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Wednesday 27 November 2013

StompBox Free Multi FX App for iPad Released


StompBox free 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 Free 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.

The great range of 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 upto 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
  • Apple Inter App Audio and AudioBus Comaptible
  • Compatible with range of hardware interfaces
  • 3 Unique Skins
  • Great value for money Full Unlock In-App


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 accoustic. StompBox allows various amp EQ’s both via the PreAmp and additional effects, but the important thing for accoutic guitar users is that these EQ’s can be completely bypassed. This is where StompBox really shines, giving a faithful reproduction of accoustic instruments. This also means StompBox can be used on keyboards too.


If you have any questions or issues you can contact us on
http://www.4pockets.com/support/

Friday 22 November 2013

StompBox FX App Supports Apple Inter App Audio

StompBox Multi FX App for the iPad now supports Apple's Inter-App Audio. Making it an excellent general purpose audio processing tool for all musicians, not just guitarists.
StompBox turns your iPad into a flexible Multi FX Processor which comes with 16 effects plus a 4 Track Recorder and Media Player.


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.
Features
  • Guitar and Bass Multi FX Processor
  • 16 Unique Effects available
  • 7 Types of Distortion
  • Chain upto 12 Simultaneous Effects
  • AudioBus and Apple Inter App Audio Compatible.
  • Media Player with Time Stretching
  • 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.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stompbox/id392607732?mt=8

Tuesday 1 October 2013

StompBox for iPad Video Competition

StompBox for iPad Video Competition
StompBox for iPad Video Competition


Showcase your skills using a Guitar, iPad and 4PocketsAudio's StompBox Guitar Effects App and win some great prizes in our biggest ever competition.

The rules of the competition are simple, create a video 1 - 2 minutes long of you rocking out with your guitar. It can be your own composition, with a backing track, improvising or playing a popular riff. You must be able to clearly see StompBox on your iPad while you are playing. Upload your video to YouTube then complete the entry form found at www.4pocketsaudio.com/stompboxcomp

There are some great prizes on offer:

1st Prize
$150 iTunes Gift Card
Free Copy of Meteor, Synergy and Aurora HD iRig HD Courtesy of IK Multimedia

3 Runners up Prizes
$50 iTunes Gift Card
Free Copy of Meteor Multitrack Recorder, Synergy Studio and
Aurora Sound Studio HD

Full information on the competition can be found at www.4pocketsaudio.com/stompboxcomp

StompBox turns your iPad into a fully fledged digital effects unit, complete with chromatic guitar tuner, metronome and loop recording tools. It was featured by Apple in the 2011/2012 "Love" iPad TV Commercials.

Apple's Love iPad TV Commercial Featuring StompBox by 4PocketsAudio.com

Hi-DEF  jams on your iPhone, iPad or Mac
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Friday 26 April 2013

Aurora Sound Studio HD for iPad- On Sale 50% Discount

Aurora Sound Studio HD - iPad Sequencer
Aurora Sound Studio HD -iPad Sequencer
Aurora Sound Studio HD, the music creation App then enables you to compose music using the light grid.


Aurora Sound Studio HD -iPad Sequencer
Aurora Sound Studio HD -iPad Sequencer



 
On Sale Now down from $39.99/£27.99 to $18.99/£13.49.

Aurora enables you to make your music compositions as simple or complex as you want, build up blocks/Sequences of music patterns which you string together to make a complete song.

Layers within each block allow you to add layers of instruments to each music pattern/block.

Laying the notes down on the light grid is a great way of constructing music and when you play the block/song you get a great light show, which can be mirrored to a big screen.

Also available for iPhone

You might also be interested in:
Meteor DAW for the iPad





Wednesday 27 March 2013

Reflection Music Player for iPad





Reflection Music Player is the latest iPad music application from 4PocketsAudio, the creators of Meteor Multi-Track recorder and StompBox guitar effects rack, which featured in Apple’s iPad 2 TV commercial in January 2012.




Reflection Music Player brings a feature packed music player to the iPad with Fast and Fluid Cover Flow for browsing your albums 

The Large and Uncluttered Screen can be brought to life with the Visualization Effects, there are 11 to choose from, or simply select random.

The Ten Band Graphic Equalizer enables you to set up your sounds exactly as you want, or you could use one of the presets such as Rock, Pop etc. You can also display the Graphic 


Reflection for iPad Cover Flow
Reflection for iPad Cover Flow

Equalizer Visualizations on screen at the touch of a button


The Online Mode supports Music Match so you can access your music in the cloud.


Reflection makes searching your music library easy with Alphabetical Indexing and Selectable Sort Order.  Search by Artist, Name, Album and Genre.


Reflection isn't just a music player it can become part of your day from the moment you wake up, using the Digital Clock Alarm Mode to wake you up to your favorite tracks. 


Airplay Support so you can connect to your Airplay Speakers or combine it with Mirroring to your Apple TV to stream Reflection to your TV and Surround Sound System for Big Sounds and the Visualizations on your TV Screen.

It's large and uncluttered screen makes Reflection ideal to become part of your Home HiFi set up or for your In-Car Entertainment.


Make Reflection part of your day.

Reflection Music Player  for iPad Play List
Reflection Music Player  for iPad Play List

Reflection Music Player for iPad Visualizations
Reflection Music Player for iPad Visualizations









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Monday 18 March 2013

Meteor DAW for iPad now with 24 Tracks

Meteor DAW for the iPad latest update has increased the default number of tracks from 12 - 16 and offers the option to increase up to 24 tracks.



Here's a quick run down of whats included in Meteor iPad Daw v1.5

  • Increased default number of tracks from 12 to 16 and added the ability to extend it to 24 via an In-App purchase.
  • Added Replicate function to popup menu for duplicating large sections of a song.
  • Added ability to override MIDI port in prefs so a track can specify it's own MIDI port or applications virtual MIDI port.
  • Added Auto Quantise feature to MIDI editor. You can now quantise MIDI notes as they are recorded.
  • Redesigned the mixer screen to handle more tracks and better landscape viewing.
  • Added support for Channel Pressure for MIDI instruments.
  • Major optimisation of audio mixing engine for better low latency support.
  • Increased the render speed of audio clips in view mode and the mixer display.
  • Added a note stealing algorithm to the Sampler instrument for better handling of large polyphony.
  • Virtual ports created by other iOS applications now show up correctly.
  • Fixed a bug which caused clicking on clips that use the Cross Fade function with EQ enabled.
  • Added the ability to change the volume level of an imported video clip.
  • Fixed a possible crash when mixing down to a stereo track with 'Remove existing parts on ALL tracks' checked.
  • Fixed the broken MIDI loop recording.
  • Fixed a bug with MIDI step recording using the virtual keyboard.
  • Creating a new project now clears previous track EQ settings from mixer.
Meteor iPad DAW
4Pockets Audio

Tuesday 26 February 2013

Guilherme Freitas is an established Bassist/Guitarist/Singer and Composer from Brazil. He is best known for his bands Gugles and Pajama Flowers, he currently plays with Bandabala,. The Band has just re-recorded their favourite Pajama Flowers hits completely on the iPad.

Q.1 Gui who were your musically influences?
I've heard a lot of music in my life but if I have to mention what I most heard would be Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Beto Guedes, Brazilian pop rock( Legiao Urbana, Lulu Santos) Beatles, AC/DC, Stones, Nirvana, Beach Boys, Genesis plus many other artists.

Q2. You’re a multi-talented Guitarist/Singer/Composer, is there a particular aspect you prefer? I started getting interested in music as a acoustic guitarist at 14, but at 18 I had to learn to play bass because I joined a band that needed a bass player, I continued to play bass for many years, and went back to playing guitar for 7 years ago. Right now I'm in love with guitar.

Q3. Why did you decide to Re-Record the tracks on the iPad?
The first reason was that at the time of the band in '95, we did not record the job decently, just made records on cassette tapes. Another reason was also that the band no longer exists and some former members no longer work as musicians, so there was no possibility would be all together again, each took different paths in life.

The band was independent at the time and had no access to good studios. I always liked those songs and felt sorry for not having done a good recording of them. When I bought the iPad 2 years ago, I noticed that when recording electric guitar I got an excellent result, and it reminded me of the work of Pajama's, I had to ask for help to remember the lyrics and started to record a couple of tracks before I knew it I was recording 14 songs.




Q5. How did you find the process of recording everything on the iPad?I've always been interested in using portable recorders, I already had several studios port (tascam, yamaha), drum machines, sequencers. When I saw the iPad I started doing small tests in Garageband was impressed and so I bought the IPad.

I used the Apogee Jam, and soon I learned how it worked and I realized I was getting better guitar sounds than in several professional studios I've ever had recorded in. Soon I noticed that the GarageBand would not be enough and that I needed a more professional app and found Meteor, then yes I was really excited to do all the work.

I started the searching process for drum loops and how we had done the arrangements back in 95. I actually recorded all the basic instrumental in Meteor and vocals in Garage Band, because I had to use many tracks, as I did many backing vocals.

The instruments I used were

Electric guitars (Gibson Sg, Prs Custom 22, Fender Plus and Suhr S3) I used a 60 amp trademark of Tech 21, miked by the senheiser 609 in direct apogee jam.

Effects on guitar I used eletronics TC Nova system, Fulltone OCD, and Suhr Riot. ,

The acoustic guitars (Yamaha) I always recorded 2 tracks, 1 miked by MIC and another running straight at Jam.

The bass (Tagima and precision and music man) I ran for a pre AMT eletronics and ran straight into Jam.

The keyboards and the strings I got everything in Garage Band.

For a long time I was in doubt if I would record the vocals on the iPad or in a studio outside, but then found the apogee MIC and recorded in my home. At the end of the process I had a problem, I would not be able to mix work on the iPad because I used more than 12 channels, and used 2 different apps to record

So I pulled all the wavs separately into the Meteor where they were mastered, mixed and everything. Throughout this process, Paul from 4pockets helped me a lot by email. Thanks Paul.

Q6. What aspects of Meteor Multitrack Recorder made it your iPad DAW of choice?
I found the meteor very professional, with 12 tracks and effects, it felt really like recording in professional studio, also the excellent technical support from 4Pockets provide customers



Q7. We were impressed with the harmonization of the vocals and guitars, how did you achieve this?I always enjoyed doing many backing vocals, something like Beatles, Beach Boys, and Queen, and in fact, in this work, I really did million of vocals. As I was doing at home, it had no cost, and I could take as much time as I wanted so I could do many experiments.

I recorded the harmonization's and sometimes sang 2 to 3 times each harmonization to get that wall of sound, like Queen and Beatles on the songs Right on, Sun is on the way. The verse of In the Evening and chorus of I'm Addicted, was sung by the musician and song writer Toninho Mattos.

I did not know if it would be successful but I tried lol. I do not use auto tune any part of the songs.

In eletric guitars, the process was similar. I played the same riff over and over again to give those aspect of the wall of sound too. But I played really again, because if you just duplicate the track you do not get the same result, only increases the volume.


Q8. Brazilian musicians seemed to have taken the iPad to the heart of their music creation, why do you think this is?
I think the whole world is using IPad to record, but maybe it's a success in Brazil because a good studio here is very expensive and one of medium size sometimes you do not get good results.


Q9. When will we see the Gui Freitas or the Pajama Flowers on the iTunes Store?
Actually I do not know how iTunes works for independent band, I need to tell you how this really works, in Brazil, the people still do not have much in the habit of using iTunes, the people still downloads the net. But I think it would be great if I could put my songs out, but at the same time, because the band to be independent, I do not know if people would know that the band is available on iTunes, I will get better informed and see. When I recorded this work I was not really planning on selling it, it was just to record it and show it to friends, but would not be so bad if I could make some money with it.



Q10. What's does 2013 hold for you, can you tell us what are you plans are?I am a professional musician in Brazil for 22 years, now I play in a band called Bandabala . This band plays Brazilian rhythms and it works here. My plans are to disseminate these Pajama Flowers songs and continue working hard.

You can find out more about Gui on his Facebook Page and on his twitter @guifreitas5

We would like to thank Gui for taking part in the interview, particularly since English is not his first language. I have promised him that I will learn more Portuguese than how to order a beer.

Keep an eye out for other tracks from Gui and the Pajama Flowers, I think 2013 is promising to be an exciting year for him.