REDKEYS

Wesley Henriques

About this app

REDKEYS is the stage station for keyboard players: sounds, song sections, effects, pads, playback and MIDI control on one screen, made for playing live on your phone and tablet.
Change sounds or sections with no gap in the audio, build your setlist and play without an internet connection.

PERFORMANCE MODE (BANKS)
• 16 sound banks on a 01–16 bar, with ‹ › and Store
• The bank you changed blinks until it is stored
• Bank Sets: store, rename and delete your sets of banks
• Switch banks with a tap or from your MIDI controller

ON STAGE
• Setlists with songs and sections (Intro, Verse, Chorus…), changed with a tap, a pedal or your controller
• Section changes happen with no gap in the sound
• Up to 8 channels per song, each with its own name and colour
• Layers on every channel, with split, velocity range and octave
• Chord, key and BPM always in view
• A panic button that silences everything at once

SOUNDS
• The Factory library, with pianos, electric pianos, pads, synths and more
• A tonewheel organ with drawbars, percussion and rotary
• Aurora, a polyphonic synth
• Monolith, a wavetable synth with over 4,000 presets
• Open SF2 and SFZ sounds and keep them in My Sounds, now with subcategories

EFFECTS
• Up to 5 audio effects and 1 MIDI effect per channel, each with Dry/Wet
• Reverbs, delay, chorus, compressor, EQ, limiter, auto-pan and stereo widening
• Hardware-style panels with presets
• Arpeggiator with velocity, length and ratchet on every step

VOICE AND INSTRUMENT (INPUT TRACK)
• A microphone or instrument on the input track, with its own effects
• RK-Talk: talk box, vocoder and tuner, played from your keyboard

DRONE AND PADS
• Drone: a continuous pad in all 12 keys that follows each song's key with a smooth crossfade
• 16 pads for samples and loops, with choke groups and a note editor

PLAYBACK AND RECORDING
• Multitrack playback inside every song, with a timeline, a mixer and outputs
• Click and count-in
• A built-in audio and video recorder to capture what you play

AUDIO AND MIDI
• Your USB audio interface played directly by the app: fewer clicks, the interface's own sample rates (up to 192 kHz) and the device volume controlling the output
• An audio engine that uses several processor cores: more headroom in full chords
• MIDI over your local network between devices, with no cable and no internet
• MIDI outputs with clock, to send the tempo to other gear
• OSC: control over Wi-Fi from other apps
• USB and Bluetooth MIDI controllers
• Map controls: tap the control on screen, move the one on your keyboard, done
• 8 macros per channel, program change stepping through the sections, pitch bend, modulation, expression and sustain pedal

REQUIREMENTS
• Android 10 or later, 64-bit processor
• 6 GB of RAM or more (8 GB recommended)
• Free space for the Factory library: about 4.1 GB. It downloads after activation; the app shows the size and asks first
• Internet only to activate and download the sounds. Playing needs no connection
• Landscape only

LICENSE
• The download is free. To play, activate your REDKEYS license in the app with your e-mail and serial
• The license works on 2 devices

Support: [e-mail]

What’s new

• Banks mode: 16 sound banks, Bank Sets and bank changes from your controller
• Monolith: a wavetable synth with over 4,000 presets
• Input track with RK-Talk: talk box, vocoder and tuner for your voice
• USB audio interfaces played directly by the app, up to 192 kHz
• Full MIDI: outputs with clock, local network, OSC and Bluetooth pairing in the app
• Screen and audio recorder, a multi-core engine and each song's key on KEY