iPads at the Apple Store
Hokusai Audio Editor arrives
Sorry, meant to post this earlier. Hokusai Audio Editor arrives and here are the details:
Hokusai is a multitrack audio editor for iPhone or iPad. Record or import a track, and make it sound the way you want it to: not just trimming the ends, but full cut, copy, paste and delete, and a suite of filters and special effects available.
Edit many tracks side-by-side, mix them together, and export to wave or mp4 format — then transfer them to your computer via USB or Dropbox, or send them to another app on your device.
Hokusai is streamlined to give you a clean, clear view of your tracks. Use the familiar pinch and swipe gestures to zoom right in and fiddle with fine detail, or step back to see the big picture. And just like selecting text in other apps, you can select pieces of audio. Live "scrubbing" means you can hear the sound under your fingertip as you make your adjustments. And you needn't fear a bad edit with our full undo/redo support: as many levels as space allows.
Hokusai comes free with a set of useful tools such as fade in/out, normalise volume levels, reverse time, and basic synthesis. If you need more power, you can upgrade from inside the app to add new tools and effects, including: AudioCopy/AudioPaste, grain synthesis, noise gating, time-stretching, pitch-bending, echo, reverb, modulation (AM & FM), resonance, distortion, grunge, vocal levelling, monster voice, high/low/band-pass/notch-cut filter and more.
iPads at the Apple Store
Tabletop: all effects are now a buck each!
From the lovely people at Retronyms:
Thanks for making the Tabletop release such a success. In celebration, we're extending the launch promotion – all effects are now a buck each!
Note to early adopters: If you bought effects before this promotion, ping us at contact@retronyms.com or Facebook and we'll hook you up with deals on future devices.
Not seeing the updated prices? Give it a few minutes. It can take Apple's servers some time to update everywhere.
Now that's what I call responding to user feedback!
Via Retronyms Blog.
iPads at the Apple Store
DS10Forum.com - The Haunted Mansion
I thought I'd give this release from DS10Forum members another mention as it is worth a listen. The Haunted Mansion is available now at Bandcamp.
TouchSound Podcast Episode 4 is available in case you missed it
We talked to Dan Radin of Alesis in episode 4 of the Touchsound Podcast, and it was a really interesting discussion around music hardware and working with Apple. Plus a few thoughts on Android for music too.
NodeBeat updates on the way ...
More to look forward to from NodeBeat:
New NodeBeat HD features: BPM tempo, Drum Generator!, Drag & Drop new nodes, sine/triangle/square/sawtooth waveforms, sleep timer....
...audio compression, ringtone from recording, prettier and intuitive UI changes, other optimizations and fixes.
New NodeBeat HD features: BPM tempo, Drum Generator!, Drag & Drop new nodes, sine/triangle/square/sawtooth waveforms, sleep timer....
...audio compression, ringtone from recording, prettier and intuitive UI changes, other optimizations and fixes.
More updates coming to Symphonix Evolution
More news from Vinclaro on what's coming to their Symphonix Evolution app. All sounds very promising.
MiDi-to update
Quite a lot in this update for MiDi-to:
New super easy way to connect MiDi-to to your Mac.
Just create a network on your Mac, connect your iPad to it and then select your computer name from MiDi-to’s settings page. That’s it. No more finding IPs’ and all that mess!
One finger Loop Roll!
Just hold your finger on any of the loop lengths to start loop rolling. Now move your finger around to remix the track on the fly! (We changed the loop length layout to facilitate moving from 32 to 1/32 bars seamlessly). Loop rolling stops when you lift your finger.
If you want to activate an auto loop instead, just press the auto loop button and your loop will go on till you press auto loop again. Manual loop is of course also available.
We also included the first-setup tutorial right inside the app so that you can check it if needed, even without internet connection.
Don’t forget to download the updated MiDi-to preset from our site!
PLEASE NOTE: This version of MiDi-to is compatible with Snow Leopard and Leopard and Serato version 2.2.0. We do not yet support Mac OS X Lion or any newer versions of Serato. When Serato will be working well on Lion we will update MiDi-to if needed.
New super easy way to connect MiDi-to to your Mac.
Just create a network on your Mac, connect your iPad to it and then select your computer name from MiDi-to’s settings page. That’s it. No more finding IPs’ and all that mess!
One finger Loop Roll!
Just hold your finger on any of the loop lengths to start loop rolling. Now move your finger around to remix the track on the fly! (We changed the loop length layout to facilitate moving from 32 to 1/32 bars seamlessly). Loop rolling stops when you lift your finger.
If you want to activate an auto loop instead, just press the auto loop button and your loop will go on till you press auto loop again. Manual loop is of course also available.
We also included the first-setup tutorial right inside the app so that you can check it if needed, even without internet connection.
Don’t forget to download the updated MiDi-to preset from our site!
PLEASE NOTE: This version of MiDi-to is compatible with Snow Leopard and Leopard and Serato version 2.2.0. We do not yet support Mac OS X Lion or any newer versions of Serato. When Serato will be working well on Lion we will update MiDi-to if needed.
Online Music Production group on Linkedin
If you're interested in online audio collaboration then this linkedin group is worth taking a look at here.
Oramics to Electronica
Details of Daphne Oram's Oramics Machine and app at the Science museum London. I must make time to go and see this.
Reminder: Bhajis & Microbe free
Just another reminder that you can now get the awesome Bhajis Loops and Microbe for free!
If you don't know these applications, they're for the now long abandoned Palm operating system, but if you're interested you should get yourself a Pam Tungsten T3
from eBay or a Palm Tungsten TX
for that matter and try these applications out. They're certainly worth the cost of a second hand device.
In fact, even if you don't plan to get the hardware anytime soon I'd advise you to get the software just in case it vanishes at some point.
If you don't know these applications, they're for the now long abandoned Palm operating system, but if you're interested you should get yourself a Pam Tungsten T3
from eBay or a Palm Tungsten TX for that matter and try these applications out. They're certainly worth the cost of a second hand device.In fact, even if you don't plan to get the hardware anytime soon I'd advise you to get the software just in case it vanishes at some point.
Connect to Palm Sounds
Salamander Sunrize by iosmusicandyou
Salamander Sunrize by iosmusicandyou
Nice vibe from iOS Music and You, here's what he says:
This one popped into my head when I heard the bass sound on the Sunrizer Synth app; it reminded me of the bass sound on Herbie Hancock's Chameleon. I came up with a similar chord progress and went from there. This one gets pretty far from Herbie - I brought in a serious 80s vibe with the Sunrizer arpeggiator.
This tune goes into the pop realms - I feel like this one needs some vocals. So maybe it's a work in progress; if there's any vocalists out there . . .
I used the Sunrizer Synth, the FunkBox Drum Machine, and GarageBand to put this one together.
Nice vibe from iOS Music and You, here's what he says:
This one popped into my head when I heard the bass sound on the Sunrizer Synth app; it reminded me of the bass sound on Herbie Hancock's Chameleon. I came up with a similar chord progress and went from there. This one gets pretty far from Herbie - I brought in a serious 80s vibe with the Sunrizer arpeggiator.
This tune goes into the pop realms - I feel like this one needs some vocals. So maybe it's a work in progress; if there's any vocalists out there . . .
I used the Sunrizer Synth, the FunkBox Drum Machine, and GarageBand to put this one together.
Top 10 anyone?
It has been a while (ok, probably only 2 weeks), but in that time a lot can change, and in the last 2 weeks a lot has changed. So, anyone have a new top 10 they want to share?
Reminder: SoundCloud Group
I haven't mentioned this group for a while now so I thought it deserved a reminder. Please do think about putting your mobile tracks in the Palm Sounds group.
There's some really good stuff in there so do have a listen.
There's some really good stuff in there so do have a listen.
TouchOSC update 1.7.3
Some good stuff in the latest update of TouchOSC:
- New control: Multi-Push
- New control: Encoder
- Added setting of control position with OSC messages:/control/position/x, /control/position/y
- Added setting of control z-order with OSC messages: /control/position/z
- Added setting of control width and height with OSC messages: /control/size/w, /control/size/h
- Multi-Toggle controls now allow multiple touch input
- Corrected sending/receiving of MIDI Program Change messages via
- CoreMIDI connections
- Corrected order of MIDI z-message sending for all controls
- Corrected rendering of Push controls to match editor preview
- Corrected rendering of LED controls to match editor preview
Sir Sampleton update
Impressive update from this little sampling app:
- New sound controls for pitch, looping, sample volume, and start time
- “Sample Group” feature now allows you to save 96 samples instead of just 12
- CoreMIDI support!
- 4th generation devices now have more voices (up to 20)
- New shortcut to “Settings” menu by double-tapping the sound menu button
RGBSOUND update coming and free until the 8th
So grab it whilst you can as it'll be free until the 8th of August. Version 1.2 will have the ability to record and share your recordings via iTunes file sharing.
Review & Developer group on linkedin
I've mentioned this before, but if you're a developer of mobile music applications on any platform (iOS, Android, Bada, Palm even!), and are interested in joining this group on linkedin then either connect to me on Linkedin and I'll invite you or visit the group to request an invite. The more the better!
Wait list
Thanks for all the suggestions to the An update to the wait list:
- MeTeoR 1.1 update
- Genome MIDI Sequencer
- Donut from the Strange Agency
- Rhythm Studio
- Hokusai
- Jasuto Studio
- BeatMaker 2.1 (iPad update)
- iSequence 3
- Horizon Synth iPhone version
- Isle of Tune!
- loopseque extra
- NanoStudio iPad update
- Akai Synthstation 49
- Scattr (new app from Michael Aldridge)
- Tympanum from miniMusic
- Thumbjam update
- iSample
- Sampletank for IOS by IK Multimédia
- Mint io
- Cream io
- Noise.IO XT
- Dimensions from RJDJ
Reminder: News form added
If you want to send in news about an app, event, video, whatever, you can using this form.
Just fill it in and let me know your mobile music news. Sometimes it takes me a little while to catch up on stuff from the news form, but still keep sending stuff in.
Just fill it in and let me know your mobile music news. Sometimes it takes me a little while to catch up on stuff from the news form, but still keep sending stuff in.
The Summer's here, what are you holiday projects?
I always have high hopes for recording stuff whilst away and making the best use of different locations, but it doesn't always work out that way! This year I'm hopeful of one trip providing some interesting sounds, but more of that another time.
So what do you have planned for the summer and how do you think mobile tech will help with recording or making it?
So what do you have planned for the summer and how do you think mobile tech will help with recording or making it?
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