Bagpipes Royale - Play the Scottish and Swedish Ba

Bagpipes Royale is four extremely realistic sounding sets of Bagpipes for the iPad that are played using standard Scottish piping fingerings.

It includes four authentic sounding sets of Scottish and Swedish bagpipes.

Completely new version 2.0 adds four new stereo reverb options for a huge, full sound (iOS 5.0 or later required for reverb features) See note below about an issue with the use of headphones on iOS 6.

Please visit the app website and watch the demonstration video!

The four sets of bagpipes are

Great Highland Scottish Bagpipes - The most popular Scottish marching pipes, in the traditional key of Bb.

Scottish Border Pipes - A Scottish smallpipe in the key of A with a sound distinctly different from but similar to the Highland pipes.

Scottish Smallpipes - A Scottish smallpipe in the key of A, one octave lower than the Border Pipes, and has a rounder, bubbly sound.

Swedish Säckpipa - A set of Swedish bagpipes in E minor, with a very haunting sound.

All of the instruments use fingerings based on the standard Scottish Highland bagpipes chanter.

How to Play

Start/stop the drones playing by touching the drone puck.

To play the chanter, touch the bar at the top left with your left thumb. This bar is the hole normally on the back of a real chanter and must be covered for the lower notes to play.

Next, touch the top three holes of the chanter starting with the tips of your left index, middle, and ring fingers.

Finally, touch the bottom four holes of the chanter with the tips of your right index, middle, ring, and little fingers.

Touch the "i" to show/hide the live performance controls.

Touch the ePipes or Tradlessons logos to visit our websites.

Touch the "?" for on-screen help and fingering chart.

The Scottish bagpipes samples are supplied by ePipes.co.uk based on their "Studio Piper" virtual MIDI bagpipes instrument. If you want to control bagpipe sounds using MIDI, check out their products. The sounds in this app can only be played from the iPad, not MIDI.

Audio samples for the Säckpipa provided by Jonathan Parker from an instrument made in 1986 by Leif Eriksson.

Drone puck image courtesy of Mike DeSmidt.

Recently updated your iPad to iOS5? You must disable "Multitasking Gestures" in the iPads Settings to use this app.

Apples gestures take over control and stop the app sound once three or more fingers touch the screen.

This app requires as many as eight fingers touching the screen at the same time so you must disable the multitasking gestures.

For the same sounds, but played with a keyboard instead of a chanter, be sure to check out my "ePipesKeys HD Ultimate" app for the iPad!

Still on iOS4? Bagpipes Royale will run exactly the same as the 1.0 version, only the new reverb settings wont be available to you.

Note about the use of headphones on iOS 6 devices

Unfortunately, because of a bug Apple introduced in iOS 6 to the reverb system in iOS, the reverb is broken in headphones and results in the sound being panned far to the right.

Apple has been made aware of the issue and hopefully will fix the issue in a future iOS 6 update.

For now, please turn the reverb level to zero when using headphones on iOS 6 devices to center the sound.