iPad Music Software: Retronyms has introduced Tabletop – a new virtual studio that turns an iPad into an expandable modular music environment, where you can mix and match different devices.

More than a dozen devices are available, including samplers, mixers, effects and sequencers. Tabletop lets you patch together the virtual gear to create beats, compose songs or perform live.

Features:

• 15 unique Devices at launch
• 300 sounds (multisample instruments, loops, phrases)
• Record sequences, arrange into songs
• Adjustable quantization (pre- and post-record)
• Recordable parameter automation
• Overdub and replace record modes
• Trigger sequences and patterns live
• Multitouch instruments and devices
• Sampling (internal mic, line in)
• Adjustable tempo
• Import your own sound library, save presets
• Support for imported .mid phrases
• Insert and send/return (master) effects
• Undo history
• 44Khz, studio-quality audio
• Sync 2 iPads running Tabletop or other apps with WIST
• Import sounds from dozens of apps with AudioPaste

Note: Tabletop comes with a basic set of modular devices, which will be expandable via in-app purchases.

Included devices:

• Gridlok: Pad Sampler
• M8RX: Tone Matrix
• RS3: Polyphonic Stereo Keyboard
• Mr. O: Master Output
• Goblin MX8: 8-Channel Mixer
• Spinback: Turntable Player
• Recorder M2: All-Purpose Input Recorder
• Filtr LP: Low-Pass Filter Effect
• T101 – Triggerator: Sequence and Perform

Tabletop is an interesting concept for an iPad app – taking the idea of Propellerhead Reason and re-imagining it for multitouch computers.

Check out the details and demos below and let us know what you think of Retronyms Tabletop!

Tabletop is available now for $4.99.

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