Palm Sounds

Preview: apeSoft Stria Version 2 and some new Presets (video)

Stria on the app store:

It's also available as a bundle with the other apeSoft apps:

Reminder: Rare Akai Trackman on eBay

In case you missed this, this rare 4 track walkman is still on eBay and at not too bad a price either. Take a look, click below.

Akai Professional 4 Track Trackman Recorder

Dahlia Delay for iOS arrived

Dahlia Delay is a tape style delay effect with filtered feedback and warble amount controls.

Built upon the tenet of simplicity, the flora project presents great sounding, lightweight audio effects using Inter-App Audio and Audiobus technologies to allow you to get the sound you want, without sacrificing processing power.

Dahlia Delay costs $0.99 on the app store

Conductr Users: Loppkio (video)

Motion Synth update

Here's what's new in Motion Synth:

New 'Glissando Notes' module - This module allows you to trigger notes through changes in Up-Down Orientation. For more info visit:

http://auug.info/wiki/doku.php/public/modules_motion_tab?&#glissando_notes

This update also includes improvements in the app's core motion and orientation engine. In particular, if you are changing orientation quickly and move through and beyond the limits of a zone of orientation control, you will now see more consistent results.

When upgrading to a new version of the Motion Synth app, if you have created Presets that you value, it is good practice to export or backup such Presets prior to upgrading. Instructions for Preset export/backup are provided here:

http://auug.info/wiki/doku.php/public/presets_tab

While your saved presets should carry over to the new version smoothly, it is worth exporting or backing-up user-created Presets as a precaution.

Motion Synth is free on the app store:

Seline Staccato / Legato (video)

Steve Reich’s Clapping Music Game arrives for your iPhone

Steve Reich’s Clapping Music is a game that improves your rhythm by challenging you to play Steve Reich’s ground-breaking work – a piece of music performed entirely by clapping. Tap in time with the constantly shifting pattern, and progress through all of the variations. If you slip up or your accuracy falls too low, it’s game over.

“Maddeningly addictive” – The New York Times

“Might be the toughest rhythm action game since Rock Band.” – FACT

Features:

Improve your sense of rhythm by playing Clapping Music
Play through three levels of difficulty – can you become good enough to perform?
Hone your skills in Practice Mode
Find out more about Steve Reich and his work with interviews and performance footage
A stunning design and interface that changes colour as you progress through the piece
Completely free with no in-app purchases
Enter competitions for the chance to attend workshops and even perform the piece live

Steve Reich’s Clapping Music was conceived by the London Sinfonietta and realised in collaboration with Queen Mary University London and Touchpress – creators of acclaimed music apps Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, The Orchestra and Juilliard Open Studios. It was supported by the Nesta’s Digital R&D Fund for the Arts, the Arts & Humanities Research Council and public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Find out more about the app and its creators: clappingmusicapp.com

LoopTree Tutorial: Metronome & AudioPaste (video)

Video description:

"In this video I look at some alternative ways of creating the first loop of a session using the metronome and AudioPaste.

The metronome lets you generate a click track with custom rhythms up to 16 beats long.

AudioPaste lets you make a reference track in another app, such as DrumJam and use it in LoopTree."

More zMors news ...

zmors modular ipad synthesizer will get #javascript to create custom #midi controller gui. beta tester wanted! pic.twitter.com/I6dLq5Wpdy
— sven.braun (@sven_braun) July 10, 2015

This is going to be really impressive stuff ...

Sequencing G-Stomper Drum Samplers with an ESX1 / G-Stomper Studio 4.3 Mobile App (video)

Video description:

"Sequencing G-Stomper Drum Samplers with an ESX1 / G-Stomper Studio 4.3 Mobile App
(Device :Google Nexus 9)

This clip shows a quick Session with a Korg ESX1 and G-Stomper Studio on a Nexus 9.

The sounds come from G-Stomper Studio, but the Sequence is running completely on the ESX1.
G-Stomper Studio acts only as a Sound Module (MIDI Extender), note that the G-Stomper Studio Sequencer is NOT running and its sequence is empty.
All Triggers and Parameter Movements are transmitted over MIDI from the ESX1 to G-Stomper Studio.

The Nexus 9 runs on OpenSL with an internal Latency of 10ms + manual Latency compensation of 35ms.

Required equipment:

1 class compliant USB MIDI to DIN interfaces
1 USB OTG micro USB to USB adapters"

So it looks like the KDJ-One is going to be late

You're probably thinking (that is if you didn't already know about this), that this is hardly news, I mean, a Kickstarter hardware project being late! Who'd believe it!

Well, for KDJ-One backers it's sad news, the project is 3 months behind schedule now apparently. Not great to hear, but what can the backers do? Precious little really.

Roger Linn Interviewed by Sweetwater (video)

I know that this isn't particularly mobile related, but it is Roger Linn and I thought it was worth posting ...

"At GearFest '15, synthesizer pioneer Roger Linn sat down with Mitch Gallagher to talk music and electronic instruments. Technical Grammy award-winner Roger Linn invented the LM-1 Drum Computer (the first sample-based drum machine) in 1979. He later designed the Akai MPC60, which combined a sampling drum machine with a real-time MIDI sequencer. His guitar effects unit, AdrenaLinn, has been used on hit recordings by John Mayer and Red Hot Chili Peppers. In 2014 he released the LinnStrument, an expressive MIDI performance controller."

Koushion MIDI Step Sequencer 4.2.1 arrives

Here's what's new in Koushion MIDI Step Sequencer:

Added a new playback mode: random.
Control change automation no longer "animates" smoothly between values by default. This is now a per-layer setting.
Restructured the settings view, and re-labled several buttons to make their scope more clear.
Tempo is now a project-level setting, rather than a global setting.
Bug fix: All global settings are now saved across app restarts.
Bug fix: Attempting to copy a scene no longer results in a swap.

bent.fm - circuit bending for iPad arrives

We've had bent.fm lite for ages now, but at long last bent.fm - circuit bending for iPad has arrived and looks pretty nice too.

Here are the details:

bent.fm is a full FM model of a circuit-bent synthesizer. bent.fm allows the user to tweak classic circuit bending modifications like fine and octave-decimated clock bends, and experiment with more esoteric bends. Circuit-bent distortions and algorithmic sequences can be created by (im)proper connections on the bend matrix. Reroute digital serial information through the base chip set (a numerically controlled oscillator) and extra logic gates (NAND and XOR, binary counters), and experience architecture-level bit crushing. For anyone interested in circuit bending, glitch sounds, industrial music, and post-procedural art.

Audiobus and IAA supported!

The app costs $3.99.

Auxy for iPad Controlling Cyclop and the Arturia MicroBrute (video)

Stria 2 arrived

Here's what's new in Stria 2.0:

New: UI Skins
New: Second FM Pad
New: Control Manager LFO
Support for 14 bit MIDI nRPN
Improved Hyper Vectorial Pad
Inter-App Audio fixed
DSP on/off fade
Save Control Manager in the Presets
Optimised for iPhone 6 and 6+
iOs 8.3 SDK
Audiobus 2.1.6.1
Midibus 1.27
Bug Fixed