Gliss is a new sound application which lets you play sound files and mix them easily by drawing on your iPhone.
You can get it from Apple's iTunes store
With gliss you can load your sounds and draw them on the gliss sequencer in a quick, intuitive way that lets you make music on the fly. Play your mix using a tempo or scrub through by tilting your iPhone. The agility of gliss allows you to improvise and perform using the iPhone as a controller and interface.
Launch gliss and experience an hybrid of a sequencer, a game, an instrument and a generative music system.
Put sound under your fingertips with 5 different colors to draw notes, sequences and sounds.
List of features:
- 5 colors to draw different sounds / samples / voices li>
- sample upload via wifi li>
- sample playback in different pitches using various scales li>
- physical tilt-controlled playhead, which adapts movements of the hand li>
- physical randomization option: control random pitches with the phone's tilt li>
- muting voices li>
- glissandi over several octaves li>
- free or grid enabled placement of notes li>
- drifting selections li>
- saving / opening of projects li>
- have your background track running in iTunes while playing li>
Coming up in version 1.2:
- Sample Sets: A new instrument, which takes a list of samples and puts
them on the y axis. So instead of controlling the frequency, multiple
samples can be played by one colour. This can be used to create beats and
rhythms, because you can have one drum set on one colour. Currently samples
are played back in full length, although they are represented only by one
dot.
- New Scheduler. Probably the most drastic change in gliss. The new
scheduler is much more accurate and makes it possible to set the tempo by
BPM and different types of meters.
- Back to original sequence. With a double tap on the randomization
button, you can restore the original sequence. In a similar way you can get
back to a default tempo, which can be set in the preferences, by double tapping the
tempo button.
- Recording. You can now record your perfromance. Double tap on the
playback mode button to start recording.
- Sequence organisation. Tap on the sequence number and you get a table
with all sequences of the project. Here you can also change the position of
a sequence, duplicate or delete it.
- Change direction but keep tempo. When you lock the tempo, you can now
still change the direction.
- Slightly re-designed user interface.
- Upload zip files of samples.