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Update: Tabletop v1.2 Released – Adds RS4000 Synth and More!
15 November 2011:
Retronyms have released version 1.2 of Tabletop – their modular environment for the iPad where you can mix and match different devices. The update includes a new RS4000 synthesizer device (available through an in-app purchase currently priced at $9.99).
To celebrate the release of the RS4000 synthesizer they have lowered the price to just $0.99 each for the next three days (previous price was $14.99).
What’s new:
- New RS4000: Powerful Synth
- Easy sharing using SoundCloud
- New Gridlok & M8RX samples from +verb
- Bugfixes & performance improvements
RS4000 Synthesizer Features:
- 50 presets
- Two oscillators with sine, sawtooth, square and triangle waveforms
- Phase, phase modulation, balance and drive controls for oscillator interactions
- Octave, semitone and tune controls for Oscillator A
- Low pass, high pass, band pass, notch and peak filters with frequency, Q, mod envelope and ADSR controls
- Amp envelope with ADSR controls
- LFO with sine, sawtooth, square and triangle waveforms, rate, fade, pitch, filter frequency, filter Q, balance and gain controls
- Mod touch ribbon with hold, LFO rate, LFO fade, filter frequency, drive and balance controls
- Pitch wheel, six scrollable octaves and sequencing
RS4000 Synthesizer Screenshot:
RS4000 Synthesizer Demo Video:
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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Purchased App yesterday (nov.15) but no free Synth. If I try to purchase it I’m asked to buy RS-4000 for € 7,99. Is it right?
@Giacomo: See the link above. They made a bug which made some customers get it for free, but not everyone.
ive not used tabletop for ages as it was too unstable on my ipad1.
Just checked it – the Update is free for me. Great!
Just to clarify – The update was free, but the new synth is showing as a £6.99 / $9.99 in-app purchase :-(
It was free for me too and I think it is because I am one of those who bought the first modules at high prices, just before the were reduced to 0,99$. To compensate they added us to a list of “early adopters of TableTop” and the modules in the next update were free. To achieve those free modules we just had to register with our emails within TableTop. Apparently it is still their policy.
That doesn’t explain why I got the free update, since I purchased the app today. Maybe is everybody getting the free update after all… in that case what’s the point/trick/bug in having an upgrade price for in-app purchase?
Well, maybe it’s an error then, but surely in the costumers favor, so enjoy!
Retronyms have explained here that it was a bug…
http://blog.retronyms.com/2011/11/rs4000-synthesizer-pricing-explained.html
Not many happy people though. I can’t see many people that didn’t get it for free stumping up $9.99 for it now. I know I won’t. What they need to do is make it free for a few days to allow those that didn’t benefit from the “bug” to grab it for free, learn from their mistake, and move on. Then maybe their customer base won’t feel alienated like it does now.
Come on Retronyms – put your business heads on! Do the right thing. At the moment your pricing policy already makes people feel ripped off, add to that you are giving away free stuff (even if it is accidentally) to some customers and not to others. On top of that you have rubbed salt in the wounds of early supporters of your “Synth” app by porting it over to Tabletop and expecting us to pay full price for it again.
Yeah…they haven’t had a good take off with this for sure. They compensated us “early adopters” -who bought the first modules at heavy prices just before the dropped them to 099$- by making the next update of modules free (though considering the heavy prices it is still in their favor, they owe us some more free modules). If you and others contact them, you can ask for compensation too and they might think of something. They are nice mailing with.
No, I just checked again. It’s definitly not free. It’s showing as £6.99 (about 10 dollars). In this case it seems unfair both to existing Tabletop customers and those that supported Retronyms when upgrading Synth (which now seems to be a dead duck). Not a good show Retronyms!
Free or not aside. It is once again an update in the right direction. However it beats me that Audio Copy is not implemented, so we are still dependent on a computer and iTunes transfer to get our tracks from one app to another. Sound cloud support is a bad priority in this respect. If they had implemented audio copy, I could upload it to soundcload from BM2 instead or I could have made further additions to it before upload.
@James I’ve just purchased Tabletop for 0.79€, then I inmediatelly updated the app as I saw an available update on the App Store… after updating the new synth was there, ready for use, with no extra/required payment! It seems Retronyms has changed his mind and are giving it away for free for a limited time, or what?, is it only for new purchases? I don’t really know.
Looks great, but I am a little annoyed that they have basically ported their “Synth” app over to the Tabletop environment rather than supporting those of us that supported them in the early days and upgraded Synth for the Pro features. So now we effectively have to pay for the same Synth engine twice. Considering they never released any updates to “Synth” (AudioCopy, CoreMIDI, WIST etc.) that really sucks. It’s now a dead product. I think they should do the right thing and reduce the price of RS4000 to free for $0.99 or something low for a limited time to create a cheap upgrade path for us early supporters.