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iPhone/iPad iOS music making app round-up: Week 62

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By Ben Rogerson published 26 April 2012

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All of music-making life is here

All of music-making life is here

This week’s round-up gives you a decent overview of what can be achieved musically on iOS: we’ve got synth, controller, DJ and composing software.

Also make sure you check out:

The best iPhone/iPad music making apps in the world today

If you've got a new iOS app, make sure you let us know about it by emailing musicradar.pressreleases@futurenet.com with all the details.

NEXT: The Strange Agency HyperSpace

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The Strange Agency HyperSpace, £0.69

The Strange Agency HyperSpace, £0.69

HyperSpace is billed as a 3D synth and uses an algorithm to generate images from sound. It works similarly to a harmonograph but has three oscillators rather than pendulums, each of which is mapped to a dimension in 3D space. This video demo should explain things further.

Buy now from the App Store

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Wiksnet Midi Studio, £4.99

Wiksnet Midi Studio, £4.99

If you haven’t bought a controller app for your iOS device yet, here’s another one to consider. You can choose from keyboard, drum pad, knob/fader and X/Y templates, and the developer claims that there’s ‘true’ velocity sensitivity. Other features include modulation when you move your fingers on the keys and a built-in arpeggiator.

Buy now from the App Store

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Musicsoft Arts Mashup

Musicsoft Arts Mashup

Announced at NAMM 2012 and powered by Waves, this 2-deck DJing app gives you a supposedly advanced scratching engine, resonant filters with a touch-ribbon interface, EQs and auto-syncing of tracks.

Buy now from the App Store

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Crimson Technology WaveSynth Pro, £1.99

Crimson Technology WaveSynth Pro, £1.99

We told you about the Android version yesterday; now here’s the full-fat Pro edition. This is a wavetable GM sound module that also comes with a Performance mode that enables you to play layered instruments. It’s 16-part multitimbral and you get a few effects, too.

Buy now from the App Store

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Koen Verjans Melody Music Maker, £5.99

Koen Verjans Melody Music Maker, £5.99

Designed to ‘make a composer out of everyone’, here’s an app that can take a melody and turn it into a song. It helps you to come up with suitable chord progressions and offers 127 sounds that can be used to flesh out your arrangement; the recently-released version 1.2 adds even more features.

Buy now from the App Store

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I’m the Deputy Editor of MusicRadar, having worked on the site since its launch in 2007. I previously spent eight years working on our sister magazine, Computer Music. I’ve been playing the piano, gigging in bands and failing to finish tracks at home for more than 30 years, 24 of which I’ve also spent writing about music and the ever-changing technology used to make it. 

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