I love it and I use it!
Refraktions is a Drone Machine, a Generative music tool, a 8 tracks sequencer, or a Sound Expander.


There is someone in this App...
Someone who learn about you each time you launch the App or play a new melody...
" Your taps imprint the AI memory and help it generate loops tailored to your choices over time."
"These sounds will loop and morph into new compositions over time, evolving indefinitely. More taps will be taken into consideration by AI and steer the app in new directions. The AI memory persists between app launches and the more you use the app, the more it learns about the tracks, pitches, and compositions you prefer, weighing your most recent decisions more heavily."
"The notes will loop, getting quieter each time it plays. When the note has completely faded out, the overall composition is assessed by the AI and new sequences are generated. The result is that each time the app is used it outputs a unique composition that morphs and evolves over time. The more the app is used, the more the AI shapes itself to the user."

8 horizontal lines = 8 ribbon keyboards = 8 tracks = 8 instruments

Only 8 instruments?
Yes, and it's cool... The developer choice... 8 beautiful sounds to create an Atmosphere, a Drone.
I love to use the internal sounds but you can also turn off a built-in instrument or all and send the MIDI out to another App.

A few gestures...
Swipe from L to R to remove all notes from a track.
To rearrange the notes on all tracks, shake your device.
To get the Tempo Selector to appear, drag three fingers up or down the screen.
To reset the sequencer, draw a counter-clockwise circle on the screen. This is an easy way to clear out a busy song and start from scratch. If MIDI Clock is set to SEND MIDI CLOCK, then a MIDI Song Position of 0 0 is sent to the MIDI Destinations.
Scrubbing the sequencer. Emulating the jog-wheel on classic hardware MIDI sequencers, you can change the position of the playhead by spinning the outside ring of the sequencer circles. This action also sends the corresponding Song Position data to the MIDI Destinations.

Track parameters:
Sound on / off - Quantize - Pattern length from 1 to 8 bars - notes duration from 8 to 64 bars - Volume - Volume lock - Tune (slider by semitones) - Chromatic- Octave selector - Octave Range - Notes lock on loop (will not change the note) - MIDI send - MIDI receive

Global parameters:
Scales selector - Ableton Link - MIDI source- MIDI destination- Background Audio - Reset all memory - Reset all tracks to default

To conclude:
I love it!

• Audiobus / IAA / Ableton Link / MIDI

This week I will post everydays a part of this tutorial...
It's done, already...
And it means that I know perfectly this App...
(Excepted 1 little thing that I still not understand... Check it out in the Audio Track tutorial below..)

1
It's not the most powerful of the DAW, despite this:
3 inserts per track.
Unlimited groups...
Audiobus, IAA and AudioUnit (Intrument tracks and Fx)
A lot of built in Plugins, others from the Shop.


2
It's not the most revolutionary UI, despite this:
You don't need to read the User Manual, everything is simple... Not a lot if windows... A little bit like Protools... I love this...

3
It's not the most powerful Audio and MIDI Editor, despite this:
One more time, for the Audio and MIDI Editors, no need to read the manual.
Most of all the features I need are present. Perhaps the Time Stretching for an Audio Clip.

I can also change the way I am writing...

It's among and perhaps even the most "easy to use" Pro DAW from the App Store!
It's my second DAW.
And sometimes also my unique DAW.
I am Beta Tester for Auria Pro, I have to install and uninstall it a lot of time. Auria is also heavy, and sometimes I need space in my iPad.
So I remove it...
But I keep Audio Evolution into my iPad.
Audio Evolution is very study too...
I need this....
A Killer App, a Must Have!

• Audiobus / IAA / Audio Unit / Ableton Link / MIDI

Review by Ed

A real File browser...
You can import easily MIDI and Audio from a project to another.
You can Mixdown a project, send all rendered tracks to another DAW, export a MIDI file.
Create and load Templates,
Sure, load and save a Project...
Import from Audio Share too...

2 ways to create a Track:
Or you choose to import Audio or MIDI from another project. A track will be created .
Or you Tap the + button located on the bottom right side of your screen.
4 choices here:
Audio Track, MIDI Instrument Track, Drum Pattern Track or MIDI track.
Note that I didn't understand how to create a Stereo Audio track... To create it, I import a stereo Audio file from Audioshare into Audio Evolution.
All the tracks come with a Volume, a Pan, A input Routing, 3 inserts (Audio Unit or IAA plugins), 2 send to the groups (you can create unlimited groups). A 3 band EQ excepted for the MIDI Track.


1) Audio Track
The input Routing allows you to insert an App. (Audiobus or IAA)
Audio will be recorded.
The track menu allows you to rename a track (You can also rename a track by a long tap on the note label.)
To remove it.
To move it up or down.
To copy the track to the clipboard.
To render the Audio to Audio File.


2) The MIDI Instrument Track
It's exactly the same track as an Audio Track.
Just after you have created it, you will have to choose the "Guest" App or the Audio Evolution built-in Sampler. (We will see this later)
A shortcut on the trackhead allows you to switch to an IAA App or to the Audio Evolution keyboard if you have choosen an Audio Unit instrument.
The Track menu displays the same things as the Audio Track plus a Translate by semitones, a Split Midi Channel and Merge All Clips features.
This track record MIDI.


3 & 4) The MIDI track and the Drum Pattern tracks are the same.
Only the MIDI Editor is different. (We will see this later)
The Track menu is the sale as the MIDI Track instrument.
The imput routing is for the MIDI destination and source.

Audio Quality: 💜💜💜💜💜

Samples: 💜💜🧡🧡🧡
The Sound of this Flute is beautiful. On the Attack, you can hear a "bell". The problem is when you want to play fast... Too much attack..
No loop here...
And it's too bad because the Algozay plays a Drone.
Sometimes, clicks on fade out.

MIDI Files: 💜💜🧡🧡🧡
8 MIDI Files

Playability: 💜💜🧡🧡🧡
I am not an expert with the Algozay but I think that it's too bad that the samples don't loop, I mean for the Drone... For the Bass notes.
Playing slow melodies it's OK. For faster, too much Attack due to the "bell" sound... One more time, I am not able expert with the Algozay...
I am not really sure that you can use it to play a Solo part...
Check out the Video below (The second one for a real Algozay)


Total Love:
💜💜💜💜💜 💜💜💜💜💜 💜🧡🧡🧡🧡 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

Samples - a Sampler for Humans...
It's not a "Sampler",...
A Soundboard for Humans
Humans = Very easy to use
Samples - A Soundboard very easy to use...


This App is not MIDI compatible, this is the reason why I changed its name...
A Soundboard, yes...
64 boards
20 Pads per board
1280 Pads
= 1280 Samples (up to 30 seconds)
You can record a Sample from another App (Audiobus & IAA) or the built in microphone of your iDevice.
There is a little bug here:
After a recording, the Audiobus bus will be "cut", "mute".
So, after a recording, better to quiet and relaunch the App.
You can also import a Sample from another App via Audiocopy, but here also I have a bug...
The link to Audiocopy failed.
The Audio Editor is very simple: Trim sample
3 play modes: one shot, loop and reverse.
To conclude:
Samples, a Sampler for Humans is for Humans. Very, very easy to use.
Fast.
1280 samples...
This App is Free with Offers In App Purchases.
I don't know when the bugs will be fixed...
Depending of your needs, these bugs can be annoying or not...
Depending of your needs, it can be a Good, a Very Good or a Super App...
A Very Good App until the next update...
I was not able to make a video because of bugs.
I will add one when Samples will be updated.

• Audiobus / IAA

Review by Ed

A metronome?
Yes, a metronome....
A practicing tool too...
I love the concept....
And I am thinking at the Pro Pro version of this App while I am writing this review....
Drum Loops and Metronome plays MIDI Drum patterns. 2 Drum Kits: Jazz & Rock. A very good sound quality,.
Once you have selected a loop, (a midi drum pattern), you can play it,... add 2 rolls (in the setting menu, you can choose to hold and loop the 2 rolls,... it means that you can play 3 patterns for a selected loop.
Cool...
You can also play an intro: drum stick countdown
Cool...
Add an animation (beats flashing), set the tempo,... create a playlist,...
Cool,...
You can set the Metronome sounds, the rolls sound too.
Cool,..
No more features....
Now let’s talk about the Loops library...
I need to practice a song,... a Scale,... a Rhythm,...
I want to work with a loop. I have to find the loop, the good one...
Rock, Jazz, Swing, Bossa, Afro, Britpop,...
It's cool to have categories. Here we have lot of categories...
Cool !
...
Despite this, sometimes, it's not enough...
Rock: Where is this F......g "Poum Pa Poum Poum Pa" loop?
Easier to think about a Song...
Dakota, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Beat it,...
A band, an Artist....
The top?
I type a Genre, or a Song name, or the an Artist name. That's all...
Easy and fast...
In fact, this is exactly what is doing this App...
Here, all the "precious" of this App is in its loops library.
A lot, lot of Genre. All kinds.
A lot of songs too... From a lot of Genre...
Check out the list further down...
This is top...
Top for a Metronome and a Drum Loops Backing Track App!
A Killer App!

Ah yes, I have finished to program the Pro Pro version of this App...
In App purchases:
Pack Composers: Free (😀)
- Export as MIDI file
- Mixer
- Midi out
- Ableton Link
- Swing
- MIDI Editor

Review by Ed

Seline is a Sounds Expander which comes with an interesting UI, and a few great features.
The sound quality of the instruments is really good. Some of the instruments avaliable are unconventional and this is really cool...

• Armenian Duduk / Turkish Ney / Tanpura / Indian Sitar / Bolivian Pan Flute / Harpsichord / Bottled / Bansuri Flute / Soft Cane / Kitara / Lyra / Oud / Saz / Shamisen...

Note that all the Instrument's Packs are Free in this version, the Pro one as well as the 3 keyboard layouts: 1 "normal" and 2 others. (Check out the tutorial below)
An expression Pad is located on the bottom (in the middle) of each keyboards allowing to set easily the Filter, Volume, Delay or Reverb while you are playing.
In the FX menu you will be able to set all the parameters for the Delay and the Reverb. A Chorus is also available.
2 knobs allows you to switch an octave up and 2 others to set the playing modes: Legato or Staccato. (In the Setting menu you can adjust the Staccato spacing)
You can play a PitchBend by moving your finger on a Pad. This feature can be disable in the Setting menu.
There are also 3 others knobs located on the top of each keyboards allowing you to set the octave , to switch all Keys to 11 semitones (max) up or down and to change the notes position.
On the top of the screen a keyboard roll displays the keyboard range, the selected scale and the notes you are playing. Tap on it to set the Scale and the root note depending of the keyboard layout you are using. (You can create a custom scale too).
Now, some others great features....
1, the Rhythm track.
Each Pack come with few Drum or/and Percussion loops and Done as well. (See below)
2, The Drone:
Seline allows you to play a Drone. It's really cool but ... unfortunately impossible to set the chords progression.
Another annoying thing is the lack of Tempo setting... So it's impossible to set the Rhythm and the Drone tracks Tempo. In the other hand, Seline comes with an Audio and MIDI File recorder with an Overdub feature. It also comes with an Audio file editor with all the features needed to create your backing Track. (Fade in & out, Trim, Silence, Repeat, Clone, and Volume.). You can also import an Audio File from another App.
In the Setting menu, you will be able to set the volume independently for the Drone, the Playback (Rhythm) and lead track
3, a multi touch Arpeggiator mode.
Play one note, hold it on, then play another note or 2 notes at the same time to play an Arpeggio for the higher note.
In the Setting menu you will be able to set the Arpeggio speed and the mode:
Up / Down / up and down or random.
4, the 3 outputs available while you are using Seline with Audiobus or with an IAA hosting App. (Lead / Drone and Master output)

To conclude: Seline Redux is really great but because of a few little things I can not say that it's a Must Have.
Why no Tempo setting?
The MIDI implementation: No MIDI learn feature, no way to receive a MIDI CC from another App.
The expression Pad, great but the Filter can not be reset to its default position...
Why it's not a Killer App?
Because I am not sure that that the developer team is still working on it..
There are a few little bugs when you are using it as an IAA App or with Audiobus:
The App quiets if you are changing a Drone.
Depending of the keyboard you are using another note can be play while you are playing one.
The red cursor (available in the settings menu) will freeze on a few notes...
OK, it's not so dramatic, but...
A Super App!

• Audiobus / IAA / MIDI

Review by Ed

I am so happy!
All my favourite instruments in 1 App!
(Excepted the Duduk...)
79 Indian instruments with an awesome sound quality!
(I will post everyday 1, 2 or 3 instruments included in Swarplug. Here it's just the review of the App...)
So, the sound quality is awesome but the number of samples for one instrument is awesome too!
On the left side of the screen, the sound Library, the Store.
Below an ADSR.
On the middle, the Gain and Pitch parameters. A Global and a Fine tune knobs for the Master out. Below the same parameters for the left and the right channel. (This allows you to set a different pitch for some Drum instruments)
And the right side, the MIDI Files...
Here is also the awesome of this App!
Each instrument comes with a lot of MIDI Files.
First you choose a Raga, then a sequence.
You will be able to share this sequence to another App (open in feature) and edit it!
SwarPlug is a Stand Alone App that you can control via another App or external hardware but also an Audio Unit instrument....
It means that you can play a Philharmonic Indian Orchestra with it!
It's awesome!
This App will never leave my iPad. This is sure!
A Must Have, a Killer App!

A note:
I have seen this App in the App Store before, but I didn't understand the potential of Swarplug... that this App was made for me...
Because very old I am...

• Audiobus / Audio Unit / IAA / MIDI in

Review by Ed

it's funny...
I did not read the app store description 2 minutes before writing these lines. I thought that this App was a guitar's Chords, Scales & Arpeggios dictionary and finder too. Because of this, I thought that the App Store description will be a list of all the Chords,Scales and Arpeggios types available in the App...
One more time, because of this, I thought to start my review with something like this::
I'm not going to copy here all the App Store description here, ... you can read it at the bottom of this page ... no, I prefer to focus on something else, something that make this App very especially for me...
But the problem for me is that in fact the App description begins like this::
I'm disgusted ... my super review is reduced to nant ... but it's so true ... this App is so well made that it is a real inspiring App for guitar players, Composers also ... for example, you work on a song. you do not know which Scales to use. which Arpeggios and Chords to play ... Simply, Tap to add notes on the fretboard in the Scales or Arpeggios finder mode (the good notes corresponding to the song you are working on). Then, you will be able to see and listen to all available Scales and Arpeggios corresponding to the notes you entered before. Choose the Scale or Arpeggio you prefer, then Tap on the on a button to,see all the Chords matching to your choice.
This is really, really cool!
I told you previously that this App is very well done...
Yes, the UI alllows you to see everything in one window. (And even an old man like me can see everything...)
There are also other things that I really love in this App:
The ability to choose the Bass note for a Chord.
The ability to enter your guitar tuning.
The huge choice of guitar tuning available in this App.
The ability to add a Capo.
And the ability to set the Left hand mode.
To conclude:
Guitar Garstang is a Killer guitar Chords, Scales and Arpeggios dictionary.
A Killer Chords, Scales and Arpeggios finder.
And also, a inspiring a,d creative App for Guitar players, arrangers and composers.
A Must Have!

Review by Ed

Oval Synth was developed by the descendant of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), founder of the banking business in his native Frankfurt, in the German duchy of Hesse. The name Oval comes from the famous oval office of the White House offered by his rear great-great-grandchild to the president of the United States.

Stop!
N'importly oiuq! (unknown language) - N'importe quoi (in French) - Totally crazy (in English)


In the App Store some Apps are Free but come with ads.
We have also Paid Apps that should be Free...
And sometimes we have Free Apps that should be Paid Apps.
Oval Synth is one of them. I mean, the last category...
This App is very very well done. The sound quality is great.
Oval Synth is not a synthesizer, it's more a Keyboard, a Sound Expander.
The App,is Audiobus and IAA compatible.
On the left side, you can choose the scale, the Bass note and set the octave.
In the center, the keyboard. A circle. You can play it with one hand and set the bass note, the scale and the octave with the other.
On the right side, 4 FXs. A Filter, a Reverb, a Delay and a Compressor.
The App allows you to record your performances and to trim your recording before to share it.
It comes also with a MIDI out feature.
To conclude: a Must Have for Free! A very High Kap to the developer!

• Audiobus / IAA / MIDI out

Review by Ed