It also promises to play nice with other iOS music apps via either Audiobus or Inter‑App Audio. Interestingly, Groovebox also let you export projects to Ableton Live as well as bounce down individual tracks or complete mixes. If you’re running a little low on inspiration, Groovebox has hundred of patterns and sounds to get your creative juices flowing again. There’s also a built-in iPad mixer for balancing your tracks.
The synths have an impressive lineage, too both having been developed in partnership with the synth experts at Novation.Īdditional instruments, soundpacks and the ability to drill down into deeper instrument parameters, will be available via in‑app purchase, and up to eight instruments can be run simultaneously.ĭesigned with immediacy and ease‑of‑use in mind, Groovebox will allow users to play instruments directly (with an optional SmartKey function to adhere to a set scale), draw in notes on a pattern sequencer or load existing patterns. Groovebox, which is described as a mobile music studio, comes with three built‑in instruments - the Drumbox beat creator, Retrobass analogue‑style bass synth and Poly‑8, an eight‑voice polyphonic synthesizer. Building on the success of the Launchpad iOS app, which has reached a staggering seven million downloads, Novation have released a new free music creation app designed by AMPIFY, their in‑house iOS development team also responsible for Blocs.