You get eight drum tracks and a drop-down menu on each track lets you swiftly build your kit of choice. The approach takes a little adjusting to but once you ‘get it’ you can drop in notes, build chords and change expressive parameters with ease.Įlectribe Wave’s drum sounds were close to what I’d expect in a third party producer’s sample pack. Thankfully, Korg makes it very intuitive. I expected MIDI editing on a seven-inch iPad screen to be a nightmare. It doesn’t take long to generate complex and lush synth tones.

Hit Chord mode, engage the arpeggiator, spin an LFO, throw on some reverb, and you’re off. Getting started is a doddle with scale choices reflected in the keyboard layout. The two LFOs come in a variety of shapes, can be tied to a number of parameters and easily locked to the song tempo. For example, there’s only one envelope generator and it affects both the filter and amp. While there are plenty of ways to tweak a sound, synth connoisseurs may be disappointed. Synth selections are split up into a PCM or Wavetable menu. With Synth and Drum instrument divisions within the Sound tab that flip the layout between keys or drum pads. The layout is divided into five tabs - Mixer, Sound, Sequence, Motion and Utility. With 16 tracks on offer, it can create polished tunes that sound way more expensive than the app’s price. At just over $30, Korg’s Electribe Wave iOS app isn’t far short of a fully-fledged beat production tool. IPad apps are incredible value for money.

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