![]() The developer’s other apps are also unique and quirky, but I like them for that very reason. Patience is a required virtue with this app. However, if you need huge swirly pads and other thick sounds that cover massive amounts of the frequency spectrum, and you don’t have a wall full of synths to stack and layer, this app will provide such noises with abundance.ĭon’t know which bank to start with? Nice demonstration videos are provided for each bank to give a glimpse of several sounds and how to manipulate them while playing. and yes, they take up a boatload of storage space.and yes, they are mostly presets with only a few controls to modify the sounds. The "Silicon" sound set covers synthesizers also offside the pad field, and much more. The "Perc" sound set contains drums and percussive sounds. The "Atmo" pack for instance contains atmospheric sounds for generating very emotional sound bases and backgrounds e.g. Even though the app is focused on pad sounds, this is not all this app has to offer sound-wise. XPad is divided into 14 optional sound sets of different sound categories and provide up to 462 sounds in total. You can share them as audio files with other people or transfer them as MIDI files for further work e.g. The app comes with a built-in MIDI recorder that allows you to quickly record your musical ideas. use a Bluetooth MIDI wireless connection to your keyboard instead of a cabled one, restrict MIDI input to certain devices or apps, connect to other apps with Inter-App Audio or use the sounds of this app as Audio Unit v3 plugin directly in the DAW app of your choice. Just connect your keyboard with your iPad and you are ready to go.Īnd of course if needed, you can simply tweak the setup, e.g. Like all our apps, XPad is very easy to use and start with. You can quickly search for sounds with any combination of several criteria like sound characteristics, articulations, controls and more. XPad offers up to 462 sounds, but don't worry, it never lets you down and always assists you finding just the sound you need in a glimpse. And just grab your modulation wheel at your keyboard to bring in some more variance. For instance all sounds use the Aftertouch information of your keyboard to bring more dynamic behaviour into the sound even while just holding some notes. The most important controls for each sound are mapped to things that you are most likely using anyway at your keyboard. ![]() You can alter all controls remotely by MIDI e.g. All controls presented are always fine tuned to the individual elements of that sound. Every sound of this app presents controls that make sense for the individual sound. Replicating some analogue boutique pad synthesizers is nice, but what about having a huge stack of them? That's where "Tone Width" control comes into play.Įspecially the important pad sounds of this app allow you to morph the sound with the "Tone Width" knob in real-time steplessly between a very thin and clean sound up to a huge and fat tonal sound as if an army of pad synths was working under your finger tips.Ĭontrols for the individual sound aspects is good. ![]() For instance you might be playing and holding a chord with your right hand while playing a Glissando slide with your left hand and punching through the right hand's chord from an octave lower than the chord, up to some octave higher than the chord. chords) simultaneously or switch between these playing styles quickly at any time without leaving your hands off the keyboard. Foremost this app allows you to mix Glissando with regular polyphonic notes (e.g. We were also thinking about how to improve the usability aspects for playing Glissando in a much more intuitive & convenient way for a keyboard player, while still preserving the player's full control. from the lowest octave up to the highest octave and vice versa, in any desirable speed and without causing an artificial impression to the listener. XPad introduces a new way that we were developing for our apps to achieve realistic large interval Glissando. Goal was to get the warm and vibrant sound of analogue synths onto the convenient platform of an iPad and combining those sounds with the benefits of state of the art digital features while still preserving that analogue tone and feeling. XPad is a professional sound module app and Audio Unit v3 plugin with focus on modern pad sounds for iPad. ![]()
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