- Price$29.99
- CategoryMusic
- Versions3 archived
- Installable3 of 3
- AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
- Seller4Pockets.com
- Bundle IDcom.4pockets.aurorahd
RequirementsCompatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Future Music Aurora sound Studio HD is the best music making app to come out so far by a long shot.
Audiobusters.com One of the greatest musical apps on iPad"
Whether you are an experienced musician or don’t have a musical bone in your body, you can make great music on your iPad
Aurora is our pattern based musical sequencing software. By simply choosing a musical scale every note you play is in perfect tune, leaving you to make your own great sounding music.
If you are a more accomplished musician you simply switch Aurora to advanced mode and you get full control over the built in instruments and effects, as well as many advanced modes such as the Atomizer and XY Mode which allows you to manipulate sound in real-time. You can create your own instrument from recordings made using the built in microphone. Just think, a full drum kit of you beatboxing into the microphone!
Aurora allows a mixture of pattern based recording and live performance. You can piece together complete compositions or simply improvise a performance. All of which can be captured to a file, for use as a ringtones, or to share with others.
An integrated mixer, combined with the ability to add audio effects and layer automation means that you achieve a sophisticated sound in a fun and user friendly way.
The online Aurora Song Library allows Aurora users to share their tracks with the rest of the Aurora Community. Browse the library to download the latest tracks, or search the library to see what your favorite Aurora Artist has published. The Aurora Song Library can be found at http://aurora.4pockets.com/
The program includes a comprehensive help facility and video tutorials are available on YouTube.
Features Include
14 Instrument tracks 12 Notes polyphony per track 4 Independent Engines - Drum Machine, Analog Synth, Pad Synth and Sampler 32 Patterns per song Chain up to 199 Patterns in Song mode 3 Effect sends per track. 9 Effects including – Delay, Reverb, Chorus etc Allows creation of custom instrument patches. Layer Automation XY Mode Splice and Dice Audio with Atomizer Mode Inbuilt Sample Recording Export Songs as WAV and AAC
Aurora for the iPad expands on the iPhone version making use of the extra screen size to offer additional functionality such:
Full Screen Mixer New Effects Rack View Ability to Solo and Mute Individual Layers New Layer Mix Palette Synth Engine Features Combined into Single Screen File Sharing via FTP Use Accelerometer to Control XY Mode Upload and Share Songs on the Online Song Library MIDI Export
A PDF version of the user manual is available at www.4pockets.com/support/manuals.php
Reviews: AppTilt.com For anyone remotely interested in what the iPad and iPhone can do for music creation, Aurora’s probably the best thing you can buy.
MusicTech Magazine A powerful and flexible composition tool that’s even plausible as a small-scale production suite.
Review from Australia I can't begin to tell you how much I love this program... I have to stop myself using it in bed because it just keeps me up all night.
I have bought almost all the iPad music apps I could find and Aurora is by far the most innovative and the best! On top of that, no other I have found lets me get right into the sounds like Aurora.
Music Radar A truly inspiring production environment. If you're an iPad owner in the market for a portable production tool, you definitely won't want to pass this one up.
DJ_Simples - 5 Stars Simply awesome, I thought the iPhone version was great, but this is in another league.
If you have any questions or issues you can use our online support form and we will get back to you. http://www.4pockets.com/support/
Ratings Over Time
| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 19, 2010 | — | — | 6 | $39.99 |
| January 9, 2011 | 1.3 | — | 108 | $39.99 |
| March 23, 2012 | — | — | 121 | $39.99 |
| July 20, 2013 | — | — | 131 | $39.99 |
| December 10, 2016 | 1.61 | — | 139 | $29.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25Difficult to use and it crashes, don't waist your $$$
App upgrade doesn't seem to work on ipad 1.
The app is great. The stock patches and sounds are kinda cheesy and...thin. Which is sad cuz otherwise it'd be a five star for sure.
Bought the app not knowing I couldn't download to my MacBook Pro and Im really disappointed.
Awesome interface, great sound. Lots of fun. I made some sick tracks immediately. I was skeptical about the price but it was worth it. My only request.. More preset samples please. I really love the moog bass. I'd like to have more to choose from since over half the included sounds aren't anything I would use.
But I wish: it was compatible with iPad Pro, and the multi-stem feed to Meteor wasn’t broken
This is a nice step sequencer with a lot of nice features. Would like to see Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer support and the ability to record linear audio tracks in the sequence. Would also like to see USB audio support using the camera connection kit and audio interfaces like the Griffin iMic, etc. As step sequencers go this is a good one. Great value for the money. Looking forward to future updates.
This is a good app--if it were half the price. For the price though they REALLY need more videos or info on using the app. They do have one video but it blips over key parts of the process. These people seriously need to make some more tutorial videos because several key parts of the app are very unintuitive.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.