Free Audio Plugins & Softwares for iOS

studio.M

studio.M is a free DAW developed by Sound Trends. Compatible OS(s): iOS.

studio.M is a DAW application based on Sound Trends’ studio.HD app that offers 4 streaming audio tracks (upgradeable to 8) with 16-bit / 44.1 kHz recording, editing, extensive loop library and automated mixing with effects all controlled by a touch interface.

It includes an in-app Store with more loops by established 3rd parties and producers. The in-app “MX” upgrade adds 4-more audio tracks (8 total), 5 more effects and 130 more loops.

Features:

Up to 4 tracks (stereo or mono) of playback, upgradeable to 8 tracks (via in-app studio.Mx edition upgrade). Grab a drum loop, throw down a guitar part, add some overdubs and layer-on some cool textures then export the CD-quality audio recording to your Mac/PC if you want.

Increase/decrease the song tempo to conform audio to Project’s BPMs.

Included Loop Sets logically group loops in color-coded instrument parts (drums, bass, guitars, keys, etc.) that work well together. Loops can be auditioned at Project tempo.

Access to over 100 loops as Loop Sets spanning Trance, Hip-Hop, Breakbeat, Drum ’n’ Bass, Minimal, Progressive House, Reggaeton, Industrial, Rock, Pop, Funk and Country styles. Upgrade to MX for 130 more loops.

New loops available from well-known, major 3rd party providers plus boutique producers in in-app store.

Standard Cut, Copy Paste, Split and Crop functions are supported and operations intelligently snap to Bar/Beat based on Zoom level. The LOOP CONTROL BAR sets loop regions for recording and playback and serves as an edit tool to Cut/Copy/Paste whole verses/choruses. Easily loop/repeat audio to play longer. 10 levels of Undo prevent any big mistakes. Pull and pinch zoom plus double-touch to quickly Auto-Zoom your whole composition into view.

Each track has a volume fader and up to 4 real time effects – all with automation! You get Compression, Pan, Low/Hi Pass Filter and Reverb. Buy the studio.MX upgrade to add Delay, Flanger, Gate, Stutter, BitCrusher and Glitchy Repeater! An X-Y touch pad controls effect setting and automation.

New recordings associated with your project can be browsed, renamed and tagged with BPM. Delete recordings by simply dragging them off the timeline. Archive recordings, Projects, mixdowns and user-created custom loops to the computer.

Import/Export your own 44.1/16 bit WAV files via iTunes. Edit your studio.M recordings and add to your “My Loop” sets for reuse across multiple Songs/Projects.

Create your CD-quality mix and save it to your Mac/PC and post it for friends to hear.

Use Gruvtron or other apps to create new instrument parts and paste them to a track.

http://www.soundtrends.com

StompBox Lite

StompBox Lite is a free multi fx and delay and reverb and chorus plugin developed by 4PocketsAudio. Compatible OS(s): iOS.

StompBox Lite turns your iPad into a flexible Multi FX Processor which comes with 3 free effects; Delay, Reverb, Chorus and a further 16 Effects to choose from in the Online store.

StompBox Lite supports AudioBus and Apple’s Inter-App Audio making an excellent general purpose audio processing tool for all musicians, not just guitarists.

With StompBox you get the best of both worlds, a rack of professional sounding stereo effects (with far more control than simple foot pedals) and a foot controller to access a tuner and all your patches.

Simply listen through a pair of headphones, or attach to an external amplifier or hifi to truly experience the program in all its glory.

Once you have built up a library of patches, you can use the virtual foot controller to quickly and easily move between patches. The Virtual Foot controller gives instant access to all patch parameters and amp settings, with the ability to enable and disable individual effects at the touch of a button. If you want to modify an effect parameter, simply scroll the effect rack into view and make your changes.

In-App options include:

Media Player – Load your favorite MP3s and play along, you can even slow down the music without effecting pitch so you can play along at your own pace.

4 Track Recorder – Record your own backing track.

Loop Station – Record your own loops.

Features:

Guitar and Bass Multi FX Processor.

16 Unique Effects available in In-App Store.

7 Types of Distortion via Distortion In-App.

Chain up to 12 Simultaneous Effects.

Media Player with Time Stretching (In-App Purchase).

4 Track Loop Recorder (In-App Purchase).

Metronome/Chromatic Tuner.

Stereo Routing.

Save 12 banks of 6 patches.

Virtual Foot Controller.

Virtual Whammy Pedal.

Tap Tempo.

Compatible with range of hardware interfaces.

3 Unique Skins.

Many guitar apps use a form of Amp Modelling which in most cases is just fancy form of EQ. This is great for electric guitars, but not so good for acoustic. StompBox allows various amp EQs both via the PreAmp and additional effects, but the important thing for acoustic guitar users is that these EQs can be completely bypassed. This is where StompBox really shines, giving a faithful reproduction of acoustic instruments. This also means StompBox can be used on keyboards too.

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http://www.4pocketsaudio.com

Spectral Eye

Spectral Eye is a free oscilloscope plugin developed by Secret Base Design. Compatible OS(s): iOS.

Spectral Eye analyzes incoming audio signals to extract the underlying frequencies. Most sounds are built up from a variety of sine waves; a simple whistle might be a single wave, while a guitar, piano, or the human voice have many waves added together.

By using a Fast Fourier Transform, sound can be decomposed into each frequency. Normally, this information is displayed on a chart, and there are number of excellent apps that do exactly this. Spectral Eye rearranges the FFT into a spiral, so that frequencies that are an octave apart are lined up as rays from the center of the display. The strength of each frequency is represented by the size of a red circle.

Play music, and Spectral Eye will reveal the frequencies. For a guitar, it’s easy to see that in addition to the root frequency of a note, there are also a number of harmonic frequencies — and these change based on the strings used, the pickups, and the amplification system. It’s the frequencies present in the notes that make a Telecaster sound different from a Les Paul, and a piano different from a trumpet. Play an instrument, music from your iTunes library, or have it listen to whatever sounds are nearby — the display is fun to watch.

If you’re interested in understanding the nature of sound, use Spectral Eye to get a better view. The app was created as a utility used in the development in other Secret Base Design apps; we’re making it freely available, because we found it to be useful, and thought others might like it too.

The app will remain free, and will not have ads. If you find it useful, we would very much appreciate a review in the app store, and you can get in touch with us through our support site, our Facebook page, or Twitter.

Have fun with the app, and we hope you enjoy opening your Spectral Eye!

http://secretbasedesign.com/apps

Pocket Beats Drum Machine

Pocket Beats Drum Machine is a free sequencer and drum sampler stand alone application developed by Dream Engine Interactive. Compatible OS(s): iOS.

Pocket Beats Drum Machine is drum sequencer for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. It was designed to overcome some of the problems of programming complex polyphonic drum patterns. Pocket Beats makes it a breeze to create precision drum loops with rapid retriggering and drumrolls. It takes just seconds to create complex rhythms using the touch-based grid interface.

Pocket Beats is made by Dream Engine Interactive and powered by our mobile-optimized Dream Audio Engine featuring custom DSP code. With Pocket Beats Drum Machine, you’ll be able to tweak sounds with distortion effects pads. You can also experiment with a range of speeds, anywhere from 10-999 BPM, while still preserving sound quality.

Pocket Beats was created by MIT and MIT Media Lab grads to create precision drum beats on the go. Our drum kits were designed by a Berklee grad to help get you started and inspire you to create your own loops. It’s easy enough for the beginner to use, but robust enough to satisfy a serious musician.

New drum kits and feature upgrades will be added regularly.

Features

Pocket Beats now works with Audiobus

Polyphonic drum loops with up to seven instruments.

Multi-touch grid interface to easily visualize the relationship between each instrument.

Mute/solo individual instruments.

Two touch-controlled effects pads.

10-999 BPM tempo control.

Drumrolls and retriggering: instantly glitch any beat.

Five free drum kits with more available for purchase in several genres.

Export your loops as .wav files or ringtones.

Upgrade to the Pro version to import your own samples, mix and match instruments, and get more control over effects.

Pocket Beats Drum Machine is available for free on the app store. Try it now.

Pocket Beats Drum Machine Pro is available as an in-app purchase for $4.99.

For more information, visit pocketbeats.com or the Pocket Beats Facebook page. Follow us on Twitter @pocketbeatsapp.

http://www.dreamengineinteractive.com/

Nice To Be Your Friend Synth

Nice To Be Your Friend Synth is a free software synthesizer developed by Secret Base Design. Available format(s): stand alone application for iOS.

Nice To Be Your Friend is the friendliest synthesizer app on iOS. There are two keyboards to play, with the top keyboard rotating around so that you can make music with a friend. What is played on one keyboard is highlighted on the other, so that you can share songs, and improvise new music.

The app is universal, and features more than one hundred sounds from a SoundFont engine. The app is polyphonic and multi-timbral. Warm pianos, electric and acoustic bass, guitars, strings, and even synthesizer tones — a huge array of instruments, all at your fingertips in one app.

With full support for both MIDI input and output, you can use NTBYF to control other iOS synthesizers, or use a sequencer to trigger sounds from the app. There’s even Audiobus support, allowing you to easily record your music, or to send the sounds through the wide range of filtering and effects apps.

The app also has an integrated Apollo MIDI over Bluetooth “A” endpoint, letting you send MIDI wirelessly between a pair of iOS devices, or between iOS and a Mac. This will require the Apollo app running on the other device — the Mac version of Apollo is free, so it’s easy to try out. Once you’ve experienced the low latency of MIDI over Bluetooth, you’ll never want to use WiFi MIDI again. Bluetooth LE is available only on the iPad mini, iPad 3 and newer, and the iPhone 4S and newer; this feature is not available on the iPad 1 or 2, and on earlier iPhones.

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http://secretbasedesign.com/apps

Nanologue

Nanologue is a free software synthesizer developed by Steinberg. Available format(s): stand alone application for iOS.

Nanologue brings the power of VST 3 technology to the iOS platform. As a streamlined version of the VST 3 synthesizer Retrologue, Nanologue sports a straightforward multi-touch interface and a great-sounding virtual analog synthesizer for monophonic leads and basses and can be used stand-alone and in connection with your iOS host application via Inter-App Audio.

Under the hood, Nanologue boasts a cross-modulation oscillator with two waveforms, glide, a VCF envelope, LFO, delay and a filter section with cutoff, resonance and distortion.

With 50 presets the library offers a range of sounds and effects including leads, basses and effects.

User presets can be exported to the Retrologue VST instrument, included in Cubase and Cubase Artist.

Top Features:

Virtual analog synthesizer specializing in monophonic leads, basses and effect sounds.

Cross-modulation oscillator with two waveforms, glide, VCF envelope, LFO, delay and filter section.

Easy-to-use interface with multi-touch support.

50 ready-to-go presets.

Compatible with Inter-App Audio.

Free of charge.

http://www.steinberg.net/

n-Track Tuner

n-Track Tuner is a free tuner plugin developed by n-Track Software. Compatible OS(s): iOS, Android.

Tune your guitar with perfect precision and frequency spectrum view

Tune your guitar, bass or other instrument with n-Track Tuner. Just put your iOS or Android device next to your instrument and play each string, the tuner will automatically recognize the note you’re playing and tell you whether you need to lower (green bar) or increase (red bar) the string’s pitch.

The spectrum analyzer provides a visual feedback of the notes played by the instrument and shows a small arrow to highlight the harmonic whose pitch the tuner is tracking.

For those who prefer to manually tune their instrument the ‘Diapason’ view lets you play a reference tone, ‘A’ (440 hz) or any other note that you can select dragging the frequency slider.

Advanced features:

Tap to adjust the spectrum analyzer visualization options, select thicker spectrum lines, smooth out or highlights peaks, increase or decrease spectrum accuracy etc.

http://www.ntrack.com/

Music Maker Jam

Music Maker Jam is a free sequencer stand alone application developed by MAGIX. Compatible OS(s): Windows, iOS, Android.

Music Maker Jam is available for Windows 8 and Android smartphones & tablets.

App Highlights and Included Features:

Four free soundpools with professionally produced loops: Hip Hop, Minimal, Rock, and Jazz.

A step sequencer which allows for easy harmony adjustment.

The ability to record/edit songs in real time while adding sound enhancing effects.

An eight-track 8 loop mixer for easy, complete song mixing.

A board which provides clear overview of all tracks selected including defined song details.

Customizable background images.

A “shake” function to explore new loops.

A “tilt” function to adjust saturation levels on the effects board.

The ability to combine different styles of music with the loop selector.

The ability to record and live edit tracks, save as an audio file, and share with friends.

http://www.magix.com/

MPC Fly for iPad

MPC Fly for iPad is a free sequencer stand alone application developed by AKAI. Compatible OS(s): iOS.

The MPC Fly is an iPad App that allows the user to sequence up to four tracks simultaneously and has a four-track mixer built in.

Built in sound library of samples and drum kits.

Record and overdub sequences and create and edit your own Programs.

16-Levels mode: play one sample at 16 levels of attack, velocity, length, and tuning.

Note variation slider allows you to manipulate attack, velocity, length, and tuning as you play.

Built-in effects: delay, bit crusher, master compressor/limiter.

Time correct: 1/8 note – 1/32T with variable Swing setting.

Note Repeat: 1/8 note – 1/32T timing.

Sample using internal mic or line-in and trim and categorize samples.

Sample from your iPod library with turntable interface.

Share on SoundCloud, Facebook or twitter.

Supports WIST, Wireless Sync Start protocol from Korg.

Supports AudioPaste.

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http://www.akaipro.com/

MKSensation iOS

MKSensation iOS is a free sampler plugin developed by Gospel Musicans. Compatible OS(s): iOS.

MKSensation is a player’s live gigging module designed to give you the bread and butter sounds needed for a live session, gig, church service, or studio session. The layout, ease of use, sliders, and simple functionality is what has made our PC version so successful. There is no fancy splash page and it’s not rattled with hundreds of sounds. It’s designed to be loaded and played for instant layering and inspiration. You could could call this your instant rompler full of the sounds you would use all of the time and given our reputation of sampling, you know the sounds will be very warm, thick, and realistic. You won’t even believe that these sounds are coming from your iPad.

http://www.gospelmusicians.com