Welcome to Amazing Pads
Amazing Pads turns a large touch monitor into a musical canvas - a canvas for music. First, you paint your music onscreen by placing pads in the canvas. Then, you perform the music LIVE by means of playing these pads. You may use your fingers or a pair of drum sticks to play (!)
The Amazing Pads canvas
Amazing Pads Version Four - AP4 for short
What is it?
What do you need?
What is it?
- AP4 is an innovative musical App for large touch-screen monitors. It is software for Windows PC
- AP4 is a Midi controller--much like a Midi piano master controller is. Instead of a piano keyboard interface, AP4 is based on computer touch-screen monitors
What do you need?
- You need a Windows PC, a hardware or software synthesizer, a touch-screen monitor
- As an example, in order to run AP4, you may buy a so-called AIO PC product, an All-In-One personal computer. Such a computer integrates computer hardware, 10-finger touch display, and musical software in one unit
AP4 Great Features
Play flexibility - play pianos, guitars, drums
Touch-screen monitors are highly versatile
Total sound flexibility - play any instrumental voices, play vocals, play percussion
Play flexibility - play pianos, guitars, drums
- A virtual touch-screen instrument like AP4 enables you to emulate real musical instruments when playing onscreen. You can play all sorts of keyboard instruments, percussive instruments, and string instruments
Touch-screen monitors are highly versatile
- Perform onscreen with your fingertips--all ten fingers may play. Slide across multiple pads easily to produce musical effects--like pitch-modulation or percussive effects. Use a pair of mallets or drum sticks to play
Total sound flexibility - play any instrumental voices, play vocals, play percussion
- AP4 is a Midi instrument. As such, you may connect it to any synthesizer to play. You got total sound flexibility. Use an external synthesizer--a keyboard or a sound module. Use software inside your PC, a virtual synthesizer or a sequencer
Innovation - a new approach to music-making
Composing and arranging - it feels good on hands and fingers
Composing and arranging - each pad will produce the sound you need
Highlights
With Amazing Pads you got the power to create and play music in great new ways
- In some ways working with AP4 is better than working with regular musical instruments. Why? In the canvas you got no musical or play-activity restrictions of any kind. Compose and play with total freedom!
Composing and arranging - it feels good on hands and fingers
- You paint pads in the canvas. Place pads onscreen anywhere--any way you need it. This means that you can build the right playing path for hands and fingers, always. This translates into a high level of play comfort and ease. AP4 is easy to play
- See the illustrations: The canvas is your music!
Composing and arranging - each pad will produce the sound you need
- You assign sounds to pads in a free way. You are the composer. Use and apply synthesizer sound elements of any type--like piano notes, drum beats, vocal samples, sound effects. Combine sound elements any way you wish in the canvas
- When ready to perform, just go ahead--play your pads/sounds in any way or order you want. Create as many pads/sounds as you need in the canvas. Is the canvas full already? No problem, your composition may embody multiple pages. You play and switch pages smoothly while playing in real time. No performance problems will arise. This is fantastic!
Highlights
- You play ergonomically. You play comfortably. This means
- - No more hard-to-play musical parts. An easy to play instrument. At last (!)
- You write-and-play music with power and freedom. This means
- - You can arrange and play anything. Your musical layout -whatever you create in the canvas- perfectly captures and encapsulates your music. You can build and play any musical figure, musical track, or complete song
- - Total musical flexibility. Create and perform impossible-to-play musical sequences. What you can do and achieve with AP4 will amaze you. Just one example: What about playing impossible-to-play one-hand piano chords? Five pads placed adjacent to each other may play out a 3-octave chord (!)
With Amazing Pads you got the power to create and play music in great new ways