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iPhone/iPad iOS music making app round-up: Week 10

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By Ben Rogerson published 14 October 2010

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The announcement of Moog's Filtatron might be the big iOS story of the week, but it's not the only new app in town. Keep reading to discover five others.

Also make sure you check out these regularly updated features:

The best iPhone music making apps

The best iPad music making apps

If you've got a new iOS app, make sure you let us know about it by emailing musicradar.pressreleases@futurenet.com with all the details.

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dev4phone Ear Trainer, £3.99

dev4phone Ear Trainer, £3.99

If you want to improve your musical ear (from a music theory perspective, that is) dev4phone thinks it has just the app. Ear Trainer includes lessons and exercises for interval comparison, interval identification, chord identification, chord inversion, chord progressions, scales and relative pitch. It also has its own virtual piano

Buy now from the App Store

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Miura Acoustic S1MidiTrigger, £1.79

Miura Acoustic S1MidiTrigger, £1.79

S1MidiTrigger enables you to turn your iDevice into a pad controller. There are 12 pads, four sliders and an X/Y pad, and the app can operate wirelessly and now via Line 6’s MIDI Mobilizer. You can watch a demo video here. A free version that doesn’t let you save bank settings is also available.

Buy now from the App Store

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Laurent Colson StepPolyArp, £6.99

Laurent Colson StepPolyArp, £6.99

Rather than generate any sound itself, this step polyphonic arpeggiator sends MIDI notes to your computer for triggering of virtual instruments. It features a 32-step programmable matrix and 11 configurable transposition lines, and offers six arpeggiator modes and one chord mode.

Buy now from the App Store

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AirJ Limited AirJ Pro, £8.99

AirJ Limited AirJ Pro, £8.99

This gestural controller promises to let you play instruments, mix decks, control effects and more simply by moving your iPhone or iPod touch in a certain way. It comes with a selection of templates for particular pieces of software, but it can also be configured to work in the way that you want it to.

Buy now from the App Store

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SKnote Handsynth, €4.99

SKnote Handsynth, €4.99

It isn’t available in the App Store yet, but SKnote is calling this a “powerful performance synthesizer”. Currently in beta, it offers multiple oscillator algorithms (including wavetables, FM and virtual analogue), multimode filters, effects and both Theremin and Keyboard modes

Find out more

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I’m the Deputy Editor of MusicRadar, having worked on the site since its launch in 2007. I previously spent eight years working on our sister magazine, Computer Music. I’ve been playing the piano, gigging in bands and failing to finish tracks at home for more than 30 years, 24 of which I’ve also spent writing about music and the ever-changing technology used to make it. 

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