United StatesSoundBow is a drawing based music instrument with a clean and simple visual interface. You can create music by drawing curves over the screen with lines and gestural movements. Apart from drawing, you can rescale your instrument by moving graphical elements around. Record your own sounds through the microphone and start creating melodies, soundscapes with your own voice. If you wish, you can also export your composition as an audio file. "Touch-based mobile devices allowed interactive, gesture-based music production to hit the masses. So far, this type of musical creation hasn't exactly taken the world by storm. But SoundBow, a drawing-based musical instrument app, should shake things up a little bit with its clean, minimal visual interface and mesmerizing potential for complex, loop-based music production." - The Creators Project "Binaura bring their beautiful SoundBow app to iOS at last. It is a gorgeous instrument with huge possibilities for expression and creativity. I think that in many ways these are the kinds of apps that iOS was made for." - Palm Sounds SoundBow is made with free and open source tools. The interface is built with OpenFrameworks. The sound engine is made with SodaLib, a free Data Sonification Library built on top of libPd (Pure Data).
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I got this beauty on launch and it still thrills me
United StatesBeautiful
Amazing. Please try to add more lines to make it possible to sound like Steve reich and little more dynamic feedback would be nice
United StatesA cute toy instrument, but...
It isn’t much of a useful musical tool, since it lacks: loading a sample from an audio file, not just recording the microphone MIDI file export rather than only audio renders (or even better, routing midi to another app) save/recall
United StatesAmazing sounds!
From something so simple. One complaint though. Why does the big light gray disk appear when you touch close to one end of a string 1) preventing playing closer to the end of the string and 2) It’s wasting time, and is frustrating, to have to keep putting the string end back to where it was. I’ve already gotten my monies worth with the sounds I’ve milked out of the app. Good idea nicely done! Needs to support landscape mode. In the YouTube video, where are those other screens with verbiage and dynamic graphics? Needs to save your drawings. Should also play in the background.
United StatesYes!!!
Audio Copy capability is a great addition to this already wonderful app. Looks beautiful. Sounds beautiful. Kudos to the devs!
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favorite music art app in a long time. makes me feel as though i'm in a cave painting the walls. great!
United StatesEasy interestingness
That's what this app excels at. If you want a beat machine, look elsewhere. If you want a tool to help generate melodies and rhythms you might not play on your own, you're in luck!
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- Easily save and access your compositions from Apple's Files App right on your iPad or iPhone - Adaptive, high resolution sampling rate for recent devices - Updated to latest iOS design guidelines
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