If you love making electronic music, you’ll love Groovebox. Enter an inspiring world of music production on your iPhone & iPad.
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. Four 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. Automate the parameters over time to create a vibrant dynamics. Control your sound with the multi-channel mixer (iPad only), note sequencer, key and scale modes. Build your arrangements into songs with sections. Export your sounds easily to a laptop for further production. 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
• Five powerful instruments - Drumbox, Horizon, MiniMon, RetroBass and Poly-8
• Build beats - Play drum pads or keys, sequence notes or use patterns
• Arrange your tracks - Simple song-building using sections
• Create dynamic changes - Record synth parameters as automation
• Sound innovation - Instruments 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
• 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
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4.88 out of 5
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Very promising
I used this app for the last months and I have to say that it sounds great. The workflow is very good and the UI is very clean.
I hope it will get some updates in the future for production. For example export of the final mix as a whole song (playing each section after the other) is very important.
Currently we can export each section separately but it looses its flow. If you export all parts and then try to combine them one by one on another daw, it will not result in the same. Even if you try to record your whole piece by doing it live and recording you will still have great chance to loose a beat. Maybe they could add sync start on each section so when you click on the next section, it will start only when the previous ones ends.
Also we would really want to see a new module. Maybe a module with cleaner less muddy sound, for those who want to create something less groovy and clean.
Also a new module dedicated for ambient music would be great (granular/sample based nature sounds).
And finally a new module with more accoustic less electronic instruments.
These are good ideas for future updates and we all know that most of us will buy them ;)
Beautiful
What all the other reviewers said + There is some serious analog modeling behind this app and I love it! But... the fact that there is no polyphony option on the Minimon (wavetable synth) feels kinda... sad. I would love to see a mono/poly option and also better midi capability (like pitch bend and midi learn).
Excelence
One of the best sounding synth engines for iOS , simply excellent sound quality in all modules !
Fresh, modern ,inspiring sounds
Great app with great sounds! It lacks of proper Midi In functionality (such as selecting midi controller and midi channel per module , midi learn) but I couldn’t resist on 5 star rating since the basic app is free !
Totally amazing!
It has been a very long time , perhaps since music maker jam that an app impressed me that much! Instand inspiration for the music ear! You can produce amazing stuff just by trial and error and then edit those wonderful pieces into great electronic stuff!
There are some things I would love to get implemented so who knows they might hear me out!
1. Please in export have a ALL sections wav out by playing all patterns in a row.
2. Please add a simple ( advanced welcomed too) EQ per instrument.
3. Please a wave import for drum instrument.
4. Please add NEW instruments for wider sonic spectrum, maybe some like Moogs, Prophet etc replicas with in-app buys of course!
5. Please make your mixer a true mixer and not volume only one by letting audio unit effects plugins possible and where the eq should also exist there!
Thats my humble suggestion to sky rocket this amazing app!
Take care.
Promising creative little app!
Very nice app and sounds!
Would prefer the random pattern button to be be truly random and not some precomposed patterns..Also would be nice to be able to save user presets from synths..
