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Yamaha Synth Arp & Drum Pad (iPad)
Synth Arp & Drum Pad is an iPad app with arpeggiator and drum pad that allows you to easily play the internal synthesizer or any connected MIDI device and produce music with phrases having an abundant variety of musical styles.
There are 366 arppegiator patterns that can play phrases from all kinds of music genres like dance music, hip-hop, rock, pops, with one finger. Use Synth Arp & Drum Pad to easily create fabulous phrases and enjoy a performance freely!
FEATURES:
Software Synthesizer
- Choose from 80 high-quality voices from a variety of instruments including 7 drum kits.
- Cutoff, resonance, attack, release, and portamento can be adjusted with the knob control. Setting tonal qualities is easy.
- Reverb, chorus, and variation effects can also be applied individually.
Keyboard Arpeggiator & Scale
- Choose from 366 arpeggio patterns from a variety of instruments.
- Control the swing, note length, octave range, and other characteristics for each arpeggio phrase in real time.
- Select and change the scale being played. That allows you to use Touch Control Function and you can modify the sound by sliding your finger vertically or vibrating your finger horizontally on the Keyboard.
- The velocity can be changed depending by adjusting the strength of the tap on the iPad screen, or use the ribbon controller displayed on the left-hand side of the screen.
Drum Pad
- For each of the 16 drum pads, you can assign 5 notes at a specific velocity which allows you to play chords with one finger as well as multiple percussion instruments.
- Separate notes can be assigned to the left and right sides of a pad along with their velocities for more intricate performances. The velocity can be controlled by the strength of the tap on the iPad screen.
- You can also use the built-in step sequencer of each pad, to easily create a rhythm track.
- The Learn function can be used to easily assign a chord to a pad using the keyboard displayed at the bottom of the screen or using the keyboard of an external MIDI device.
- There are 64 user templates that can be customized and saved.
MIDI Loop Sequencer/Recorder
- Overdubbing enables the blending of various layers of sound in one recording.
- In addition to standard recording, you can also record loops of varying lengths.
- Quantizing and recording speed can be adjusted, and a pre-count can also be set.
- It can be stored up to five songs.
- Recorded data can be mixed down into an audio file.
- Recorded data can be uploaded as audio to SoundCloud.
- Compatible with AudioCopy. Songs and patterns created with Synth Arp & Drum Pad can be passed to apps that are compatible with the audio data format (such as TNR-i and GarageBand)
Ribbon Controller
- Use the ribbon controller to change velocity, pitch, and assignable parameters.
This application is Core MIDI compatible. Wi-Fi communication possible with Yamaha MOTIF XF (body version 1.2 or above) Alternatively, use the MIDI Interface i-MX1 to communicate with all MIDI devices. A USB Wi-Fi adaptor, sold separately, is necessary for Wi-Fi communications.
Supports Audiobus (input only)
Pricing & Availability:
Synth Arp & Drum Pad is not currently available in all territories. Click through to your App Store for availability.
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This has just been upgraded with mixdown and audiocopy available (plus some other enhancements) which makes it all the more useful as a real tool. Well worth a look!
If you have an iPad and iPhone or iPod touch then down load the free Yamaha faders app and controlthe synth app via your iPhone .you can control volume,effects cut off etc and do some great fading in and out etc really good stuff just go to settings and set up wireless midi it works a treat I tell ya!
Thanks for the tip. Just to add, the above works with any app that can receive midi over wifi (sunrizer etc).
To the earlier question, i am in the UK.
Just a thought, would it be possible to record the MIDI data in another virtual app? And can you recommend a MIdI recording app that can do this if it is possible?
I think you can record the midi in thumb jam or genome- I’ve just tried it and it seems to work.
Ok, thanks.
Bought it!
This app is great fun and well worth the money. Inclusion of virtual MIDI and background audio are good plus points – i was loving setting up a rock groove in this and then soloing over the top in ThumbJam! It’s not perfect – it can only store 5 songs (of up to 32 bars) and there is no way to save or export these, but for sheer enterrtainment value, it gets my vote!
Its not in the app store in the US. Where are you? Is it coming to the US?
It’s a bit odd that they didn’t add audio copy/paste. I thought that would be quite standard in most new audio apps.
Like you said tho, despite the obvious lack of storage capabilities, it is great fun and quite a decent sounding app.
Virtual MIDI. Are you sure?.
Great! I got it and it does have background audio and virtual midi. It does it right, too. I have problems with lots of midi controllers that cause the host to have stuck notes. It doesn’t cause stuck notes as often and the arps are pretty dynamic for controlling other synths. I have tested with Sunrizer, beatmaker 2, and Cassini. Really fun to play around with and solid. Highly recommend it for use with BM2.