Aerophone Pro Editor 4+
Roland Corporation
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- Free
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Description
Customize your Aerophone Pro / Aerophone AE-20 for maximum expression
Applicable models: Aerophone Pro AE-30/ Aerophone AE-20
Aerophone Pro Editor is an application that allows you to customize the sound creation and performance settings of the Aerophone Pro/Aerophone AE-20 to bring out its full potential.
It can also be used as a remote control to select and switch favorite Scenes* on the screen. You can also use the Librarian function to load/write user Scenes from the Aerophone Pro/Aerophone AE-20 and save them as files on mobile devices or cloud services. You can prepare a set of Scenes to match your playing environment, share them with other players, and enjoy Aerophone more in accordance with your preferences and playing style.
*Scenes are the tones that are managed on Aerophone.
For more information about Aerophone Pro and Aerophone AE-20, please visit
https://roland.cm/aerophone_products
Main features
・Wireless connectivity via Bluetooth®.
・Layer up to four tones to create original Scenes
・Full editing of scene parameters*.
・Favorite Scenes can be selected at any time from the Favorite screen
・Manage Aerophone Pro/Aerophone AE-20 Scenes with Librarian
・Assign control parameters for breath control, bite control, and thumb control
・Detailed settings for built-in effects.
*Full editing of scenes and ZEN-Core tones
What’s New
Version 1.5.1
- Compatible with wireless foot switch FS-1-WL.
- Bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Good, but missing usability features
Overall a good app, but missing some basic iOS features that make the usability poor for live use cases.
I often play with backing tracks, so the fact that the app only runs in portrait on my iPad Pro and doesn’t support multi tasking makes it very user unfriendly.
Ideally, this should auto rotate and support the ability to run in landscape mode side by side with a media player.
Roland can and should do Better.
The app is fine. It’s actually good—if this were an indie shop. It is the legendary Roland brand behind it yet the app isn’t on the level of the actual Aerophone or Zencore.
For starters the app should be updated to the latest iOS/iPadOS UI/UX standards meaning auto rotate to support landscape or portrait views. Most iPad Pro users use a Magic Keyboard which docks iPad in Landscape. This is bare minimum and not difficult to update yet it hasn’t been.
The AE-20/30 is a real synth and this app opens up the sound design potential of the device. It should be AU compatible so you can tweak patches and create sounds while in Zenbeats, AUM, Logic Pro, DAW hosts. This will allow you to stay in the flow of creating and recording performances by yourself or with others.
The “Pro” editor app should definitely be available for Mac as a standalone and AU/VST. See above.
Finally the overall app could use some UI love. It seems less made for touch and more like an app better suited for a mouse arrow to access tiny drop downs. People with normal size fingers and larger will have issues navigating the many hidden areas. Speaking of hidden areas—why? It isn’t very intuitive to have so many necessary parameters hidden underneath secretive long presses on tiny UI elements.
I would love to elaborate further and provide design mockups and more feedback if updating and improving this app is a priority as I am a designer/developer. Just respond to this comment and ill go thru normal support channels.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for the thoughtful review, your feedback is very much appreciated and I'll make a note of it for you and pass it along. If you need assistance please reach out to us through our customer support portal we would be happy to assist you further.
https://www.roland.com/backstage/support
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Information
- Seller
- Roland Corporation
- Size
- 33.9 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2020 Roland Corporation. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free