Pads
Twelve pads, four patterns, repeat in time, velocity from how hard you hit.
Turntable · Sampler · Tape · for iPhone
The recorder
you come back to.
Every take becomes a record you want to put on. Spin it, scratch it, cut it into samples, play them on pads and keys — listening back turns into playing.
Follow the build
In TestFlight now. Grab the record ↖
A thousand voice notes.
You never open them.
The idea was good. Now it is a grey line in a list, somewhere between New Recording 47 and 49. In REDROCER a take is not a file — it is a record with a name, a label and a cover, sitting in your crate, a tap away from the platter.
From a take
to a record.
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01 · REC
Record anything.
The microphone in stereo, everything you play inside the app, or whatever your phone is playing — even from Control Center. It records like a tape: wind back to the mistake and punch in over just that bar.
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02 · LIB
It lands in your crate.
Every take gets a record of its own, a label in its own colour and room for a cover. Folders, playlists, drag and drop. Bring sounds in from Voice Memos, Files or a video — FLAC plays lossless.
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03 · DECK
Put it on.
The record follows your finger exactly. Drag it slowly and feel the weight of the platter, flick it and it spins, let go and the motor pulls it back to speed. Tempo slows it like real vinyl, pitch and all.
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04 · EDIT
Drop flags. Get samples.
Tap a flag in while it plays, or split it evenly. Every piece between two flags is a sample: give it its own speed, tune and fades, play the samples in a row, save each one as a file.
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05 · PADS
Play it.
The samples fall onto twelve pads. Pads of one colour cut each other off, like open and closed hats. Record a pattern, double it, let a pad repeat in time.
It moves as far
as your finger does.
Tempo and the fader sit on arcs around the record; the strobe dots on the rim stand still when you are exactly on speed.
Hold PLAY and slide it to wind back or forward. Your marks sit under the display as cue keys — tap one and the record plays from there. On a playlist, the Lock Screen and your headphones run it like any other player.
Cut it where
it feels right.
The editor takes the whole screen. Flags live on the wave; the trim lives under it, on two tabs — IN and OUT — so your finger never covers what you are cutting.
Tap the wave and that is where PLAY starts. Tap a sample and you hear it, with its own speed, tune, level and fades under it. When it is right, send them all to files or all to the pads.
Effects you play,
not set.
The display turns into an XY pad. Touch it and the effect is on, let go and it is gone. Freeze a moment and loop it, bend it with an LFO, cut it with a strobe — on the deck, the pads and the voice, each on its own channel.
Three instruments
made of your sounds.
Synth
Any sample as a keyboard. Two octaves, chords, legato; tune by tape, by tone, or both. Slide between keys with one finger.
Vox
Sing with one finger: slide for the note, up and down for the vowel. Four voices — or your own, retuned live.
Pick the machine.
A body is the casing and its keys, designed as one. Then pick the colour it lights up in, the display and the vinyl. Four bodies come free.
Standard · Brushed aluminium, rubber keys in wells
Classic Black · Free
Press it on
any vinyl.
Every record can have its own pressing — clear, smoke, marbled, or a picture disc whose cubes tumble as it plays. Tap one: this is how it turns on the deck.
Your sounds stay yours.
The whole crate is mirrored as plain files to your iCloud Drive and, if you choose one, your own Files folder — folders, records, playlists and covers. Reinstall the app, reconnect your folder and bring the crate back.
Bring in a FLAC, switch the vinyl noise off, and it plays exactly as it is. There is no REDROCER account, no ads and no analytics. Your recordings go only to storage or destinations you choose.
Coming to iPhone.
We post new builds and pieces from the bench as we go.