iPhone/iPad iOS music making app round-up: Week 62
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This week’s round-up gives you a decent overview of what can be achieved musically on iOS: we’ve got synth, controller, DJ and composing software.
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The best iPhone/iPad music making apps in the world today
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NEXT: The Strange Agency HyperSpace
Compatibility: iPhone, iPod touch, iPad (requires iOS 5.0 or later)
The Strange Agency HyperSpace, £0.69
HyperSpace is billed as a 3D synth and uses an algorithm to generate images from sound. It works similarly to a harmonograph but has three oscillators rather than pendulums, each of which is mapped to a dimension in 3D space. This video demo should explain things further.
Compatibility: iPhone, iPod touch, iPad (requires iOS 4.2 or later)
Wiksnet Midi Studio, £4.99
If you haven’t bought a controller app for your iOS device yet, here’s another one to consider. You can choose from keyboard, drum pad, knob/fader and X/Y templates, and the developer claims that there’s ‘true’ velocity sensitivity. Other features include modulation when you move your fingers on the keys and a built-in arpeggiator.
Compatibility: iPhone, iPod touch, iPad (requires iOS 4.3 or later)
Musicsoft Arts Mashup
Announced at NAMM 2012 and powered by Waves, this 2-deck DJing app gives you a supposedly advanced scratching engine, resonant filters with a touch-ribbon interface, EQs and auto-syncing of tracks.
Compatibility: iPad (requires iOS 4.3 or later)
Crimson Technology WaveSynth Pro, £1.99
We told you about the Android version yesterday; now here’s the full-fat Pro edition. This is a wavetable GM sound module that also comes with a Performance mode that enables you to play layered instruments. It’s 16-part multitimbral and you get a few effects, too.
Compatibility: iPad (requires iOS 5.0)
Koen Verjans Melody Music Maker, £5.99
Designed to ‘make a composer out of everyone’, here’s an app that can take a melody and turn it into a song. It helps you to come up with suitable chord progressions and offers 127 sounds that can be used to flesh out your arrangement; the recently-released version 1.2 adds even more features.
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I’m the Group Content Manager for MusicRadar, specialising in all things tech. I’ve been playing the piano, gigging in bands and failing to finish tracks at home for more than 30 years, 20 of which I’ve also spent writing about music technology.