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Description

bs-16i is a 16 multi-timbral playback sampler. It supports SoundFont and DLS (Downloadable Sounds, and can be used for keyboard instrument, MIDI sound module, and MIDI player.
bs-16i has the synthesizer engine that has been adopted for many professional / commercial equipments. Using SoundFont / DLS libraries, you can play with your great number of Instruments. With Hi-Res Engine option prepared as In-App purchase option enables high-quality and low-noise audio outputs by 100% floating point calculations.
All standard MIDI messages are supported, and your iPhone and iPad can be used as a GM (General MIDI) sound module by using pre-installed GeneralUser GS SoftSynth v1.44.sf2 (S. Christian Collins).
As a keyboard instrument, you can play with scalable screen keyboard, pitch bend wheel, and many control change controllers.
Internal MIDI player supports SMF (Standard MIDI File) format, and bounced wave can be shared with other apps using AudioCopy.
SoundFont, DLS and SMF files can be imported from iCloud Drive, Dropbox, etc, directly from bs-16i.
Moreover, this application supports Core MIDI Interface like as IK Multimedia iRig KEYS / iRig MIDI, YAMAHA iMX-1, LINE6 MIDI Mobilizer 2, Apple Lightning -USB Camera Adapter with USB Generic MIDI Interface, and Bluetooth accessory (Miselu C.24, QUICCO SOUND mi.1, etc). With them you can communicate with other external MIDI hardware like as synthesizer, sequencer. Also bs-16i can be background and drived from other apps using Virtual MIDI.
Audiobus 3, and Inter-App Audio is supported. You can send bs-16i's output stream to other apps.
Also AudioUnit v3 extension is included. You can use bs-16i in GarageBand, BeatMaker3, AUM as plug-in instrument.
- To load the specified soundfont / DLS file, the device have to ready free memory larger that file size of it.
- This application collects following information: Device name, OS version, User Location, SoundFont / DLS file name, CoreMIDi I/F name.

What's New in Version 3.1.1

- Improve AUv3 UI
- On importing from iCloud, multiple files can be selected (Multiple file selection can only be used with iOS 11 and iCloud Drive)
- Fix some stability issues
- Audiobus SDK 3.0.5
- Fix that MIDI messages from the internal file player were not delivered to Audiobus

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Developer

Categories

Version

3.1.1

Size

68.4 MB

Game Center

No

VPP Device Licensing

Yes

Rating

Rated: 4+

Compatibility

iOS 10.0 or later

Devices

iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad Pro, iPad mini 3, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad Air 2, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPhone 6, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone 6s, iPhone SE, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 5s, iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 5, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi, iPhone 5c, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air3, iPad Air3Cellular, iPad Mini5, iPad Mini5Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, Watch4

Languages

English, Japanese

App Store: Customer Ratings

All Versions

 4.0 (2 Ratings)

App Store: Customer Reviews

Affordable, good sounds and easy to use

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Captbeef
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2019-01-07
Version 3.1.1
Many great real instruments come as standard but after downloading some free 3rd party sounds fonts (soundfonts4u) this is now my go to app for piano and orchestral sounds. It may have been around for a while but sounds fantastic to my ears. Thanks.

Very useful

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Whigfhhgyhghv
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2016-07-02
Version 2.6.4
A big, useful, surprisingly good sounding collection of sounds inside a good interface. Plus with the option of importing sounds. I'd recommend this over Sampletank every time.

Long time favourite

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Zxwerdsff
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2016-03-04
Version 2.6.3
Nice to see the dev still keeping this essential app up to date after all this time.

great

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tony bravo 2011
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2015-09-18
Version 2.4.3
good stable app you can put in any sound u can find sf2 ...and 16 channels

Irig pro

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sweephere
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2015-06-06
Version 2.4
Works great with my irig pro keyboard,very simple to set the midi channels has even got blue tooth midi it's just what I been looking for.
Love the split keyboard which you get set to different instruments, or mix the together.

Nice but...

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Dvasa
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2014-01-29
Version 2.0.1
This is a good app and love ability to play midi files through soundfonts...there's a bunch of use cases but in my case it's for midi backing tracks for performance and in this instance accessing the playlist of midi files could be more user friendly, there's too many levels to drill down. Also, once in the playlist, why not let us just playback from there without having to close that section.
The other issue is that I can't find a way on iPhone to change the master reverb setting; iPad makes this easy? Some songs have too much and need this turned down.
Good app that could be great...
The option to save changes

El dawgo!

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Animouse21
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2013-12-27
Version 2.0.1
Sounds good but since a dog wrote it and they have good hearing it stands to reason doesn't it

Excellent

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Appamada
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2013-12-08
Version 2.0
Excellent cant fault it.
The dog pic is nice too.
It reminds us that your app has been lovingly hand made by one person not some faceless company with slick marketing which doesn't give a ####

Bs 16i

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Aquatic Aboo
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2013-05-03
Version 1.7.3
Love playing emu proteus soundfonts through this app

Excellent app

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RLVM...
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2013-03-08
Version 1.7.2
This app is excellent and the developer consistently updates it and now we have AudioBus integration which is fantastic.
A great midi sound font synthesizer and the sound quality is excellent... With AudioBus integration it maintains a strong position in my arsenal of music apps.

Very nice but irritating dog photo

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SoundAppMan
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2013-02-11
Version 1.7
This app is very useful but PLEASE ! PLEASE ! Loose the dog photo it is very unprofessional.

Awesome sounds

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Gimmea€%><Nickname
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2012-12-20
Version 1.6.1
Really, they may be just soundfonts but a lot of them are really lovely, especially the orchestral instruments. Just one request...
Audiobus please!

Very good midi app!

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maciejx
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2012-03-17
Version 1.3
and supports SoundFont!

Best MIDI app in the Store

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Andy Bond 1234
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2011-12-11
Version 1.3
First of all let me say that this is the best musical instrument application in the apple store. If you are a musician using MIDI you will not what I'm talking about:
1. There is virtually no or unnoticable latency using CoreMIDI. I have a USB midi keyboard. Other music instrument apps suffer from terrible latency this one is as good as a desktop app.
2. Polyphony is great - other music instrument apps limit you in polyhony, using this app I haven't noticed any loss of notes when playing the piano
3. Velocity sensitivity is the best - as opposed to other apps, you can play hard or soft or in between, because it translates MIDI velocity messages to sound volume perfectly - even better than garageband. Other music apps are not very good at this. They show little variation in sound volume no matter how you play.
4. Sound quality - It is only up to you. I have managed to load a 34 MB piano sample and it handled without issues! On par with or better than garageband.
5. Sounds - You can use any sounds that are in Soundfont (SF2) format. If you search on the internet a little, I'm sure you find a few gigabytes(!) of libraries. This makes this app much more versatile than other music apps out there that do not allow you to load your own sounds.
Version 1.3 solved all my problems and I just wish the developer great success and hope that many musicians will ultimately find and download this app that is superior to any other music apps and really professional.

Excellent!

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The Cheese dude
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2011-07-06
Version 1.3
Very happy with the update! Works perfectly now.
This is now one of my favourite apps :)

It

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Gi Lewis
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2010-09-18
I'm a bit of a keyboard collector, I purchaced this as it uses SF files and there are loads of SF files free on the net. I downloaded 200mb of pro keyboard SF sounds and they sound amazing!
I only have 3 points that will then make me give a 5* review
1) Lose the DOG intro it make a pro package look silly!
2) Serious glitches on sound if you was to use over 16 notes. just a buzzing bit crush noise - Seriously need to fix this ASDAP
3 Keyboard needs to be scaled to 17 keys as 22 keys make the keys too small on iphone.