iPad Music Apps?

I’m looking mostly for iPhone apps(therein lies the struggle) stuff that I can drum up while on breaks from work, waiting for food to cook in the microwave and, of course, while awkward at some social gathering.

Though- I haven’t yet toyed around with Shroom yet- will have to give that a go! Thanks!

Crystalline is a great shimmer reverb. Just sayin

Maybe you’ll like Frum, there’s button in the middle of the screen and it will endlessly generate a new one shot percussive sound when pressed. If you like fm, weird, and digital drum one shots this does that. It’s really made to work like a tracker but it can be used to just generate samples too.

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Thank you so much for mentioning Frum! Right up my street :pray:t3:

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Moog 15

does anyone of you use the ipad and its apps as an external effects processor for its synths?

I do that with the help of an external audio interface - in my case a Steinberg UR22 MKII -
and a mixer and AUX routing…

With apps like effectrix or turnado from sugarbyte a lot of glitch happens on the machinedrum :slight_smile:

And as mentioned above shimmer reverb is great with Crystalline and does a great job on the monomachine routed to the ipad…

How do you use your ipad as an external effect?

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In a similar way, I have the K-mix connected to the Ipad with AUM and routing the audio to/from the MPC to the Ipad and the A4.
I can even do things like sending the audio from Waldorf Attack (My fav source of drum sounds) to the A4 for the filter overdrive, then take the effected sound from the A4, add more effects in AUM and resample on the MPC.
Love!

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When I’m listening to his stuff, I’m actually asking myself how close can Elastic Drums (cheap Ipad app) come to something like a machinedrum (I don’t own one). I think it sounds so impressive here, only ED + Turnado

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Impressive track. For some reason I never clicked with Elastic Drums though.

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I like it very much, the effects and performance controls are great, and random sound generating and automation options as well. Pretty deep.
Also like Ruismaker fm from Bram Bos a lot.

faktoid, that sounds awesome. I have a Steinberg UR also… how do you set up for using the iPad as an effects processor? Can you please walk through how everything is routed?

I made a tutorial on this on a different forum, here’s a link if you want to give it a look

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I never got my head around elastic drum…
One should think that a visual app like that should be easy to understand… at least not for me…
Honestly I really would like to master elastic drums but somehow I failed :slight_smile:

I’m off robbing a bank… I want a AR mk2… now…

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It is not that difficult…

I have the steinberg Midi in connected to my OT for sync Info.

The ipad is connected to the steinberg via lightning adapter.
Through that it can receive the midi and audio signal and can give the processed audio back to the steinberg.
The audio outs from the steinberg go back into my mixer in a dedicated channel.

Audio from the Mixer is sent via AUX(2 in my case) to the audio in of the steinberg…

In Turnado (for example) i assign the audio ins and outs of the steinberg and assigned the midi to receive my sync signal (for tempo and start / stop)

that is all and I can put whatever signal from the mixer aux to the ipad and can mix the processed signal through the channel in the mixer…

I guess this is quick and dirty how I do it but more than ok for me.

if you like Elastic Drums, you should check Seekbeats… much more pristine sound to my ears, very Machinedrum-esque in some ways - less hands-on than ED for live use… but an awesome app - and they just added modular FX board as IAP…
I ended up liking/using it more than ED - plus it runs better on my old iPhone 4 (although working on such a small screen is kinda painful)

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haha is Shoom, not Shroom… but it’s only for iPad :-/ same as the others I mentioned… except the FX
try SeekBeats for synthetic drums! it’s probably my favorite - has it’s awkward GUI problems, but it can get very Machinedrum-esque IMO

nice. missed that one. Will try it

Thanks - that makes sense. Sounds like the mixer’s aux channel is the key thing, or in absence of a mixer, you could use the resample trick per @Automageddon’s tutorial. Adding a mixer would be better for live use. Cool!

Yeah AUX Channels are nice. the more the better :slight_smile:

I use AUX 1 to get sound back into my OT and MD (I split the signal)
By that I can sample any source immediatly in those machines…
And I can sample the ipad enriched signal as well…

I never made the step to route all audio directly through the OT to use the OT as a mixer…

How do you generate your visuals?

And on that note to everyone else, any interesting apps for visuals/video editing?

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