Hexapad vs AcidGroovebox

Hexapad is an intuitive beatmaker with hexagonal pads arranged in a honeycomb grid. Tap to play short musical phrases, or slide your fingers across the pads to connect sounds. Build your own music one layer at a time, whether you’re an experienced musician or creating your first track. No extra samples needed. Explore built-in sounds spanning Electronica, Techno, House, Hip-Hop, Ambient, Lo-Fi, Minimal, Alternative, and Contemporary. Phrase pads are organized into BEAT, BASS, CHORDS, MELODY, and ACCENT, making it easy to combine rhythms, basslines, harmonies, and melodies. Each pad displays a waveform so you can see the character of its sound. Capture your performance with REC. Your first pad starts a four-bar recording, which loops as you add more phrases. Undo your latest addition, or use SAVE to name and store the take for use in Song. Shuffle the pads to explore new phrases while keeping the phrases you’ve already recorded. Shape your sound in real time with large FX knobs for reverb, delay, filtering, flanger, and more. Adjust the tempo with BPM, or switch sound kits to hear your recorded phrases with a different palette. Turn your voice and everyday sounds into instruments. Open Sampler from the microphone button, record a sound, and play it from a pad. Trim the waveform, reverse the sample, or adjust its pitch, pan, and volume. In Song, layer saved recordings to build a fuller sound, then carry those layers into the next four-bar section. Use the timeline to see where sounds overlap, and add or remove layers to create changes throughout your track. Preview, rename, and delete your saved recordings from the same screen. Need a starting point? Auto creates a song arrangement from your chosen mood and length. Edit the generated layers and sections to make it your own, add fade-in and fade-out, and export the finished track as a WAV file. Connect a USB or Bluetooth LE MIDI controller to take your performance further. Assign the same phrase pads you see in Play to your controller’s keys or pads, and map knobs or faders to FX controls. The free version includes pad performance, FX, and voice recording. Save up to 10 recording takes and 3 songs, and use Auto Short. Complete a rewarded ad to unlock one WAV export. The monthly Hexapad Pro subscription removes ads and recording/song save limits, unlocks Auto Medium and Long, and lets you export WAV files without watching ads. See the purchase screen for local pricing. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled and can be managed or canceled in your store account settings. Your saved work is kept when Pro ends. Enjoy making music — intuitively, right in the palm of your hand. Privacy Policy https://www.ontrails.jp/app/privacy-policy/hexpad/ Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

A pocket acid machine. 303-style bass, drum machine, lead, a lush pad synth and sample pads: a techno or house track in seconds, with no ads and no connection. Tap the dice and the drums, bass, lead and pads land in key, ready to be mangled. Never touched a synth before? Turn the knobs. You'll get it in 30 seconds. ACID BASS • Cutoff, resonance, env mod, decay, accent and glide • Waveforms: saw, square, triangle, PWM • Step sequencer with slides, accents and note length • Piano panel: the note rings while you press, slide your finger for a glide • Arpeggiator (Pro) DRUM MACHINE • 7 tracks: kick, snare, clap, hats, crash, ride • 3 velocity levels per step and swing, with a choice of which tracks swing (Pro) • Live snare/clap rolls for fills • Double notes, your own samples and custom kits (Pro) ACID LEAD • 3-oscillator paraphonic synth with a snappy filter • Notes per step, chords, harmonic colours and glide • Macros: bite, decay, drive, spread, air, volume • Arpeggiator (Pro) ATMO PAD SYNTH (Pro) • Lay lush chord pads under your set: held chords or short stabs • 12 factory sounds, expressive macros and a full advanced sound editor • Its own sequencer, mixer track and automations HAND-DRAWN AUTOMATIONS (Pro) • Draw curves with your finger on bass, lead and ATMO parameters and watch the knobs move MIXER • Volume, pan and level meters for every track • 4-band EQ on every track and on the master (track EQ in Pro) • The bass ducks under the kick for a punchier, cleaner mix LIVE FX • Hands-on filter on an X/Y matrix • Two assignable LFOs per instrument (Pro) • Assignable reverb and delay (Pro) • 16 or 32-step patterns, A to D switching and full pattern copy (Pro) SAMPLE PADS • 1 pad you can record with the phone mic (3 in Pro) • 3 pads for loading your own sounds (6 in Pro) • Touch pan: where your finger lands sets the pan • Dedicated reverb, delay and beat repeat for the pads YOUR TRACKS STAY YOURS • Save, load, export and import your sets • Bounce your loops to audio to share them • 100% offline: no account, no cloud WHY ACID GROOVEBOX • Zero ads. Actually zero. • No subscription: unlock Pro once, keep it forever • Everything runs on your phone, on a plane or at a festival Home-studio producer, 303 obsessive, techno head or just curious about beatmaking: Acid Groovebox turns an idea into a groove in seconds. Acid Groovebox is built by one independent developer, with no ads and no investors. If you want to support it: unlock Pro and tell your friends.