bismark bs-16i 4+
SoundFont / DLS Sample Player
bismark LLC
Designed for iPad
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- $12.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
bismark bs-16i is a 16 multi-timbral playback sampler. It loads SoundFont and DLS (Downloadable Sounds) as WaveTable and can be used for keyboard instruments, MIDI sound modules, and MIDI file players.
bs-16i has the synthesizer engine that has been adopted for many professional/commercial types of equipment. Using SoundFont / DLS libraries, you can play with your great number of instruments. With Hi-Res Engine option prepared as an In-App purchase option enables high-quality and low-noise audio outputs by 100% floating-point calculations.
All standard MIDI messages are supported, and your iPhone and iPad can be used as a GM (General MIDI) sound module by using pre-installed GeneralUser GS SoftSynth v1.44.sf2 (S. Christian Collins).
As a keyboard instrument, you can play with the scalable screen keyboard, pitch bend wheel, and many control change controllers.
The internal MIDI file player supports SMF (Standard MIDI File) format as Song.
WaveTable / Song / Scene files are managed in the "bs-16i" folder of your iCloud Drive and synced between all your iOS / iPadOS devices.
Moreover, this application supports Core MIDI interfaces like IK Multimedia iRig KEYS / iRig MIDI, YAMAHA iMX-1, LINE6 MIDI Mobilizer 2, Apple Lightning -USB Camera Adapter with USB Generic MIDI Interface, and Bluetooth accessory (Miselu C.24, QUICCO SOUND mi.1, etc). With them, you can communicate with other external MIDI hardware like a synthesizer, or sequencer. Also, bs-16i can be a background and drive from other apps using Virtual MIDI.
Audiobus 3, and Inter-App Audio are supported. You can send bs-16i's output stream to other apps.
AUv3 (AudioUnit v3) extension is included. You can use bs-16i in GarageBand, BeatMaker3, and AUM as plug-in instruments.
- To load the specified SoundFont / DLS file, the device has to ready free memory larger than its file size of it.
- This application collects the following information: Device name, OS version, SoundFont / DLS file name, and CoreMIDi I/F name.
What’s New
Version 4.7.3
Improved app performance
Ratings and Reviews
The app for Serious Musicians
I'm not easily impressed by most music apps but this one is great. Connect your midi keyboard or midi guitar and you can play just about any combination of sounds (layered, mix on the go etc). The included sounds are acceptable (full midi bank) but the best thing about this app is that you can add Soundfont2 files and there are many good ones available free on the Internet. I've added some great sounding pianos and other sounds and they play great and with no apparent latency.
Chokes on some soundfonts
Fort he money I would expect it to work well even with large soundfonts but it doesn't. The thing will choke and crash then it forgets your previous assignments. In summary it is good but finiky. I use midi Keyboard now mostly whose processing isn't as good and you get hte occasional stuck note BUT it reads every soundfont I have thrown (including one that is over 1 Gig) at it and never crashes.
Not really worth the money...
I've used soundfont with midi files before and the improvement to the overall sound is amazing. So when I saw this app I thought it would be worth a try...but I was wrong. Considering the functionality vs the price, it's not worth it. There is a huge list of improvements needed to make this app even remotely usable(the ability to transpose the song, tempo control, a better library layout, etc). The fact there isn't even a manual speaks volumes about the developers poor commitment to the project.
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Information
- Seller
- bismark LLC
- Size
- 51.1 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2010-2024 bismark LLC, All rights reserved
- Price
- $12.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Hi-Res Synthesizer Engine $7.99
- 128 Polyphony $4.99