This music creation app offers a unique free-form sequencer for building beats and melodies. It supports built-in sounds, sampling, and AUv3 instruments, with live performance effects and song arrangement tools.
5.0(28 ratings)
$6.99
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$4.99In-App Purchases
This music creation app offers a hardware-inspired sampler and beatmaking experience. Quickly capture and shape audio ideas using a 4x4 pad workflow, from sampling to sequencing and resampling. Import sounds, record live, and export your creations.
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This app generates unique, atmospheric synth patches for cinematic music and dark ambient soundscapes. Explore decaying, collapsing, and breathing sounds through intuitive controls and musical constraints for instant inspiration.
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Midnight Plaza
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Transform your audio into a nostalgic, degraded soundscape with this AUv3 effect. Designed for genres like vaporwave and lo-fi, it adds a unique tape-style slowdown, age, and dreamy reverb to your sounds.
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Pentatone
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This music app offers a unique pentatonic keyboard and built-in synthesizer, inspired by instruments like the kora and mbira. It features a sophisticated scale selection system and is optimized for touchscreen devices, providing an expressive and easy-to-play musical experience.
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GrainHeads
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Transform any sound into unique textures and evolving sonic landscapes. This granular synthesizer offers deep control over individual sound grains, complex modulation, and a powerful step sequencer for experimental music creation.
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Ambient Drone Synth AUv3
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Create evolving soundscapes and harmonic textures with a powerful ambient drone synthesizer. Shape layered drones using custom wavetables and envelopes, then perform expressively in key. Offers deep timbral control and flexible MIDI integration.
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Browse, play and drag & drop.
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This app provides a dedicated sample browser for iOS music producers. It allows users to quickly browse, preview, and drag audio files directly into compatible DAWs and AUv3 hosts, streamlining music creation workflows.
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This synthesizer app offers a vast range of sounds inspired by a popular hardware module. It features 24 distinct oscillator models, intuitive XY pads for sound manipulation, and a versatile arpeggiator. Play it with an on-screen or external keyboard for monophonic or polyphonic sound design.
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