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iPhone/iPad iOS music making app round-up: Week 9

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By Ben Rogerson published 7 October 2010

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5 more apps to consider

5 more apps to consider

Perhaps the best thing about iOS as a platform is that it’s encouraging us to make music in different ways - and enabling those who’ve never previously considered themselves capable of making music to start doing so. New apps this week prove both points.

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.

NEXT: The Reactable goes mobile

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Reactable Systems Reactable mobile, £5.99

Reactable Systems Reactable mobile, £5.99

Remember the Reactable? You know - the trade show favourite that enables you to make music by pushing pucks around a luminous translucent table? Well, the good news is that the technology behind it has now been packed into an iOS app: it comes with 20 virtual objects and you can import and process your own samples.

Buy now from the App Store

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Hige Five Aura Flux, £1.19

Hige Five Aura Flux, £1.19

This ambient app enables you to make music by connecting together its Nodes or drawing pictures. There are 48 sounds, and you can work in four ‘moods’ (keys). With a strong visual element, it’s another of those apps that enables you to create tunes even if you don’t have any musical ability.

Buy now from the App Store

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Yonac miniDrum Pro, £5.99

Yonac miniDrum Pro, £5.99

From the same stable as miniSynth Pro comes a step-sequencer-powered beat creation tool that can produce both acoustic and electronic sounds. There are plenty of editing options (many tweaks can be made on a per-note basis), several FX and “zero-latency” trigger pads.

Buy now from the App Store

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BeepStreet iSequence for iPad, £8.99

BeepStreet iSequence for iPad, £8.99

Billed as “the most powerful music creation studio designed exclusively for iPad,” iSequence offers an 8-track sequencer, 165 instruments, a mixer, a sampler and effects. You can record in real-time (a 6-octave piano keyboard and drum pads are included) and automation is supported too.

Buy now from the App Store

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Synthetic Bits Little MIDI Machine, Free

Synthetic Bits Little MIDI Machine, Free

Thanks to its compatibility with Line 6’s MIDI Mobilizer interface, this old-school-inspired app enables you to sequence your MIDI gear from your iPad. It comes with two independent sequencers that send note and velocity data on two MIDI channels, while options include the ability to mute notes, skip steps and reverse the sequencer.

Buy now from the App Store

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