fugue first update arrives
- The app will now transmit MIDI in the background, so you can leave it playing and focus on tweaking your iOS synths! When the app loads, be sure to allow access to the microphone. Although the microphone is not used within the app, this is the permission required to allow background operations.
- Ability to turn a channel off. Go to the "Track MIDI Channel" page and drag the track column all the way down to the bottom of the screen. The channel will display "off" at the top of the screen. When a Track MIDI Channel has been set to "off", the corresponding columns on the other Track properties will appear dimmed.
- Ability to turn off a note in the "Edit Sequence" page. Similarly to the ability to turn off a channel, drag the note column all the way down to the bottom of the screen. The note will display "rest" at the top of the screen.
- Track Speed range increased from 1-240 bpm to 1-320 bpm.
Connecting littleBits Synth kit to other instruments
This is a useful piece on connecting your little bits kit to other instruments, but it's audio only, not MIDI. I do hope they do that. Anyway, I need to get a mic module now.
Bleep Labs - 12 Nebulophone choir
12 Nebulophones into a mixer with no effects. Arpeggio rates of some linked together over IR.
Made by Thomas Fang and Cordey Lopez of Bleep Labs.
Kits and fully built units available at bleeplabs.com
Music 4.5 The Music In-app Economy, 19th Feb, London
Mood481 on Spotify
I was really pleased to see the Synthpatcher news page
Use a bluetooth keyboard with Caustic?
Brief update on what's happening with JACK
Nebulous Theremin Synth arrives
Nebulous Theremin Synth arrives for iOS. Looks like it's fun, and it's free.
The Nebulous Theremin Synthesizer has been designed to re-create the classic sounds of a theremin, and adapted for iOS devices. Touching the screen produces a tone. Moving to the right increases the pitch, and movong up increases the volume.
NAMM2014 CUICO & Miselu's C.24 iPad keyboard and the expansion module ...
Malte from Miselu is speaking from about 1:58 in this video. I would have liked to see a bit more about the modules, but I'm sure it'll come.
How do you organise your app? Your views are needed
Interested to hear from people as to what you do, and if some themes come out then perhaps we'll have a poll on it.
How to get GBA4iOS on iOS 7 (NO JAILBREAK)
#lsdj on the iPhone! How cool is that!
Go to the video on youtube to see the full instructions
VividTracker Tutorial - making a drum loop with the echo feature
VividTracker is an Amiga Protracker compatible music app for the iPhone and iPad. You can use it to load, edit, save, and create new Protracker music. This tutorial shows how to make a nice drum loop using the echo feature.
VividTracker will be released on App Store in late January 2014 (which is tomorrow, so I hope that this gets out very soon).
Visit http://www.vividtracker.com for more information.
VividTracker has been submitted to the app store
Doc Pop's awesome kickstarter has less than two weeks to go
It's only just under a couple of weeks to go, so there's still time to get in.
Polytron experiments (video of chained monotrons with polyphony)
This is just a experiments for MIDI-Bare. For more information check there.
http://beatnic.jp/products/midi-bare/
Have you visited libpd.cc in a while?
There's now a very nice little showcase at the top showing just what's been made with libpd which might surprise you as well.
Worth a look anyway. You can find it here.
Really useful list of iOS devices and maximum OS versions
DrumJam also updated to 1.2 with lots of good things ...
- Additional loops and instruments now available for In-App Purchase.
- BEDLAM chaotic pad instrument effects: randomized pitch, pan, glitch, and reverse as you play the pads.
- Inter-App-Audio support (IAA), for smooth integration into midi and audio DAW workflows.
- Added control for the loop beat count to alter the effective time signature (2 through 8 beats per loop).
- Added Drop Chance control that causes the auto-repeat to randomly drop hits when dragging on the pads.
- Additional user preset export options
- Master limiter effect added
- MIDI clock sync improvements
- Loop pitch is now adjustable (all loops together)
- Streamlined settings
- AudioCopy v2 support
- iOS7 optimizations
And don't forget that the price is down from $7.99 to $3.99.
Santoor 3-AUFX:Dub-AUFX:Space-AUFX:PeakQ-trimmed
Pants of Death "Voicemail" comes to Bandcamp and iTunes
I can't really help but smile when I see the words "Pants of Death", so with a smile it's great to see this album come to Bandcamp and also to iTunes. I don't know which one makes more money for his, but I hope that he does well out of it.
As ever, please support the mobile music community.
Pants of Death "Voicemail" on iTunes
PSP Rhythm TuneFreak-PSPamenjungle
Video description:
Little jungle on PSP Rhythm, amazing program for PSP. Amen break arrangement has been done in PSP Rhythm.
www.tunefreak.org
News from @nlogmusic
However probably not all reported Nave bugs have been fixed. For these, a new crash reporting is incorporated helping me to kill them also.
— Tempo Rubato (@nlogmusic) January 29, 2014
News from @nlogmusic
Other Nave bugs fixed are when running in background and MIDI prog changes sent. Further some patch export issues have been fixed.
— Tempo Rubato (@nlogmusic) January 29, 2014
News from @nlogmusic
The Nave update fixes Core MIDI issues some had for specific controllers. I'll roll this out also for NLog and iSEM in the following.
— Tempo Rubato (@nlogmusic) January 29, 2014
SunVox 1.7.4 arrives on iOS
- engine optimization;
- extended Visualization Parameters in the Module Properties: type of the Level Meter, type of the Oscilloscope, background, shadow, etc.;
- available Level Meter modes: OFF, Mono, Stereo, Color, Glow effect;
- available Oscilloscope modes: OFF, Points, Lines, Bars, Bars2 (symmetrical), Stereo phase scope (Goniometer), Stereo phase scope x2;
- default Visualization Parameters can be set in the SunVox Preferences (Main menu -> Preferences -> Modules -> Default visualizer);
- new module - Sound2Ctl; this module can convert the audio signal to the numeric value of any selected controller;
- new module - MultiCtl; with this module you can control multiple controllers at once;
- WaveShaper: new controller "DC filter" (DC Blocking Filter) has been added; enabled by default;
- Amplifier: new controller "Absolute" has been added; enable it to apply "absolute value" filter to the signal;
- MultiSynth: new buttons have been added: Options, Reset, Smooth, Load, Save;
- MultiSynth: now you can switch between different types of Velocity Graphs in the Options menu; it is useful for complex velocity mapping;
- DrumSynth is now supports Velocity Change commands;
- "Change font size" option has been changed to "Scale"; and now you can change the pattern editor scale very smoothly on any device;
- now you can set the name of the pattern, instead of the 16x16 icon;
- the Scale parameter can be changed for each module separately (in the Module Preferences);
- additional File Browser functions: Remove, Rename, Cut, Copy, Paste, Create Directory;
- now you can see the file size in the File Browser;
- new simple examples: sound2ctl*, drumsynth*;
- new song examples: moon_secrets, CsardasContinuum (by Frantisek Fuka (Fuxoft)), berlin_fm_-_nt, visualizer_demo, silence_artifacts;
- bugs fixed.
Nave 1.4 coming ...
Nave update 1.4 submitted to Apple!
— Tempo Rubato (@nlogmusic) January 28, 2014
Nave 1.4: Poly aftertouch via MIDI, native 64 bit support, bug fixes, performance optimization, audio buffer size in iOS Settings App.
— Tempo Rubato (@nlogmusic) January 28, 2014
The future's looking very bright for SoundCloud
S4 Rhythm Composer Pro adds virtual MIDI
XOR Trinity by Bastl Instruments
XOR specific Features:
- 6 voice polyphony
- wavetable based -- sine, saw, triangle, digi-noise
- played ONLY by MIDI using MIDI Bastl
- ^[xor], & [and], |[or] modulation + modulation between voices
- arpeggiator -- gate and note modes, different shapes, adjustable speed, MIDI clock sync,
- 8 different sound settings in one preset
- 6 presets
- ADSR
- LFO
- full MIDI implementation (note, velocity, pitch bend, mod wheel sustain, CC, clock)
Trinity Features:
- available assembled or as a soldering kit
- software reprogrammable by Arduino (breakout for standard FTDi USB)
- hardware expandable and hackable -- including breakouts for sensors or more buttons
- chain connectors to share power, audio and communication within more Trinity/Bastl instruments
- user memmory for storing presets and patterns (exportable, transferable)
- stylish lasercut replacable enclosure with instrument labels
- adjustable volume
- mono, 16385 hz, 14 bit -- double PWM sound generation
- TRS Jack 3.5mm audio output able to drive headphones
- powered from 9V positive polarity power supply (2.1 mm) or from the Trinity chain (use switch to select)
- running Mozzi library and Bastl library for Arduino
DIY Instrument + Arduino (very short video)
"Using Arduino and DIY Instrument Kit to create modular sounds. Soon there will be more DIY instruments joining this fella in a orchestral."
AUFX:Dub getting even more goodness
AUFX:Dub will get feedback filter on/off, soft/hard feedback clipping, sine modulation for chorus/flangr/vibr w opt decorrelated stereo mode
— J.Liljedahl/Kymatica (@j_liljedahl) January 27, 2014
More presets coming to AUFX:Dub
Doing a bunch of new presets for the coming AUFX:Dub update
— J.Liljedahl/Kymatica (@j_liljedahl) January 27, 2014
NLog MIDI Synth updated too
NLogSynth PRO moves to native 64bit and more
Giant Isopod (universal), noise synth arrives
Giant Isopod is a synthesizer to generate noise. Let's try and drown in the noise coming from the depths of the sea!
Features
- Oscillator
- Two Oscillators
- Four Wave Types: Saw / Square / Noise / Magic
- Pitch Sync
Filter
- Three Filter Types: BPF / HPF / LPF
LFO
- Three LFOs
- Four Wave Types : Sine / Square / Saw / Random
- Six Destinations : OSC1 Pitch / OSC1 Volume / OSC2 Pitch / OSC2 Volume / Filter CutOff / Master Volume
FX
- Two FXs: Lo-Fi / Delay
Controls
- Two assignable X-Y Pads
- Assignable Gyro Control
Others
- Supports virtual MIDI (MIDI IN only).
- Supports MIDI sync (LFO Rate, Delay Time).
- Supports Background playback.
- Supports Audiobus (Input).
- Supports for iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad as a universal app.
The app is priced at $2.99.
Audio Mastering 2.0 arrives!
- Fully updated 32-bit audio processing algorithms.
- Standard and Advanced processing control modes.
- Parametric equalizer in addition to graphic.
- Spectrum analyzer with switching connection points.
- Switchable crossover frequency for Stereo Imaging.
- Additional controls for Maximizer.
- Separate adjustment of input level reduction.
- Improved controls for presets.
- Compare mode for presets in each track.
- Inter-App Audio supported.
- New color schemes of visual interface.
- Built-in description updated.
littleBits Paper Sequencer - Mechanical iPad Alchemy Army
Just how awesome is that!
"This project uses littleBits to sequence two circuits, the main black blocks right of the paper are running the Korg synth bits and are connected by the pulse clock on the left.
Two instruments sequenced and playing in time with each other. One is a robot playing an iPad and the other is a synth. It's been fun working!"
Meet AMPLIFi—The Guitar Amp, Reinvented | Line 6
AMPLIFi is unlike any guitar amp you've ever played. Hear every note in amazing detail with a 5-speaker stereo design. Jam to your favorite tracks with an integrated Bluetooth® streaming speaker system. Dial in amazing tones from the cloud with the AMPLIFi Remote iOS app. Watch to see how AMPLIFi redefines what's possible in a guitar amp.
http://line6.com/amplifi/
polynomi-on (universal) arrives
I don't cover tuner apps very often, but this one looked interesting ...
But this one was Audiobus compliant so I thought it should get a mention ...
The Auto-Tune iOS app for vocal pitch correction is available on the Apple App store. Now Antares' world class Auto-Tune ® recording studio technology is available for the local performer to use live, on-stage, using an iPhone or iPad. Alpha Scorpii is pleased to partner with Antares Audio Technologies of Scotts Valley, CA to bring the Auto-Tune technology to the iOS platform.
“With more and more artists bringing iPads on stage for set lists, lyric viewers, and such, it is a great time to bring vocal pitch correction on stage too” says Sue Marvin of Alpha Scorpii. "Auto-Tune iOS is made with the local musician in mind. Whether you are singing lead or backup vocals, trying to reach a difficult high note, or just wanting to make sure you're on pitch, Auto-Tune iOS is a safety net to make sure everything in your performance is in-tune.”
The Auto-Tune iOS app works by connecting the iPhone / iPad between the microphone and the P.A. / sound system using a microphone audio interface device and the appropriate cords. General pitch correction is achieved easily with the default settings to make sure the vocalist is in tune, not singing sharp or flat. More precise pitch correction can be achieved by targeting specific melody notes and/or setting a specific key or scale of target pitches. Meters on the app indicate which note a vocalist is singing and whether they are singing sharp or flat.
In addition to natural sounding pitch correction, a vocalist can apply the iconic “Auto-Tune Effect” using the app, to create that robotic vocal effect popular in hip-hop and pop music. A bypass button on the screen can be used to easily and quickly apply or remove the effect.
Auto-Tune iOS brings professional pitch correction to the iOS platform. Auto-Tune iOS is Audiobus-compatible; it is positioned as a filter effect on the Audiobus; and so can be used in recording situations with other Audiobus iOS music apps.
News from @AudioEvolution5
USB Audio Recorder PRO 1.3.0 released: mixer controls are now saved and a bunch of bug fixes and improvements.
— Audio Evolution (@AudioEvolution5) January 27, 2014
MobMuPlat update
- New GUI widget "LCD" draws 2D graphics
- Incorporate LANdini networking protocol for more robust network messaging
- Audio routing to external devices and multichannel output
- Trigger system vibration
- Use system compass data
- fix OSC message bug (in sending multiple values in a message)
Sunvox competition is still open
Anything new for the wait list?
More iRing content at Volterock
Good overview of Caustic 3 from Distraub
Back in 2007: A first look at Audiobox
No input AUFX:Dub+AUFX:Space self resonance from kymatica
I love this sound and how it's made. I've always been interested in no-input mixing so to know that this can be done on an iPhone is awesome.
Track description:
AUFX:Dub was set to self oscillation with MUTE IN and some TAPE NOISE, then processed through AUFX:Space.
So here's the weekly round up
The biggest news of course is Korg's new app, Gadget Mobile!
New apps:
- Moonbeam synth sampler brings some retro love to iOS
- Yellofier comes to Android
- Fugue MIDI sequencer arrives
- Sequential for iPad arrives
- Yellofier VW arrives for both iOS and Android!
- It's a big week for Android with I am Synth from Detune also arriving
- And following the theme, Cubase iC Pro also get
Here are the big updates:
- After a long time Brainwave sequencer gets a big update
- energyXT gets an unexpected update
- Multitrack Studio for iPad adds IAA and more
- AUFX:PeakQ adds a spectrum analyser and more
- AUFX:Dub also gets an update
- Sunvox 1.7.4 brings the modular synth to Raspberry Pi
The big news:
- Apptronica issue 2 is out
- Not all is lost for Jack or so it seems
- Miselu brought lots of friends to NAMM, here's why
- Doc Pop campaign keeps going strong ...
- Teenage Engineering show their new OS for the OP-1
- Look at what Reactable brought to NAMM
So, I'm betting things will be a bit quieter in the coming week, but who knows.
Looks like NLogSynth PRO update is coming very soon
Poly aftertouch for onscreen & external keyboards (choose in mod matrix), 64bit native processing for newest devices, optimized sound engine
— Tempo Rubato (@nlogmusic) January 26, 2014
In fact I've rewritten the sound engine. Choose audio buffer size in iOS settings app. Many fixes, ok not so many since NLog is stable ;-)
— Tempo Rubato (@nlogmusic) January 26, 2014
On iPad Air & retina mini you can set to run with 128 buffer unless using many other apps in parallel. Check in the iOS settings app.
— Tempo Rubato (@nlogmusic) January 26, 2014
Further, control rate has been down to 16 samples for iPad Air & retina mini. This is what typically digital pro hardware synths use today.
— Tempo Rubato (@nlogmusic) January 26, 2014
Go to mod matrix, choose "Aftertouch" as source & set up to 3 destinations. Use vertical movements onscreen, or capable external controller.
— Tempo Rubato (@nlogmusic) January 26, 2014
A fugue update is in review with Apple
- The app will now transmit MIDI in the background, so you can leave it playing and focus on tweaking your iOS synths! When the app loads, be sure to allow access to the microphone. Although the microphone is not used within the app, this is the permission required to allow background operations.
- Ability to turn a channel off. Go to the “Track MIDI Channel” page and drag the track column all the way down to the bottom of the screen. The channel will display “off” at the top of the screen. When a Track MIDI Channel has been set to “off”, the corresponding columns on the other Track properties will appear dimmed.
- Ability to turn off a note in the “Edit Sequence” page. Similarly to the ability to turn off a channel, drag the note column all the way down to the bottom of the screen. The note will display “rest” at the top of the screen.
- Track Speed range increased from 1-240 bpm to 1-320 bpm.
Sábado Dance by Angel José
Made with Figure for iOS. Don't have Figure yet? It's a fun, easy and bargain-priced music making app that anyone can use! Read about it here: http://ift.tt/16XygCL
SPOOKYZOO - Soundfont Pro - My tune for winning app. by spookyzoo
After winning a code for Soundfont Pro over at iPadMusicians facebook group, the task was to create a song and write up using that app. It's a very cool app. It can load up 8 simultaneous soundfonts and also has the ability to split a keyboard into 4 zones and assign 2 fonts to each. I used some pretty CPU heavy fonts and pushed the limits of my iPad 4 using it in conjunction with Cubasis where I recorded all the midi data, and recorded the audio back into cubasis via Soundfont pro. EVERY sound is from SFpro, no added fx. It was my first real track using cubasis too, so much of the process was experimental. Hope it's deserving of the promo code. Thanks to Linda over at the facebook group and to Azfar the developer. :)
Figure Hero by Angel José
My daughter was singing the song Hero, from the group called Family of the Year. Pretty catchy song, so I made a mini cover with Figure. For some reason I have been very attached to this app, lots of fun playing around with it! Made with Figure for iOS. Don't have Figure yet? It's a fun, easy and bargain-priced music making app that anyone can use! Read about it here: http://ift.tt/16XygCL
Fugue+SampleTank+AUFX Dub+Remaster by MOG_hidekinoway
Uploaded with AudioShare app - http://ift.tt/109HeHL
Silence Speaks by martinneuhold
A little ambient Jam, using a looped reording of Bowl, Alchemy and iFretless Sax, AUFXspace and AUFXdub, AudioMastering and MasterRecord.
DiagonaL HorizoN by JINXPADLOCK
Another instalment from my "Autumnal Downward" set. Not cheery, but trippy enough to sit through in the dark! Its heavily influenced by two movies I've recently seen, the amazing "Gravity" and the odd, yet wonderful "Berberian Sound Studio" Going for the dynamics and the filth. Made with iSem, CubeSynth, Thor, Nave, DM1, Cubasis, a SHITLOAD of Audiobus and Nanostudio on iOS. 2014 hasn't started well, Noro virus, chest infection then to top the cake, a kidney infection, so its good to get these gloomy tracks out whilst still in a weird state of mind. Do not fear, I have a sleeve full of rave coming your way very soon Thanks for listening, thanks even more if you listened loud and in the dark :) Pez x
Winter2014_01 by MOG_hidekinoway
*Phew... Finally, the first song of this year (A Happy New Year!) *Made with Yellofier, JohnCagePiano app, Beatmaker2, LIVE FX, Audiobus, and Remaster app. *Also, check out the short visual&audio project I started at http://ift.tt/1l9JeLX
G-Stomper-3-VA-Beast-Synthesizer-Preview, created with G-Stomper Beat Studio 3.0 BETA for Android by planethcom
G-Stomper-3-VA-Beast-Synthesizer-Preview Created with G-Stomper Beat Studio for Android 3.0 BETA | http://ift.tt/1l9Jevn All Synthesizer sounds are created with the newly integrated VA-Beast Synthesizer. Check out the first impressions of the upcoming release 3.0 at the Support Forum: http://ift.tt/1l9Jevp G-Stomper Beat Studio is available on Google Play http://ift.tt/YMUwsO .. and Amazon http://ift.tt/1emFYDL
Deadly Like Blue (KORG Gadget - First Impression) by akvalley
KORG Gadget for iPad released yesterday (January 23rd). My first impression is that it is powerful yet intuitive. This is a single loop that uses the mute function on the scene control that brings parts in and out of focus. The gadgets I used: Chiang Mai London Tokyo Marseille Berlin Amsterdam Helsinki Kiev Chicago Wolfsburg Miami Brussels Caution: It crashed several times while I was editing, so remember to save often.
Cynical Pinnacle (Gadget) by Sinking Feeling
iPolysix Sessions Vol 1 On iTunes http://ift.tt/1mtk9qt
unnamed generator (Gadget) by Sinking Feeling
iPolysix Sessions Vol 1 On iTunes http://ift.tt/1mtk9qt
what the devil offers (Gadget) by Sinking Feeling
iPolysix Sessions Vol 1 On iTunes http://ift.tt/1mtk9qt
Let's Automate This Sucka (Gadget) by Sinking Feeling
iPolysix Sessions Vol 1 On iTunes http://ift.tt/1mtk9qt
bad mouth (iPolysix Remixable) by Sinking Feeling
iPolysix Sessions Vol 1 On iTunes http://ift.tt/LS60aW
Let The Machines Have Their Party by Mike J Dayton
Drums and percussion created with Robotic Drum and Samplewiz, along with Animoog and noisemusik. Processing done with AUFX space, peak, and audacity.
Sabado Dance by Angel José
So, after some encouragement last week from a couple of friends I completed this extended version of Sábado Dance. From the original 3 tracks on Figure it became a 13 track affair using Audiobus to channel all Figure sounds to Garageband. There I arranged and exported to Audio Mastering for final touches. Enjoy!
SunTea -- C3 Modelling Project Remix Preview by EIPStudiosOhio
Here's a sneak peek at the start of some modelling projects I've got planned to showcase using Caustic 3 from SingleCellSoftware....
Doctor Rave Will See You Now by JINXPADLOCK
So, second tune today, this came together pretty quickly in Cubasis so I thought I throw a few new toys at it. The arsenal available on iOS is ridiculous these days, its hard to keep up with it! We're definitely back to rave business here, hope its a turning point on those months of hell. This was made using Artic Pro, Telepathy, Modular, VirtualANS, TF7, Thor, Nave, RoboticDrum and the trusty DM1. Mixed and arranged in Nanostudio on an iPad. Can see this screaming in Logic. Beware the bass...
A loop in C at 120 bpm by martinneuhold
Contest entry for iPAd Musician Facebook group. Made with Korg Gadget, BM2, Bowls, iTabla Pro, Alchemy and Thumbjam. A bit strange, maybe....Uploaded with AudioShare app - http://ift.tt/109HeHL
I saw this over at Matrixsynth and thought it was really awesome
The post at Matrixsynth has no additional detail. Of course this isn't an iPad, but my assumption is that the screen would work the same way. If Reactable can get this working on the iPad screen it'll be awesome! I'd buy a set anyway.
Via Matrixsynth - NAMM: New Reactable Prototype - iPad with Physical Blocks.