Fruity Loops FL Studio For iPad

Finally FL Studio (Fruity Loops) on an Apple!

FL Studio mobile will allow you to create complete multi-track projects on your iPod, iPhone or iPad and, if you want, load mobile projects into FL Studio and take them to the next level.

If it’s a beat on the Stepsequencer, a melody on the Piano roll or a full song on the Playlist, FL Studio mobile has you covered. Never lose that idea again. Get it down and happening wherever you are.

The Instruments

FL Studio Mobile comes with a wide range of studio recorded instruments covering all musical styles like classic, jazz, rock, electronic and much more.

Instruments
Synths
Drum Kits
Slicex Loops

The Keyboard / Drum Pads

FL Studio Mobile offers the most innovative keyboard:

85-key clavier, 5 simultaneous touches (10 on iPad)
Instant key resizing and scrolling with gestures
Assign 2 different instruments to the 2 keyboard rows
3 key label modes
Fullscreen support
Two device orientations
1-tap recording with undo function
Loop recording
Fully configurable metronome

The Mixer:

The mixer mode presents you with an overview of your project and allows you to quickly edit whole tracks.

Set the signature and tempo of your song
Add, duplicate and delete tracks
Change the track’s instruments
Volume fader
Pan knob
Effect bus setting
Mute and solo

The Step Sequencer:

Bar-wise editing in the sequencer speeds up the process significantly: record just one measure of a beat or a melody, then simply repeat it a few times to build up your song.

Quickly select parts of you song with the 2 select modes
Move, duplicate, repeat a selection of measures
Duplicate patterns and move them to other tracks
Transpose selected notes
Quantize tracks or selected parts
Insert empty bars anywhere in the song

The Piano roll editor:

Editing individual notes with your fingers is faster, easier and more fun than using a mouse.

Draw (write) notes by moving a crosshair
Select notes by simply dragging a rectangle
Move, duplicate and quantize notes
Change the length of multiple notes at once
Set the selected note’s velocity (volume)

Real-Time Effects

Augment your song by adding and tweaking the rich repertory of real-time effects:

Reverb simulates different rooms and halls
Feedback delay (echo)
3-band Equalizer
Resonant filter (optional accelerometer control)
Amplifier with 2 overdrive types
Pitch bend (controlled via the device tilt)

Projects

Connection between FL Studio Mobile and FL Studio

MIDI compatibiliy and wav export smoothen your workflow.

Export your song and continue editing it
on your DAW
MIDI import and export
Export to 44kHz 16bit stereo wav format
WiFi transfer to your Mac/PC
iTunes file sharing support
Application wide undo function
Autosave always lets you continue
where you left off

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GarageBand on the iPad is enjoyed by pros and novices alike – so whether you’re out to have some fun, or are making serious music, Pix & Stix will make it a more fun and realistic experience!

Each pack includes 2 sticks & 1 pick

Choice of vibrant colors
Electroconducive rubber tips for accurate, natural touch screen pickup
Perfectly weighted, miniaturized drumsticks with a soft-touch finish that won’t damage your iPad
Comfortably moulded picks for realistic strumming & picking

Meteor is a digital multi-track recorder designed specifically for the iPad. The program features up to 12 tracks of high quality audio, a built in mixer and multi-effects processor. Meteor is ideally suited for creating musical compositions, and also a great tool for journalists and business people who need to splice and piece together voice notes, narration or dictation. Compositions once mixed can be exported to standard file formats for use on your desktop PC or MAC.

Meteor includes a fully featured sound editor allowing recordings to be trimmed or spliced together. You can apply various effects to your recordings either directly, as part of the recording process or in real time during playback. Editor features include cut, copy, paste, fade in/out. clear, reverse, gain, normalize, remove DC offset, time stretch and pitch shift. Effects include digital delay, chorus / flanger, reverb, graphic equalizer, tone boost, compressor (with side chaining) and distortion.

The Mixer and effect levels can be fully automated using definable controller tracks. An integrated metronome with count-in helps you record your masterpiece, and If 12 tracks isn’t enough there is a full stereo mixdown facility.

Key Features:
• Record up to12 tracks of CD quality audio
• Multi-Effects Processor
• Integrated 12 channel Mixer
• Integrated Sample Editor
• 3 Global Send Effect Busses
• Insert Effects with freeze facility to reduce CPU load.
• Record Effects & Record Monitor
• Mixer and Effect Automation
• Metronome
• Mixdown / Bounce Facility
• Import samples and iPod songs.
• Export to compressed CAF and WAV formats
• Automatic Delay Compensation
• In-App Purchases through the Online Shop found in the Help Menu.

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Ratatap Drums is a fun and realistic drum kit for Apple iPad. (Also available for the iPhone and iPod Touch)

The harder you hit the drums, the louder they sound. Swirl your finger around for slower or faster rolls. The drum sound varies slightly from hit to hit, just like real drums.

Oh–and you can make your own drumsets. Choose from one of the ten (10!) included kits or create your own, choosing from the hundreds of included sounds.

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The i-MX1 by Yamaha was just recently announced. It is not yet available but we have some info here from Yamaha.

Yamaha introduces the i-MX1 on the Frankfurter Music fair – a MIDI interface that‘s connected to the Apple iPad and thus offering vast possibilities to control MIDI equipment.

The Apple iPad has proven itself as a very handy tool, combining a very nice touch panel with a reasonable size. It has sold in large quantities. On Winter NAMM 2011 Yamaha introduced a series of Apps that will allow a wireless controlling of the MOTIF XF Music Production Synthesizer.

To be able to control synthesizers that won‘t allow a wireless connection to the iPad, Yamaha now presents a MIDI interface that‘s connected to the iPad.

In a small, black device the i-MX1 carries the needed electronics and two connectors for the included adapter cables which represent the MIDI input and output (with the well known 16 MIDI channels each).

It does not just connect to the iPad, but to the iPhone and the iPod Touch, too. Since these devices are much smaller, they are even more handy controllers.

The i-MX1 is compatible to the drivers provided by the iPad-OS (iOS, Core MIDI), there‘s no need for special drivers. So even thirdparty applications that are using the iOS drivers can use the i-MX1 as MIDI-Interface.

The i-MX1 will help the iPad to continue its triumphal procession to the shores of ‘old school’ MIDI.

Echo String is a really cool Harp music app: with 7 partitions strings with different Chord Mask settings,you can just glide over and create wonderful music. Nice visuals too.

Features

√ 7 partition strings.
√ Chord Mask(string mask).
√ Cool visual effects.
√ Record / Playback.
√ File Management (Save / Open / Delete)
√ Two playback-speed avaliable( original speed or dual speed)
√ Download demo songs in app.
√ Email songs.
√ Tap LED to hide or show string labels.

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I kinda miss the old days of recording on my Tascam multi-track cassette. Looks like Tascam realised there would be a market for function and nostalgia in one iPad app. A little gimickey but hey!

TASCAM’s Portastudio brings 30 years of easy-to-use home recording to your iPad. Based on the PORTA ONE recorder that revolutionized recording in 1984, the Portastudio app records up to four tracks with a vintage vibe.

Record one track at a time using the built-in mic or a headset microphone connection, monitoring on authentic VU meters. A cassette transport with position counter tracks your position while you mix with level, pan and EQ controls. When you’re ready to mix, the built-in mixdown function saves your song as a CD-quality WAV file. Your mix appears in iTunes when you’re finished, ready to share with friends and bandmates.

A generation of your favorite bands crafted their songs with Portastudios, now it’s your turn. Start capturing your songs with the company that invented home recording using Portastudio by TASCAM.

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From the developer Frontier Design Group (iShred & GuitarStudio). We’re wrapping up work on our newest iOS music app, BeatStudio. We’ve had a lot of requests for an easy to use, but powerful percussion app to accompany iShred and GuitarStudio. BeatStudio is a universal app that works equally well on your iPhone, iPod touch and your iPad.

BeatStudio is a fun, easy, and yet powerful app. Whether you’re playing live with your iPhone band or sitting down to make a multi-layered percussion backing track for your guitar songs, we’ve got you covered.

30 Professionally sampled percussive instruments

Ranging from standard drum kit drums and cymbals, to shakers, sleigh bells and even a vibraslap! The selection of sounds will fill all your percussion needs. Each instrument has been sampled at a variety of volume and hit intensities, which you can adjust to get just the sound you need.

Customizable Instrument Layout

The playing and recording screen holds from six to twenty instruments of your choice. This flexibility allows for a clean interface for songs ranging from simple to complex, and anything in between. There’s even a menu lock for performing live or when you want to hand it over to your budding three year old percussionist.

Recording

Record your performance, with each recording appearing as a separate track in the track arrangement screen. Multi-track recording, and the ability to loop track clips makes it easy to add repeating elements throughout your song. To make your song beat-perfect, you can adjust the metronome and quantize settings – including BPM, beats per bar, the number of sub-beats and quantize strength.

Editing

Not only can you rearrange your recorded tracks, but you can edit anything you have recorded, moving individual instrument events around within a recording, adding new instruments and events, or deleting an accidental sound. This powerful editing tool also uses the quantize settings to make it easy to put your beats in the right place. There’s a great undo system that will help you recover from accidents or even edits that just didn’t work out.

Backing Tracks

It’s easy to play along with your favorite song, or one of your other musical creations as a backing track. Import from your iPod library, WiFi, iTunes, or AudioCopy/AudioPaste to play along with recordings from other Frontier Design Group apps (and other compatible iOS apps). If there is a tricky section that you want to figure out the best beat pattern for, the backing track player features a variable speed slider, so you can slow down (or even speed up) your backing track. After you’ve mastered it, slide the speed back to 1x and all of your recordings follow suit.

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Really great tutorial by the folks over at Create Digital Music. See how you can connect a midi interface to your iPad. You can then control your iPad with an external midi keyboard. You can also use the iPad to control your midi hardware.

I’m using a Micro X Korg as a midi controller for my iPad. Works great. Just connect the USB to the camera connection kit adapter and you’re good to go!

Connect all of your audio gear to the entire world of apps for iPad.

The iO Dock is the first device that enables anyone with an iPad or iPad 2 to create, produce, and perform music with virtually any pro audio gear or instruments. The iO Dock is a universal docking station specifically designed for the iPad, and it gives musicians, recording engineers, and music producers the connectivity they need to create and perform with iPad. Connect all your pro audio gear to virtually any app in the App Store with the iO Dock.

FLEXIBLE FUNCTIONALITY
Songwriters, music producers and performers of all kinds will find that the iO Dock connects the iPad’s powerful processor, touch-screen interface and extensive library of apps to their collection of microphones, instruments, professional speaker and PA systems, MIDI controllers, sound modules, video projectors and much more.

With the iO Dock and an iPad, musicians and producers can record, perform, craft and create music in virtually any situation or location. Built to accommodate all current app-development standards including Core MIDI, the iO Dock is a universal device that bridges your choice of music-creation apps, instruments, and devices.

COMPLETE CONNECTIVITY
The iO Dock provides microphone and instrument users with two combination XLR and 1/4-inch inputs, each with its own gain control and switchable phantom power for condenser microphones. Guitarists and bassists will appreciate the iO Dock’s guitar-direct switch, enabling them to play, perform and record right into amplifier- and effects-modeling apps. Bands can connect outputs from their mixer and easily record their performances and rehearsals or use the iO Dock as a metronome or loop-playback device. Producers can use the iO Dock’s MIDI jacks to sequence external keyboards, samplers, drum machines and synthesizers, or perform using the iO Dock as the sound module and their favorite MIDI-compliant keyboard, drum pad or other controller. An assignable 1/4-inch footswitch input enables remote control of any app-defined function such as stop/start or record. Users can also connect the iO Dock to their Mac or PC using the USB port to send MIDI back and forth for creative, new applications of the iPad and computer used in tandem.

Users can connect the iO Dock’s stereo pair of 1/4-inch main outputs to studio monitors for critical listening, or to PA systems for use in performance settings. They can monitor on headphones, and independently control the levels of the two outputs, each on its own knob. Recording musicians will appreciate the iO Dock’s direct-monitor switch, which enables them to toggle between the incoming and playback signal on their headphones. Rounding out the iO Dock’s output section is a composite video connector, enabling users to employ the iO Dock as a source for video projection behind bands on stage, or for connection to most televisions and computer monitors.

RUGGED RELIABILITY
The iO Dock was built for the real world. Whether you’re keeping it in the safety of the studio or taking it out for recording or performance use in the club or on tour, the iO Dock will not only deliver the connectivity you need for audio applications, but it also serves as a rugged, protective case for the iPad. The iO Dock completely houses the iPad on the bottom and three side surfaces. It also encases the iPad’s screen in a protective bezel on three of its four edges, further shielding the mobile computing device from the potential for damage in punishing environments.

The applications of the iPad for music creation, production, and performance are limited only by your creativity. As an imaginative, cutting-edge music maker, the iO Dock empowers you to seamlessly connect the world of pro audio gear and instruments to the iPad and the massive collection of apps.

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