I can not play a A Chord with 3 fingers at the first position on my guitar… I say this just to let you imagine what it can be when I try to play on a Piano keyboard with my iPad... I remember when the first Chord’s Controller App was released, how happy I was. To play a melody? Still a big nightmare! Last year, I saw that an App released in the App store could certainly solve my problem… Clawtar - Adaptive MIDI Controller. This week, I asked the developer to send me a redeem code and he do it kindly. 2’ after it was installed in my iPad. 35” after, I was playing piano like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. (Or his very very far cousin…). Clawtar is unique in the App Store. It’s an adaptive keyboard. When you open the App, a black screen. You put your 2 hands on your iPad, you move your fingers to find the best fingers position, you release your 2 hands and the 2 hands keyboard are ready to be played, Awesome! With the right hand, you play your melody, set the volume and select the root note , with the left hand, you set the octave (4 octaves), select 1 of the 3 note’s order layout, control the pitch bend, and the modulation wheel. It works so well and so fast that you can change your keyboard shape in 5 second to accord it with the part you have to play… Clawtar can control another App via Midi but comes also with an internal Synthesizer (8 sounds). Clawtar is unique, so useful, so very well developed… A Killer App! a Must Have!
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Review by Ed Don't be frightened by the word "modular" and don't take the leak by looking at the length of this tutaorial ... you would pass next to an extraordinary App, and the worst, super easy to use.!
Yesterday, I had to work in a music shop here in Bangkok... At 10:02 am, the first customer of the day... He asked me for a small midi keyboard to control his Mac and not too much expensive for sure... For sure, I answered, AUM $18.99! Then, he asked me if he had to buy a midi interface... I replied no,that he will be able to control his Mac over Wi-Fi... At 10:20 am, the second customer: he was looking for a midi router to use with his 1 port midi interface and his iPad,but not too much expensive, for sure.. For sure I answered, AUM $18.99 At 10:40 am. 3 guys asked me for something which could be able to synchronize their machines together, generating a midi clock with a transport remote... One was using a old vintage midi keyboard, the other one Ableton for PC and the last one Tractor for iPad... But not too much expensive for sure.. For sure I answered AUM $18.99 will send the Ableton Link (over Wi-Fi) to the 2 last guys. The first guy had to buy a MIDIConnect from Griffin $19.99 (1 midi port) At 11:00 am, a DJ. He needed to play audio loops sync to the bpm for his live performances. But not too much expensive... For sure I answered! AUM $18.99 plus Audioshare €4.99 Unlimited Audio file player with a loop player with auto normalise function A chanelstrip per track including: • Stereo balance • Stereo to mono • Stereo panning • Mid/Side balance • Mid/Side - Stereo convert • Invert Phase • Parametric EQ • Low-shelf filter • High-shelf filter • Low-pass resonant filter • High-pass resonant filter • Gain • Hard clip • Saturation • Lookahead peak limiter At 11:30 am, Twist, a friend of me, a sound engineer... He had to record a band playing live... He needed 10 tracks for the drums, 2 for the guitar, 1 for the bass and 1 for the vocal. 4 distinct routing for headphones, and the possibility to insert his Foscurite preamp to the vocal track... A channel strip per channel also... But not too much expensive, for sure... For sure I answered, AUM $18.99 Plus Audioshare €4.99 and a TASCAM Celesonic US-20x20 USB 3.0 Audio Interface $499.99 Unlimited Audio track recorder. For multi track recording at once, it depends of the connected audio interface A channel strip per track and subgroup (11:00 am) 8 subgroup here subgroup A & B for the drum / bus C, D, E, F for the headphone > route to the Tascam output port 3, 4, 5, 6 out port - Bus G to insert the Focusrite preanp > route to the Tascam output port 7 > return to the Tascam input 15 - Master out > route to the Tascam output port 1 & 2 At 12:00 a young guy with an iPad... Boring to switch from an App to another asked for a small keyboard midi controller... But not too much expensive,... For sure, I answered, AUM $18.99! At 12:00 I needed to eat something... I was thinking that played live during 2 years with my Blueboard, my 12 step pedal board... That I was trying during 2 years to control the volume, the mute, the solo of my 6 tracks to shape my guitar sound... To sync all these Apps together.. To change a setup for a song with one tap on my Pedalboard... And now, I have this App, but it's the raining season here in Thailand,... It could be a litle be frustrating if I didn't have to use AUM everyday to make my video and and audio demo... AUM should be sell with all iPad for 3 reasons... First, it's so easy to understand how it's works... As a mac, an iPad... Secondly, So study as a Mac and an iPad... Third, because it's impossible to imagine making music on iOS without AUM. A Killer App is not enough... A Series Killer App... Not enough.... A Genocider App... (Little bit violent....) A Terminator App... A Must Have for all iOS musicians!
Review by Ed For this video I used a music composed and performed by X & 11. This music as well as the entire album has been created with iOS Apps only. I hope that you will love this title as much as I love it... Tap on the image below for more info about this Artist. |
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