Aurora Sound Studio is a new sequencing app for iPad/iPhone which looks a bit like the Yamaha Tenori-on interface. Perfect for those who hate playing out of tune, since you can choose a musical scale, and every note will sound just right. A bit like cheating, some will probably say, but others will probably not give a damn and have fun with it instead.

"Aurora is our pattern based musical sequencing software. By simply choosing a musical scale every note you play is in perfect tune, leaving you to make your own great sounding music.

If you are a more accomplished musician you simply switch Aurora to advanced mode and you get full control over the built in instruments and effects, as well as many advanced modes such as the Atomizer and XY Mode which allows you to manipulate sound in real-time. You can create your own instrument from recordings made using the built in microphone. Just think, a full drum kit of you beatboxing into the microphone!

Aurora allows a mixture of pattern based recording and live performance. You can piece together complete compositions or simply improvise a performance. All of which can be captured to a file, for use as a ringtones, or to share with others.

An integrated mixer, combined with the ability to add audio effects and layer automation means that you achieve a sophisticated sound in a fun and user friendly way."

More info at 4Pockets.com here!

Get it on Itunes here (£5.99)!

Propellerheads has released their pioneering software ReBirth for the iPhone. The ones of us that got into software early on surely have good knowledge of ReBirth that was one of the first widely popular software synthesizers. It is based on the Roland TB-303 and the drum boxes Roland TR-909,Roland TR-808.

Offcourse Propellerheads had to do something with this big seller. And finally they launch ReBirth for the iPhone. Now all 303 nerds will go bananas, theres quite a few of them out there isn't it? It´s very nostalgic and I'm off to appstore to try this out. Below is a clip about the new ReBirth from Propellerheads. The quote is how Propellerheads describes it all:

"ReBirth is back...In your iPhone! Propellerhead Software's legendary Techno Micro Composer has been reincarnated. This time around, ReBirth takes the form of a seriously block rocking iPhone music app. Released in 1997 and discontinued in 2005, Propellerhead ReBirth was the first music software to reproduce the sound and behavior of those three classic Roland devices that defined the sound of early Techno and Acid House: the TB-303 Bassline Synth and the TR-808 and TR-909 Rhythm Composers.

With dual basssynths and pattern sequencers, two sets of drum machines plus FX and mixer sections, ReBirth gives you an extremely streamlined but very powerful music production environment. Every knob and button on ReBirth's devices can be tweaked and turned in real time, so when you plug your iPhone into that massive sound system, you're in charge everything from pattern selections to the depth of those nasty Acid filter squelches.

ReBirth for the iPhone may be small and ever so cutesy looking, but it's no toy, believe it. With a fully featured song mode and advanced copying and pasting capabilities, ReBirth is a fully featured iPhone music software product that lets you arrange and compose full tracks for saving to your iPhone. You can even share your songs with other ReBirth users - one single click will upload your composition to the ReBirth server, allowing other users to enjoy your music in their iPhones.

ReBirth for iPhone – music production software for the iPhone, perfect for music making on the go and with the sought after sounds for everything from Techno to Electro, House to Hip Hop, Electronica or whatever style you are into."

Check out ReBirth.com

The new app SAMPLETOY for Iphone seems like a great way to get creative with samples. Also, the interface seems easy to learn and work with. It has built-in resonant filters, delay and envelope. Perfect if you're outdoors and happen to discover some interesting sound sources that you can't bring home to your studio, like steam engines, elephants or some wino singing beautifully.

"Sampletoy is a radical new musical instrument/plaything; part sampler, part granular synthesiser.  Use it to capture sounds through the microphone, then play, loop, pitch and distort them live on the screen.

There are plenty of features under the hood, such as resonant filters, delays and envelope. You can enable "stepped" mode to play your sounds like a traditional keyboard, or keep it in "free" mode for some microtonal madness.

Once you've recorded a sound, use the main area of the screen to play it back at different pitches (up to 5 fingers at a time). You can crop the sound by dragging a selection over the waveform. The crop area is also multitouch and you can adjust the crop while playing the sound too.

The y-axis is pitch of the sound, and the x axis is configurable to control filters or envelope.

You can record your performances on Sampletoy and send them via email within the app as a CD-quality wav file (mono or stereo)".

Check it out here!

Youtube via mrkbrz

This is ProLoop a new audio loop mixer app from Trapcode. The interface shows the waveform of each loop it plays. You can mix each loop independently, up to 6 loops at the most. You get a bunch of loops to use with it but it also offers the ability to upload your own loops. Its the perfect time waster for those of you who likes to play around and experiment with sounds. All in all, a fun app.

Demo of ProLoop

ProLoop [iPhone, Sound] from CreativeApplications.Net on Vimeo.

Thanks @bolstad for sending this to me

I got a tip from my friend Christian that a swedish guy that calls himself Possan :-) is developing his own loop mixer/sequencer. I checked it out and e-mailed him for some info. He wrote a nice text for us, describing his project. Interesting stuff indeed!

Hi

 The app is a straight forward loop mixer, with four tracks - each with a different loop, sixteen steps each, and 64 patterns maximum, "64 patterns ought to be enough for everybody", the loops and tracks are splitted up into 16 steps, 4/4 beats (as usual) where you can change a  couple of parameters for each step, like volume, pitch and which slice of the sample to trigger and how many times each step - this allows retriggering samples each step giving you that aphextwin/squarepusher glitchy sound, or why not just cut up the the classic amen-beat, while commuting to work :)

The screens and soundsamples on http://possan.se is very early work in progress and it will probably not look anything like that when released.

By using samples that are specifically designed for this app (not like now when there's just bunch of ripped beats) containing for example a filtered synth with 16 steps allows one to do basic filtered basslines, and with a better pitch-ui one could create basic melodies!

The app will also feature the ability to share/send loops to anyone, either thru mail/sms or facebook. it's also possible to add an export function, but i can't really see any use for that, who wants to use their loop as a ringtone anyway, and besides, using the share-function one will be able to download the mp3 or maybe even aiff/waves from the site containing the loop anyway...

I'm calling the loop mixer/sequencer "the app" here because i don't have any name for it yet, but i'm going for something with the word "loop" or "sequencer" in it, any suggestions?

I dont have any planned releasedate but i'll try to release it before this summer (or as soon as it works and applies to as many of apple's strict user interface guidelines as possible)

/Possan - http://possan.se (mostly in swedish) - possan@possan.se

Possan, we will follow this development with great interest, keep us updated please.

Now you can get even modular fun in your Iphone. Circuit Synth is a new modular synth for Iphone and Ipod Touch. Personally, I have become a bit allergic to Iphone synths, but I'm sure you can have fun with it on bus rides, job meetings etc. Here's what synth designer Michael Daines says about his creation:

"Design your own instrument by wiring up simple modules. Included are three kinds of oscillators (sine wave, square wave, and sawtooth wave), a noise generator, and modules for combining and modifying signals. Dabble in techniques like additive synthesis and frequency modulation just by choosing different arrangements and wirings."

Youtube via MDaines