SPC - Music Drum Pad is an app by mikrosonic in the Music & Audio category, listed since at least September 2020. It includes native code for x86 32-bit, ARM 32-bit and ARM 64-bit, so it runs on practically every phone.
It asks for 6 permissions, 2 of them sensitive: record audio and modify shared storage.
What's new in v2.3.8
- Updated to latest Android versions
- Fixes for opening and downloading .spc scene files
Description
From the listing uploaded by “catappult”.
Mix, record, play and perform your own electronic music with the SPC – Music Sketchpad 2! It’s the best Android app for sampling, sequencing and beat programming on your phone or tablet.
Start producing now: Play loops and sequences with the 16-pad multi-touch enabled main screen and program your own sequences and drum grooves by setting steps and notes.
Upload and manipulate your own loops and sounds or use and mix the ones included in the app or provided for download on mikrosonic's website. Tweak the sounds with the sampler and effects like reverb, phaser and distortion. Record any sound with your device’s built-in microphone.
Optimized for phones and 7- to 10-inch tablets.
If you already use mikrosonic’s popular RD4 – Groovebox, loops you’ve created and exported there can also be instantly available to work into your music!
Use the SPC – Music Sketchpad to:
Perform live
- 16-pad screen mixes loops and sequences
- Remix your tracks in real-time
- Import your own samples/loops in the WAV format up to 24-bit 96 kHz
- Loops can be up to 8 bars long
- Recording of performances in exportable WAV format
- Comes with 2 pre-programmed scenes
- Additional scenes for download at the mikrosonic website
- Pad play options: Loop, One Shot and direct sample play
- Three pad start options: Instant, Next Beat, Next Bar
- Tap Tempo
Program your own beats and grooves
- Full featured drum machine
- Flexible sequencer
- Step sequencer for each of the 16 pads
- Every step sequencer with up to 64 steps
- Individual velocity/accent settings for each step
- Different step lengths from 1/4 to 1/32
Scribble your musical ideas
- 16 tracks with up to 4 variations
- Keyboard for melodic composition
- Sound library with one-shot samples
Record sounds and loops
- Record your voice, instrument or any other sound directly with your device's built-in microphone
- Record one-shot samples with trigger function
- Record loops in sync with quantization and overdub function
- Use the recordings instantly in your performance
Edit your sounds
- Waveform display
- Gain, pan and tuning knobs
- Envelope control with attack and decay
- Reverse, normalize and cut function
- Up to 16 steps volume and pan envelope for loops
- Slicer for recombining loop elements
- All actions in real-time
Add effects
- Reverb, delay, phaser, filter and distortion
- Freely assignable to each pad
- Real-time controllable effects
- X/Y control field for each effect
- 4 effect sends
- Chaining of 2 effects
Technical Features
- Multi-touch control
- Optimized for phones and 7- to 10-inch tablets
- Special rack view in portrait mode for 10-inch tablets
- OpenSL integration for lower latency
- Direct integration of RD4 - Groovebox loops
- Integrated browser for loading WAV files from your SD card
- SoundCloud Sharing Kit integration
- File sharing capability
- App2SD
System Requirements:
- Android 2.2 or higher
- screen resolution 800×480 (WVGA) or higher
- 800 MHz CPU or faster supporting ARMv7
Please note that version 2 of the SPC is a multiple APK that will start the older version 1.8.2 of the SPC instead of version 2.0 if the Android version on your device is below Android 2.2.
More details at: http://www.mikrosonic.com/spc
Terms of Use: http://www.mikrosonic.com/terms
Privacy Policy: http://www.mikrosonic.com/privacy
Security & authenticity
Security rating: Trusted
Signing certificate
Certificate issued to “mikrosonic”The developer's name — though anyone can put any name in a certificate.
Store checks and file details
Developer signature not verifiedNov 13, 2021
Antivirus scan passedMar 11, 2021
Signed byCN=Toine Diepstraten, OU=mikrosonic, O=mikrosonic, L=Berlin, C=49
Uploaded by “catappult”Platinum tier · 1,377 followers · uploading since 2018
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Permissions (6)
SPC - Music Drum Pad requests 6 permissions, 2 of them sensitive.
Record audio (microphone)Sensitiveandroid.permission.RECORD_AUDIO
Access all downloadsandroid.permission.ACCESS_ALL_DOWNLOADS
Full network accessandroid.permission.INTERNET
Google Play license checkcom.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE
Prevent the device from sleepingandroid.permission.WAKE_LOCK
Required hardware & features
Basic touch inputandroid.hardware.faketouch
Microphoneandroid.hardware.microphone
SPC - Music Drum Pad APK: questions and answers
Can I install this APK over the version I already have?
Only if it is signed with the same certificate as the copy on your phone and isn't an older version. If Android says “App not installed”, the certificates differ; uninstalling your copy first works but deletes its data unless it is backed up.
Is the SPC - Music Drum Pad APK safe?
No one can promise that a file is safe, but some things can be checked. The source store rates this file Trusted. After downloading, check that the file's MD5 is f2699874265db1d5c307fde826396b3e.