Did you ever wish you could carry one of the world’s greatest live sound engineers in your pocket or backpack? While MicVault Live doesn’t make that possible, it comes pretty close. Whether you are a seasoned pro or a hobbyist, every audio engineer and musician find themselves needing advice on deciding what microphone to use on a particular sound source from time to time. If you do not have the phone numbers of the world’s top engineers on speed dial, MicVault Live will instantly save your day by offering advice from three seasoned pros, Jason Spence, Chris “Sully” Sullivan & Chris Taylor. MicVault Live includes microphone recommendations for everything from drums and percussion, to strings, guitars and vocals. And, if the recommended mic is beyond your price range, the engineers offer a low-budget alternative (if they feel there is one).
These three engineer’s credits run the gamut of commercial music and include artist’s such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Janet Jackson, Keith Urban, Barbara Streisand, Joe Cocker, Steven Curtis Chapman, Megadeth, Jewel, Conway Twitty, and Amy Grant. Their TV mix credits include Grammy Awards, Super Bowl, CMA Awards, CMT Awards, MTV Awards Europe, and the Garth Brooks Central Park concert.
MicVault Live makes the experience these engineers gained while working with these artists and events available to you in a simple, quick and easy-to-use interface.
The easy-to-use app includes photos of all of the recommended microphones, as well as links to the microphone manufacturer’s websites.

 

MicVault Live
Developer: John Caudill

Rated: 4+

Price: free Download Here

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Make wobbles bass sounds, dubstep loops and throw in some drops and fx at the touch of a few fingers by sliding, touching and tapping the screen; no musical knowledge is required.

This easy to use app is perfect for dub steppers, bass heads and music producers, musicians and non-musicians alike.

Making dubstep has never been so easy and enjoyable!

Features:
◆ Studio quality samples, created by professional musicians and producers.
◆ Over 300 wobble bass variatons, 10 drum loops and 10 extra FX.
◆ Colour assigned buttons, for clear and straightforward use.
◆ Pitch resample all of the built in samples.
◆ 12 fully editable sample pads
◆ 1 octave keyboard (13 keys) with pitch shifting spanning 5 octaves.
◆ 3 different wobble synthesizers
◆ ADSR

☐ Sample Pads
Select a sample for each pad and customise its volume, pitch, and loop duration. Layer up to 12 looping or touch triggered pads at once.

☐ Wobble Synth
Choose from 3 different wobble bass synth types. Select the central octave with the octave + or – buttons, and pitch shift up to three notes at once in real time with the pitch shift wheel. Use the LFO buttons to change the wobble speed and make intuitive wobble bass riffs!
☐ ADSR
Use the rotating potometers to alter the attack, decay, release and sustain of your wobble synth to get the perfect sound to fit your creation.

Check the site for details and videos - http://www.freshtouchmedia.com/

Bass Drop
Developer: Ben Frost

Rated: 4+

Price: free Download Here

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ShakeMidi has got to be one of the most innovative instruments for musicians and dancers around. Do you know why?

“ShakeMidi is a wireless music app with a difference.” — Voltage Controlled

✓ Turn your dance moves into an instrument. ShakeMidi enables you to use your body motion to create wireless MIDI notes. These notes can translate into any sort of tone, sound, bass or sample. Essentially, it’s a stage-ready wireless MIDI controller & sequencer that you can shake.

✓ Keep a perfect beat, no matter what. Turn on Quantize and your notes will snap to the nearest beat position, allowing for a flawless performance.

✓ Works with all the popular software. Fully compatible with Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Reason, GarageBand, Logic and many other DAWs.

✓ Express your style. Customize patterns, notes, note length, pitch, velocity and randomization with the in-app dashboard.

✓ Forget about the hook up. ShakeMidi magically Auto Connects to nearby Core MIDI devices like Mac, Windows & Linux computers as well as iPhones & iPads.

✓ Forget about latency. With the Quantize option enabled you get 0ms latency thanks to MIDI packet scheduling.

✓ Useful in the studio. Yep, you can use it like a regular-old wireless MIDI controller. Launch clips, scenes, control pitch or just play some notes on the keyboard.

If you are serious about dancing or making music, you cannot miss ShakeMidi. Test it today and learn why it’s an app you’ll want to keep coming back to.

For more details, check the website - www.shakemidi.com

Demo of the features -

Shake MIDI Controller & Sequencer
Developer: Bullets in a Burning Box, Inc.

Rated: 4+

Price: $4.99 Download Here

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]]> http://www.promusicapps.com/shake-midi-controller-sequencer/feed/ 0 http://www.promusicapps.com/wave-eye-audio-spectrum-analyzer/ http://www.promusicapps.com/wave-eye-audio-spectrum-analyzer/#comments Mon, 28 May 2012 00:49:16 +0000 Mikers http://www.promusicapps.com/?p=4936 There seems to be no shortage of audio analyzerss now available for iOS devices. This one isn’t the most fully featured, but it is worth a closer look anyway. These guys also made the GrainBender synth app.

Wave Eye is a simple but useful audio spectrum tool that displays a real time audio spectrum of the sounds around you.

Use Wave Eye to pinpoint a frequency or just to provide an entertaining display of music or conversation.

 

 

Wave Eye Audio Spectrum Analyzer
Developer: Miles Egan

Rated: 4+

Price: $2.99 Download Here

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Waviary is a new, interactive musical artwork that is part instrument, part generative ambient music machine, and part virtual wind chimes.

 

Simple multi-touch control allows anyone to effortlessly create lush ambient soundscapes and environments, or simply listen as Waviary generates it’s own “forest-like” sonic environments.
The generative player can run while you play as well, allowing for a randomized ambient jam session.

A sleep timer is included…put on headphones and let Waviary’s weird, wonderful sounds lull you to sleep.
Features:

- Rich ambient tones and textures
- Multi-touch controls allow expressive creation of rich ambient soundscapes
- Generative mode creates endlessly evolving sonic environments
- Varied Tone sets (more tonesets added FREE with updates)
- pitch slider
- pitch ramp up/down buttons (new!)
- octave up/down buttons
- wow and flutter effect (new!)
- choppy/tremolo effect (new!)
- pitch glitch effect (new!)
- save settings as user snapshots
- lock button to lock orbs in place, or unlock to move freely
- Sleep Timer

Waviary is available for iPad, iPhone, and OSX.

For more details check the site - http://www.holdernessmedia.com/home/ios-applications/music/waviary

Quick demo of the features -

Waviary
Developer: Holderness Media

Rated: 4+

Price: $0.99 Download Here

V-Drums Friend Jam is an app that makes your daily drum performance and practicing even more fun!
Drum practice songs for rock and jazz are available free of charge, and you can use them for enjoyable practice. If you use this app with the latest Roland V-Drums electronic drum system, your performance score and world-wide ranking will be displayed, allowing you to compete and socialize with drummers around the world.

[ Main Functions ]

When you start up the app, songs for practicing and playing the drums in a variety of musical styles will be downloaded automatically. You can play back these songs for enjoyable drum practice.
For even more drum performance enjoyment, using this app with a V-Drums system that supports wireless LAN functionality will let you use the following functions.

● When you drum along with a song, your drumming will be shown in the screen of your iPhone/iPod touch, and will be scored when you finish playing. Your results will be shown as a world-wide ranking.

● Your drums and your iPhone/iPod touch will be connected via wireless LAN, allowing songs and performance data to be exchanged. This means that without having to make troublesome cable connections, you’ll be able to perform while listening to high-quality songs via digital transmission.

● You can operate the app almost entirely from your drum pads, so there’s no need to set down your sticks.

● You can load favorite songs from the music library of your iPhone/iPod touch and participate in performance and ranking.

● You can post your performance times and ranking to Twitter for enjoyable communication with V-Drums users around the world.

V-Drums Friend Jam
Developer: Roland Corporation

Rated: 4+

Price: free Download Here

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Air Recorder is an app that lets you enjoy high-quality recording with easy operation.

You can record sound through the internal mic of your iPhone/iPod touch, or wirelessly make digital recordings of the sound from your Roland electronic musical instrument. You can also load songs from the music library of your iPhone and play them back while recording your instrument as you play along.
● You can use the internal mic of your iPhone/iPod touch to record your instrumental performance or your band. You can also load and play back songs from the music library of the iPhone. During song playback, you can use convenient practicing functions such as speed/key adjustments and AB repeat.

● You can use Air Recorder with a Roland electronic musical instrument that has wireless LAN functionality, and digitally record the sound of your instrument wirelessly. Songs loaded from the music library of your iPhone can also be sent wirelessly and digitally to your instrument; you can then play along with the song on your instrument, and record the mix on your iPhone/iPod touch.

● The recorded audio can be used via AudioCopy with any app that supports AudioPaste (e.g., GarageBand). You can also use Open in… to export the audio to another app that supports WAV or AAC file formats.
Note:

* In order to use the wireless LAN functionality, you’ll need an electronic musical instrument that supports Air Recorder, a wireless USB adapter (Roland WNA1100-RL), and a wireless LAN access point (such as a wireless LAN router) that supports WPS. For details on electronic musical instruments that support wireless LAN functionality, refer to the following URL. http://roland.jp/link/RWC/e/

* If you’re unable to connect to the wireless LAN access point, try connecting using Ad-Hoc mode.

* AudioCopy supports only the WAV recording file format. (WAV is the default recording format.)

* Songs with DRM (Digital Rights Management) cannot be loaded. Songs upgraded to iTunes Plus can be loaded.

* If a song is played back while you’re recording from the internal mic, the iPhone is designed to play back through the ear speaker rather than the internal speaker. If you connect an audio device to the headphone jack, the song will play back from the connected audio device.

* If you’re using an iPad2, please specify WAV as the recording format. Recording operations will be less responsive if you choose AAC.

Air Recorder
Developer: Roland Corporation

Rated: 4+

Price: free Download Here

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And now for something completely different… get into the flow of triqtraq, and jam out your tracks in realtime!

Are you a DJ or electronic music producer? You will find dozens of possibilities inside triqtraq to compose and tweak your beats on the fly.
Or are you just starting out making electronic music? Triqtraq is straightforward enough to get you good sounding results quickly.

Grab your iPhone and start to improvise; live, in your studio or on your couch. Pick sounds from the included sample library, or import your own samples to get that unique sound.

Triqtraq strikes the right balance between musical possibilities and limitations and lets you focus on the most important part of making music… having FUN!
KEY FEATURES
▪ create musical patterns fast and intuitively, by programming live or by using the ‘step edit’-feature
▪ automate parameters like pitch, filter, delay, decay and level in real-time
▪ change samples or sample kits on-the-fly while jamming
▪ edit multiple tracks simultaneously
▪ store up to 16 patterns and 32 samples per session
▪ specify the length of a sequence per track, or set the automation length for each parameter individually
▪ switch seamlessly between patterns
▪ use the loop range feature to create poly-rhythmic sequences
▪ use sounds from the 350+ factory sample library
▪ import your own sounds via iTunes file sharing

For more details, check the official site - http://www.triqtraq.com/

Demo of some of the features-

triqtraq - jam sequencer
Developer: Sebastian Schatz

Rated: 4+

Price: $1.99 Download Here

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What’s new in v.1.02 -
Glitch Pad – Made it more dynamic, now it glitches where the waveform is, and moving your finger changes the index.

Loop Modulation – Now it locks into the loop start, instead of letting the waveform play to catch up, also if you set loop start to the very end it will not cross over anymore.

An option to turn off Loop Modulation latching was also added.

Index Tracking – now when you Glitch, Cut, Loop Mod, or Reverse it remembers where you started, and when you are done, it drops you to where the sample would have played to on it’s own, making it so these functions do not take the sample off time.

Now supports Background Audio and mixing with other apps.
Bug Fixes in the File Loader.

GlitchBreaks
Developer: Alexander Matheu

Rated: 4+

Price: $2.99 Download Here

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An inspiring fun music sequencer. There are no menus, just buttons waiting to be pressed.
Designed for electronic style music like 80s electro, disco, dub-step, house, drum & bass and techno.
“STEP” button to offset the pad/hit sounds to the beat
Featuring 8 tracks including 4 drum tracks, a baseline track, a synthesiser track, a chord/pad track and an effects track.
6 patterns can be recalled at any time.
Two of the tracks step at different speeds for less repetition.
High quality sounds taken from well known and respected synthesisers and drum machines like Access, Waldorf, Novation and Korg.
Other functions such as tempo, a write-protect button to avoid accidental pattern saving, volume control, mute tracks, and an auto-un-mute function for jumping into a pattern after a build-up.
Save all your patterns for later.
Sounds great on headphones or Hi-Fi.

For more details - http://beatsnbobs.com/tictacbeatselectrodescription.html

Demo video of the features

TicTac Beatz Electro
Developer: Rob Wilmot

Rated: 4+

Price: $1.99 Download Here