Retronyms have released version 1.1 of Tabletop – their modular environment for the iPad where you can mix and match different devices. This update adds a number of new effects as in-app purchases: a high-pass filter, bit crusher, compressor, expander, and a limiter. It also includes a new “splitter” effect for free!
To celebrate the release of the new version they are also offering the new effects for just $0.99 each until the end of the day on Tuesday.
New X2 Splitter Device (Free):
Whether you’re looking to change your sound or add mastering effects, this set of new devices is sure to let you shape your compositions to your exact needs.
In addition to the new effects, there have been a number of enhancements to the user interface and some bug fixes.
Tabletop for iPad, from Retronyms, is a modular environment where you can mix and match different devices. Select from more than a dozen devices including samplers, mixers, effects, sequencers and more. Buy only the gear you need from an expanding catalog.
Tabletop is the first musical environment designed from the ground up exclusively for the iPad. Each device has its own uses, characteristics, personality—ranging from classics like drum pad samplers to touchscreen effects.
Plug the output of a keyboard into a delay to add an echo, or wire it up to a mixer and adjust the pan. Chain up multiple effects to create new and evolving sounds. Tabletop is an audio playground where you can create beats, compose songs, mix live, make mashups with samples from your iPod library… the possibilities are wide open. Just drag the devices you want to use to the tabletop and chain them together like you would with real hardware.
Tabletop has been designed to fit nicely into your studio. Move your sounds to and from Tabletop using iTunes File Transfer, sample from the mic, line-in, or even from your iPod library right in the app. Plus, support for AudioPaste lets you paste sounds from other iOS apps.
For more information about TableTop click here.
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With the new mastering gear, Table Top is definitly moving in the right direction.
Hope they will consider adding pasteboard export in the next update, so I don’t have to use that #&3@£* iTunes clusterf–k just to get my waves into Beatmaker 2.
The best news is that all these new devices are free for registered “early adopters” of TableTop… :)
Oh, that’s just great. Give us a free X2 Splitter device, which is only really any good if you have the compressor and limiter effects (which both support side chaining), which will cost you a dollar each! So it’s not free at all – it’s just a way of making you feel left out if you don’t own the other effects.
I also wish they’d lower the price of the additional mixer. It’s ridiculous how much they charge for that. And giving you a free turntable but making you pay so much for a very very simple mixer. What gives?
Tabletops current set of keyboard patches and drum machine samples sucks big time. They need some more usable (generic) sounds.