Nearly perfect…
Awesome app but for me it lacks a few key features in today’s iOS music production ecosystem.. add AUV implementation and assignable midi controls and it’s an easy 5 stars.
Groovebox - Beat Synth Studio
Make Music & Play Instruments
Published by: Focusrite Audio Engineering
Description
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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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
In-Apps
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- £0.00
- Trap Bass
- £0.00
- 80s Electro
- £0.99
- Neuro Leads
- £0.99
- Drum Booster
- £1.99
- Hip Hop Orbit
- £0.00
- Hypnotic Bass
- £0.00
- Ambient Hip Hop
- £0.00
- Golden Era Bass
- £0.99
- Sequential Arps
- £0.00
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User Rating
4.71 out of 5
882 ratings in United Kingdom
5 star
712
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112
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37
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Ratings History
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Midi please
I love this app and the synths are so awesome. It would be just amazing to be able to play them as midi instruments.
BURDENED WITH GLORIOUS PURPOSE
Some can disagree and others may not but this subscriber - this audio parishioner per se - has found sweet solace in this application under many a blue moon. The format this application works to has informed, inspired, influenced, and entertained nearly every facet of their development and still now sweet slices of papyri are gleaned like pixelated scraps of jazz max in their head. A five star review every time but this one with a bittersweet add-on (that will not negate a star), perhaps as a consequence of a post-Covid landscape, the makers of this app no longer upload new sample packs which is, frankly, saddening. Not abandoned but neglected. Temporarily? How long is a piece of string? Still, life loves a challenge and so does the body electric! #sisunovationsisu
buy ableton note.its much better
lost patience with this and have now deleted as the devs just use it as a cash cow to sell packs and wouldn’t add any of the suggestions ppl made to make it a better app.ableton note give you far more without constantly trying to get you to buy another pack that gets slipped in by way of bug fixes.
Pro Pack not included access to all instruments
If you buy Pro Pack do not expect to have access to all instruments . Horizon doesn’t have a minimal pack included where you can have access to all knobs to make your own presets. You realise after you pay that you need pay again for basic control and i think this is a disingenuous practice.
Easy, educational, electric sounds
The variety of sounds that you have access to you can make endless amounts of captivating tracks of music.
Loses stars for lack of panning
This app is great but it really needs panning to be added
Good but come on.
I understand it’s all about money but there is obviously consequences. You can’t add your own samples - while this is the case, it just doesn’t make the cut.
very inspirational music tool.
Efficient UI design and great DLC content combine to make this a very nice music creation tool. I am starting to use this and the other ampify music apps in my creative process.
MIDI channels please…
Awesome app, easy to use and sounds great. Would like to be able to assign each synth/drum machine to its own MIDI channel though.
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Keywords
groovebox
groovemixer
auxy
make beats
phonk maker
drill beat maker
sequencer
make your own song
novation
beat synth studio
Groovebox Competitors
| Name | Reviews | Recent release | |
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LK - for Ableton Live & Midi
Clip Launcher & MIDI Sequencer
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25
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1 month ago | |
Auxy Studio
Music & Beat Maker
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33
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6 months ago | |
KORG Module
Professional Piano & Keyboard
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13
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2 days ago | |
KORG Gadget 2 Le
Make music
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15
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2 years ago | |
U Beats: Beat Pad. Music Maker
Rap & Beatmaker. Sound effects
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24
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2 years ago | |
Koala Sampler
The ultimate pocket sampler
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79
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2 months ago | |
Roland Zenbeats
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24
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1 week ago | |
Cubasis LE 3
Mobile Music Creation System
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21
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3 months ago | |
Loopy Pro: Looper DAW Sampler
Loop beatbox, AUv3 and singing
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84
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4 months ago | |
EGDR808 Drum Machine lite
Vintage Drum Machine emulation
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30
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3 years ago |
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App Info
- Category
- Music
- Publisher
- Focusrite Audio Engineering
- Languages
- English
- Recent version
- 2.10.5 (5 months ago )
- Released on
- Jun 13, 2017 (7 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, France, China, Canada, Australia, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Ukraine, Netherlands, Brazil, India, Poland, Turkey, Switzerland, Chile, Belgium, Sweden, South Korea, Thailand, Argentina, Czechia, Hungary, Portugal, Vietnam, Indonesia, Austria, South Africa, Taiwan, Colombia, Greece, New Zealand, Norway, Malaysia, Philippines, Romania, Denmark, Ireland, Finland, Israel, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Ecuador, Peru, Belarus, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Dominican Republic, Nigeria, Lebanon, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Kuwait
- Last updated
- 1 week ago