Free iOS App Today: Thump

Written by Nathan Smith on March 25, 2018. Posted in iOS Apps, Mobile Apps.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id329604850?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Description

Thump is the ultimate pocket groove box for your iPhone and iPad.

The highly intuitive interface allows you to dive in straight away to make music in seconds, then explore the wide array of options and settings to tweak your sound to perfection. Ideal as a musical sketch pad or a live performance tool.

Create huge basslines or warped synth sounds with the two powerful polyphonic synthesizers onboard. Modeled on the classics, these synths offer a wide palette of sounds with its subtractive synthesis engine.

Choose from 9 studio-quality different drumkits, create your own or share and download more. The sample-accurate sequencing engine ensures your beats are as tight as mathematically possible!

Mix up your sound with multi-state filters, echo, distortion and lo-fi effects. Perform your compositions live by switch between different patterns you’ve created and using the onboard mixer.

STEP SEQUENCER
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* 16 step sequencer with sample accurate timing.
* Songs store up to 8 note sequences of up to 4 bars for each instrument.
* Save and load songs so you can play back your creations at any time and refine them.
* Share your songs with friends across the web.

SYNTHESIZERS
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* 2 synthesizers modeled on analog classics.
* 3 voice polyphony for each synthesizer.
* Synthesizers: 2 oscillators per voice, choose from saw, triangle and square.
* Envelopes for both volume and filter.

DRUMS
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* Sample-based drum machine with 9 sounds at 16bit/44kHz.
* 9 Included drumkits: Live Kit, Standard Kit, Techno, TR808, Trippy, Amen Brother, Bleep, Japanese Percussion, Electro, TR909
* Unlimited polyphony and variable speed playback.

MIXER
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* Volume and filters easily accessible from the main mixer page
* Hi, Low and Band-Pass filters for each instrument
* Digital Delay, Lo-Fi bitcrusher and distortion effects for each instrument

Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith is Director of Technology for the College of Education and Human Services at Utah State University. In that role, he also directs The Adele & Dale Young Education Technology Center (The YETC) located in room 170 of the Education Building on Utah State University's Logan campus. The YETC is a combination student openaccess computer facility, a K12 curriculum materials library, a NASA Educator Resource Center for Utah, and a technology training center. Nathan served eight years (20042012) on the Board of Directors for the Utah Coalition for Education Technology (UCET) He was reelected in 2014 to serve another two year term on the board. A former elementary school teacher, Nathan has taught students every age from young children to senior citizens. He has had the opportunity beginning in 2011 to train international high school teachers from all over the world about technology in education, through the U.S. State