Beat Snap – A Snappy Entry Into Mobile Beatmaking
Beat Snap – A Snappy Entry Into Mobile Beatmaking Mixvibes is the same developer responsible for the highly popular Cross DJ, Cross DJ Pro, and Remixlive and this week we want to tell you about their new beat making app – Beat Snap. Mixvibes describes the app as follows, “An intuitive app for music lovers. Right from the start, the users will feel like they already know about music making since they can visualize every family of instruments they are playing on the 32 pads. More than playing beats live and adding FX, creating a full track ready to be shared has never been so easy thanks to the 4 sequences! The sound packs are inspired by the hottest tracks and genres give access to unlimited creativity and will give music lovers this unique “I’m a beatmaker now!” feeling.” That’s a delightful pitch and looking at the interface we can tell it’s coming from …
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AAS Objeq – Finger Drum Through the Table
AAS Objeq – Finger Drum Through the Table AAS may be a familiar name if you have played around in Ableton Live before, that’s because it is the company responsible for Live Instruments like Analog. These software instruments native to Ableton Live have long been a blessing and show of staying power in the industry for virtual instruments. Objeq records your taps on nearby surfaces and transforms them into sounds you can choose within the app. There are various percussion instruments available like congas, bongos, djembes, or any other resonant type of instrument. The app is a fun exploration into the possibilities of technology and human movement! The instruments Objeq has available to choose from are beam, drumhead, and plate resonator; the instruments can be tweaked to your liking, parameters include pitch, material, decay, and tone. Tap in a beat and then shape your sound with the intuitive controls that utilize the versatility …
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Pioneer DJM-REC iOS app – How to Record DJ Sets Without a Laptop
Pioneer DJM-REC iOS app – How to Record DJ Sets Without a Laptop Pioneer DJ released a new iOS app at NAMM 2018 earlier this year, DJM-REC, and we’re excited to share this one technique along with a few others so that you can record your DJ Sets without a laptop. Obviously, if you are DJ’ing from your laptop your software will have an internal mix recording function so this article is more for those DJs opting for CDJs or standalone devices. 1. DJM-REC – $9.99 If you simply want to record your set, you could opt for an RCA to aux cable and record directly into your iPhone or Android device using any app that records (i.e. iPhone – voice memo, Android – Voice Recorder). The Pioneer DJM-REC app is our #1 recommendation if you have an iPhone or iPad because of its sophisticated recording method which also extracts time …
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JukeDeck – Incredibly Fast Online AI Makes Original Music!
JukeDeck- Incredibly Fast Online AI Makes Original Music! JukeDeck is the latest in a increasing trend of online AI generated music production.Ed Rex, a Cambridge grad combined his love of music composition with AI to create an online music production service that generates a unique compositions. In 30 seconds, JukeDeck can create a song note by note based on the genera and mood you want the composition to have. The layout of the website is incredibly easy to use and navigate, making it accessible to musicians and non-musicians alike. Just select one of the 7 genres, one of 12 choices of mood, track length, then hit create and 30 seconds later your unique track is ready. Each track even comes with a name and can be downloaded, shared on social media, or used in media production. su_youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxDo3I00NJs” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji8CIi93Mhk/su_youtube_advanced Right now JukeDeck is mainly marketed toward cheaply …
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Blocs Wave – Novations New iOS App
Blocs Wave – Novations New iOS App Novation just released a brand new IOS App under their sub-company called Blocs Wave. An app designed to create quick musical ideas by combining a collection of sound, in an improvised, on-the-go, in-the-moment-manner. Includes a sleek and intuitive layout that displays waveforms and allows you to adjust, tweak, and time stretch the sound in real time. Blocs Wave includes a wide range of sounds form a number of different genres including chip tune, club classics, trap elements, stellar songwriting, starlight soundtrack, slow jams, rock radio, retro trap, retro techno, retro EDM, house of EDM, house heads, hip hop hustle, and garage grunge. On top of the presets you can import your own sounds to warp and recreate, or you can record directly into your IOS device. (A look at the time stretching view) Blocs Waves foundation is within the time stretching ability and its visual …
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Syntorial- Learn Synthesis, The Easy Way
Syntorial- Learn Synthesis, The Easy Way Syntorial is a highly interactive program that helps you understand how synthesizer programming works. Syntorial directs their attention towards the effect of controls on sound, rather than the science of how the sound is altered, which really allows you to dive into sound synthesis. The program itself sort of works out like an interactive YouTube video. What’s great about Syntorial is how user friendly the program is once you learn how to navigate through it. The program has video explanations of the lesson that is split with an interactive section for application. You are given two patches; the hidden and user patches, which you alternate between, attempting to replicate the given sound under the hidden patch. The videos, unlike YouTube, are very well paced and well articulated. I found the ability to pause and shift to the interactive section allows for quick learning …
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