iShala is an "electronic" Tabla machine for iDevices. A lehra player. It is always in my iPad since the day it was released. A long time ago, and with time it comes better and better. Like most of all Tabla machines, it comes with a: Tanpura (4,5 or 6 strings) If you have selected in the Settings menu the 5 or 6 strings, you will be able to set the note for second string. You can also set the first string for all Tanpura, specify the pause when plucking the strings and adjust the speed at which strings are struck. A Swarmandal, but here, you can set the notes included in the "scale" as well as the speed they will play, the time when they will play and the way they will play: ascending or descending. More, you can display the Swarmandal and play with it. The Tabla rhythmic will be determined by the tempo you have choosen. 7 Tempo are available, but they added a Tempo feature which allows you to define it in BPM. This is cool! The Harmonium, and this is not so easy to find in a Tabla machine, will play a different melody depending of the Raga you have chosen. Around 60 raga are available. You have a volume slider for the four instruments, and you can play them independently. iShala is Audiobus and IAA compatible.... Top! To conclude, iShala is among the best Tabla machine in the App Store. A Must Have, a Killer App!
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TouchBells, it's 3 melodic Percussion intruments: à Vibraphone, a Xylophone and a Tubular Bells. We can not really say that this App is for Pro musicians because of its lack of features that we need to have as the Audiobus, Inter App or MIDI ones. Despite this the sound quality is really good, the Keys are touch sensitive and the polyphonic. You can record your performances and share them via iTunes files sharing or email m4a or TouchBells file. A learn mode allows you to learn the 25 songs included in the songs library. To conclude... A Super App! There was a Revolution yesterday... I have decided to talk in the YouTube videos... It's just horrible for me, but after 50 years, I have to accept my voice.... Who knows perhaps that in 50 years more I will start to sing... OK, it's cool, but what I have to say here? The same things that I already said in the Video? Yes, perhaps that it can be cool for deaf man... At the same time, I am not really sure that a lot of deaf people are looking my YouTube channel... So for this time, I will say nothing more here... Just have a look at the Video demo... A Super App! PS While I was writing the name of this App in the title field of this post, I felt a little bit... (I didn't talk about this in App Store description....) ... a little bit weird, as everytime that I have to write the name of one of the Apps from this developer.... in the center of the screen, there are 12 strings. You can adjust their sizes their directions, or move them where you want. Then you select one of the instruments. 3 sounds. You can replace a sound by a little sample that you will record with the microphone of your iDevice. Then, you draw. 5 little melodies per instrument track. The way you are going to draw (from left to right, from top to bottom, will determine the reading direction, the timing too. Move the strings to play or not a note, to play chords,.... In the settings more options,... Sync the the drawings, lock bows, and the export mode: Audiocopy or iTunes files sharing. This App is really cool, but not really for Pro musicians. No Audiobus or IAA implementation despite this, they can have fun with it. A very Good App! Review by Ed i have a few Apps since a very long time in my iPad. Some that I really love, but so powerful that I need a lot of time before to post the review.. Among this App, GeoShred. An awesome synthesizer. Between a electric or acoustic guitar, an harp, a sitar, Bass,... and a synthesizer. So much keyboard layouts, settings... So powerful! So, a little video where I am using some factory presets, just to let you listen to this Killer App!
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 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 Speak Unit is unique in the App Store because it’s the only Audio Unit App that can speak text. Speak Unit is a Robot, and because of this he has a typical accent from the Robot’s Galaxy. He can talk 12 phrases of 150 characters. I love Robots. I love speak to text Apps. I love also the unique Apps. Because of this, a Killer Apps! A Must Have! Note that the Audio Unit version allows you to save all your phrases.
Review by Ed The App Store description starts with this: The second best sounding piano app in the App Store (after "Colossus Piano")! So, below the beginning of the Colossus Piano description: Colossus Piano sets a new standard in terms of realism, detail and overall quality of piano sounds on your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. There are 8 acoustic piano models available as 8 individual in-app purchases, plus 5 E-Piano legends bundled as 1 sound set with this app, together those 13 piano models make up 30 Gigabyte of sound material. All keys of all piano models were recorded in full length with a recording quality of 24 bit and 96 kHz stereo. Now, let’s talk about CMP Grand. I do not know if you all know that I had to stop Apps4idevices for 3 long years. The first two years, I had no internet connection, and because of this, I missed a lot of new Apps, among others, Colossus Piano that I just discovered at the moment. So, it’s seems that Colossus Piano has replaced CMP Grand Piano. More Piano types and some features that you can find in the other Apps from Crudebyte like the ability to set the keyboard size and the great and unconventional Preset library. CMP Grand comes with a Grand Piano and a Jazz Piano. 1.7Gb of audio samples (real time disk streaming). 2 more pianos are available from the store: Concert Piano (1.6Gb) and Upright Pianimo (1.1Gb). Because of this the sound quality of these piano is just awesome! 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 (Echo / Reverb) with 17 presets is present in the App. A great quality of processing… In the second page a Midi file player and recorder. Unlimited MIDI tracks. (You can import MIDI files via iTunes files sharing) To conclude, CMP Grand was my favourite Piano App until that I am writing this review. I have now to go to my favourite Internet coffee in PinKlao to download Colossus Piano. My rating? Because of what the developer wrote in its App Store description, a Killer App but not a Must Have. The Must Have have should be Colossus Piano....
Review by Ed I don't know what's happening to me the day I made this review, but it seems that I had something else to do... So, here is my shortest review and video... Petites Ondes is unfortunately no more available. If you like to play an Ondes Martelot, try Ribbons from Olympia Noise Co (To find a specific App, go to the Home page then Tap the Music Logo icon) Published on 28 Jan 2012 Petites Ondes is an Ondes Martenot! The first for iDevices! The App is pretty well done, you can play with the ring like a real one... A great App! Ondes MartelotThe ondes Martelot, "Martenot waves"), also known as the ondium Martenot, Martenot and ondes musicales, is an early electronic musical instrument invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot. The original design was similar in sound to the theremin. The sonic capabilities of the instrument were later expanded by the addition of timbral controls and switchable loudspeakers. The instrument's eerie wavering notes are produced by varying the frequency of oscillation in vacuum tubes. The production of the instrument stopped in 1988, but several conservatories in France still offer instruction to students of the instrument. In 1997 the Ondéa project began designing an instrument based on the ondes Martenot. Since the Martenot name is still protected, the new instrument is called Ondéa, but has the playing and operational characteristics of the original ondes Martenot. In 2001 a completed prototype was first used in concerts. These instruments have been in regular use since 2005.[4][5] In 2017, a new version of the Ondéa, built by Audities Studio of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, became available.[6] Since 2008 Jean-Loup Dierstein, with the support of Maurice Martenot's son, has been developing a new, officially named ondes Musicales instrument based on the model used when production stopped in 1988.[7] In 2016, ASADEN, a small company based in Asakusa, Japan, started distributing the first 'Ondomo' instruments. The Ondomo is a smaller, analog ondes Martenot instrument that has been in prototyping stages for several years. |
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