Review: iElectribe offers synthy goodness for the iPad

Ready to drop some block rockin' beats? Look no further than iElectribe for the iPad. Although using its hardware counterpart might feel more rewarding, iElectribe is a pretty great (and affordable) alternative when you're in need of a rhythm synthesizer.

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[dobrien75]

Looks okay, except the stupid vacuum tubes. I suppose they "add analog phatness" to the sound? *sigh*

Just being near pictures of valves will add phatness. Duh!

 

[dobrien75]

old school beats?

Well strictly speaking tribal beats have been around a lot longer than rock. Old school beats is late 80s, early 90s I reckon

 

[dobrien75]

I am actually interested in the iPad for this kind of thing. Primarily as a control surface though. I wonder if Native Instruments will release something for the iPad?

 

[dobrien75]

wonder if a teen would say the same thing.

Who cares what young people think?

GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!

 

[dobrien75]

But what amazes me, is how many different sounds people are squeezing out of this thing.

That's subtractive synthesis for you. Once you get your head around the standard signal flow, it's amazing what you can come up with, then add FX to really get things happening.

 

[dobrien75]

However, we'll have to see about NI -- their apps are huge processor hogs since the early days.

True enough. Power costs. That being said, I wouldn't give up Komplete 6 with a gun to my head

 

[dobrien75]

There's a lot of music creation goodies that I would pick up if I had an iPad

List please. As usual I need to find new gear and learn to use it, instead of writing songs with the amazing stuff I already have

 

[dobrien75]

thanks for this - I just got my iPad today and wanted a real demo of what this thing is good for and this was perfect. I'm surprised at how good this sounds - crunchy and deep. Making some good poor-man's Toecutter tracks:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990437/beigecutter.mp3

Trippy All you needed was to build into a banging kick track and you would have a bunch of hippies running around by crazy people! (crazier than normal anyway )