Childhood Remixed Opening Night

Looks like people were having a lot of fun. More at Pixelh8's blog.

Monotron Video

Drum Track8 update

DrumTrack8 gets a small update. Here's what's new:

• Various crashes fixed.
• Optimized Memory Consumption and Panel Switching speed
• Note to Users : Please send us your crash logs for us to make DrumTrack8 the more stable possible !

DrumTrack8 at the app store:

Aphonium promo code give away CLOSED

Thanks to everyone who entered the promo code give away. This is closed now so please don't send any more entries in.

Aphonium at the app store:

Sunvox update

Sunvox gets an update:

• added new controller in the "generator": "Duty cycle" (only for rectangular waveform);
• WAV/AIFF/XI preview in the "load" dialogs of the "sampler";
• animated visualization of the state of the "sampler";
• 24bit WAV support;
• fixed bug in the "FM" synth;
• performance optimization.

Sunvox at the app store:

Monotron Packaging

Matrixsynth has this post with nice pictures of Monotron's in their packaging which I hadn't seen before. Apparently these were on eBay but have ended now.

microDAW for iPHone

Another audio editor for the iPhone. Looks nice, but there's already stiff competition for in this area from apps like Monle and AudioForge.

microDAW at the app store:

Sync Thing in a GB, 2 GB Sync (via Matrixsynth)

Via Matrixsynth.

Brighthand on iPhone OS4

A lot of detail in this review of what's coming in OS4. Nothing much really surprised me, but I don't think I knew about the BT keyboards before reading this.

Hard Soft Synth via TCTD

HSS3f demo from Gijs on Vimeo.

Looks like an interesting kit. Via TCTD.

Groovemaker D'n'B for iPad 50% off

I thought I ought to alert anyone who is interested in this app to the fact that it currently has a sale with 50% off at the moment.

Groovemaker apps at the app store:

ArtStudio 2.0 for iPad

ArtStudio for the iPad gets a big update:

• new design, more compliant with Apple Human Interface Guidline
• added brush type: DODGE/BURN with the following options:
• - shadows/mid-tones/highlights
• - normal/colorize
• added brush setting slider: jitter
• improved quality of brush that need texture rotating
• added new shape: polygon (open and closed)
• added opacity slider on drawing canvas
• shapes moved to separated popover
• tap and hold layer thumbnail to display layer options
• "quick menu" displayed after three-finger tap
• possibility to keep color swatches when loading an image
• real-time colorized RGB sliders
• color editing - tap old-color rectangle to restore old color
• new filter icons
• size of Airbrush increased 2 times
• better stability

ArtStudio for the iPhone

iPad DJ // TouchOSC (Part 1 of 4)

TouchOSC at the app store:

Pulse Code make AFX free

Some of you might remember this app. When it first came out it was quite amazing, but by today's standards it is really just a toy.

AFX at the app store:

Reforge update

Reforge gets an update. Here's what's new:

• Support for the latest versions of audiocopy and paste.

Reforge at the app store:

Moonbuz on TouchOSC editor update

I have to admit that this update to the TouchOSC editor had just passed me by completely, so I was glad to find out about it from Moonbuz's blog.

And the post goes on to talk about the next version of TouchOSC and the Android port too.

Is it a drum machine or an interactive album?

CreativeApplications featured this app called Shapeless: The Drum Machine. I like the idea and the concept, but I'm not sure that the drum machine is the ideal interface for an interactive album.

You decide.

Shapeless at the app store:

Symphony App on SoX

This might be of use to a few people. The developer of Symphony posts about ditching Audacity for SoX to get granular control over audio files.

Musical Images for iPhone

Musical Images gets an update with more instruments. Better zoom functionality. Refined graphics.

Musical Images at the app store:

Palm Sounds Big Birthday Competition

Anymore entries for the Palm Sounds "Strangest Place You've Made Music" competition?

To enter, all you have to do is email in a picture of yourself making music somewhere strange. It could be high up, under the ground, in a jungle, but please, no pictures on the toilet!


The best picture (as judged by me) will get a copy of Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking which is a great book on circuit bending an electronic music making, and I will happily send it to the winner wherever they live in the world.


So send in your pictures as soon as you can this week. Each one sent in will get featured on the blog as well!