Groovebox - Beat Synth Studio
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Free | Focusrite Audio Engineering Ltd. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Groovebox is a free, beautifully designed music studio app packed with inspiring synths and drum machines. In minutes you’ll be making beats, melodies, and playing with world-class instruments. Expand your own collection with more sounds and instruments available in the store. From the creators of Launchpad, Groovebox helps you produce music on iPhone & iPad.
• A BEATS & SYNTH MUSIC STUDIO
Play with touchable instruments to quickly create your own beats and melodies, or draw in notes. Need inspiration? Groovebox has hundreds of patterns and sounds to get you started. Two powerful synthesisers, designed in partnership with Novation, deliver deep retro basslines and analogue harmonic melodies. The modern drum machine, with expanding drumkit library, will turn Groovebox into your go-to beat production studio.
• SYNTHS DESIGNED WITH NOVATION
Designed in partnership with Novation, legendary synth pioneers, Groovebox packs a world-class sound. Each instrument uses a new powerful synth engine capable of recreating classic warm analogue sounds and rich modern harmonics.
• EASY TO START, DEEP ENOUGH TO MASTER
Groovebox is designed to kick-start ideas, but it has serious features for artists and producers too. The advanced synth parameters* let you sculpt your own sounds. Included iPad mixer, note sequencer, key and scale modes let you control your sound. Build your arrangements with sections. Export your sounds easily to a laptop to produce further. Sync to other apps or a laptop with Ableton Link. Connect using Audiobus, Inter-App Audio and even Export to Ableton Live seamlessly.
FEATURES
• Discover and build ideas - Quickly explore sounds with hundreds of melody and rhythm patterns
• Play touchable instruments - Create your own melodies and beats
• Three powerful instruments - Drumbox, Retrobass and Poly-8
• Build beats - Play drum pads or keys, sequence notes or use patterns
• Arrange your tracks - Simple song-building using sections
• Sound innovation - Synths developed in partnership with synth pioneers Novation
• Expand your sounds - Regular, fresh-content drumpacks, presets and patterns*
• Production-ready sounds - Crafted by world-class sound designers and artists
• Extendable Instruments - Expose more tweakable synth controls
• Sequence your music - Draw notes and build patterns instead of playing them
• Stay in time and key - Choose from any tempo, key or musical scale
• Mix your music - 8-track mixer on iPad. Instrument focus mixer on iPhone.
• Share your music - Easily create a mix of your music to share with others
*Requires In-App Purchase
ADVANCED FEATURES
• Jam with others - Audiobus, Inter-App Audio, Ableton Link and Ableton Export
• Swing - Instantly add swing to your session.
• Ableton Export - Easily send your project to Ableton Live
• Full scale support - All keys and major, minor and modes supported
• Project management - Rename, duplicate and delete
• iPad Pro support - Optimised to use the entire iPad Pro screen
• Send your ideas to a laptop - Batch export your pads as a .zip file, or use Ableton Export
• Bluetooth speaker supported
SUPPORTED DEVICES
Groovebox is compatible with iPad 4th Generation, iPad Air 1/2, iPad Pro 9.7/12.9, iPad Mini 2/3/4, iPod Touch 6th Generation, iPhone X, iPhone 5/5C/5S, iPhone 6/6S, iPhone 6S/6S Plus, iPhone 7/7 Plus, iPhone 8/8 Plus. Supports iOS 10 and iOS 11.
Reviews
Instant favorite (revised review)
Andyz3
Great music making app, this has just jockeyed ahead of Gadget as my go to music making app. Super quick to slap something together. My biggest wish list item (unless I am missing it) is a count in to record and if there was an option to transition from one set to another automatically that would be awesome. Edit - Having said that, I just started to import into launchpad and my transisition issue is resolve.
Awesome app with one big request
ryan1377
I am one of those people who has way too many music apps on my iPad. I have purchased dozens of the most popular DAW, synth, drum machine and fx apps and Groovebox one I constantly come back too. Its simply one of the most enjoyable music apps. The immediacy of building great loops is amazing. The addition of automation on synths took it to another level and the implementation of automation is very intuitive and lets you add great movement to the sounds. The one big request that would put this over the top is to add AUv3 multi-out so you can route each channel to a separate mixer track in AUM to add Individual eq and effects.
More stars to record song in-app
natmanner
This is absolutely better than Auxy except you cannot record your song in Groovebox or bring your sections to any of their apps that do allow for recording like launchpad and blocs wave. I love the mixes I make but it’s so hard to record the actual songs. Please give us that option. I see a record button but it doesn’t save the recordings anywhere. HELP!
5 Stars if MIDI Export is added
MojitoMan14
Very simple, intuitive, and fun DAW. The option to export audio stems is great, but adding MIDI to the stem files would make this a 5 star app. Also a demo for the advanced features would be awesome
Now what?
D@5
This is super easy to use and great but why can’t you export sections or songs directly to Launchpad?
Great idea pad
Zaksion
It’s so easy. Nice usable sounds. Waiting for updates like bouncing tracks in order of groupings. Would save loads of time transferring to my daw. Also liberate the bars for deeper ideas? Maybe integrating audio? Am not complaining guys, no way, if it stays as, it will get used. It’s a great little groove maker. Thumbs up!
my soundpacks are gone...
IanVampire
after re-installing A LOT of sounds such as drum and bass,retro leads, 80’s etc. they were available in my app, and now i’m supposed to pay for things i’ve had before? the app gave me back only 2 soundpacks via purchase restore... it’s really lame i guess it’s time to move forward from this app. thank you for the last few years...
