Groove Rider 2 Pre-Release Walkthrough

Jim Pavloff is known for some of the most sample accurate recreations of Prodigy tracks SMBU, Firestarter, and Voodoo People online, pretty much vintage youtube now! He's even had releases for the band, but he also has his own line of software.

Here we have a pre-release look at version 2 of his Groove Rider iPad app, which is loaded with excellent features and a very nice workflow. Sound Test Room takes a look, prior to the release on 1st February. Here's more: 

Groove Rider 2 takes you to the next level of mobile music production with a brand new workflow! Being perfectly balanced between a groove box and a DAW, GR-2 can boost your creative musical inspiration in a way you couldn't even imagine!

• PERFORM LIVE SETS

Use 16 x 16 clip launch grid and Ableton Link feature to synchronize GR-2 with your other music apps and gear. Connect your midi controllers to control GR-2 parameters via midi. Crossfade between your patterns in a DJ style with onscreen crossfader and EQ controls.

• CREATE FULL LENGTH TRACKS

Timeline based song mode editor allows you to arrange and edit midi clips in a professional DAW manner. Record and edit parameters automation. Copy, paste, duplicate clips as well as entire time ranges. Export & share your compositions.

• SKETCH YOUR MUSICAL IDEAS

- use layering for instruments (up to 3 layers per part)

- process with built-in realtime insert effects, 3 IFX per part

- tweak sound with 3-band EQ with visual controls

- improvise with MFX (master effects) with onscreen XY controls, 3 MFX per pattern

- add depth using 2 Send / Return FX busses with up to 3 effect slots in each bus

- resample what you hear and edit right in place in the built-in Sample Editor

- save your own presets and drum sets with audio previews for further use in other compositions

• USE BUILT-IN INSTRUMENTS

Internal instruments include:

- Sampler with realtime beat time stretching (Warp) and Slicing options, supports stereo samples of 16, 24 or 32 bit depth, up to 5 minutes long;

- 2-oscillator Synthesizer with over 280 oscillator preset programs, Filter and LFO modules with

- Sound Font 2 (sf2) sample bank player with ability to use imported sf2 banks;

- WaveTable synthesizer with ability to import user wavetables (Serum .wav format supported);

- seamless integration with JimAudio Poison-202 and Pure Acid apps allows to use their integrated modules with sounds and presets without actually loading them as AUv3 audio units, which saves system resources and speeds up pattern loading process!

- all internal synths allow customizing micro scale tune.

FEATURES:

• supports Ableton Link, AUv3, AudioBus, Inter-App Audio, Core Midi, Virtual Midi, Bluetooth Midi

• built-in Sample Editor with Record function

• convenient sample and preset browser with preset previews

• timeline based song mode editor

• can host AUv3 Audio Unit instruments, Effects and Midi FX

• internal library of Factory samples, presets and patterns to start from

• supports importing your patterns created in Groove Rider GR-16

• big variety of built-in effects include Delay, Chorus, Reverb, Shimmer, Pitch Shifter, Flangers, Phasers, Distortion & saturators, EQ, Filters, Slicers, Sidechain Compressor and Gate, Limiter, Maximizer and more!

iPadOS 16+ is required

iPad Pro 2nd generation and newer is recommended for best experience

Pre Order Groove Rider 2 here https://apps.apple.com/us/app/groove-rider-2/id6480135731

Full documentation will be soon available at https://www.jimaudio.pro

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