KVR Audio

Jazz Franco · Post by **Jazz Franco** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 7:55 am

I'm looking for a loop-based sequencer/studio for iPad -- presumably smth simple (so I can use it together with my kid). I was thinking about smth in the vein of Acid/Live (ie drawing loops in the timeline). So far I found Steinberg's LoopMashHD (which looks like the thing) and GrooveMaker (which doesn't, but I've read some quite positive reviews -- will try the free version later today).
Any opinions here? Maybe there some other alternatives which I simply don't know about? Thanks to everyone in advance!

mbncp · Post by **mbncp** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:12 am

Loopy HD is pretty good but no fx.

Looptastic hd is fun, but a bit of a pain if you plan to use your own recordings.

kumar1 · Post by **kumar1** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:33 am

Simple, easy to use and intuitive interface. It looks exactly the same on both iPhone and iPad.
8 high-quality DSP effects including LP & stereo HP filters, pitch bender, foldback distortion and bass booster/ring modulator, LO-FI resampler and more.
2 banks of factory loops ( 32 loops each) -great source of samples for electro house, dubstep, grime and hip hop tracks including drums, percussions baselines and chiptune sounds.

Regards,
Kumar

Jazz Franco · Post by **Jazz Franco** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:54 am

@mbncp: thx, I'll look unto those

kumar1 wrote:Simple, easy to use and intuitive interface. It looks exactly the same on both iPhone and iPad.
8 high-quality DSP effects including LP & stereo HP filters, pitch bender, foldback distortion and bass booster/ring modulator, LO-FI resampler and more.
2 banks of factory loops ( 32 loops each) -great source of samples for electro house, dubstep, grime and hip hop tracks including drums, percussions baselines and chiptune sounds.

Regards,
Kumar

erm... looks interesting, but how's this called?

mbncp · Post by **mbncp** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:18 am

Jazz Franco wrote:
erm... looks interesting, but how's this called?

+1

DrApostropheX · Post by **DrApostropheX** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 2:37 pm

Give studio.HD a look. It's the closest thing I've found to Acid's workflow, and it's pretty nice-looking to boot!

http://www.appshopper.com/music/studiohd

Aural Chaos · Post by **Aural Chaos** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 5:27 pm

mbncp wrote:
Jazz Franco wrote:
erm... looks interesting, but how's this called?
+1

It's This Plugin for iOS...

Jazz Franco · Post by **Jazz Franco** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 6:11 pm

DrApostropheX wrote:Give studio.HD a look. It's the closest thing I've found to Acid's workflow, and it's pretty nice-looking to boot!

http://www.appshopper.com/music/studiohd

Thx, looks interesting

audiojunkie · Post by **audiojunkie** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 8:50 pm

DrApostropheX wrote:Give studio.HD a look. It's the closest thing I've found to Acid's workflow, and it's pretty nice-looking to boot!

http://www.appshopper.com/music/studiohd

Agreed. This does a lot of what Acid does.

--Sean

george · Post by **george** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 8:58 pm

GarageBand.

Karmacomposer · Post by **Karmacomposer** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:49 pm

Loopy HD and Samplewiz are excellent for looping (on the iPad).

Mike

Jazz Franco · Post by **Jazz Franco** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:48 am

Jeez, how could I forget GarageBand?!

Thanks mates, off to test/look up!

Oh, and BTW -- yesterday I was stupid enough to buy the Steinberg's creation (LoopMashHD, that is) as it is half-price right now. Unfortunately, the worst $5,99 spent in my iOS experience. I wish I'd bought a capuccino.

hyperborea · Post by **hyperborea** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 10:24 am

Jazz Franco wrote:Jeez, how could I forget GarageBand?!

Thanks mates, off to test/look up!

Oh, and BTW -- yesterday I was stupid enough to buy the Steinberg's creation (LoopMashHD, that is) as it is half-price right now. Unfortunately, the worst $5,99 spent in my iOS experience. I wish I'd bought a capuccino.

audiojunkie · Post by **audiojunkie** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 2:59 pm

Karmacomposer wrote:Loopy HD and Samplewiz are excellent for looping (on the iPad).

Mike

Samplewiz kills me! It is so easy to use and sounds good, but there is no Audiocopy/audiopaste, no metronome, no way to record the audio, and has a strange patch management system. It is good for live use, but not good for recording and song creation work. It really is too bad, because it really has potential! In an ideal world, an update would come along and add all of those things and Audiobus too.

but alas....

--Sean

DrApostropheX · Post by **DrApostropheX** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:37 pm

There really are a ton of pricey apps I'd get (TC-11, PPG WaveGenerator, SampleWiz) if they only supported some form of internal recording and AudioCopy/Paste. How long would it take to implement a metronome, recorder, and even iTunes file sharing? Given some of the dodgy apps which DO feature these, it can't be all that difficult or time consuming to implement.

It still cheeses me off that to get multitrack audio out of GarageBand, I need to use iTunes filesharing and my PC (to unzip the AIFs in the .band file and upload it to DropBox so Auria can access them). Being a performer is all well and good, but I'm a recordist .

Best loop-based sequencer for iPad?