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This weekend’s BeatMaker 3 could change your mind about the iPad
BeatMaker 3 is set for release this weekend for the iPad. And it could win over more than just mobile die-hards. Here’s why: A lot of what makes a DAW a DAW derives from what makes a PC a PC. The...
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PPG Infinite’s touch morphing could make it soft synth of the summer
Over the weekend, PPG mastermind Wolfgang Palm let slip his latest creation: PPG Infinite. In previews for iPad, we see an innovative touch synth full of morphing and wave shaping tools. There are two...
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Why the iMono/Poly from KORG is the synth remake we were waiting for
The latest app from KORG brings the 1981 vintage synth to iOS – and there’s reason this particular remake is interesting in 2017. The KORG original is really three synths in one. Playing one voice at a...
View ArticleTurn ideas into songs, with a new feature in Ampify’s Groovebox app
The Groovebox app for iPhone and iPad already gave you a way of starting musical ideas quickly. A new update might help you make finished songs, too. Since Ampify started out with their first app...
View ArticleS-Modular is the latest modular synth for iOS, but the first semi-modular
Let’s face it, modular is very popular and it has been for quite a while now. In the mobile world we’ve had a few modular synths and some really spectacular ones in that group. Now we add a new app to...
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GarageBand on iOS adds powerful sequencer and a lot more sounds
Apple’s music production tool gets a new step sequencer for rhythms, sound libraries, and Eastern touch instruments – plus it looks good on the iPhone X. The first thing to know about GarageBand is,...
View Articlesoundfruuze 1.2 brings some new ‘lane types’ to Alexey Nadzharov’s...
soundfruuze is an exprerimental live sampler / looper / granular and FFT scrub effect app for your iPad from Alexey Nadzharov, creator of Phawuo, and rrarrow as well as soundfruuze. soundfruuze...
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Living Memory Software bring FoldR – Wave Folder Audio Unit
FoldR is a simple Wave Folding Audio Unit Extension from Living Memory Software who previously brought us LayR and Ostinator. FoldR is based on wave folding, which is an interesting distortion effect...
View ArticleSENODE is something quite different when it comes to sequencing
New ideas in sequencing are always welcome, that is to say if they’re actually workable. Not all are, but once in a while you’ll see something that seems to make sense more than the normal sequencing...
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Why Soda could finally make you take DJ apps seriously again
Soda for iOS is the first DJ app that is whatever you want it to be – with fully customizable interfaces, powerful specs, AU plug-ins, and Ableton Link. The need for something new Let’s be honest:...
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How BeatMaker caught the iOS music trend before it even started
It was one of the first apps to define what mobile music making on iOS could be. We talk to its creators to understand the story behind Intua BeatMaker. CDM’s mobile editor Ashley Elsdon has always...
View ArticlePositive Grid’s AI Drum app expands its library, speeds up analysis, adds...
Positive Grid’s X Drummer: Songwriting Tool arrived back in March this year as a new artificial intelligence drum for your iPad. It’s had a few incremental updates since then, but nothing as big as its...
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Elastic FX lets you route and morph 32 effects on iOS, for $7
It looks a bit like what would happen if an iPad, a KAOSS Pad, and a plug-in folder had a love child. It’s the new iOS app from the makers of Elastic Drums. Elastic Drums already had won fans as the...
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Korg’s Monopoly board game crossover isn’t even an April Fools’ joke
Happy 1st of April! Mono/Poly synth, Monopoly board game – get it? Oh, wait. Actually, they’re serious. KORG are doing a complete reskin of their Mono/Poly synth for iOS to look like the classic board...
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Your smartphone needs a pocket mixer: Roland Go:Mixer Pro review
The Roland Go:Mixer Pro packs a complete mixer into a handheld device, and it interfaces with your iPhone, Android phone – or anything else. We got one of the first units to test. Compact enough to...
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Kraftwerk played live with an astronaut on the ISS – here’s how
Summer festivals? No, the most epic onstage moment for this summer has to be Kraftwerk jamming live with the International Space Station – and an iPad as the first electronic musical instrument in...
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touchAble Pro for Ableton Live: touch control on iOS, Android, Windows
touchAble was already the benchmark app for controlling Ableton Live from an iPad. Now touchAble Pro has been recoded from the ground up with new features like custom layouts and waveform views – and...
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Control all of Ableton from iOS, Android, Windows: touchAble Pro
Ableton Live: lug along hardware, or … be forced to use a mouse or touchpad. No more: touchAble Pro continues to unlock more and more of Live’s functionality, and now it’s available across touch...
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Apple’s new iPad Pro: USB-C is in, headphone and home button are out
Apple’s new iPad Pro again establishes the high-end of Apple’s tablet line. But it also reveals some significant changes that iPad-using musicians will notice – USB-replaces Lightning, and the...
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Noir is part bass, part drum synth – a must-have iOS drum machine
Dark, crunchy, synthetic sounds, grooves that morph somewhere in the shadows between bass line and percussion pattern – Ruismaker Noir is exactly the sort of drum machine you’d want with you at all...
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