Groove Rider GR-16 4+
Groove Box / AUv3
Dmitrij Pavlov
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- £19.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Our users will tell better than us:
"A really good groove box, so easy to get beats and hooks going in moments and the sound is just stunning!" - App Store review
"Well this is something special I can tell you, so much has gone into this and many people are going to just love this" - thesoundtestroom
"Lots of preinstalled sounds, effects and the usability is there. It allows you to be as creative as you like with no need for the numerous sub-menus you find on other software" - App Store review
"This is a very well thought out and inspirational app. It goes much further than just electronic dance music... Highly recommended!" - App Store review
"Where has this been my whole life!... Gorgeous, user friendly, simple and sonically vibrant" - App Store review
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Groove Rider GR-16 is a professional step-sequenced groove box, inspired by professional hardware drum machines and rhythm boxes. It has a powerful Poison-202 based two oscillator synthesizer engine, plus a big variety of included PCM drum samples, insert/send/master effects, arpeggiator, automation recording, modulator, ADSR and filter block, and more! Built-in factory pattern library includes patterns in different music styles, which will inspire you (the list will be appended with the regular updates). Check out the patterns demo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rnGM_rL2cY
One remarkable feature of GR-16 is that all the controls are arranged on one screen, just like on a real groove box device! It lets you access almost all useful parameters from the one screen. Forget about numerous sub-windows and dialogs, which ruined your inspiration in another musical apps! Groove Rider is the fastest path from your imagination to reality!
You can use GR-16 as a ready-to-go realtime musical instrument (groove box) in your jam sessions together with Ableton Link feature to synchronize it with your other music gear. Groove Rider is also very handy for quickly sketching your musical ideas, allowing you to instantly record them directly by using the Record function. Making music becomes easy and fun, in contrast with boring note drawing process and dealing with tons of files and expensive plugins in the DAW's! Don't loose your inspiration, boost it up with Groove Rider!
Features:
• supports Ableton Link, AUv3 (can be hosted as Audio Unit), AudioBus, AudioShare, Inter-App Audio, Core Midi, Virtual Midi In/Out, Bluetooth Midi, Midi Clock sync
• synth engine is Poison-202 based: 2 oscillators, 5 waveforms (Saw, Pulse, Sine, Triangle and Super-Saw)
• synth oscillator modulation types: Ring, Sync, PW and XFM
• 83 available oscillator configurations
• WaveTable synthesis with ability to import user wavetables (Serum .wav format supported)
• Filter module with LP, BP, HP, Notch type filters, 12 and 24 dB/octave
• ADSR envelope, assignable to Amp and Filter
• Modulator module with 9 LFO shapes x 6 destinations (Pitch, Filter, Level, Pan, Osc Edit, IFX Edit)
• portamento
• polyphony up to 32 voices
• 16 sounding parts per pattern
• 16 steps x 8 bars per each part
• each step consist of up to 4 voices (notes)
• each step can be time shifted forward/backward a fractional value
• strokes for each step (to play several notes at one step)
• step trigger conditions for each note
• 12 send effect types, one send effect per pattern
• 22 master effect types, one master effect per pattern
• 34 insert effect types, one insert effect per each part
• master Limiter
• Arpeggiator with 6 modes and 50 rhythm patterns
• Scale play mode with 36 different scales to select from
• Chords and Notes play mode
• 30+ different midi groove templates
• 116 microtonal scales
• Song mode
• store up to 256 user patterns
• import & export user patterns and banks via share sheet
• pattern audio export in 16, 24 and 32 bit wav format
• Ableton Live Set export
• 29 interface skins
Guide:
https://www.jimaudio.pro/grooverider/grooverider_manual.pdf
Website:
https://www.jimaudio.pro
What’s New
Version 2.2.1
Bug fixes:
- sample folders with dots in their names were not seen - fixed;
- AUv3: "Start with Host" setting was not working/displaying correctly;
- AUv3: if you solo one part and then reopen plugin's window, solo will be cancelled - fixed;
- Copy/Paste Entire Part now pastes part's name too;
- pressing and holding the Part select, Mute, Erase, Trigger etc. buttons from the external midi controller (previously assigned via Midi Learn) was not working correctly: it would release when you touched some pads on the screen at the same time - fixed now;
- using with LaunchPad Pro: during playback, "Follow Cursor" function was not working (not updating the current bar) while app was in the background - fixed;
Other changes:
- you can now use EXIT button during playback to cancel jumping to the next pattern in case you have occasionally selected it;
- during pattern playback, if you occasionally touched the SONG mode button, you can now cancel it by tapping the SONG button again. EXIT button will work for this too;
- Revert to Saved: you can now use this function during pattern playback, no need to stop the pattern.
Ratings and Reviews
GrooveTribe
I’ve previously owned both Electribes (red sampler & blue synth), I saw no reason too look at Groove Rider GR-16. However, facing a long journey with my iPad Air 2 I decided buy it.
Wow, no instructions needed as it is self intuitive especially if you use the current electribes. The synth is as powerful as what you will need plus you can load your own samples too. This is a game changer for me and despite the blue electribe having a better synth engine (it’s a king korg), I sold them both.
The GR-16 synth engine is pretty good and covers most things for most people. You don’t have to be into EDM to use this. I write ambient and alternative electronica and some synth pop. It goes as deep as you want it to go or as light as you want. Great to either pick up and knock out a few grooves or dive in and explore for hours.
I love it, it’s a powerful addition to my music making collection.
Excellent but finding it hard to use...
I’d been deliberating over a new fun app for years and after reading all the fab reviews I got this. It’s very hard to get your head around if you’re used to something like Cubase. Took me 2 days to get a basic beat down and copy it to other patterns. I tried changing the key of some bars but messed it up. I’ll have to read the manual again. Not many videos on YT on more advanced stuff, dissapointingly.
However I can “play” stuff in using my MIDI keyboard rather than programming it so that’s good. It would be awesome to be able to assign the arrow buttons andselection wheel on the left to my midi controller to save tapping on the little screen buttons ALL the time
The preset sound and synth side are really good. I really like that you can customise how patterns are stored eg I have it set to 16 x 16 so it’s like 16 songs, each with 16 patterns in. It’s ok but I could do with 50 x 16 as I have a 50 song setlist! Hmmmmm nyhoo it’s still early days so we’ll see.
Deeper than it first appears
I wasn’t sure about getting this due to concerns that it would be like going back to the days of hardware with serious limitations and tedious programming methodology. I still struggle a little with the old fashioned way of programming but the sound capabilities are worth the effort. I can’t understand why anyone still wants to pay close to a grand for a hardware box that can’t do half of what this can without the cost of power supplies, cables, sync issues, need for expensive hardware mixers and all of that. This is going to take some mastering but I have been getting such amazing bass and drum sounds so far that I am going to put the time in. Although impressive I am not into any of the styles in the presets apart from two but if you want a dub machine for great bass and drums this could be for you.
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Information
- Provider
- Dmitrij Pavlov
- Size
- 219.2 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 10.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2017-2021 JimAudio
- Price
- £19.99
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