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Groovebox - Beat Synth Studio 4+
Make Music & Play Instruments
Focusrite Audio Engineering
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Horizon is the new ambient polyphonic synth for Groovebox. With lush pads, dreamy melodies and analogue organs, Horizon is the soundtrack to your dreams.
If you love making electronic music, you’ll love Groovebox. Enter an inspiring world of music production on your iPhone & iPad.
Groovebox is a free, beautifully designed music studio app packed with inspiring synths and drum machines. In minutes you’ll be making beats, melodies, and playing with world-class instruments. Expand your own collection with more sounds and instruments available in the store. From the creators of Launchpad, Groovebox helps you produce music on iPhone & iPad.
• A BEATS & SYNTH MUSIC STUDIO
Play with touchable instruments to quickly create your own beats and melodies, or draw in notes. Need inspiration? Groovebox has hundreds of patterns and sounds to get you started. Four powerful synthesisers, designed in partnership with Novation, deliver deep retro basslines and analogue harmonic melodies. The modern drum machine, with expanding drumkit library, will turn Groovebox into your go-to beat production studio.
• SYNTHS DESIGNED WITH NOVATION
Designed in partnership with Novation, legendary synth pioneers, Groovebox packs a world-class sound. Each instrument uses a new powerful synth engine capable of recreating classic warm analogue sounds and rich modern harmonics.
• EASY TO START, DEEP ENOUGH TO MASTER
Groovebox is designed to kick-start ideas, but it has serious features for artists and producers too. The advanced synth parameters* let you sculpt your own sounds. Automate the parameters over time to create a vibrant dynamics. Control your sound with the multi-channel mixer (iPad only), note sequencer, key and scale modes. Build your arrangements into songs with sections. Export your sounds easily to a laptop for further production. Sync to other apps or a laptop with Ableton Link. Connect using Audiobus, Inter-App Audio and even Export to Ableton Live seamlessly.
FEATURES
• Discover and build ideas - Quickly explore sounds with hundreds of melody and rhythm patterns
• Play touchable instruments - Create your own melodies and beats
• Five powerful instruments - Drumbox, Horizon, MiniMon, RetroBass and Poly-8
• Build beats - Play drum pads or keys, sequence notes or use patterns
• Arrange your tracks - Simple song-building using sections
• Create dynamic changes - Record synth parameters as automation
• Sound innovation - Instruments developed in partnership with synth pioneers Novation
• Expand your sounds - Regular, fresh-content drumpacks, presets and patterns*
• Production-ready sounds - Crafted by world-class sound designers and artists
• Extendable Instruments - Expose more tweakable synth controls
• Sequence your music - Draw notes and build patterns instead of playing them
• Stay in time and key - Choose from any tempo, key or musical scale
• Share your music - Easily create a mix of your music to share with others
*Requires In-App Purchase
ADVANCED FEATURES
• Jam with others - Audiobus, Inter-App Audio, Ableton Link and Ableton Export
• Swing - Instantly add swing to your session.
• Ableton Export - Easily send your project to Ableton Live
• Full scale support - All keys and major, minor and modes supported
• Project management - Rename, duplicate and delete
• iPad Pro support - Optimised to use the entire iPad Pro screen
• Send your ideas to a laptop - Batch export your pads as a .zip file, or use Ableton Export
• Bluetooth speaker supported
What’s New
Version 2.10.5
This version contains bug fixes & technical improvements.
If you enjoy using Groovebox, we'd really appreciate a review on the App Store. If you find bugs or have any comments, drop us a line at support@ampifymusic.com.
Ratings and Reviews
Amazing app overall.
Fantastic app!
I have had extensive experience writing and arranging music in digital audio workstations for a long time plus playing music with real instruments in rock and jazz bands as well. This app is amazing for presenting sequence and sound options that will trigger your imagination and creativity and really help the songwriting process. Its very creative much like Avenger on the PC and other such programs that cost a lot more.
However it does appear to miss someone very important features like a CC style side view of note velocities in the sequencer and the ability to change them with a pen or finger so you can create smooth velocity rises and so on, and also it appears that it doesn’t have the ability to link the sequence sections together so they play in a song like sequence, chorus, break, intro...that type of thing.
It also appears that you can’t drum load your own samples Into the drum box or record control changes in the Synths (opening filters and envelopes and recording them and so on).
I could be wrong about this as I have only been using it for about a week, but if it had some of these features it would be an absolute killer app on the iPad with no competition.
But all that said it’s still an incredibly creative and powerful app with great sounds!!
Totally Amazing Music App!!
I’ve been using this for a long while now, and it is fantastic! The new addition of the Horizon Synth brings the App up to what I would call a ‘Full’ Studio. The sounds from the Horizon Synth are as beautiful as they are complex - just the sort of thing you’d expect of companies such as Novation & Ampify Studio! I have enjoyed a long association with Novation, and in my opinion, they have never released a bad product. If you already have this App, but haven’t yet updated, NOW is the time to do so. You won’t regret it, I promise you. Five-Stars, all the way! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Developer Response ,
Thank you for the kind words! //James
Great stuff but please, please some MIDI cc’s.
Surely I’m not the only one asking for this. I know it responds to a couple of knobs on the Novation controller but I really don’t need another keyboard. Is there a legitimate reason why there is no response to cc’s? This feature would take it from great to awesome. I would happily pay for it as an IAP as I am sure would many other users. Will it ever happen?
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Information
- Seller
- Focusrite Audio Engineering Ltd.
- Size
- 46.2 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Focusrite Audio Engineering Limited 2024
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Dirty 909 $0.00
- Drum Booster $2.99
- Ambient Hip Hop $0.00
- Sequential Arps $0.00
- Trap Bass $0.00
- Golden Era Bass $1.99
- Hypnotic Bass $0.00
- Neuro Leads $1.99
- Hip Hop Orbit $0.00
- 80s Electro $1.99