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(stand up fi lter, bit crusher etc) but what is there will give you plenty of scope to add some sonic movement to the riffs already in place. After a while the whole process becomes instinctive rather than a consciously planned exercise. Figure becomes like a well-practised instrument and it’s for this reason (no pun intended) that I personally think this is quite a milestone app. Existing iOS production apps (except for Garageband whose instrument interfaces I love) have tended to mirror their desktop cousins a little too closely, whereas Figure literally re-writes the rule book and does so very elegantly.


Complaints could be aimed at the limited two-bar (a bar is a ‘measure’ for our American readers) loop restriction and an absolute absence of


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export functionality. I have heard from a very good source within the organisation however that updates are planned that will offer a whole lot more to the dedicated Figure user. And who might that be? Search ‘Propellerheads fi gure’ on Youtube and you’ll fi nd a diverse range, including young kids. I predict a minor internet phenomenon will be ‘watch this two-week-old baby rinse out a dubstep banger’-type videos as more and more ‘normal’ people get hold of it! Joking aside, Figure is a whole lot of fun and highly recommended. At 69p you can’t go wrong really, can you?”


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