Hands-on sound: IRCAM’s ASAP apps transform audio, free on iPad

Reach out and draw and manipulate sounds, directly from the spectrum. IRCAM Forum’s Pierre Guillot lets us know three ASAP apps are now available on iPad, free of charge. It’s what it feels like the iPad was made to do.

Warp plug-in image on a gray grid background with yellow paint splashes. Showing three knobs: Speed, Stretch, and Mix.

Free Baby Audio Warp: Varispeed, pitch effect from Transit 2

Baby Audio has a giveaway of an effect from their collaboration with Andrew Huang, Transit 2. Warp is just that module – Speed, and time-independent pitch (Stretch) – for free.

Peter Kirn - December 13, 2024

Extreme time stretching, spectral shaping: Sloom and instant ambient

You’ve heard time stretching. You’ve heard extreme time stretching. Sloom, a new plug-in and standalone app, is extreme-extreme-extreme time stretching – like instant ambient, instant experimental sonic manipulation – complete with unique spectral shaping.

Peter Kirn - June 28, 2024

FL Studio 20.9 drops with new effects, undo everything, expanded Apple M1 plug-in support

Peter Kirn - December 29, 2021

The new Renoise stretches samples, scales UIs, shapes curves, more

Peter Kirn - August 27, 2019

The vaporwave Windows 98 startup sound remix no one asked for

Peter Kirn - June 27, 2018

A free plug-in brings extreme PaulStretch stretching to your DAW

Peter Kirn - February 20, 2018

Maschine with audio arrives; here’s how to get the most of it

Peter Kirn - December 18, 2017

Maschine will finally get time stretching, melodic shifting for loops

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2017