iProphet Tutorial (video)
Glen Darcey, Arturia VP of Product Management, is your guide and makes you discover all the functionalities and features of the iProphet app.
It's a thing for real ... say hello to iProphet
So it really is a thing then ... Here's iProphet.
iProphet recreates the unique sound of the classic Sequential Circuits Prophet VS synthesizer. The Prophet VS's rareness and classic digital sound make it a mainstay for those who can find them and a seemingly out or reach dream for those who cannot. The sound is purely classic crisp digital sound that easily stands on its own, but at the same time is the perfect compliment to the sound of analog synthesizers. It brings the crystaline vintage sound of four digital oscillators and allows sculpting them using a creamy & warm multimode filter. You can morph the sound of the 4 oscillators using the joystick or the vector mode and the vector envelope.
The iProphet is great for evolving pads, sharp leads and super punchy digital bass sounds and comes with over 500 presets created by some of todays best sound designers. You can also swap presets between iProphet and Arturia's Prophet V synthesizer which allows you to work on the iPAD and finish in the DAW of your choice.
iProphet supports Core MIDI, interapp-audio as well as Audiobus technologies for perfect integration.
iProphet is also a Tabletop Ready app. You can use it exclusively or along side your favorite Tabletop instruments.
iProphet costs $9.99 on the app store:
Tabletop 2.6 arrives
Here's what's new in Tabletop:
For Tabletop 2.6 we've added the Tabletop-Ready polyphonic-beast-of-a-synthesizer, iProphet.
We're also introducing a new device we call Interfx, an Inter-App Audio Effects Slot.
We've squashed a lot of bugs and spent a ton of time testing, refining, and testing some more. We can't wait to hear what you'll do with this release! Stability and Performance is improved across the board.
Thanks for the continued support and being an awesome community of music makers.
For Tabletop 2.6 we've added the Tabletop-Ready polyphonic-beast-of-a-synthesizer, iProphet.
We're also introducing a new device we call Interfx, an Inter-App Audio Effects Slot.
We've squashed a lot of bugs and spent a ton of time testing, refining, and testing some more. We can't wait to hear what you'll do with this release! Stability and Performance is improved across the board.
Thanks for the continued support and being an awesome community of music makers.
Pull version 2 has arrived
Synthtopia tells about version 2 of this control template for Ableton and M4L.
What's new? Here you go ...
- Control of VST, AU plugins and Max for Live Devices directly from your iPad
- A template for every live native device (over 60 templates).
- A simple framework to create your own templates (no Max development needed. You can simply create all of your templates in Lemur)
- Mixing controls for tracks
- Navigation between devices/tracks – even inside rack chains
- Rename drum pad names
- Drum rack slider scrolling – scroll up/down.
- Detailed template creation tutorial
- Demonstration templates for CamelCrusher VST and XVAnalogFilter Max for Live Device
In case you missed it, apeFilter arrived this morning
In case you missed it, apeFilter arrived this morning. All the details are in the original post here.
Master of Man Soundpack (Week 2) (video)
Video description:
"In week 2 of our FREE weekly soundpacks, Alex shows off his custom soundpack "Master of Man" for Ableton Live. So grab a midi controller and have some fun!"
Studio Amplify's NOiZE app being a hit at the Royal Festival Hall for the Beautiful Octopus Club
I've been meaning to post these for a while now, and as it is the last day of September it seemed like a good day to post about this one last time.
Well you don't see a Chimera bC16 very often
These are rare to say the least, so I thought I really should share this one. At the moment it's quite cheap, but I suspect it'll go for quite a bit as it still has 4 days to go.
Click on the link below to take a look.
Chimera Synthesis BC16 with lots of extras
Reminder: London's Mini Maker Faire is only 6 weeks away!
In 6 weeks it'll be the London Mini Maker Faire at
Elephant and Castle. You can get tickets and take a look at some of the
cool stuff that is likely to be there. I'm going to be there myself even
though it does clash with day two of the Music Production Expo.
Anyway, full details plus tickets etc here.
Anyway, full details plus tickets etc here.
If you're interested in knowing more about the London hardware scene
If that's something you'd like to know more about and would like to see a great showcase of London hardware start ups, then this is the event for you.
Here's a good list of IAA apps
I've posted this list as it is a great resource for Inter-App-Audio apps categorised into hosts FX and instruments, big thanks to audre.io for this.
Have you heard of Sonocase?
I heard about them through reddit, but thought that this was something well worth sharing with everyone. Here's their site, facebook page, and also a new gallery of photos of the prototype.
Looking forward to seeing this on kickstarter.
Missed the round up from last week? Find it all here
In case you missed the round up post from Sunday, you can find it by just clicking here and then catch up with anything that you missed from last week.
SAM: The Ultimate Internet Connected Electronics Kit on Kickstarter
Something else for you to spend your hard earned cash on. SAM reminds me of littleBits a lot, and on balance I'll probably stay with them for now, but SAM does look good though.
Music App Blog's excellent resource list
I'm sure I've posted a link to this massive page of links before, but it really is a great comprehensive list of resources for iOS music making, and well worth checking and bookmarking.
Music In The Age of Democratization: Gerhard Behles (Ableton) & Matt Black (Ninja Tune) in Conversation (audio)
I posted this before, but whilst listening to it again I kind of picked up on something that Gerhard said towards the end of the discussion (1:06:30 onwards), which makes me think that they're not really going to venture into the apps world as they still see it as a 'toy'. That was what I took from it, of course, you should make up your own mind though.
iPodfather laments the discontinuation of the Classic
Only a short piece about the discontinuation of the iPod Classic, Tony Fadell talks about how he feels about the classic going.
Reminder: More Music Tech Fest dates coming up
Just a quick reminder that there are more Music Tech Fest dates coming up that might be of interest to you.
Here's what they have planned ...
Berlin October 24-26, Paris November 21-23, New York December 12-14, with the addition of São Paulo, Auckland, Umeå, Los Angeles and Amsterdam in 2015.
I'm sure something will fit for you.
Berlin October 24-26, Paris November 21-23, New York December 12-14, with the addition of São Paulo, Auckland, Umeå, Los Angeles and Amsterdam in 2015.
I'm sure something will fit for you.
apeFilter (universal) arrives
apeFilter is a sophisticated Equaliser, the DSP is based on the Biquad/Cascade filters, very fast! The graphical interaction provides a great tool to design an extremely precise and smooth frequency response by directly manipulating up to 36 Peaks Filters. The Spectral Grid compilers increase the complexity and coherence between the filters bandwidth space. You can create your pitch space by the way of four different criteria of construction by determining a pitches grid: Fibonacci, Harmonic, Geometric and Scalar. Use apeFilter for sculpt your sound through the embedded sampler or LIve from Audiobus or Inter-Audio-App Input. Among the FX chain, an amazing ClassicVerb is available.
- 6 Common Filters: Lowpass, Hipass, Bandpass, Notch, Lowshelf, Hishelf
- 36 Peak Filters for Spectral Grid Compilers
- 4 Spectral Grid Compilers: Fibonacci, Harmonic, Geometric and Scalar
- MIDI Note On/Off messages, for playing Filters Frequency and Filters Peaks Gain
- HV Pad for Filters Interpolations between Bands
- Sampler, embedded
- Three post Fx: Stereo Delay, Amazing ClassicVerb and Dynamic compressor/expander
- Audiobus and Inter-App Audio Support
- AudioCopy and Dropbox
- Midibus Support
- iOs 8 compatible
- All the others common apeSoft features
apeFilter costs $6.99 on the app store:
ANI at Ephemeral Vessels event (Babeland Gallery, CODAME) (video)
Video description:
Live looping iPad performance on two iPads plus a Korg Kaoss pad at B4B3L4B's Ephemeral Vessels event in Oakland's Babeland Gallery. CODAME artists showed off interactive installations while ANI made dance music on the middle floor.
Video recorded from a new overhead cam and GoPro.
Free audio download at:
https://soundcloud.com/animusicsf/ani-at-ephemeral-vessels-event-babeland-gallery-codame
Nice use of NanoStudio.
Back in 2008: A first round up on iPhone apps
It's strange to think of a time when you could round up all the apps for a platform (like iOS) in a single post. But back in 2008 this is what I did. You can read the round up of the first batch of iPhone music making apps right here.
CME, Wizdom and Omenie give away, every week for 5 weeks!
CME, Wizdom Music and Omenie are giving away hardware and apps! An Xkey, a Jordantron and a Sopranotron every week for next 5 weeks!!
— Omenie (@omeniesoftware) September 29, 2014
Check their Facebook page for more.
Here's why the TJ Android video is gone
Sorry folks, I had to take down the TJ Android demo video. A new and improved one will be coming soon…
— ThumbJam (@thumbjam) September 30, 2014Back in 2008: miniSynth arrived!
Well it didn't take very long to get here. After a quick look yesterday miniSynth from Yonac arrived the next day (today). You can read the original post here.
AudioShare Walk Through (video)
If you don't know AudioShare then you should take a look as it really is the swiss army knife of mobile music apps.
Nice work Bismark ...
MIDI over Bluetooth LE works! pic.twitter.com/dh1DV3Vl45
— bismark (@_bismark) September 29, 2014
ThumbJam on Galaxy Note 4 (with Samsung Soundcamp) (video)
Video description:
"The well known iOS app ThumbJam will be available on Samsung's Galaxy Note 4!
Thanks to Samsung's new Professional Audio SDK, latency is much better than it used to be on Android devices so we decided to take the plunge.
At first it will be available on the new Galaxy Note 4 and Note Edge, but later it should also be available on Note 3 and S5."
So it looks Android Audio is really starting to take off !
ThumbJam coming to Android?
Surprise! If you get a Samsung Galaxy Note 4, you'll be able to get ThumbJam for it too! :)
— ThumbJam (@thumbjam) September 29, 2014Haven't seen a video for this as yet, but I'm looking forward to it when it arrives
WR 6000 AIRPLAY MODE AND MIDI TIME CODE READY just AMAZING!!
Jaam with ABLETON LOGIC, CUBASE WITHOUT LATENCY
I will post a video this week.
— Wejaam (@wejaam) September 26, 2014OT: Friend Gawain Hewit''s first piece from his visit to Bangladesh is at Spitalfields Music 5th -16th December
Spitalfields Winter Festival, 5th-16th December,my first piece from the visit to Bangladesh http://t.co/r1K3MybQuR @SpitsMusic
— Gawain Hewitt (@GawainHewitt) September 27, 2014
MIDI clock coming to MIDI Designer?
Apps that support MIDI Clock. Cool list. We’re hoping to get on there before year’s end.
http://t.co/Zn7ApcAKzw
— MIDI Designer (@MIDIDesigner) September 27, 2014According to this tweet it is.
SpringSound (universal) arrives
SpringSound is a physical-modeling audio synthesizer that produces sounds by simulating interactions and vibrations of a set of activators and masses connected to springs. The model offers detailed control of an array of features including: gravity, bouncing, fluid and static friction, mechanical limits, non-linear functions, and more.
SpringSound is provided with a very large set of sound presets that you can tweak and save.
It can be used as a sound generator or as an effect using its Audio-In feature, opening a new world of physical modeled effects. It is fully Audiobus® 2 and inter-app audio compatible, and manage state saving.
SpringSound can be controlled by a standard MIDI keyboard and directly from the iOS device screen.
SpringSound app is designed for optimum use with the Haken Continuum (www.hakenaudio.com) and integrate an IOS Continuum Remote (iPad only) allowing a very comprehensive and accurate remote control of the Continuum from your iPad (access to all parameters except programming the Eagan Matrix).
SpringSound has be designed to explore sounds domains you won’t be able to access with other synthesis technics. It expands your sonic palette with a new world of physical sounds. It is a rich musical instrument, a sophisticated sound-design tool and an entertaining sonic playground.
SpringSound costs $2.99 on the app store:
Something very cool coming from Omenie ...
@discchord @AudiobusApp thanks for this - next app, (Virtual Analog multisynth, PIANA on iOS) will be targeting iPad AND iPhone 6 Plus.
— Omenie (@omeniesoftware) September 28, 2014Konkreet Performer 2.2 supports MIDI over Bluetooth
Can happily confirm that Konkreet Performer 2.2 supports MIDI over Bluetooth! (iOS8 -> Yosemite Beta)
— KonkreetLabs (@konkreetlabs) September 27, 2014Reminder: Music Production Expo in London on the 14th and 15th
Another reminder about this event because I'm really pleased to see something like this happening in London. So if you are going to be in London in mid-November then you should definitely check out Music Production Expo which is on the 14th and the 15th.
I'm planning to be there on both days so let me know if you'd like to meet up.
Buy your tickets and get this deal, it's pretty good and worth the price of the ticket and more.
I'm planning to be there on both days so let me know if you'd like to meet up.
Buy your tickets and get this deal, it's pretty good and worth the price of the ticket and more.
Korg confirm that iOS8 compatible versions of their apps are on the way
We've submitted iOS 8 compatible updates of all KORG apps to the App Store.
We'll release them as soon as they're approved.
— KORG app (@korg_iapps) September 29, 2014
Now you can embed a littlBits project in any site you want
New website features are here; embed a littlebits project in your website just like you do with youtube videos! http://t.co/4nKWvaWExR
— littleBits (@littleBits) September 27, 2014littleBits just keep getting better and better ...
One year old Arctic ProSynth
First on the app store 1 year ago today! Happy birthday to Arctic ProSynth from Palm Sounds!
Reminder: Apps World Europe next month
Don't forget that there's an interesting conference and expo in London next month. Click on the graphic at the top of the page on the right to find out more about the event.
Back in 2009: A surprise coming to Windows Mobile!
Well in 2009 as everything was moving more and more towards iOS (as it was to become) I didn't expect to see 4Pockets announced Aurora for Windows Mobile. It was a complete surprise although not in any way unwelcome at all. I still have it on my Windows Mobile PDA. Read the original post on Aurora for Windows Mobile.
A giveaway coming from Omenie ... Today?
Preparing for a brilliant hardware + software giveaway involving Jordantron AND Sopranotron, launching tomorrow ... set Facebook to 'Like'!!
— Omenie (@omeniesoftware) September 28, 2014Back in 2008: A first look at Yonac's miniSynth
Yonac's first ever iPhone app, miniSynth was an amazing step to see a little synth on your iPhone. You can read the original post (with video) here.
Just so you know, Yonac's app sale is ending tonight, so grab one of their excellent apps for only $1 each
They tweeted earlier to say that the sale ends tonight, so grab on the great apps below and pick up a bargain.
Here's what's still on offer:
Hope you find something you like!
Here's what's still on offer:
- ToneStack (universal) for just $0.99
- Thereminator (iPhone/Touch) for just $0.99
- PitchBot (iPhone/Touch) for just $0.99
- TuneORama (iPhone/Touch) for just $0.99
- Otto (universal) for just $0.99
- Magellan Jr (iPhone/Touch) for just $0.99
- AirVox (universal) for just $0.99
- Organ+ (iPhone/Touch) for just $0.99
- miniSYNTH PRO (iPad) for just $0.99
- Magellan (iPad) for just $0.99
- Galileo (iPad) for just $0.99
Hope you find something you like!
And another week goes by and a lot has happened in the world of mobile music
So that was another week has gone by since my last weekly round up. Here are the highlights as I see them from the last 7 days.
Monday 22nd:
Tuesday 23rd:
Wednesday 24th:
Thursday 25th:
Friday 26th:
Saturday 27th:
So that was the week, loads going on, and I expect we'll have a similarly busy week in the coming 7 days.
Monday 22nd:
- Don't forget to vote for Gadget (which is the only mobile app) in the music app of the year award
- TouchViz brings a bunch of new features in this latest update
- JordanTron arrived
- Apollo Sound Injector arrives to help you make complex audio chains
- Congratulations to Dentaku for winning a nice award at Maker Faire NY
- FL Studio Mobile (and HD) get updated with new effects and routing plus more
- ScaleGen from the makers of Gestrument, plus a (video) and another one about using ScaleGen and Gestrument together
- Good things coming to MoDrum and BassLine in the next release
- Here's a good demo of csSpectral effects app
- and after what seems like an age, Bebot gets an update
Tuesday 23rd:
- Tuesday brought a video of the iPhone 6+ teardown which you might be interested in
- Alchemy mobile updates bringing iCloud storage
- Take a look at Ableton's Korg export page if you're interested in finding out more about the new export feature in Gadget
- Get you module made by littleBits and you get 10% back!
- FL Studio mobile for Android gets an update
- Sound and Music's incubator is open until the end of the month
- Thingamagoop 2 is gone but this is coming
- Apptronica posts about ScaleGen
- Doug warns about iOS8
- So, after Ableton export, what's next?
- Tuna Knobs have samples now!
Wednesday 24th:
- Here's a lovely shot of Sunvox running on a Palm TX!
- Propellerhead's Take Vocal Recorder gets an export function
- And then there was Bendgate!
- Concreted0g talks about his experience of working with SoundLab.
- Sinusoid gets a nice update
- Take a look at the bleep drum module for littleBits
- TF7 Synth gets a nice update
- apeFilter demo arrives
Thursday 25th:
- FunkBox 3.5 arrives and promises more soon
- A first look at iRig Pads (video)
- Different Drummer 3.1 arrives
- iVCS3 brings MIDI clock and more
- It was Yonac's 6th anniversary on the app store, so we remember Thereminator, AirVox, and Magellan too
- GrooveCloud is getting closer to a release
- I write about my talk at ROLI this week
Friday 26th:
- The Figure Remix app is getting a new feature, shuffle!
- Here's a couple of updates from my SoundLab project, on computer vision, and also on our pop up band too
- Music and democratisation at Berlin Social Media week
- iDensity updates and brings a new reverb
- Here's a useful ScaleGen demo and tutorial
- Audio Evolution adds a vocal remover plug in and more
- Wejaam tweets a couple of new pictures of what's coming (here and here)
Saturday 27th:
- Tim posts his review of the iPhone 6 plus
- And Jacob tells us about his favourite music making sites.
So that was the week, loads going on, and I expect we'll have a similarly busy week in the coming 7 days.
Welcome to Cassette Store Day 2014
Well the day has come, and I was only talking about it just the other day. It's an awesome celebration of all things tape, and I love it. So if you're in the US, you need this site, and if you're in the EU/UK, you need this one.
Whatever you're doing to celebrate, have a great time, and if you've no idea what I'm talking about then click on one of the sites above and be enlightened.
Whatever you're doing to celebrate, have a great time, and if you've no idea what I'm talking about then click on one of the sites above and be enlightened.
What's your workflow?
Everyone has a different workflow and a different way of working and getting the sounds you want. So what's yours? How about sharing it and explaining why it works for you? Just get in touch (check the 'about' page) and tell me all about your workflow.
Reminder: Buy apps from the sites and blogs you love
Just a regular reminder that if you want to help support the blogs and sites that make up the mobile music community please do consider buying your apps using the iTunes links you find on those sites (including this one of course). Thanks.
Synth Panel from Wejaam for iOS, coming soon I hope
WEJAAM FOR IOS WR6000 THE SYNTH PANEL pic.twitter.com/67pIdnMoAU
— Wejaam (@wejaam) September 26, 2014More about WeJaam ...
WEJAAM WR6000 TRACK CONTROL PANEL ...coming soon pic.twitter.com/YH9glPHAFq
— Wejaam (@wejaam) September 26, 2014Looks like Yonac's apps are all still on sale
I've just checked the main ones, and it seems Yonac's apps are still available for just $0.99 each. I expect it won't be for much longer though.
Here's what's on offer still:
Here's what's on offer still:
- ToneStack (universal) for just $0.99
- Thereminator (iPhone/Touch) for just $0.99
- PitchBot (iPhone/Touch) for just $0.99
- TuneORama (iPhone/Touch) for just $0.99
- Otto (universal) for just $0.99
- Magellan Jr (iPhone/Touch) for just $0.99
- AirVox (universal) for just $0.99
- Organ+ (iPhone/Touch) for just $0.99
- miniSYNTH PRO (iPad) for just $0.99
- Magellan (iPad) for just $0.99
- Galileo (iPad) for just $0.99
Audio Evolution update looking good
Audio Evolution Mobile 3.3.2 released with Vocal Remover plug-in and cut/paste with ripple options (shift audio left/right after cut/paste).
— Audio Evolution (@AudioEvolution5) September 26, 2014Another update from the SoundLab project: 4 - The Pop up band
Here's another mention of my SoundLab project. In this post you can find out about our pop-up band, what the rationale behind it was and how we achieved our aims with the set up.
iDensity update brings a new reverb
Here's what's new with iDensity:
Please note: the update to Audiobus 2.1 means that unfortunately iOS 6 devices will no longer be able to run Audiobus with this update.
- iOs 8 support
- Audiobus 2.1 support
- AudioCopyAndPaste latest SDK update
- New Amazing Reverb, Thanks to Carmine Cella
- Auto name files when recording, now is more clear
- File Manager Audio Inline Preview
- Accelerometer Bypass Shortcut
- UI Improvements
- Presets Store
Please note: the update to Audiobus 2.1 means that unfortunately iOS 6 devices will no longer be able to run Audiobus with this update.
Music and Democratisation (via CDM)
Music in the Age of Democratization: Gerhard... by SMWBerlin
This post over at CDM is really worth a read, you can watch the whole thing, or in fact just listen to the audio on SoundCloud (via CDM).
Reminder: More Music Tech Fest dates coming up
If you weren't able to get to Music Tech Fest in London then there are plenty of other dates coming up that might be of interest to you. Here's what they have planned ...
Berlin October 24-26, Paris November 21-23, New York December 12-14, with the addition of São Paulo, Auckland, Umeå, Los Angeles and Amsterdam in 2015.
I'm sure something will fit for you.
Berlin October 24-26, Paris November 21-23, New York December 12-14, with the addition of São Paulo, Auckland, Umeå, Los Angeles and Amsterdam in 2015.
I'm sure something will fit for you.
Reminder: Music Production Expo in London on the 14th and 15th
Another reminder about this event. If you're in London in mid-November then you should definitely check out Music Production Expo which is on the 14th and the 15th in London. Buy your tickets and get this deal, it's pretty good and worth the price of the ticket and more.
Anyone planning on integrating the iRing?
Just remembering that Symphonix Evolution has brought IK's iRing to their app, I thought I'd ask if anyone else had planned to use this as well?
What's your app of the week?
What's the app that's been most useful or the most inspiring this week? Or maybe just the app that's been your work horse for the last few days. Tell me which one it is and why.
Ninja Jamm, Projection Mapping and wearables event on the 27th
With Mr Matt Black showing NinJa Jamm and how to make a tune pack as part of the workshop I think this could be an excellent event, and really worth considering if your in London on the 27th, i.e. tomorrow.
Event details here.
Event details here.
New shuffle feature coming to Figure Remix web app
So there's new stuff coming to Figure Addicted's Remix web app, in the form of a new shuffle feature. If you don't know the Figure Addicted community and web app (and if you're a Figure user) then you really should have a look, it's well worth it.
And a big happy birthday to Alchemy Synth!
Today in 2011 Camel Audio brought Alchemy Synth Mobile to the app store. Happy birthday!
Not exactly a BPOW this year, but it's something
So Travis is doing a full BPOW (Battery Powered Orchestra Workshop) this year, but he is doing a synth making day tomorrow, the 27th, which is great, at least if you're in or around the Portland area.
Details are here, The Projects III, a Portland comics festival, held at the awesome Independent Publishing Resource Center (www.iprc.org), SE 12th and Division
Details are here, The Projects III, a Portland comics festival, held at the awesome Independent Publishing Resource Center (www.iprc.org), SE 12th and Division
Talking about SoundLab at ROLI last night
Light night I was speaking about the SoundLab project at ROLI's regular "Modern Music Industry" event, which I've been a big fan of since they started hosting these late last year. It was a really good crowd and I was in the company of some really excellent speakers too.
Anyway, don't take my word for it, here's what ROLI said about it in an email they sent today ...
"Last night's Modern Music Industry meet-up was a huge success, gathering over 50 people in our HQ to discuss a range of issues and opportunities effecting the industry. We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who came along, especially our four fantastic speakers, it was a truly inspiring evening. For those of you that couldn't make it, here's a short round-up of what happened.
- Martin Klang spoke about 'The Owl', his open source, programmable effects pedal, and touched on the issues that start-up companies face when raising capital whilst trying to maintain creative control of their company.
- Susanna Eastburn, CEO of Sound and Music, shared her thoughts about some of the social problems the music industry is facing, particularly in regards to gender and wealth equality.
- Ashley Elsdon discussed his involvement in SoundLab, an initiative that is helping people with disabilities gain access to music.
- Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner shared his experiences of 'using the technology that is available' to create his art, from his first 4 track tape recorded to today's digital tools.
We also had the team from SubPac, who let our guests demo their wearable bass system that transfers low frequencies directly to your body. Plus we had lots of great homemade food courtesy of Cafe ROLI and some impromptu Seaboard performances in our SoundHive. Our next Modern Music Industry meet-up is on the 12th November and we already have multi award winning composer and sound artist Nick Ryan, and Paul Bonham from the London Arts Council lined up to speak. You can register here."
So if you're in the area on the 12th, then sign up and I'll see you in November.
Don't miss out, Yonac's apps are all $1 for today only to celebrate 6 years on the app store
Yonac have continued to innovate on the app store since day 1, so it's great to know that they're still going strong and celebrating today by making all their apps available for just $0.99 each!
Here's what you can:
That's an amazing bunch of apps on sale at a great price, but remember it's only today, so don't miss out!
Here's what you can:
- ToneStack (universal) for just $0.99
- Thereminator (iPhone/Touch) for just $0.99
- PitchBot (iPhone/Touch) for just $0.99
- TuneORama (iPhone/Touch) for just $0.99
- Otto (universal) for just $0.99
- Magellan Jr (iPhone/Touch) for just $0.99
- AirVox (universal) for just $0.99
- Organ+ (iPhone/Touch) for just $0.99
- miniSYNTH PRO (iPad) for just $0.99
- Magellan (iPad) for just $0.99
- Galileo (iPad) for just $0.99
That's an amazing bunch of apps on sale at a great price, but remember it's only today, so don't miss out!
Here is the beginning of a mobile modular synth
RT @codewizard58: Printing littleBits mounting plates on a T shirt =Modular synth shirt pic.twitter.com/1QRgBkFZdY
— littleBits (@littleBits) September 25, 2014
A big thank you to EUMLab for providing all the codes this evening
Thanks to EUMLab for giving away the codes, if you didn't get one you might want to take a look at their new app Drum Loops (Beats, Grooves and Rhythms) which has only been on the store for a couple of days now.
And finally, three codes available for UkeTube from EUMLab
Last of the give away, here are three promo codes for EUMLab's UkeTube app.
NWKPLP4AJ7NR
F336F6Y4J7JM
YLMMWP4EKTEA
NWKPLP4AJ7NR
F336F6Y4J7JM
YLMMWP4EKTEA
Yonac at 6: Magellan for iPad - Professional Analog Modeling Synthesizer
Yonac's flagship synth app Magellan is on sale alongside all their other apps today for just $0.99.
3 Codes up for grabs for EUMLab's UkeHero
Here are the three codes for UkeHero provided by EUMLab. Hope you get one ...
NL6JKMA93FPK
YWAT3XJLE7FE
TFHJ7RK96T93
NL6JKMA93FPK
YWAT3XJLE7FE
TFHJ7RK96T93
Yonac at 6: AirVox for iPhone and iPad - Touchless Synth
Another completely innovative app from Yonac. AirVox was entirely groundbreaking when it first came out and I think it's still an amazing use of the hardware.
Remember, it's on sale today for just $0.99.
3 Codes available for Uke101
Here we go, here are 3 codes for EUMLab's Uke101, I hope you're able to grab one.
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Yonac at 6: Thereminator, the iPhone Theremin
It's amazing that Yonac have been on the app store for 6 years now, and this video goes all the way back to the beginning.
Remember that Thereminator is on sale today for just $0.99, so get a piece of mobile music history for a ridiculously low price and celebrate with Yonac.
Giving you some notice ... App Give Away happening at 7:30pm (please read)
To celebrate the release of their latest app Drum Loops (Beats, Grooves and Rhythms), EUMLab have given us a bunch of codes for their Ukelele centric apps. So, at 7:30pm (BST) exactly I'll be posting up 3 codes for Uke101, at 8:30pm (BST) I'll be posting 3 codes for UkeHero, and at 9:30pm (BST) I'll be posting 3 codes for UkeTube.
Please remember that these codes will appear here on the blog first and not on twitter, so you'll have to watch the blog and not twitter to be able to grab one.
Please remember that these codes will appear here on the blog first and not on twitter, so you'll have to watch the blog and not twitter to be able to grab one.
iVCS3 update brings MIDI clock and loads more besides
Here's all of what's new in iVCS3:
Please note: the update to Audiobus 2.1 means that unfortunately iOS 6 devices will no longer be able to run Audiobus with this update.
- iOs 8 support
- New Midibus support
- New Midi Clock for Sequencer Sync
- New Sequencer Relative Tempo Menù
- Audiobus 2.1 support
- New Audiobus Triggers for Sequencer play/direction/rewind
- AudioCopyAndPaste latest SDK update
- Auto name files when recording, now is more clear
- Presets Store
- Save Control Manager in Presets (see Settings)
- Save Knobs Color in Presets (see Settings)
- File Manager Audio Inline Preview
- Accelerometer Bypass Shortcut
- Keyboard Note Off Graphic bug, fixed
- UI Improvements
- Minor bug fixed
Please note: the update to Audiobus 2.1 means that unfortunately iOS 6 devices will no longer be able to run Audiobus with this update.
Different Drummer 3.1 brings a new visualiser and more
Here's what's new in Different Drummer:
- New Musical Interval Visualizer
- Better UI action in Automation Panel
- Added Voice Legend to visualizer
- Fixed bug in longer waves
- Fixed bug in loading legacy files and some non-legacy issues
- Fixed ABA sequencing
- Fixed play from queue
- New Play-once and stop feature
- Editing in Grid Mode acts different for Notes, Rests, Ties and Dynamics, letting you edit individual values
- Changing measure view in Grid Mode wraps instead of stops
- Master Volume is now 0-127
- Editing ABA now autosaves
- Various UI improvements
FunkBox Drum Machine 3.5 adds iOS8, AB and promises more
Here's what's new with FunkBox Drum Machine in version 3.5:
But the other good news is ...
"We are still working on additional features for a future release, this update was primarily for iOS 8 and AudioBus compatibility. Thanks for your support!"
- Updated for iOS 8 compatibility.
- Updated with latest AudioBus library, which is required for iOS 8. AB now requires iOS 7+, so FunkBox does also. Devices using older iOS versions can still download and use FunkBox 3.4, which uses the older AB library and is iOS 5.1 - iOS 7 compatible.
- Added Audiobus state save of current MIDI routing configuration. This can be turned off via the Settings app.
- Added new roll option that will queue up the first hit so it always plays in time, instead of immediately playing it. This option can be turned on via the Settings app.
- Added missing LM-2 tambourine and conga sounds to the sample library.
- Fixed some minor bugs.
But the other good news is ...
"We are still working on additional features for a future release, this update was primarily for iOS 8 and AudioBus compatibility. Thanks for your support!"
Orphion update arrives
Orphion updates for iOS8 Audiobus 2 with state saving and adds a new interactive tutorial too.
TF7 Synth gets an update
Here's what's new with TF7 Synth:
- iOS8 Ready
- 9 new waveforms for modulator and carrier modules (Pro Pack)
- 1+2, 1+3, 1+4, 1+5, 1+6, 1+7, 1+8, 1+2+3, 1+3+5 waveforms to give you an even greater variety of sounds!
- Midi Learn. Assign your midi CC controller commands easily. (Pro Pack)
- New Auto-Vibrato effect - inject greater expressivity to your sounds - guaranteed fun! (Expanded Algorithms)
- Supports Audiobus 2 now (iOS7 and above required) (All)
- Also: Presets Pack using the new waveforms and vibrato effect coming soon - wait for it!
The Bleep Drum Module for littleBits (video)
Video description:
"The littleBit module version allows you to trigger it from any changing signal such as a a sequencer, button, or all manner of bits.
These crunchy samples go great with the smooth sounds of the synth modules!
Dr. Bleep and company think it would be a great addition to the littlebits library.
All audio direct from what you see. The littleBits proto module at the end of the chain is used to give direct audio output."
The lovely Sinusoid gets some new bits and pieces
Here's what's new with Sinusoid:
- Adding per note pitch sweep (-36 note >> +36 note, 1/44100 sec >> 1 sec).
- Adding channel and page delete (hold waste basket).
- Adding ability to change horizontal time lines (double tab on cell number).
- Adding settings for export song fadeout length.
- Adding settings for export song extra length.
- Tweaking page slide out/in algorithm.
- Tweaking touch algorithm for note settings.
- Adding ability to slow down note envelope (for individual notes)
Concreted0g talks about SoundLab
A great post from my old friend Concreted0g about his experiences working with SoundLab at the beginning of the month. Some nice pictures too.
iPhone 6 Plus Bend Test (video)
Maybe it would be a good idea to get a really strong case for these?
Propellerhead's Take Creative Vocal Recorder gets export options and other stuff
Here's all that's new in Take Creative Vocal Recorder 1.1.2:
- New song export option: iTunes File Sharing
- New About Take screen with manual and support links
- New headset and monitoring options in Settings
- Recording and sharing improvements
- Performance and bug fixes
Sunvox on a Palm TX, what a great thing to wake up to
Testing the new #SunVox on Palm Tungsten TX pic.twitter.com/WXFXGp1wMZ
— Nightradio (@Nightradio) September 24, 2014Super 64 - Retro Video Game Soundpack (video)
Whilst it isn't really mobile related it is pretty cool and I was sure that this would be of interest to at least a few.
Korg's Ableton export makes me wonder what's next
I'm still somewhat confused or rather, intrigued as to why Korg would decide to introduce the Ableton export feature in Gadget and iKoassilator. Not that I'm complaining or that I think it's a bad idea at all. In fact I've been playing with it today and I really like it, but it does make me wonder if we'll see more integration of this kind from Korg, or if they'll do similar things with Cubase, Reason, Logic? Who knows.
It's also a good way for Ableton to enter the mobile space without actually entering the mobile space. What next?
It's also a good way for Ableton to enter the mobile space without actually entering the mobile space. What next?
iOS 8 UPDATE WARNING FOR MUSICIANS (video)
It isn't anything you don't know already I expect. The rule of thumb is probably just keep waiting for now. The downside is that some apps are going iOS8 only, DM1 for iPad for one. I'm sure there'll be more apps that go that way too.
I haven't seen one of these either!
Found a couple of these vintage portable tape recorders. Never seen this tape format before. pic.twitter.com/FGvnzGmhBI
— Paul Steffen (@njrabit) September 23, 2014
Apptronica on ScaleGen
A very useful post from Apptronica on getting started with ScaleGen. Worth a read.
Thingamagoop 2 is all gone, but what's this ...
The Thingamagoop 2x might be gone but new things are coming out very soon! pic.twitter.com/qDlBAuoZCT
— Dr Bleep (@bleeplabs) September 23, 2014Using the Myo as a MIDI controller - Music Tech Fest London 2014 (video)
I saw this at MTF London earlier this month and it does look like another interesting control mechanism for music as you can see here in this video. Of course here it's being used to control a laptop, but there's no reason it couldn't work with mobile at all.
Sonoma working on updates for FourTrack and GuitarTone
Updated to iOS8 and experiencing some issues with FourTrack? Don't worry, we've submitted an update that should... http://t.co/EKLgq3eu7p
— fourtrack iphone app (@fourtrackiphone) September 22, 2014We're working on an update for GuitarTone to improve compatibility with iOS 8. Thanks for your patience!
— GuitarJack (@theguitarjack) September 22, 2014FL Studio for Android gets a great update
Here's What's new for FL Studio Mobile 2.0 for Android
Which is great news, and also another signal that Android is starting to get serious.
- Audio Tracks
- Wave editor
- Audio Recording
- Many small tweaks, improvements and bug fixes
Which is great news, and also another signal that Android is starting to get serious.
Wow, did get hear that right? if your littleBits module gets manufactured littleBits give you 10%
Watching that video again and paying a little bit more attention this time round, I heard Ayah say that if your module gets manufactured then littleBit will give you 10% of the sales! That's amazing. That all makes sense now!
If you want to know more about the Korg Ableton export feature have a look here
Ableton have a useful page on their site that gives you more information about what to do to get a Live Lite licence from inside Gadget etc and info on exporting and Live sets.
Rethink Music's Berlin Venture Day
This might be of use or interest to developers and start ups as it's quite a good package of prizes on offer too.
MIKU STOMP (feat. Otomania) (audio)
Track description:
MIKU STOMP is a compact effect unit for guitar that lets Hatsune Miku sing according to your guitar playing. Just connect your guitar, and Hatsune Miku sings when you play. The world's most famous virtual singer software Hatsune Miku was developed by Crypton Future Media, which is transforming now into this effect unit utilizing the vocal synthesis technology eVocaloid™, a vocalizing effect based on Yamaha's next-generation NSX-1 sound engine. Using your guitar to control Hatsune Miku's vocals is an easy way to obtain a richly expressive performance that has a different character than when using step-recording or a keyboard.
* MIKU STOMP supports only single notes.
Detune confirm DSN-12 coming to Europe on the 25th
So, finally, not long to wait for the DSN-12, although I haven't got a device that'll actually run it! You can read their announcement on Facebook here.
Music App Blog's excellent resource list
I'm sure I've posted a link to this massive page of links before, but it really is a great comprehensive list of resources for iOS music making, and well worth checking and bookmarking.
In case you missed it, bitLab is here
In case you missed it, bitLab, the new user generated hardware portal from littleBits, has opened. I think that this is really big news. Considering they are making this a democratic process. If the community votes up a module and over 1000 user vote for it then littleBits will make it. That's awesome.