Groovebox - Beat Synth Studio

Groovebox - Beat Synth Studio

By Focusrite Audio Engineering

  • Category: Music
  • Release Date: 2017-06-13
  • Current Version: 2.10.5
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 44.05 MB
  • Developer: Focusrite Audio Engineering
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Score: 4.73894
4.73894
From 4,681 Ratings

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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Reviews

  • Falling into a state of disrepair but still good

    3
    By 123gfpo
    I have been a user of Groovebox for a long time now. The apps has inspired so many amazing projects that I have created. However, there are some serious bugs affecting the general enjoyment of the app. First off, The synthesizer windows bug out, showing black if you scroll to much in any direction. 2 things fix this and it is restarting the app or tilt your phone so your phone or IPad screen will project it right. Another issue is audio cut out. When multiple voices or melodies are played within a single channel, it will mute melodies based on start. This also happens to the drums. When you played the tracks, if the kick is at the very beginning of the grid or track, the first kick never sounds but it sounds normally after that. Another issue is bugs with volume automation. Within the editing grid, there tends to be a bug where when you try to change the volume automation, the notes don’t change color value, like going dark or lighter and the notes don’t lower and raise in volume. A fix is to restart the app or even delete and recreate a track. All of these issues are serious issues to me as a serious music developer and it ruins the quality of your music and makes it annoying to listen to or deal with. I will be filling a bug report status to Focusright in regard to this. If you don’t experience this, disregard my statement, however, if you do, report the bugs to the developers or look for another app. Thanks
  • I love this app

    5
    By Witch_Freakk
    I’ve been using this app for a while, probably a year. I just wish there were more free music choices for us to enjoy.
  • My favorite music app

    5
    By meltingmuffins
    I think this app is underrated. Sure, it's not a full DAW, and if it could integrate with launchpad and blocswave that would be awesome. However for being free unless you choose to purchase packs and upgrades, I think it's an amazing app. I've been using it for years and I'm not a music professional by any means but this app has greatly helped me improve creatively. I love it so much and I hope it stays around forever. I think if they ever stopped supporting this app I would genuinely cry. 100/10.
  • Long time user

    5
    By Troubology massive
    I’m a musician who chose the reggae tip probably forty years ago. Today I use Groovebox to create the best reggae music I’ve ever heard. Being that I’m not the smartest person . I have about three hundred songs that I can’t figure out how to sequence or dump. Every time someone or something happens to my phone it’s all gone. So I have lost about four hundred next level music tracks over the years. Now I have two iPhones and both are quickly getting filled up with Groovebox data. So Groovebox is my therapy but I’m too stupid to know what to do or how to develop the material I have . There’s a lesson here…….
  • Successful beat synchronization

    5
    By Zepher87
    Gave me a huge opportunity to put beats together to create my own music. Very easy to use gives you thousands of different options to piece your music together.
  • Professional

    5
    By Jaymichaelz
    If you want professional sounds, I mean it’s really really good. Very good job guys. Thank you for doing this.
  • Developer notes

    5
    By 144121
    Having a way to record full tracks would be nice and having a or just creating launchpad interface integration would be sweet. Also library for samples instead of shuffling through random. Native to this app would be preferable and transfer sound packs from launchpad and just create this as a full DAW. Effects and live recording.
  • Is this app still being worked on?

    3
    By The Complex AKM
    This app hasn’t seen a meaningful update since 2020, when automation and the Horizon synth were introduced. Not even a new sound pack since around 2022. What happened to this app, Focusrite? You had a good thing going on, and you could’ve made it integrate nicely with your hardware.
  • Sad. So much potential. Years later, no improvement.

    2
    By bwQuestion
    It’s like they almost finished each thing but just didn’t quite make it to the end. No way to get your midi tracks out of here. Bundle out is not to anything on the iPad. Row transitions are not synced so you can’t prestage any changes. No way to export a song. Not sure why such critical things are missing after all this time.
  • Lov it!!! But…

    3
    By Zachariah1994
    I’ve love this app one complaint is when I had to get a new iPhone or iPad my completed songs didn’t survive the date transfer 😞😞😞

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