Gestrument

[Keebo]

http://www.gestrument.com/

The videos look very interesting. This will be a must have for me.

[wakax]

i just got it and played a little with it
amazing stuff !!! quite diffrent from the rest.

[maurone dj]

Very strange expression app, I like it but I really can't predict where the sound is going!

[wakax]

let's make this a proper post
adding the infos for Gestrument !






• Play and compose music with the swipe of your finger

• An intuitive tool for composers in all genres

• Generate music within defined scales and rhythms

• The ultimate tool for making truly new music in any genre

• Improvise freely within a fully controlled musical framework

• Use your favorite MIDI synth or play with the internal GM sound bank

Swipe your finger to play - it has never been easier to make music! Gestrument is an intuitive app for the beginner and a powerful tool for the professional. With Gestrument, you can play and compose music in any genre, with just the swipe of your fingers.

Improvise or compose within the scales and rhythms you choose. Use parameters like pulse density, scale morphing, rhythm randomness or pitch fluctuation to find new paths for your musical expression and creativity. Use the tutorials or define your own settings to fit the musical style you want to play and compose in. Play on up to eight instruments at once - all with different individual settings.

Gestrument works equally well for rhythmic music or sweeping soundscapes, for solo melodies or chord blocks, for long lines or short staccatos. It can help you make music in whichever genre you can imagine.

Gestrument works directly with its built in sounds and is therefore perfect for the amateur or beginner who wants to make music in an intuitive way. But it is first and foremost built for professional musicians and composers who can work with the settings to build advanced theoretical frameworks that they can later improvise within.

Developed by Jesper Nordin (www.jespernordin.com) and Jonatan Liljedahl (www.kymatica.com)

Features:

8 instruments with individual range of pitches, rhythms and other properties
Play on any combination of instruments, from solo to all eight at once
Pitch scales with or without quartertones
Global set of rhythms including dotted notes, triplets and quintuplets
Internal synth with full GM bank
Internal adjustable reverb
Control other iOS apps internally on the iPad
Control external synth with MIDI through a MIDI interface or Network MIDI
MIDI sync out
Morph between two pitch scales with optional microtonality
Gradual change of pulse density
Pitch fluctuation within the scale
Rhythm randomisation
Multitouch control of pitch, rhythm, dynamics and optional fourth parameter
Create and save your own presets and share with your friends

[BMoore]

Version 1.1 is out!
It's genius!

What's new

• Record what you play with the internal synth
• Export recordings to AudioShare - audio document manager
• Copy recordings with AudioCopy
• Play back previous recordings, optionally looping
• Allow mixing with other apps, for example play a track in the Music app and play along with it in Gestrument.

[monsterism]

Can I ask please because I'm new to ios music apps if I can use this program to say control synths in Ableton to create chords, melodies if that makes sense?.

[BMoore]

What's new

• AudioBus support
• Allow loading of user-supplied sf2 soundfonts
• Allow access to all banks and presets in a soundfont
• Record to standard MIDI file
• Background audio
• New factory presets
• Various tweaks and improvements

Introducing Audiobus support: Now you can stream live audio directly to other Audiobus-compatible apps! See http://audiob.us for more information.

[Keebo]

After talking with their support, I felt like they would get on the BUS in which they did along with other features.

It is a good time to be an iOS musician indeed.

Thanks for listening and turning it up a notch.

[Aboyes]

I'm very tempted by this app. What are people's experiences?

[Invisiblesupermonkey]

It's cool, but a little unpredictable. Planning to spend a bit more time with it to try and work out the crazy bitch that it is. I like it do far.