Today, not a lot of Apps, but 3 awesome ones, I guess. I guess for 2 of them: Kauldron & Odessa. Snap is the other one. I posted it's review yesterday. I have to add the App Store link now. So, I go,,, Have a nice day or night depending of where you are in the Galaxy! My best Ed App Store description:
From music producers to casual users, SNAP will help you create great drum patterns in any musical style, on the fly, with your fingertips. SNAP can also help you in the studio, by providing seamless variations of your patterns, under your complete interactive control. Program or load drum patterns, store your favorite variations, and export them to your DAW, all on a continuous and free-flowing loop/fashion. SNAP is also a powerful tool for your live sessions, providing you with subtle or radical changes, from sudden drops to ecstatic crescendos, all fully and instantaneously controllable under your fingertips. SNAP can communicate with your music apps, drum machines, DAWs and other musical equipment via MIDI OUT and Ableton Link. SNAP’s full integration with Native Instrument’s Maschine Jam, allows it to communicate bidirectionally to become its “drumming brain”. Compatibility with other control devices will be rolled-out progressively. SNAP provides: - 8 drum voices, each one with its own continuous density controller. - 4 different intelligent syncopation/reinforcement algorithms, independently selectable for each drum voice. - MIDI IN and OUT integration (Available as an In-App purchase). - Ableton Link synchronization support. - 8 snapshot slots for storing, recalling and updating drum patterns on the fly. -16 specially designed drum kits - Sessions and patterns covering different styles to get you started right away.
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After Funk Drummer, Rock Drum Machine 5, Soft Drummer and Super Metronome, here it is Brazilian Dum Machine. One of the 2 Percussions Drum Machine from LumBeat. (The other one is African Drum Machine, and I really hope that we will have the Asian One one of these days...). Here, 60 sounds / 30 different Percussions. 7 Banks: Bossa Nova, Afro, Samba, Batterie, Folclore, Forrô and Marcha. Also the user Bank where you will be able to save you rhythms. Around 100 rhythms! The sound quality is perfect, as usual with this developer. The App, awesome as usual with this developer. If it's the first time that you have a look at a LumBeat App, check out the review below and the other videos demos. (The Funk Drummer video shows you how to use the Jam Mode with an external Pedalboard.) A Killer App, a Must Have!
A very long time ago, in the previous millennium, there was no computer, so we had to record a real Drummer to make our recordings. In 1959, Wurlitzer released the first electro-mechanical drum machine called the Side Man, and a lot of others were released after. Cool for electronic music… In the middle of 1970, the first audio samplers start to arrive. With them and a lot of hours of programming, it was possible to “unused’ a Drummer during a recording session. When the iPad was released, some Drum Loop Apps were released. So cool, no more Audio CD with unnamed tracks, and no BPM… at this time, it was a revolution… in 2013, an App has been released: SuperMetronome Groovebox. I remember this day… I said to myself. “It’s not a metronome! It’s the future of the Drum Machine!“… Do you know the LumBeat Apps? I don’t know a better way to create a Drum track in 10 minutes. Not a Drum Machine track! A real Drum Track record with a real Drummer! Yes, I don’t the name of the Drummer, because he is super shy and always happens to hide in my iPad, but when I ask him to Jam on a pattern… wahoo… he jams! Yes, it’s crazy! And the worst, is that you can create your own patterns, select the sound for the 5 drums instruments, and ask the hidden Drummer to play a Fill when you like! Also, a Live Pads mode is available. 8 Pads, 8 patterns that you can control via Midi… A Song mode too. To conclude: There was before and after the LumBeat Apps. I am not kidding! It’s the ultimate Apps for creating Rhythms. I forgot to say 2 things: The sound quality of all the Sound Set is awesome! And 4 effects are also available: Compressor, Reverb, Delay, and EQ. My only problem is that I don’t know how to pay the Hidden Drummer after a recording… A Killer App! A Must Have! Review by Ed snap is a Drum Machine. A 8 tracks / 16 steps Drum Machine. A different Drum Machine. It's name comes from a unique feature. The Snap mode. (The magnet located on the top right corner of the screen) You program your pattern with 3 different ways. Check out the tutorial below. Snap will be Free! In App purchases: 1/ The ability to save your project 2/ The Midi implementation At this moment 18 Drum kits. More features will be added soon... Snap is great for live performances. Snap is very easy to use and allows you to create a pattern in a record time. More info soon.... Review by Ed A multi band distortion. 3 bands. The App is very simple. An input and output volume on the 2 sides. In the center the 3 bands. Swipe up or down to set the distortion volume and left and right to set the frequency range. Easy. Easy, but great. Great for a lot uses. Not for guitar only. For my video demo I used it on a bass and a Drum Loop. I really love it... For a bass, it's awesome! You can add the distortion on the bass and low medium frequencies only... A distorted bass without the "dirty" of the high frequencies... For a Drum also,... You can dirty your sound in the same way. To conclude. Only one distortion but 3 bands... What I prefer to have? That or 3 conventional distortions. Wthout any hesitation, this one! Check out the video demo.... A Killer App, a Must Have!
Review by Ed today...
Not a lot of news... Excepted the released shortly of the new App from Bram Boss... A Sequencer. The new Beta of Snap the Reactable Drum Machine And the new Beta from Auria released today. Have a nice day or night depending of where you are in the Galaxy! Cheers Ed I totally forgot to talk about the Sunday Contest of this last Sunday... I didn't h very time to post anything last week. I didn't have time to tell you that there will be no Sunday Contest... I hope that there will be one this week.... A week ago I made the review of CMP Grand Piano. Now it’s time to review Colossus Piano. I am very lucky because the developer sent me a redeem code to unlock all the in app purchases. Unfortunately, my iPad has not enough free space to download all of them. For example the Master peace of this App is Colossius Concert Grand 14tGb! All the in app purchases need around 30Gb of Free space to be downloaded, so I will post a review for each of the packs. In this App there an Electric Piano pack also… when I saw it I was a little bit intrigued. What’s about the the Fender Rhodes or the Wurlitzer Tremolo effect? No problem, 2 more knobs come with the Electric Piano pack: Tremolo frequency & Tremolo depth. More, 1 other knob, The Pad volume.... in fact, for each loaded instrument you can choose to add a Pad "sound" layer. (Violins). I like that even if the purists will find this function a little superfluous. Also, an Electronic Music mode. The 2 Tremolo knobs are replaced by one. A Tremolo speed. The Pianos installed from this set : 1 Electric Grand & Electric Mix. 2 FM Electric Grand & 1 FM Electric Mix. 3 Clarinets & 1 Reed Piano. 5 Fender Rhodes. 4 Wurlitzers. 1.6 Gb of stereo samples. (24 bit / 96 KHz) In use: I had a little problem with AUM App, perhaps due to my iPad (Air 1) and the memory uses by Colossius Piano. No problem with Audiobus and the Audio Unit version. Switching from an instrument to another as well as adding the Pad layer or using the Electronic mode takes a little time. With the Audio Unit version, it’s not a big “problem”. It is a little bit more annoying with the IAA version because of the lack of a presets library. (You have to swipe to select an instrument, and each time you swipe Colossius Piano load an instrument.) The Audio Unit version is very simple. Only the Presets library. No other features. The other features: (Stand Alone and IAA version) The built in keyboard can be enlarge. Note that I had a little problem when I tried to use it with Audiobus. (I had to hit the keyboard keys so hard, that I decided to use 2 Midi controller's Apps.) Another great feature is the Hermode Tuning: Makes the sound more brilliant by controlling the pitch of the notes in multivoiced music to better frequency ratios than with fixed tuning. Note that the polyphony can be set to up 140 voices. The MIDI velocity response curve can be set via the editor to fine tune your MIDI keyboard, you can save them as presets. Also, a Reverb: 18 presets. A great quality of processing… In the second page is dedicated to the Midi file player and recorder. Unlimited MIDI tracks. (You can import MIDI files via iTunes files sharing) I had a little bug here, when I was playing a Midi track and tried to switch from a Piano to another. Problem was resolved when I stopped the Midi file before to swipe to another Piano. To conclude, the Electric Piano Pack is really great I love the sound. I am really happy to have a Clavinet too! Take your time with this App and everything should be OK. A Killer sound set! A Must Have!
Review by Ed DirectionalEQ is unique from all the App Store because it combines EQ and pan and this is awesome. I explain… DirectionalEQ is a stereo 5 bands parametric EQ. Each band comes with the same controls. A Gain (+/-20dB), Frequency (16Hz to 22kHz), Filter Q, At this moment everything is “normal" but just below 2 more knobs: A Degree and a Directional Gain. (Below again, Mute, Solo, and the the filter types: band-pass (two types), notch, low-/high-pass, low-shelf, high-shelf and peak). The Degree knob (-45 to 45 degrees) will pan a band and the Directional Gain controls overall gain in the direction set by the Degree control. In use: As you can see below, the UI is very simple. For example, no master out level meter, which can be a little bit annoying when you are using the Stand Alone version of DirectionalEQ. Also, and this is not because of the App, but because of what DirectionalEQ allows you to do, you can be a little bit lost while you are shaping an audio signal. Take care of what types of EQ filter you are using on all bands. Use the Mute and Solo button to check what you are doing... In summary: I love, no, I really love the concept, the processing quality and the Solo button is really helpful… You can also use it as a conventional 5 bands EQ without to use the 2 Degrees knobs. A Killer App! A Must Have for real sound engineers....
Review by Ed This is the last App that I will review from this developer because of a very big dispute with him… No, I am kidding! No, because I already reviewed all his Apps: Alina String Ensemble, Super Manetron and Combo Organ. I love all of them… perfect emulations of instruments that I really love. Pocket Organ is an Hammond organ. The sound quality is really great and the 20 drawbars give you the sensation to play on a real Hammond organ. (9 for the 2 main keyboards and 2 for the Bass) . On the main screen, 2 knobs (on the right side) allow to set the Scale for the 2 keyboards named Great and Swell. A transpose switch is available for the Bass one. All the keyboards can be scrolled. All the other switches are dedicated to the presets excepted the one, down, on the left corner: the Tremolo (Leslie). You can choose to assign the Tremolo to the 2 main keyboards, the rotary type or to stop it as well in the third page, The Fx page. Here an Overdrive, a Reverb and 5 switches for the Keyboards. Clic, Perc and Harmonic sounds. Volume (touch) and Decay. The second screen is dedicated to the 20 drawbars. To conclude. This emulation is one more time great. The presets in app purchases too. Everything is perfect excepted one thing. The lack of a Midi implementation! I don’t know why, but it’s too bad because playing with the 3 keyboards is not so easy and I know that a real Hammond player will be very frustrated to play on his iPad instead of a external Midi controller. The other players, like me will be very disappointed to not be able to control it with a Midi sequencer. Only because of this I rate it as a very good App and not a Killer one, but I really hope that I will be able to change my rating when a future update will be released. With the Midi Feature....
Review by Ed Dub Siren is for Djs, Reggae Djs. In the App you have a music player. A selection of Reggae & Dub radio stations. 12 Pads to play samples (no import but a big library. A lot of packs from very famous Artists.). A Siren: "the Synth", 3 presets, 3 waveform types and 3 play modes (Trig, Chop & Hold). A Delay, a Tap Tempo, a High & Low cut filter and 2 Spin switches (rewind & forward). The App is very well done, easy to use for everyone. The selection of radio stations is really great and only for this reason, it's a Must Have for all the Reggae lovers. A Killer App, a Must Have!
Review by Ed Studiotrack is a 8 tracks recorder. It’s a very old App now, but when it was released it was a revolution with the Audio Copy Paste feature. The App is still developed but no real changes since the first release., (last update: November 6th of this year). Unfortunately no significant changes since its release, which makes this App a little bit obsolete today without the Audiobus, IAA or Audio Unit feature. Without the Ableton Link too. So, StudioTrack is a 8 tracks recorder. No edit. A Pan, a, Gain, a Mute, a Solo and a Reverb send per track. You can record only 1 track at once. You can insert 1 or 2 effects per track depending of the effect you will choose. 2 slots are available for them. The Compressor and the 1 Band EQ use 1 slot each, the Delay and the 4 bands EQ use 2 slots each. The processing quality is good but there are some little annoying things here… for the EQ, you can not set the Q. For the stereo Delay a link switch will be great to have. One positive thing is that you can route the input signal to Guitar Tone or the Taylor EQ. (Taylor EQ is a Free App). I will post the review of these two Apps shortly. The Master channel comes with a Compressor, a 4 bands EQ and a Reverb. The metronome can play loops too, a feature really great a long time ago but today… In summary StudioTrack was a Killer App a long, long time ago… today,… I don’t know how to rate it… the App is good, but at least the IAA feature will be great to have. So,… StudioTrack needs some improvements. Review by Es |
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