Apps for musicians

Being a producer of my own beats since 1993, I’ve always had a sampler/sequencer, records, 2 turntables, and a mixer. As time has gone by, my hardware and software collection have grown like crazy. Advancement in musical technology is completely insane but I love it! Laptops, Serato (yes I still support & buy vinyl), Ableton Live, and now my effing iPhone is added into this musical madness mix.

Beatmaker (staple)
Noise.io (staple)
Bebot (newest staple)
Ocarina (I’ve used it live)
Leaf Trombone (never for live use but I’ve used it to record samples)

I thought I was safe. Now I know I am screwed because I want that auto tune app Smule is working on, and now Hexatone…I know where $10.00 is going when I get paid tomorrow!

*Sigh* someday I’ll actually work on an actual EP. As for now I am too busy collecting sound equipment! Haha.

 

Bit of a flurry recently. Bought:

* Hexatone (cool but complicated!)
* SunVox (awesome but very complicated!)
* Mujik (limited, but fun and free)
* Futuresound (not what I was hoping, really)
* Star6 (cool fun, very easy to use)
* FingerBeat (Simple, fun, very polished, built-in sampling)
* Dopplerpad (great sound, very flexible, needs editing)
* Mixdex (fantastic loops, quirky interface)

Costing me a fortune!

 

Transfer kits between desktop and iDevice

For those of you that are not already aware of this functionality, it is way cool and in my opinion makes iDrum one of the required music apps for your iDevice.

Did you know you can transfer your own samples, patterns and kits back and forth from iDrum on your PC or Mac to iDrum on the iPhone/iPod touch? You can start a beat on your phone, and finish it at home. Or take your ideas on the road. All you need is iDrum on your computer, iDrum on your handset, and a Wi-Fi network. Watch the video here.

 

If they're any drummers out there like myself, you owe it to yourself to buy Superdrummer Pro Best $5 I've spent in awhile. There's also a lite version

 

Lildragon: Have you tried vDrummer? I think it is the best sounding drum app in the App Store. And the position of the drums is perfect!

 

Now iZotope has its place in my home studio so naturally I’d trust iDrum. I don’t have a need for iDrum on my iPhone because I have it on my home PC and Laptop. Probably the only 'drumming software' (for the iPhone) I’d ever suguest for hip hop, drum n bass, downtempo beat makers aside from sampling what you want off records.

 

I think someone needs to make an app that reads and writes Power Tab files. (If you don't know what Power Tab is, check out power-tab.net... it's free and one of the most useful programs to have if you're a guitarist.)

Anyway, I have no developing skills myself, but if any developers see this... I can't tell you how awesome it would be to be able to create and play Power Tab files on my phone, while I'm on the go. It'd be amazing. I'd even pay for it, even though the PC one is free.

 

Definitely an authentic sound, might just have to pick this one up as well. Cheers!

~t

 

This has probably been mentioned before,
but I LOVE 'Sonifi'. It is amazing, the sound quality is excellent and the visualization/effects are nice.

Also 'Loop DNB extended' is an excellent Drum n' Bass app. It let's you make songs by adding beat loops, synths, bass, and other sfx.

 

Do you have a link to "Loop DNB extended" .... I can't seem to find it in the app store. Thanks.

 

I found something called looptastic dnb somethin-or-other. If it's what I'm thinking, it has a lite version which I'm trying now.

Edit: had anyone tried technobox? It's $5 now but I'm still not sure what it all does.

 

Technobox is a Roland TR-808/909 and TB-303 sim. I think it is a good app, if you like those Rolands. The 303 part is great. You can tweak it a lot...

But you can't tweak the drum machine sounds like you could on the real drum machines. The samples are great, but if you want variety maybe you'll be disappointed.

My solution was to download lots of 808 samples and make my own kits for BeatMaker, Hexatone and iDrum. Now that I have the sound variety I needed, I don't use technobox that much...

 

Thanks. And while I'm here, I found a music app called NESynth. It is an 8bit-like synth that looks cool. I might get it later since it's only $1.99

 

8bitone is cheaper now (50% off).

It has a sequencer/piano roll and can save. Maybe it is a good alternative to Nesynth...

 

I already have that and it's pretty neat, though the synth could have more to it. If it's half off, then I would say it's a steal.

 

Hey, forgive me, but I didn't read thru all 26 pages of posts, however I'm a big music app fan and just saw this thread. Two apps other than the normal beatmaker/noise.io/Bloom stuff that I just got hooked on are these:

"FLOW: qin" Incredible chinese instrument generator that is just graphically and visually interactive and I love it!

"Mujik" WOW, this one is really eclectic: a book shelf that has animation to open the books and manipulate bugs that represent rhythm patterns, and that's just the start. Really worth it at the whole cost of "FREE" check it out!!!

 

Mujik sounds eclectic and bizarre enough for the price of free to look at !

thanks for the tip

 

nice. some good recs here.

any decent drum song apps? not for learning drums "for real" but just sometihng like TAP TAP REvenge only focusing on drums alone.

been looking for/wanting something like that.

 

You mean like Drums Challenge?

 

anyone know this lot - GrooveMaker

seem to be several of them