RD4 Groovebox
By mikrosonic
Turn your phone or pill into a musical instrument! RD4 - Groovebox is a music making app with virtual analog synthesizers, drum machines and effects.
Compose and arrange your music in real-time. Choose instruments individually for the 4 channels. Record reside or set notes with the dedicated sequencer or piano roll of every instrument.
This is not any desktop app crammed onto a touchscreen. It seems the interface has been designed round your fingertips. Peter Kirn from CDM (createdigitalmusic.com)
This multi-touch enabled app makes it easy to invent unique loops and musical phrases. Manipulate the sound of the synthesizers by tweaking the oscillators, resonant filters and audio envelopes. Add audio results like reverb, distortion, phaser, filter and delay to your sounds.
Appropriate each for experienced musicians and novices.
Loops you've created and exported with RD4 may additionally be mechanically integrated into mikrosonic's audio mixer app SPC - Music Sketchpad.
Feature Overview
Mixer:
- 4 channel rack mixer
- Instrument choice for each channel
- Volume control with level meter per channel
- Direct audio impact channel assignment
- Tempo control with tap tempo
- Channel mute and solo
Sequencer:
- 2 banks with up two 8 bars per instrument
- Adjustable play modes from 1 to eight bars and random modes
- Song Mode with a size of as much as ninety nine bars
Choose between two digital analog synthesizers and the drum machine for every channel:
Analog
- Modeled after legendary monophonic synths of the '70s
- For fats sounding bass and highly effective lead sounds
- 3 oscillators with 6 different waveforms
- Each oscillator can be tuned precisely and has a heat management for the standard analog sound
- Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release envelope generator
- Pitch wheel
- Low-pass filter (24dB/oct, 4-pole) with knobs for cutoff, resonance and an ADSR envelope generator
- Recording of played notes in real-time (depending on units capabilities)
- Piano roll for enhancing recorded notes comfortably
- Or compose by drawing notes directly with the piano roll in 1/16 or 1/32 resolution
- Piano roll editing features: Transpose Pattern, Shift Sequence and Quantize Pattern
Bassline
- Reminiscent of the legendary 303 synthesizer
- Create effervescent basslines and screaming lead sounds
- Successor of the well-known synthesizer Rubberduck from d-lusion
- High-quality low-pass filter with resonance, cut-off, and envelope controls
- Oscillator with 4 kinds of waveforms
- Real-time step sequencer with accent and slide
Beats
- Program beats with 10 classic drum kits: 808, 909, 606, CR-78, Linn, KR55, RX11, RZ1, DMX, DPM48
- Booming kick drums, snappy snares and throbbing percussions
- 8 channels per drum kit
- Punch management for quantity and envelope adjustments
- Accent programmable for each drum channel
- Free assignable effects for every drum sound
- Channel mute, Closed Hi Hat can mute the Open Hi Hat
- Real-time sample based step sequencer
Audio results:
- 5 effects: Reverb, distortion, filter, phaser and delay
- Real-time controllable
- X/Y control field for every effect
- 4 impact sends
- Chaining of 2 effects
Technical features:
- Customized layouts for phones, 7 and 10-inch tablets
- Special additional rack view in portrait mode for 10-inch tablets
- Support for the Novation Launchkey Mini keyboard/controller
- USB MIDI support, connects external MIDI keyboards and controllers
- External MIDI clock sync support
- Automatic MIDI input focus when switching Instruments
- Multi-touch control
- Live session recording
- Audio loop export feature
- SoundCloud Sharing Kit integration
- OpenSL support for low latency*
* Please observe that for recording in real-time with the Analog synthesizer you'll need a low latency Android device with at least Android 4.2. Read extra about audio latency on our FAQ: http://www.mikrosonic.com/faq
More particulars at: http://www.mikrosonic.com/rd4
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