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May is Mic Month at Sweetwater!

Your iPad
+ 28 Awesome Apps
= Great Music!

With your iPad in hand, your horizons as a musician or engineer expand to an entirely new level never seen before! Your iPad opens the door for an avalanche of flexible, practical, and powerful music-making apps that you have to see to believe. Discover the limitless potential for using your iPad to explore your musical vision with the hundreds of amazing music apps that are available.

To help you get started, we've selected 28 of our favorite apps. These incredibly powerful tools from companies such as Korg, Propellerhead, Yamaha, Line 6, MOTU, IK Multimedia, and many more will give your iPad the power to enhance your musical life, no matter what you're looking to do — write music, control your mixer or software, load up a library of sheet music, play your guitar through hyper-realistic amps and effects, or lay down serious beats for your next production.

To see two of these powerful apps in action, take a look at Mitch Gallagher's YouTube video review. Then check out all 28 of the amazing apps on this page — put your iPad to work, making great music!

Record, Compose, Create, Play, Control

  • SweetWords SweetWords - FREE
    SweetWords is a music tech dictionary packed with thousands of useful music tech-related terms and used every day by pro musicians, music producers and recording engineers. Stay on top of this fast-moving industry by learning the words that the music pros use. Every day SweetWords features a n... App Store
  • Sweetwater Publications Sweetwater Publications - FREE
    Stay on top of all the latest news and information in the world of music technology with the Sweetwater Publications app! You'll get instant access to informative articles, editorials, hands-on gear reviews, in-depth technology spotlights, and information on all the latest and greatest products for ... App Store
  • KORG iELECTRIBE KORG iELECTRIBE - $19.99
    Korg’s ELECTRIBE·R has been coveted by dance musicians for ten years running. Today, this indispensable instrument has been reborn as a dedicated iPad app – the KORG iELECTRIBE virtual analog beatbox! With the iELECTRIBE, sound creation is easy, fun and intuitive – just as on a vintage ana... App Store
  • AmpliTube for iPad AmpliTube for iPad - $19.99
    NOW INCLUDES 5 VOCALIVE MODELS VIA IN-APP PURCHASE PLUS NEW ENHANCED PRESET SYSTEM! Turn your iPad into the ultimate mobile guitar and bass multi-effect processor and mobile recording studio! Use the AmpliTube iRig interface adapter (www.amplitube.com/irig) to connect your guitar to your iPhone/i... App Store
  • GarageBand GarageBand - $4.99
    GarageBand turns your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play pianos, organs, guitars, drums, and basses. They sound and play like their counterparts, but let... App Store
  • KORG iMS-20 KORG iMS-20 - $32.99
    iMS-20 is an analog synth studio; a complete recreation of the Korg MS-20 synth, an analog sequencer, a drum machine, and even Korg's Kaoss Pad technology. Plus, you can share your songs online via the SoundCloud! iMS-20 is a complete music production app for iPad. It consists of a complete recre... App Store
  • Filtatron Filtatron - $7.99
    FILTATRON is much more than your average sound app. It’s a phenomenal real-time audio effects suite and powerful studio tool for your iPhone or iPod Touch. It’s not a toy, but go ahead and play with it. The Moog Filtatron is a realtime audio filter and effects engine. Use sound from any ... App Store
  • SynthStation SynthStation - $1.99
    Low $1.99 price extended! - Transform your iPhone into a music production studio. SynthStation transforms your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad into a portable music production studio for mobile music creation. SynthStation gives you three powerful synthesizers for creating and modifying sonic textures us... App Store
  • DP Control DP Control - FREE
    DP Control from MOTU Inc. allows you to control MOTU's Digital Performer audio workstation software over a WiFi network using your iPhone, iPad or third-generation iPod Touch. Built specifically for use with Digital Performer, DP Control gives you easy access to the most important transport and m... App Store
  • ReBirth for iPad ReBirth for iPad - $14.99
    ReBirth is back! Propellerhead Software's legendary Techno Micro Composer has been resurrected and customized for the iPad. ReBirth faithfully emulates dance music's three backbone devices: The Roland TB-303 Bass synth and the Roland TR-808 and 909 drum machines. Combine these with FX units, fully f... App Store
  • V-Control Pro V-Control Pro - $49.99
    V-Control Pro provides a fully-featured, multi-touch control surface for Pro Tools, Logic 9, Cubase/Nuendo, and many more DAW's. V-Control Pro uses WiFi to control transport, editing, and mixing functions. V-Control Pro provides advanced control of sends, automation, groups, auditioning, plug-ins,... App Store
  • touchAble touchAble - $24.99
    FUTURE MUSIC UK: "You may think about touchAble and an iPad instead of a hardware controller. A compliment indeed." MUSICTECH MAG UK: "It can handle the majority of performance or interactive elements within Live without requiring any manual controller design or mapping, making it an easy-to-u... App Store
  • MIDI Monitor MIDI Monitor - FREE
    iOSMidi.com presents Midi Monitor - the free and easy way to test & monitor MIDI hardware. Now compatible with iPhone & Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer as well! ★ Top 20 in Music in over 35 countries, and featured in the App Store worldwide! ★ Now you can plug in a compatible MIDI device to send and ... App Store
  • unrealBook unrealBook - $4.99
    unrealBook allows you to access your entire library of music or lyrics on your iPad with ease. Replace your bulky and heavy binders with a small and light device filled with your music PDF files. The alphabetized and indexed list makes it easy to find the song you are looking for. unrealBook is the ... App Store
  • AC-7 Core AC-7 Core - $7.99
    *** IOS 5 tested and working. Make sure your network MIDI settings are correct like the screenshot below. The AC7-Core is a wireless/wired control surface utilizing CoreMIDI for simple setup and reliable operation. There are dedicated modes for controlling: Apple's Logic Pro Tools MOTU's Digit... App Store
  • AmpKit AmpKit - FREE
    AmpKit is the ultimate guitar amps, effects and recording app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch*, now with iPad Retina display graphics and an even greater selection of gear in the Gear Store, including the first full-featured, modern bass amp available on iOS. To enjoy the best possible tone wit... App Store
  • Portastudio Portastudio - $2.99
    TASCAM's Portastudio brings 30 years of easy-to-use home recording to your iPad. Based on the PORTA ONE recorder that revolutionized recording in 1984, the Portastudio app records up to four tracks with a vintage vibe. Record one track at a time using the built-in mic or a headset microphone con... App Store
  • MIDI Memo Recorder MIDI Memo Recorder - FREE
    Please Note: The MIDI* record and play features of this free app require a hardware MIDI accessory from Line 6: a Mobile Keys 25 or Mobile Keys 49 keyboard, or a MIDI Mobilizer II or MIDI Mobilizer MIDI interface. For more information on these products and the many compatible MIDI apps, please visi... App Store
  • Powered by Crown Powered by Crown - $3.99
    This Powered by Crown app allows wireless control and monitoring of your Crown Ethernet enabled devices and JBL Professional Drivepack DPDA models. Since this app uses the same protocols as HiQnet System Architect, you can import custom control panels from System Architect into this Powered by Crow... App Store
  • MorphWiz MorphWiz - $9.99
    Keyboard Magazine's November 2011 Key Buy Award! Winner of Electronic Musician's 2011 iPhone/iPod touch/iPad App Editors' Choice Award! Winner of Billboard Music App Awards 2010 Best Music Creation App! Winner of Best App Ever 2010 Award for Best Musical iPad App! MorphWiz from Wizdom Mu... App Store
  • SynthX SynthX - $9.99
    We have been getting great customer feedback regarding SynthX so far. Let us know what you think! Beginner or pro, SynthX is great fun and candy for your ears and eyes. You can chose to play using the intuitive XY mode that automatically makes every touch tuned to the selected scale, grid ... App Store
  • FunkBox Drum Machine FunkBox Drum Machine - $3.99
    FunkBox was used by Gorillaz when recording their new album "The Fall", hear it at thefall.gorillaz.com! Also featured in Computer Music Magazine's "Amazing Music Apps" special issue and Electronic Musician magazine's "Attack of the Killer Apps" best music tools for the iPad. Put a little funk in... App Store
  • NLogSynth PRO NLogSynth PRO - $14.99
    ::: Professional Virtual Analogue Synthesizer supporting Core MIDI, WIST and interfaces from Akai, Alesis, Line6, IK Multimedia & others ::: Demo videos on YouTube channel nlogmusic ::: Check Mac & Audio Unit version in Mac App Store ::: Most versatile iOS synth with professional grade virtual... App Store
  • TouchOSC TouchOSC - $4.99
    TouchOSC is a modular OSC and MIDI control surface for iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad. It supports sending and receiving Open Sound Control messages over a Wi-Fi network using the UDP protocol and supports both CoreMIDI and the Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer interfaces for sending and receiving MIDI messages.... App Store
  • iMaschine iMaschine - $4.99
    THE GROOVE SKETCH PAD iMASCHINE is an intuitive beat sketch pad perfect for developing song ideas anytime, anywhere. Play and record drums on the 16 pads, jam a melody on the keyboard, sing on top of your loops via the built-in audio recorder, or create your own unique sample banks from any so... App Store
  • AudioTools AudioTools - $19.99
    AudioTools is a suite of professional-grade audio and acoustic analysis apps. Included in the price of this app is a basic collection of professional tools -- SPL, RTA, Generator, Audio Scope, and Recorder, and the framework to add more sophisticated modules as you need them. And now with iOS 5, ... App Store
  • Animoog Animoog - $9.99
    As part of Moog Music's birthday celebration honoring founder Bob Moog, Animoog for iPad is available for $9.99 through 5/29/2012. Animoog, powered by the new Anisotropic Synth Engine (ASE), is Moog Music's first professional polyphonic synthesizer designed exclusively for the iPad. ASE allows yo... App Store
  • The Guitar Collection: George Harrison The Guitar Collection: George Harrison - $9.99
    "Ground-breaking app... astonishing" - Boston Herald Update with more guitars coming soon! Update to feature the cherry-red Les Paul "Lucy" and the renowned Epiphone Casino, along with more audio and other bonus content. Note: Over time, the app will be continually updated with more guitars a... App Store

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