There are hundreds of great iOS synth apps, but playing them with on-screen keyboards can be a challenge. Sidecar turns your ordinary QWERTY keyboard into a powerful MIDI controller.  The lower part of the keyboard is mapped piano-style, letting you play melodies with the physical keys -- much easier to keep your fingers in the right place, and to get the notes you want. The app is configurable... - More info on Sidecar MIDI Control...

Many musicians use simple tuner apps on their phones to tune their instruments -- they're convenient, accurate, but often slow to detect the correct pitch. MIDImorphosis uses an advanced Fast Fourier Transform, coupled with noise filtering and harmonic sequence analysis, to detect the pitch of any note quickly and accurately. The fast pitch detection allows the app to generate MIDI notes to cont... - More info on MIDImorphosis 2 Tune...

The sound that you hear is made up of vibrations at different frequencies. Two instruments, such as a guitar or a trumpet, might play the same note -- what makes them sound different are the harmonic frequencies that combine to make the overall tone. Spectral Eye will reveal these frequencies, so you can see what your sounds are made from. Using a Fast Fourier transform, incoming sound is split... - More info on Spectral Eye...

MIDI has been used to control synthesizers and sequencers for years. It's easy to use, and there are hundreds of inexpensive controllers. With MIDI Camera, Secret Base Design brings MIDI to iOS photography. Use a MIDI controller, foot pedal, or an app, to take photographs or record video. MIDI signals can be sent wirelessly, using either WiFi or Bluetooth, or using adapters with a camera conne... - More info on MIDI Camera...

FCBFF is your Foot Controller's Best Friend Forever! The FCB1010 from Behringer is a popular MIDI foot controller, but it can be difficult to program. FCBFF makes programming quick and easy; you can test out a configuration using the built-in emulation from the app, and then download the configuration to the FCB1010 using a MIDI connection. Instructions for uploading and downloading to the FCB1... - More info on FCBFF...

To celebrate the release of Infinite Looper and Aleph Looper, we're making this app free! If you're a musician (or know one), Infinite Looper is worth checking out. There's more info here: http://www.secretbasedesign.com/apps/infinite-looper.html for more info! And if you're not a musician, and just want an amusing app (that fell out of a running joke with the app development team), have fun wi... - More info on Z Snap...

Musicians have used audio samplers for decades, triggering drum sounds, pianos, and hundreds of other instruments using MIDI keyboards and sequencers. SmashCut brings the same sort of functionality to video content. Load in any video from your camera roll, easily set cue points in the video, and you're ready to play with video in a new way. The app responds to MIDI note messages to seek to cue ... - More info on SmashCut Visual Synt...

We're going to be focusing on development for Aleph Looper and Infinite Looper, and have decided to make this app free. Enjoy! -- Apollo Sound Injector makes it easy to stream audio from one iOS device to another. Use the app Sidecar with the device that is sending audio, and Sound Injector on the device that needs to receive the audio -- we have two separate apps so that it's easy to know which... - More info on Apollo Sound Injecto...