RD4 Groovebox

Turn your phone or tablet into a musical instrument! RD4 - Groovebox is a music making app with virtual analog synthesizers, drum machines and effects.

Compose and arrange your music in real-time. Choose devices individually for the 4 channels. Record reside or set notes with the dedicated sequencer or piano roll of each instrument.

This isn't any desktop app crammed onto a touchscreen. It appears the interface has been designed around your fingertips. Peter Kirn from CDM (createdigitalmusic.com)

This multi-touch enabled app makes it simple to invent distinctive loops and musical phrases. Manipulate the sound of the synthesizers by tweaking the oscillators, resonant filters and audio envelopes. Add audio results like reverb, distortion, phaser, filter and delay to your sounds.

Appropriate each for experienced musicians and newbies.

Loops you've got created and exported with RD4 can be automatically built-in into mikrosonic's audio mixer app SPC - Music Sketchpad.

Feature Overview

Mixer:

- 4 channel rack mixer

- Instrument selection for each channel

- Volume control with level meter per channel

- Direct audio impact channel assignment

- Tempo management with faucet tempo

- Channel mute and solo

Sequencer:

- 2 banks with up two 8 bars per instrument

- Adjustable play modes from 1 to eight bars and random modes

- Song Mode with a size of up to 99 bars

Choose between two virtual analog synthesizers and the drum machine for each channel:

Analog

- Modeled after legendary monophonic synths of the '70s

- For fats sounding bass and highly effective lead sounds

- 3 oscillators with 6 completely different waveforms

- Each oscillator can be tuned precisely and has a heat control for the typical analog sound

- Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release envelope generator

- Pitch wheel

- Low-pass filter (24dB/oct, 4-pole) with knobs for cutoff, resonance and an ADSR envelope generator

- Recording of performed notes in real-time (depending on devices capabilities)

- Piano roll for modifying recorded notes comfortably

- Or compose by drawing notes instantly with the piano roll in 1/16 or 1/32 resolution

- Piano roll editing features: Transpose Pattern, Shift Sequence and Quantize Pattern

Bassline

- Reminiscent of the legendary 303 synthesizer

- Create effervescent basslines and screaming lead sounds

- Successor of the well-known synthesizer Rubberduck from d-lusion

- High-quality low-pass filter with resonance, cut-off, and envelope controls

- Oscillator with 4 forms of waveforms

- Real-time step sequencer with accent and slide

Beats

- Program beats with 10 classic drum kits: 808, 909, 606, CR-78, Linn, KR55, RX11, RZ1, DMX, DPM48

- Booming kick drums, snappy snares and throbbing percussions

- 8 channels per drum kit

- Punch control for volume and envelope adjustments

- Accent programmable for every drum channel

- Free assignable results for every drum sound

- Channel mute, Closed Hi Hat can mute the Open Hi Hat

- Real-time sample based step sequencer

Audio results:

- 5 effects: Reverb, distortion, filter, phaser and delay

- Real-time controllable

- X/Y control area for every effect

- 4 effect sends

- Chaining of 2 effects

Technical features:

- Customized layouts for telephones, 7 and 10-inch tablets

- Special extra rack view in portrait mode for 10-inch tablets

- Support for the Novation Launchkey Mini keyboard/controller

- USB MIDI assist, connects exterior MIDI keyboards and controllers

- External MIDI clock sync support

- Automatic MIDI enter focus when switching Instruments

- Multi-touch control

- Live session recording

- Audio loop export feature

- SoundCloud Sharing Kit integration

- OpenSL help for low latency*

* Please notice that for recording in real-time with the Analog synthesizer you'll need a low latency Android device with no less than Android 4.2. Read extra about audio latency on our FAQ: http://www.mikrosonic.com/faq

More details at: http://www.mikrosonic.com/rd4