XPad is a professional sound module app and Audio Unit v3 plugin with focus on modern pad sounds for iPad. Goal was to get the warm and vibrant sound of analogue synths onto the convenient platform of an iPad and combining those sounds with the benefits of state of the art digital features while still preserving that analogue tone and feeling. Glissando XPad introduces a new way that we were developing for our apps to achieve realistic large interval Glissando. You can glide a tone continuously e.g. from the lowest octave up to the highest octave and vice versa, in any desirable speed and without causing an artificial impression to the listener. We were also thinking about how to improve the usability aspects for playing Glissando in a much more intuitive & convenient way for a keyboard player, while still preserving the player's full control. Foremost this app allows you to mix Glissando with regular polyphonic notes (e.g. chords) simultaneously or switch between these playing styles quickly at any time without leaving your hands off the keyboard. For instance you might be playing and holding a chord with your right hand while playing a Glissando slide with your left hand and punching through the right hand's chord from an octave lower than the chord, up to some octave higher than the chord. Tone Width Replicating some analogue boutique pad synthesizers is nice, but what about having a huge stack of them? That's where "Tone Width" control comes into play. Especially the important pad sounds of this app allow you to morph the sound with the "Tone Width" knob in real-time steplessly between a very thin and clean sound up to a huge and fat tonal sound as if an army of pad synths was working under your finger tips. Sensible Control Controls for the individual sound aspects is good. But it should be in a sensible way. Nothing is hard wired here. Every sound of this app presents controls that make sense for the individual sound. All controls presented are always fine tuned to the individual elements of that sound. You can alter all controls remotely by MIDI e.g. with sliders at your keyboard. The most important controls for each sound are mapped to things that you are most likely using anyway at your keyboard. For instance all sounds use the Aftertouch information of your keyboard to bring more dynamic behaviour into the sound even while just holding some notes. And just grab your modulation wheel at your keyboard to bring in some more variance. Never Lost XPad offers up to 462 sounds, but don't worry, it never lets you down and always assists you finding just the sound you need in a glimpse. You can quickly search for sounds with any combination of several criteria like sound characteristics, articulations, controls and more. Connectivity Like all our apps, XPad is very easy to use and start with. Just connect your keyboard with your iPad and you are ready to go. And of course if needed, you can simply tweak the setup, e.g. use a Bluetooth MIDI wireless connection to your keyboard instead of a cabled one, restrict MIDI input to certain devices or apps, connect to other apps with Inter-App Audio or use the sounds of this app as Audio Unit v3 plugin directly in the DAW app of your choice. Recorder The app comes with a built-in MIDI recorder that allows you to quickly record your musical ideas. You can share them as audio files with other people or transfer them as MIDI files for further work e.g. on your Mac. Sound Sets XPad is divided into 14 optional sound sets of different sound categories and provide up to 462 sounds in total. Even though the app is focused on pad sounds, this is not all this app has to offer sound-wise. The "Atmo" pack for instance contains atmospheric sounds for generating very emotional sound bases and backgrounds e.g. for film and entertainment. The "Perc" sound set contains drums and percussive sounds. The "Silicon" sound set covers synthesizers also offside the pad field, and much more.
Nice but wish it ran on iPhone
Most of Christian’s other apps do but this one does not. Would be nice to be able to create on a phone instead of only being able to use a iPad.
Amazing sounds, meh consistency
It sounds great, but when recording I have trouble keeping the audio playing with GarageBand. After I’ve recorded a track too! Hopefully there’s a fix for it!
Bloated IAP fest
app is 1.3gb BEFORE you download any soundbanks. its just a basic rompler powered by in-app purchases. steer clear.
Professional sounds not geared towards kids or budget minded
I absolutely LOVE this app! I have CMP Piano and iSymphonic from this developer (love both of them) so my expectations were high regarding this app and I was not disappointed! So far I only have the Space sound set but it is brilliant sounding! I’m looking forward to the next set I download. Yes, this app takes up quite a bit of room but it’s totally worth it to me. My iPad mini 5 has 256 gig storage so not a problem giving up a few gig for these sound sets. It really gets quite annoying to read people complain about the price of each sound set. There should be a children’s section (or an “entitlement” section) for those reviewers. Just try buying ANYTHING for PC (or Mac) music production and then come back here and complain. For the price of one PC synth you could buy this entire library. Each sound set is like buying a different synth and at 12 bucks it’s still an absolute steal! Kudos to the dev! Another first rate product! Now, time to go back and get lost in a wall of gorgeous sound!
Money money money
I’ll wait for a sale. Yes they are geared for the deep pocket high end user.
Creative Pad Synth
Initially, the sound expansion downloads were very slow and intermittent. With the Developer’s help, got the downloads to work at a reasonable speed. Very responsive and helpful support, which I appreciate. And the expansion sets sound good and are fun to play. Interesting Pad Synth with some thoughtful features.
Downloads are awful for expansion packs
Interesting product… but it is overshadowed by very, very slow download times and difficulty connecting to the expansion pack download server. Very discouraging and strange, that a business dependent on customers purchasing expansion packs, would not take more care and interest in making that part of the process, work well. Would provide a higher rating for this app, except that this aspect of the product, makes the rest of it not really matter.
This update provides a workaround for a misconfiguration on Apple iTunes servers that made all In-App Purchases of this app inaccessible with an error message "Cannot connect to App Store" (FB11711942).
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