Android Sound Tools
It’s been a while since I’ve done an update here (been a tad busy making beep beeps for people :) but just couldn’t resist posting some quick info on some really cool portable music/synth/sound design apps that you can grab for the Android O/S I’ve not ordered these at all – they are all very useful in their own way.
The reason I’ve put this together is that I’ve noticed quite a few blogs posting ‘best music apps’ lists for android and they are pretty much without exception terribly out of date or poorly informed to the point of being eye watering *Grin*
PS - this isn’t a ‘best of’ list - these are just some of the things I’ve found and thought were rather brill -
Andy

SFXr / price £FREE
A port of the wonderful SFXr by DrPetter (http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html) for android – very nice thing to have in your pocket if you need a few retro bleeps on the move *Grin* also make sure you hit the options button on your phone to go to the tweak / create new sounds page, several people who I would describe as barely sentient (ed - sorry for sounding heavy handed but its 5am here and I’ve only just finished some work :) seem to have not discovered this based on the reviews on the android market *sigh* :)
Grab it here: https://market.android.com/details?id=be.minimal.sfxr

SyntheFree / price £FREE
A fab and rather powerful tactile synthesizer which is similarish to a kaossilator – fantastic for making bee / insect sounds :) but also rather good for making big dirty bass root sounds for further processing!
Grab it here:https://market.android.com/details?id=thisismyrobot.android.sythe.free

GrainSynth / price £FREE
Ace granular synthesizer, highly usable and even lets you use the accelerometer to make really whacky noises :)
Grab it here:https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.kshoji.grainsynth

Jasuto / price £3.06
Absolutely bonkers modular synthesizer – quite hard to explain, but essentially one places synth objects on a playfield and then you can interact with them via the touch screen and make connections between them – creating new sounds or sequences, its seriously processor hungry tho – not for slow devices! But LOADS of fun.
Grab it here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jasuto.droid

RD3 / price £3.03 (hoho) :)
Excellent TB303 and drum machine emulator – does what it says on the tin, rather nice drum machine that lets you select from a variety of oldskool drum machine sound sets – the default kick on the 909 is a bit lacking tho (but jump into the editor and you can make it much more beefy! =) all in all really solid and awesome fun.
Grab it here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mikrosonic.RD3

Ethereal Dialpad / price £FREE
Lovely little pentatonic touchable synth – with a variety of selectable (and downloadable) eyecandy <3 really rather relaxing
Grab it here:https://market.android.com/details?id=as.adamsmith.etherealdialpad

Beat Dialer / Price £1.99
16 step circular drum sequencer, free version available, but the pay one has oodles more sounds – I LOVE THIS. It’s so simple and the circular layout just forces old curmudgeons like me to approach sequencing the beat in an entirely different way. Downside is it doesn’t save your beat layouts or export audio, but actually the transient nature of what you create is part of its simple charm, just hook it up to a sampler and go :)
Grab it here: https://market.android.com/details?id=thisismyrobot.android.beatdialer
SPC / Price £3.47

Nice sample sequencing and triggering program from the makers of RD3 in the vein of a AKAI MPC – downloadable packs are available in different themes from the makers website and it can import RD3 sequences/exports natively – great fun
Grab it here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mikrosonic.SPC

Synthoid / Price £1.49
Excellent analog synth implementation on the Android – all sorts of nice sounds are possible. Frankly a ridiculously great thing to have hanging around if you need a quick tone or two.
Grab it here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.fleetway76.audio.synthoid

BlipSynth / Price £FREE
Cute little thing for making ring tone sounds, which can be repurposed for creating fun bleeps n bloops for sound design. Also features basic FM synthesizer :)
Grab it here:https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tak.blip

Nanoloop / Price £1.79
My personal favourite, nanoloop started out in life as a native gameboy sound sequencer and synth – its BLAZINGLY fast and features almost zero latency. FM and squarewave synthesis are available as are various filters and noise waveforms, it can also record via the mic and use external samples. Absolutely fantastic and worth 5 times the money that its currently going for!
Grab it here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nanoloop