Lofi sounding apps?

JoshuaRex

Pretty impressed with AUFX:Dub and was curious if anyone had any other favorites for creating lo-fi effects for hip-hop, vaporwave, etc.?

oat_phipps

Lofionic Duplicat by Chris Rivers
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lofionic-duplicat/id1128402103?mt=8

Lofionic Mani Analogue Chorus Effect by Chris Rivers
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lofionic-mani-analogue-chorus-effect/id1198341561?mt=8

It even says lofionic in the title

Shaper : smart audio destroyer by K-Devices
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shaper-smart-audio-destroyer/id1151339601?mt=8

Master Record - Tape simulation recorder & effects by iMusicAlbum
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/master-record-tape-simulation-recorder-effects/id662532945?mt=8

Those oughta hold you for a while

RUST( i )K

KMachine
Glitch Breaks
Spectrum Gen(gem?)
ALL APESOFT apps
Sector
ALL IGORS apps.(SScraper SoundScrap FLDscrp)
CS Spectral

ANY APP REALLY CAN WORK WITH RIGHT EFFECTS

ALSO MANY GOOD SAMPLES OUT THERE LIKE THE LOFI PACK and 2 other ones on the Audiocopy store.

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DM2

LucidMusicInc

Samplr
BM3 & BM2
Korg Gadget
Caustic
IMPC Pro or Machine, if simple lofi sounds are the goal, both have their sample stores

Hex047

-Samplr
-Caustic
-Sector?
-humbletune apps

Will

Beat Machine has a fantastic bit reducer.

ExAsperis99

Moon Beam Synth Sampler is fantastic and lo-fi. I love it. I just can't quite figure out how to make it play with other apps.

CracklePot

One of my favorites tricks is recording the output from the iPad speaker with my field recorder. Sometimes I run the headphone out of the iPad into one of those mini Marshall stacks that run on 9-volt battery and clip to your belt, then record that. Basically I'm looking for crap speakers to do the "dirty" work.

AnimalHeadSpirit

Sugar Bytes Cyclop

Will

-humbletune apps

Very yes. Find them here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/erik-sigth/id385275335

Also, Holderness' Caramel is quite nice.

ToMess

Mellotron is really nice for lofi sampled instrument sounds, sounds especially dope on boom bap type of stuff. I use this one: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/50th-anniversary-edition-mellotronics-m3000/id375100093?mt=8

There is also a free version with less sounds and more sounds can be purchased and an ultimate edition with all sounds.

I havent tested other mellotron apps, but there are a few.

If you dont know what mellotron is, you should definitely google

RedSkyLullaby

Moon Beam

LucidMusicInc

werkbench?

senhorlampada

AUFX: Dub and Master Record are always on the master insert effects on Cubasis for me

All the recommendations here so far are on spot too.

I really need to try it more (maybe buy the iAP), but would add Waverails to the set

kobamoto

all of Igor Vasilevs apps!!!

brice

+1000 for Moon Beam

Also, ToneStack. With some clever effects chains in there you can essentially turn anything you run through it into a lo-fi app.

Littlewoodg

Moon Beam is a cool one, no doubt. Phawuo is another one. EHX Mini Synth might be worth a look as well.

Processaurus

If you have AnalogKit, I shared an FM radio distortion effect you can run external sound through. Rather than chop the tops and bottoms of the waves, like conventional distortion, it will skip cycles of the audio, randomly. There's a slider to "tune" in and out, and tip the probability the cycle will be skipped. Some other widgets in there for introducing filtered noises.

One lofi technique, I've been trying lately, is enjoying the sound of white noise, or filtered noise, into distortion. The clipping of distortion turns the noise into a random, off/on kind of impulse, more crackley, rather than ssssss. Distorting a synth, while adding in some of its noise with the oscillators, can have some nice, organic chaos to the sound, that sounds different from just adding noise to a synth patch.

CracklePot

@Processaurus said:
If you have AnalogKit, I shared an FM radio distortion effect you can run external sound through. Rather than chop the tops and bottoms of the waves, like conventional distortion, it will skip cycles of the audio, randomly. There's a slider to "tune" in and out, and tip the probability the cycle will be skipped. Some other widgets in there for introducing filtered noises.

One lofi technique, I've been trying lately, is enjoying the sound of white noise, or filtered noise, into distortion. The clipping of distortion turns the noise into a random, off/on kind of impulse, more crackley, rather than ssssss. Distorting a synth, while adding in some of its noise with the oscillators, can have some nice, organic chaos to the sound, that sounds different from just adding noise to a synth patch.

Cool tip. Gonna try that later.

Looping_Loddar

• DFX - instant lo-fi
• Caustic
• use your samples with Borderlands Granular or Sylo Synth (free)
• BitWiz as audiobus FX
• rrarrow (the secret weapon for lo-fi-ising everything - here you can even build your own modular lo-fi circuits)

Processaurus

bent.fm is the bee's knees for tortured, busted keyboard/fax machine type sounds.

RJB

I think we have a winner, iOptigan!
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/22177/new-app-ioptigan#latest

JoshuaRex

Having trouble finding the IGORS apps?

Proppa

frekvens = lo-fi excellence.

frekvens by Erik Sigth
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/frekvens/id1062305416?mt=8

kobamoto

@JoshuaRex said:
Having trouble finding the IGORS apps?

http://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com/2015/10/fieldscaper-sound-warp-field-recorder.html

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@brice said:
+1000 for Moon Beam

Also, ToneStack. With some clever effects chains in there you can essentially turn anything you run through it into a lo-fi app.

@Littlewoodg said:
Moon Beam is a cool one, no doubt. Phawuo is another one. EHX Mini Synth might be worth a look as well.

Jerry Brown does music apps?

RUST( i )K

@JoshuaRex said:
Having trouble finding the IGORS apps?

SoundScraper
SynthScraper
FieldScraper
Several other tool / fx apps