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!
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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...
Review by Ed Stand Alone & Audio UnitTutorialSharing a MIDI File and create a Orchestra with x Audio Unit instancesiShala 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!
I added the definitions of some words that you perhaps don”t know. Review by Ed A very big Kap to this Jason Snell!Warning! When I am making the Let's open it together post, I don't know the App... I also didn't read the App Store description before... So, I want to apology if I am saying mistakes or if there are "lengths" in the Video or in my writing below. Check out the App Store description at the end of this post... If you have this App feel free to add infos, clarification, even to injury me (not too much) in the comment section below... Concept: MIDI Drone Machine First sensations: Top atmosphere! Sound quality: I love! Audio Processing: Features: 8 tracks / 1 pattern from? to 32 bars (I am not sure...) / possibility to set the Scale / MIDI in & out UI: very clean / it seems to be easy to use. But I am not sure that I have seen or understand all the potential of this App.... To conclude: I love the concept, the UI. I am sure that I will use it for my live performances... I really want to learn this App now... I will,post the review very shortly... Ed: first sensations This is the App Store description: The world around us is an endless source of visual information, the flow of the fractal code of life. "Nature - Oscillator" is one of the attempts to translate this code to sound, using spectral synthesis algorithm of the Virtual ANS engine (software simulator of the unique Russian synthesizer ANS). The program continuously reads the image from the camera and interprets it as the spectrum of the sound. And you can easily control the scanning curve: its amplitude, type and speed. My turn: Alexander Zolotov is the specialist of the photo & video translation to audio. You can have a look at his website, the hardware pages in particular... Quantum DJ is an electronic creature that listens to the electromagnetic noise around us, analyzes it and generates some sort of 1-bit sound art depending on its internal state (mood). Each second of the sound is absolutely unique. The QDJ also loves tactile communication with cats and other living creatures. (Tap) Quantum VJ is a glitch-style 8-bit pendant and audio visualizer. Any audio source can be connected to this device through the jack plug (3.5mm). It also can visualize some electromagnetic interference and the "soul modulations" of the owner when the audio ports are not connected. There are nine display modes that can be switched by the button. (Tap) Nature Oscillator is really great. You can use it to create an Fx track for your project. Simply launch the App and start to record the audio signal. I really love this App, as I love all the App that I have from this developer. A Super App! Review by Ed Sel a Fuzz is awesome and the last update brings it a little closer to excellence... What's is it? A Noise generator, or a Drone Machine. A distortion too. You can use it as a plugins to shape the signal of an incoming Audio source. (IAA and Audiobus or the built in microphone) To generate the signal of the Noise generator, we have a VCF a Band Pass. For the Drone, 4 Oscillators (Saw, Sinusoïdale, Triangle and Square) but you can also drag the waveforms for each oscillator in the Oscillators Table located in the settings window. You can order the polyphony order or randomise it for each child oscillator. To shape the signal, a 10 Band equalizer, a Low Pass, and the Distortion. I forgot something... Self a Fuzz also as a randomizer effects... All the parameters can be randomised. It's awesome... All knobs and buttons come with 3 randomisers switch. These switch allows you to set the range a of the associated parameters... Also and this is really awesome, You can controller the VCF and Band Pass frequency with MIDI or the built in keyboard. Self a Fuzz can record your performances and share them via Audio Share. To conclude Self a Fuzz is really awesome and very very easy to use of,Ce you have understand how it works. As usual, you have the tutorial below, but this time I also added 5 examples to help you to understand how it works. A Killer App! A Must Have!
PS Below, a message from the developer. (Deregulator, ZhSh, 3oomph, and Self a Fuzz) "Dear musicians, today versions of my apps have buggy sound on iPhones with default sample-rate 48000. I hope to bring fixes asap, but this may be late or impossible. And take care for your hardware and meatware :)" Savelii Review by Ed Examples1) As a Noise generator: |
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