Android is going Pro with Zero Latency Audio and MIDI

Whilst there isn't currently a huge market for music making on Android I think that all of that is about to change. Samsung have just been in touch with me and shared this:

• The Pro-Audio SDK 2.0 provides low-latency audio and MIDI functionality to Samsung Android devices, and it also has zero-latency Audio/MIDI connections between independent music apps.
• Soundcamp is a Samsung-developed mobile DAW app that harnesses the full power of the Pro-Audio SDK and can be integrated with multiple 3rd party music apps for up to 8 tracks.

They have already started working with several music app innovators in these areas.

Professional Audio provides the following features:

• Musical Instrument Creation
• API for creating professional instrument applications
• Support for all functions of the JACK Audio Connection Kit

Plug-ins

• Plug-ins for acoustic piano, steel guitar and a standard drum kit
• Support for USB Audio devices
• Support for Audio input
• Usage of the real-time scheduler
• It can make a connection between apps at the SDK level
• It is easier to move to other apps and support its remote control

Now this is pretty amazing stuff and has the potential to really change the face of Android music making.

Also, Musical Android picks up on this news too. So Android could really be starting to catch up. I really hope so, it is about time.

Jamie Bullock: Live coding audio with Swift Playgrounds

Probably of most interest to developers. Here Jamie shows live coding audio with Swift Playgrounds, which sounds like it should be very useful for developers in the DSP space.

WWDC is 2-6 June this year

Anyone going? Anyone lucky enough to get a ticket? What do we expect this year?

Musikmesse 2014: Saying hello to EUMLab

It was great to meet up with the guys from EUMLab at Musikmesse this year. Of the 2000 or so exhibitors at the show this year they were one of the few iOS app only booths. For me that made them stand out if there products didn't do so already, and they do.

If you don't know EUMLab they make a range of great apps for you iDevice:

Pro Metronome - Beat with Sound and Light
iUke - Ukulele Song Book
Guitar Toolkit - Tuner, Metronome, Scales, Chords and Progressions
Ukulele Toolkit - Tuner, Metronome and Chord Diagrams

Actually that isn't even a complete list, they make more apps than that, but I'm only going to focus on a couple for now, Pro Metronome and Ukulele Toolkit.

When I visited their stand Shawn from EUMLab took me through both of these apps. Now, generally speaking I wouldn't really go for these kinds of apps. You've probably noticed that as I generally don't mention metronomes and guitar tuner apps or similar. However, I've made an exception for both of these apps as I actually think they're pretty special and worth mentioning.

Shawn took me through their Pro Metronome app which has just loads of features in it, too many to mention here to be fair to the app and to EUMLab. In fact the same is true of Ukulele Toolkit which was of special interest to me as an occasional Ukulele player.

It was great to see an app only booth at the show and I wish EUMLab all the best with their apps. You'll be hearing more about them I'm sure, and not just from me.

Apple Announces developer talks for this fall (that's Autumn for us in the UK).

No actual details as yet, but it's good news for those who missed out on WWDC, which is almost everyone right?

Announcement here.

Testflight coming to Android

I know that lots of iOS developers use Testflight for their beta users so hopefully as more go cross platform this will make life easier for managing iOS and Android deliveries.

According to TestFlight:

"Team management and ensuring device coverage in the fragmented Android ecosystem are still needed points for developers during the beta process. TestFlight for Android is going to help solve these problems. It will also create a single dashboard for both iOS and Android so its easy for developers to keep track of all of their app beta testing from one place."

Via TechCrunch.

Developers, if you've had an email from me, or if you haven't, please get in touch

With any luck you've had an email from me about an initiative for next month. Please check your inbox and spam filters, and if you haven't please get in touch about something that's planned for next month.

New page for developers

You might have noticed that there's a new page in the menu. If you're a developer it might be of interest to you.

In case you didn't know, here's where you can find the AudioShare SDK

I noticed this tweeted yesterday so I thought I'd post a link in case developers weren't aware of where to find it.

It's here.

Reminder: iOS Music apps course this Sunday in Hackney

Just a quick reminder about the iOS audio apps course in Hackney this Sunday. If you're interested to learn how to make music apps for iOS then take a look here.

About the video of the Audiobus demo and technical walk through

All things being equal I should have the whole video up from Tuesday's mobile music makers meet up by tonight. There's quite a lot of it so I may well edit it a little.

Audiobus talk at the London Mobile Music Makers meet up

Well the first London Mobile Music Makers meet saw Michael from Audiobus talk about the app and how it's developed as well as giving a demo and showing how to implement the SDK into your own app.

I'm going to upload a brief video of part of the demo but also I hope to have the video from the whole event in the next couple of days as well so I'll upload that as soon as it's available.

AudioShare SDK

For any developers I'm especially interested in what your views are on the AudioShare SDK and whether or not you'll implement it into you app(s).

If you don't know it you can find it on GitHub.

CausticCore & CausticToolkit developer blog

If you're interested in the technical side of Caustic for Android, this post and the links that follow it might be useful for you.

Here's the post at the Caustic 2 site.

Retronyms makes CloudSeeder open source

It'll be interesting to see how many developers take this one to give access to their soundcloud communities inside their apps.

Details at the Retronyms blog.

OMAC Group discussion on Jelly Bean

For any developers working with Android, or considering Android you might want to take a look at this thread at the OMAC Google group.

s Little Endian updates SpectrumWorx™ SDKs to version

I don't know if this is really of any interest to anyone, but I thought it might be useful for developers. Here's the press release:

Little Endian today announced the release of SpectrumWorx™ Complete and SpectrumWorx™ Pitch Shifter SDKs version 1.5 for iOS, OS X and Windows. The Complete SDK contains one new module, Octaver, and both SDKs contain performance and sound quality improvements. This release significantly reduces memory consumption.

SpectrumWorx™ SDKs enable software developers to easily and efficiently implement vast amount of frequency-domain sound effects in their applications. The SDKs has small footprint, but high performance and low memory usage. The API enables effect chaining – with over fifty effects to choose from, there are countless possibilities for sound manipulation.

The SDKs are available for evaluation and purchase immediately; interested parties are encouraged to file a request via Little Endain’s Developers web page (littleendian.com\developers).


Features:

• Sophisticated engine optimized for low CPU and memory usage.
• Over fifty micro-effects (pitch shifter, classic vocoder, freeze, wah-wah, robotizer, autotune, reverser, etc.).
• Micro-effect chaining support.
• External audio support.
• Detailed documentation.

About Little Endian
Little Endian was founded in 2006 by a group of computer science professionals with strong background in digital signal processing. In 2009 Little Endian entered the long-desired audio effects territory by acquiring Delaydots, a successfull provider of spectral processing audio effects. In July 2010 Little Endian released its first product, SpectrumWorx VST plug-in for Windows. Little Endian aims to create a dynamic community of both enthusiasts and experts based on intelligence, creativity and passion for all that is possible with digital media. For more information visit www.littleendian.com.

Reactify Event: 30th June

Apologies, I should have mentioned that you can see Reactify's CTRL on the 30th. Full details here.

Reactify launches their new site

Reactify, an app developer involved with augmented audio apps has launched their new site here. Well worth a look at in my view.

I saw them at the London Music Hack Day last year where the showed their CTRL app.