Retronyms has introduced three new devices for Tabletop, its virtual studio for iPad.
Here are the details:
- Deadbeat: Beat Dropper, Sound Mangler – An expressive surface that uses the accelerometer to stutter and filter the beat. $3.99
- Boomroom – The Boomroom is a high quality reverb with ‘mind-blowing visuals’. ‘Pinch to boom’ and create massive, cavernous sounds. $8.99
- Cueboard: Beat Juggler – Resample, chop, and juggle your session. $2.99
Tabletop is a free download in the App Store. Devices are available as in-app purchases.
Dont want this
Do want AUDIOBUS on iMpc.
Listen to your customers!
You don’t seem to realise that you are not their customers… I mean, you are complaining about an iMPC feature you would like in a Tabletop article, why not ask Akai about this?
HEY LOOK, YOU CAN PRETEND YOU ARE A MUSICIAN BY TAPPING A SCREEN. HOW LAZY IS THIS WORLD GETTING?
AGAIN, GIVE ME A THUMBS DOWN IF YOU AGREE.
shouldn’t you be over here? I think they miss you. As I’m sure very few people who are looking at this page will not.
Everyone knows you are a real musician when you have the ability to call out fake musicians on a synthesizer blog. Good job!
There are some total knobheads on this forum but you are truly king of them all.
You DO realize that this is a music-technology related blog, right?
If you can’t stand devices that simplify music creation, then I don’t see the point in reading articles here…
You really should stay in the real world and play real music with real people using real instruments…
if you’re real, that is! 😉
HAVE YOUR ‘REAL INSTRUMENTS’ KILLED YOUR HEARING? WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING THEN?
He couldn’t just call the “Boom” parameter a reverb? And as pretty as it is, why is my reverb unit wasting precious power on arbitrary visualizers?
Everything else looks pretty slick. I like you guys more and more… IAPs do kinda hurt when they pile up like this. I’d really like to see multiple tables before downloading any more instruments.
and audiobus. <—-obligatory mention
Not that impressive, just reverb and a beat sampler and a glitch toy. The price shocked me… No way.
On one hand I really loathe Retronyms’ nickel-and-diming purchase model, which is why I never use Tabletop.
On the other hand, these devices are a lot cheaper than Rack Extensions for Reason, and there’s no dongle requirement.
On the third hand, I have lots of other iOS apps that sound great, don’t annoy me, and support MIDI/ACP/AudioBus, so I don’t feel like I’m missing out on much.
On the fourth hand, you have three hands and should be playing Vegas.
I don’t mind a IAP here and there. The way I see it, once iConnectMIDI4+ is here, I’ll be able to stream some wild sh*t from TT over to Ableton, Renoise, Maschine sampler, etc via audio pass-through, making the value of this and the rest of my app purchases increase. Plus, those purchases help the devs keep moving forward.
Besides, I usually grab these devices while on sale.
> Besides, I usually grab these devices while on sale.
When do you typically go on sale?
I was about to make another exasperated comment about semi-musicians who just stitch clips together, but I then thought, “That’s what I do in Logic all the time.” I play 90% of it by hand because I started with piano, but the process of musical judgement and assembly is generally the same. I saw a guy BURNING on an MPC in real-time a while back. That’s what I’d like to see just a little more often. Even when I’ve played live over my more complex sequences, I made sure to do a couple of meaty things in real-time with no net, so it was clear fakery wasn’t part of the deal. It lends you a lot of cred that makes your exotic synth tricks and serious drumbox madness feel more… okay, somehow. Work on showing at least a bit of live chops. I think it makes anyone’s results feel more complete. Duz that make sense without sounding all pissy? Hope so!
dat BOOM.ROOM thing actually sounds pretty amazing together with iMini , TABLETOP for sure kicks ass .. even without audiobus .. : )