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Update: TableTop v1.3 Released – Adds TT-303, XOX, & Glitchboard Devices And More!
21 December 2011:
Retronyms have released version 1.3 of Tabletop – their modular environment for the iPad where you can mix and match different devices. The update includes four new premium devices (available through an in-app purchase) – the TT-303 (Bassline Sequencer), XOX Drum Deranger (Drum Machine), Glitchboard (Glitch Effect), and Overdose (Digital Distortion Effect). It also includes a free 3-Band Equalizer and some cool new presets.
To celebrate the release they have lowered the price to just $0.99 for a limited time (previous price was $14.99) and lowered the price of the RS4000 Subtractive Synthesizer to $6.99.
WHAT’S NEW:
New Premium Devices:
- TT-303 (Bassline Sequencer)
- XOX Drum Deranger (Drum Machine)
- Glitchboard (Glitch Effect)
- Overdose (Digital Distortion Effect)
New Free Devices
- 3Q (3-Band Equalizer)
Also included are new free presets from the incredibly talented Salva, +verb, Oh No, and Pete Sasqwax in XOX, M8RX, RS3 and Gridlok!
DETAILS & SCREENSHOTS:
XOX Drum Deranger – Drum Machine
- The 16-step pattern machine is a new incarnation of the standard model, with each step being able to play one to all of the eight sample tracks in a kit. Further refinement of five parameters is available for each step as well.
- Distortion, length, balance, pitch, and level controls
- Adjust step parameters individually or globally with the Master Param wheel
- Optional dedicated outputs for Tracks 1-4
- Create kits from iTunes and AudioPaste imports and Recorder M2 samples
TT-303 – Bassline Sequencer
- A faithful reproduction of the classic pattern machine.
- Tuning, cutoff frequency, resonance, envelope modulation, decay and accent controls
- Octave, accent, slide and waveform controls
- Randomize and alter patterns, pitches and accents
- Store over 30 patterns in four banks
Glitchboard – Glitch Effect
- Hold the pads on this one-of-a-kind glitch effect to create an incredible variety of new and evolving sounds. Stutter the 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 or 1/32 beat forward or in reverse, and apply high or low pass filters at 4x, 2x, 1x and 1/2x the frequency of the incoming signal.
Overdose – Digital Distortion Effect
- The Overdose distortion module provides as much or as little distortion as desired and the ability to increase the intensity of the effect.
3Q – Three Band Equalizer
- This EQ provides the controls for refining the lows, mids and highs of the incoming signal.
Enhanced Settings
- Improved session settings now offer Swing, the ability to move notes forward on the beat, and an extended Tempo range to decrease tempos down to 40bpm.
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What’s New in TableTop v1.3:
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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Eh. The new modules are not free. Well, the EQ is, but not the others.
They ARE about business. Always has been.
It would be great to be able to try the purchasable modules before buying, even for a couple of minutes.
Cheers
So it’s only the equalizer thats free with this update?
I was up late last night and saw the update come through. I heard about it from Ashley over on Palmsounds but I didn’t expect it to come out so quickly!
I stayed up playing with the XOX and it is a great machine. I had no crashing like the other user when dropping in samples from other apps using the pasteboard. Perhaps I just got lucky and the sounds I used didn’t have “the bug”. I also bought all the equipment in the same fashion as the other user…I just HAD to have them :).
This update is bottom line brilliant. These are the devices this app SHOULD HAVE had from the start! They may seem like old Skool machines but they are the founding members of EDM and they are tried and true easy to manipulate and offer fret sound option. The XOX box with individual routing per step is great feature and the user sample loading is genius. They also give a HUGE amount of factory hits to work with.
Hopefully the previous updates have keyed in the user community on how this thing is going to work. You WILL have to pay to play. If you have gone through the other updates and are just now figuring this out,the “DAMN you IAP one star reviews are not needed” if you can’t afford this scheme then we probably already heard you crying in the last batch of AppStore reviews so how about letting the “Power Users” praise the app and development for what they deserve.
A brilliant set of tools for an app that is now becoming more powerful at every turn. These things cost money. The developers need to get paid. They are bringing fantastic content and it has turned this app into a very useful working mini studio. The routing takes effort from your brain to actually plan the path of attack and the stability on my iPad 1 has improved dramatically. I used to have to save after every button push. This morning I spent over an hour just tweaking the 303 without even realizing that there was a save button at all. This is how it’s supposed to feel. Digging into the music creation without having to hover over the save button for fear of lost projects is a key point that every app can’t “put on the back burner”.
This is a great update and the prices are fair enough. Really am enjoying it.
Thanks Retronyms and thanks to all-freesoul
You sound like a bad commercial. Other DEVs manage to sell quality apps without such kind of heavy pricing schemes as you try to trivialize here, for instance PulzeCode.
Very nice update, but still no export to pasteboard option. I really wonder why. It should be quite obvious that this feature is essential to a great deal of customers and why would you want to loose these by leaving out a feature that is a piece of cake to implement?
@James – I’ll check on that bug. I remember we tested this, but perhaps it came back.
@IncarnateX – There is a long list of features we look at and prioritize. Exciting new devices tend to win out. :)
Hi Keith, glad you are on the case! For your information I found that it doesn’t affect all of the sounds/kits. But you can replicate every time you try to load an individual sample from the 101 kit, SILO, and WARP DRIVE kits. There maybe more but I haven’t checked. Hope this helps! James
Oh yes, ok, we know about this one… something happened to the samples in those presets at a late stage. I believe it’s only the samples in those presets, though. It will get fixed eventually.
I just bought all of the new devices. Nice! I’m a sucker for old style drum sequencers and TB-303 emulations. Then of course I NEEDED the distortion LOL. The TT-303 is quite authentic but is quite tame if you try and push the filter to it’s limits. Not as squelchy as I’d like. Nice that you can record the knob movements though (unlike in Rhythm Studio which kinda sucks).
I did find a VERY nasty bug though. When I tried to load a sample into XOX it crashed TableTop and lost my entire 1 hour session! It doesn’t seem to happen every time but has happen twice now so is definitely going to cause me problems. I guess frequent saves should prevent losses but it’s still very annoying. Please Retronyms can you fix this (and fire those beta testers….I found this bug after just 1 hour of using it, what have your testers been doing?)