampler. Working a track? Try sampling a part of it into this and record your mutations back into your arrangement during a break. That’s one idea for SpheroSampler. It’s free.
“Use your fingers to vary speed and rotation of spheres to create and listen sphero-tracks. There are infinite number of ways to play each your sphero-track, because you have not one, but two dimensions for playing! SpheroSampler can write sounds via microphone, and also has built-in synth. Sphero-tracks can be saved (up to 8 tracks for each sphere). Live mixes can be exported into wav-files (up to 120 sec of recording).” – spherosampler.com
For more info: spherosampler.com
This entry was written by , posted on January 6, 2013 at 6:56 am, filed under iPad and tagged sampler, SpheroSampler. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I’m addicted to Samplers. I once owned a Roland S-50 and then an Akai S-950. A Make Noise Phonogene is on my must have list. iOS has some great and fun Samplers such as sir Sampleton, SampleWiz, sampletoy, iSample, SingingFingers and I am Sampler. Now you can at Samplr to the list and it looks like the most full featured yet. The iPad’s touch screen really makes sense here with 7 ways to play with the sample. Watch the videos above for the details. $4.99 USD.
“Samplr lets you make music and play with sound in a new and intuitive way by touching the waveform on the screen directly with your fingers.” – samplr.net
For more info: samplr.net
This entry was written by , posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:10 am, filed under iPad and tagged iPad, sampler, sampling, Samplr. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Qneo Voice Synth is another good audio app to have in your iOS music making arsenal. I’ve been using it quite a bit adding an extra vocal bit here and there on my tracks. The app is pretty slick and the audio is good. Try having this and Samplewiz’s audio plugged into your DAW. You will get some different results rather than simply resampling ITB.
“Voice Synth is a specialized synthesizer for creative voice sculpting, for endless fun and serious productions. Speak, sing, hum and beatbox in the mic, tweak the controls and turn your voice live into a human from baby to tenor, a popstar on AutoPitch, a robot from Cylon to iDalek, a church or close harmony choir, animals from birds to dogs and lions, musical instruments from organs, guitars and a groovy bass to percussions and rich 70?s vocoders, ambient, lush string/storm soundscapes. All effects applied simultaneously, polyphonic and live in real-time with low-latency. One app, two interfaces: dedicated interface for iPad, and a compact interface for iPhone and iPod that includes all features” – qneomusic.com
For more info: qneomusic.com
This entry was written by , posted on September 25, 2012 at 7:23 am, filed under iPad, iPhone and tagged iOS, iPad, Qneo, sampler, vocoder, Voice Synth. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Feed – Official Release Promo Video from djgunn on Vimeo.
Here’s another new iPad music app with a wicked interface. This one is called FEED (iTunes link). It’s a sampler/looper. The waveform is circular. You can loop any parts of it. The circle size controls volume. You can scrub and more. $1.99 USD.
“Feed enables complex, rich manipulation of a “live feed” of sound. Record, playback, loop, pitchshift and modulate the live feed in a variety of ways to spontaneously create compositions from musical sources, spoken word or ambient sound.” – theincidental.com
For more info: theincidental.com/projects/thefeed
This entry was written by , posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:07 am, filed under iPad and tagged Feed, iPad, looper, sampler. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Peter and Pavol from LinPlug have released a new version of their Cronox sampler/synth plug-in called CrX4. It really is an all new plug-in adding a lot of new features but also dropping a few Cronox items. I love samplers and Linplug’s mod matrix has always been awesome. One feature I like is the Wavetable Generator that can be modulated. There is a demo so try it for yourself. $149 USD.
“CrX4 mixes up your samples in realtime like no other instrument. If you start with a kick sample you may end up with getting a fascinating pad from it, and you should not be astonished to get some punchy drums just from your vocal samples. Its CrX4, samples are only food for its versatile and unique engines, featuring 3 different specialized sample processing generators, an oscillator, a sophisticated noise generator and all the filters and modulations you expect from a fully fledged synthesizer.” – Linplug
For more info: linplug.com/crx4.html
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I love samplers. I especially love sampling my own voice and putting little 80s’esque panned repeating vowels throughout my own tracks. iOS has a good selection of samplers already such as sirSampleton and SampleWiz. I Am Sampler is new and is also quite good! It has 4 sample banks, LFO, bit crusher, delay and a reverse mode. We live in G-g-g-olden times. $1 USD in the App Store (link).
“i have no knobs,no technical terms but just only cute icons waiting for your tap and flick.” – detune.co.jp
For more info: detune.co.jp/iamsampler.html
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This entry was written by , posted on June 19, 2012 at 5:15 pm, filed under iPad, iPhone and tagged I Am Sampler, iOS, iPad, iPhone, sampler. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
My brother sent me an email saying, “You see this yet? sick!”. He’s right… Werkbench by Karl Scholz is a cool iPad music app for sure. $7 USD.
“WerkBench is a one-of-a-kind of beatbox that is part loop pedal, part drum machine, and 100% beat-making magic. You will be making original beats and rhythms in seconds.” – Karl Scholz
For more info: bolasol.com/werkbench
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This entry was written by , posted on June 18, 2012 at 8:10 pm, filed under iPad and tagged iPad, sampler, Werkbench. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Look at this beautiful iPad granular sampler called Borderlands from Chris Carlson. I can see many of these futuristic interface elements influencing other pro-audio app developers. We live in a great time being able to touch our sounds like this. I can’t wait for this to be released.
“The audio files can be moved and resized using typical single and double finger gestures. Currently the orientation of each rectangle may be toggled by touching the object with a third finger. A grain cloud can be created by double tapping anywhere on the interface. This immediately opens the cloud for editing, exposing a number of parameter regions around the cloud. Each region can be dragged or thrown between a hard coded min and max value. Users may edit the number of voices in the cloud, duration of each voice, overlap of the voices, playback rate or “pitch” of the voices, and the frequency of an LFO controlling the pitch of each voice. This view may be hidden by double tapping on the grain cloud again. Several discrete parameters are available as buttons at the bottom of the interface. These include the grain direction (random/forward/backward), the window type (hanning, exponential decay, exponential growth, sinc), and the stereo distribution of the grains (two modes – unity preserves the original spatialization of the audio file, stereo pans grain voices left and right sequentially.” – Chris Carlson
For more info: modulationindex.com and ccrma.stanford.edu/~carlsonc…
This entry was written by , posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:41 am, filed under iPad and tagged Borderlands, granular, iPad, sampler. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
WaveShaper is a new iPad app that lets you scrub samples. You can load your own and morph between sample locations. The description sounds a lot like the NI’s Skanner however the results are far less musical, more glitch. I really like using my own samples in iOS apps but connected to iTunes to transfer samples in isn’t elegant. $5.99 in the App Store.
“WaveShaper is an audio synthesis app that lets you control a unique sound generating algorithm using a large XY controller. Use two fingers to control four parameters in real-time. This app is full of surprises and will create sounds unlike any you might create in a typical sound design plugin!” – waveshaperapp.com
For more info: waveshaperapp.com
This entry was written by , posted on December 26, 2011 at 9:01 am, filed under iPad and tagged iPad, sampler, WaveShaper. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Wave Alchemy has created a Kontakt sampled version of the classic Sequential Circuits Pro One synthesizer called the Pro-II. The Pro One is best known as the synth heavily used on every Yaz record. It has a very clear sharp sound with very fast envelopes. In addition to the sample library there is a sequencer and “fully editable effects as well as specially created reverb IR’s (Impulse Responses) recorded from our Eventide DSP-7000 Harmonizer.”. As usual I recommend getting the real thing. However, with the Wave Alchemy you can save your presets, work on an airplane, have polyphony and skip the vintage synth repair bills. 3.9GB sound library including 6587 multi-sampled 24-bit WAV samples. £39.95
“Inspired by one of the most popular synths of its time, Pro II combines classic sounds with modern sound shaping tools to achieve a versatile and fully programmable hybrid synthesizer!” – wavealchemy.co.uk
For more info: wavealchemy.co.uk/pro_ii_synthesizer
This entry was written by , posted on December 14, 2011 at 4:18 am, filed under plug-ins, synthesizer and tagged Kontakt, Pro-II, Pro-One, rompler, sampler, Sequential Circuits, synthesizer, Wave Alchemy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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