Isle of Tune iPad app
Some footage of the upcoming Isle of Tune app for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch!
features new to iOS version:
– super crisp retina graphics
– add up to 8 cars
– change car speeds (2x, 4x, 8x)
– ‘traffic lights’ for pausing cars
– view all islands created with the online version
– create and share your island for people to view
Android version coming soon after!
visit www.isleofune.com to play online now!
A music score is, in essence, a way of making space into time: traversing notation from left to right and top to bottom, you move through a series of events. So, why not make that spatial map an actual map, as in the familiar, isometric interactive cityscape popularized by Will Wright’s classic game Sim City?
Isle of Tune does just that: lay out trees, houses, and city streets, and you sequence musical patterns as virtual islands. It’s available right now on the Web, powered by Flash – Chrome users can even get a one-click install via the Chrome Web Store. If you prefer to use a phone or tablet, mobile versions are coming, too, beginning with an imminent iPad release, seen in a video below.
Funkbox updated
Synthetic Bits announced today that they’ve updated FunkBox (App Store link) – their $2.99 virtual drum machine for iOS – to version 2.1.:
FunkBox v2.1 was approved blazingly fast today by Apple! If you are using FunkBox with CoreMIDI, or running it on an iPhone 3G with iOS4, or do a lot of drum box custom sample editing, you will definitely want to update as soon as possible.
If you have an iOS device that can do multi-tasking, you may also want to pick up the BassLine and MoDrum apps to play with the new multi-tasking audio features that allow you to run FunkBox simultaneously with other music apps. Thank you to Finger apps for leading the way with these extremely cool CoreMIDI features that we think are going to change music making on iOS dramatically for the better!
For iOS musicians, the FunkBox update is one more small step towards iOS MIDI nirvana. Details below.
The FunkBox v2.1 update includes:
- Fixed startup issues with iPhone 3G/iOS4
- Fixed edit drum part crash problems
- Improved CoreMIDI/sync support
- Added background / multi-tasking audio support
- Added option to disable startup sounds and/or auto-start beat in Settings app
- Added lock drum machine option
- Added master volume slider in mixer
- Increased touch size of sliders
- Misc other improvements and fixes
via Synthetic Bits
Free Karl Bartos (ex Kraftwerk) iPhone app available
Karl Bartos (ex-Kraftwerk) and Masayuki Akamatsu (media artist and author of various iPhone apps such as Banner, Oscillator, Echochops) have created an iPhone app, ‘The Mini-Composer’, which is actually a 16-step music sequencer (you can get it for free right here). Executive producer for the app is Jean-Marc Lederman (The Weatherman + partner in Sushi crime in Brussels with our chief editor Bernard Van Isacker).
In a reaction Karl Bartos says: “We have created this simple music app for fun: it implements the basic waves of a synthesizer with a 16-step sequencer. This app is totally free of charge but we would be very glad if, as a relief to people’s suffering following the earthquake and tsunami, you would consider a donation to lend a helping hand to Japan. Please enjoy our music and think Japan.”
The application has the following functions:
- 16 steps sequencer
- Start/stop sequence
- Multi-touch note input
- 32 polyphonic tones + 1 drum track
- 4 waves (saw, triangular, square, sine)
- 4 drumbeat loops
- Drums on/off
- Random notes
- Clear notes
- Additional information
Studio Evil
Studio Devil has announced the release of Studio Devil LIVE, a free standalone application for each of its award-winning plug-ins that lets you play in real-time.
Now, there’s no more need for hosts, and no more hassles…just plug in, click, and play!
Each of Studio Devil’s plug-ins now installs a LIVE application, so you get Audio Units, VST, ProTools RTAS, and Studio Devil LIVE with your download…and at no extra cost. Best of all, Studio Devil LIVE is also included with British Valve Custom (BVC)…our FREE plug-in. So now you can turn your laptop into a practice amp…for FREE!
Studio Devil LIVE is included with the latest downloads from the Studio Devil website.
More information: Studio Devil
Audio repair tools for Windows and Mac
iZotope has released version 2.01 of RX, a collection of audio repair tools for Windows and Mac. iZotope RX™ 2 is the most complete audio repair toolkit on the market, enabling you to remove noise, hiss, buzz and hum, eliminate clicks and crackle, restore clipped audio, visually select and suppress unwanted sounds, resynthesize missing audio and much more. Changes in RX v2.01 Host compatibility changes Added support for Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.
iZotope has released version 2.01 of RX, a collection of audio repair tools for Windows and Mac.
iZotope RX™ 2 is the most complete audio repair toolkit on the market, enabling you to remove noise, hiss, buzz and hum, eliminate clicks and crackle, restore clipped audio, visually select and suppress unwanted sounds, resynthesize missing audio and much more.
Changes in RX v2.01
- Host compatibility changes
- Added support for Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.
- Added VST 3 support.
- Improved compatibility with Ableton Live .
- Added 64-bit VST 2 support in Reaper under OS X.
- DSP changes
- Fixed accuracy of latency compensation in Declick module.
- Fixed Hum Removal module’s learn feature at high sampling rates.
- Workflow changes
- Added support for RX 1 workflow in main audio display: shift-click-release to adjust the borders of full-bandwidth selections.
- Added support for placing the playhead: ctrl-click on the main audio display at any time to place the playhead.
- Added support for dragging the current file from the RX 2 application’s title bar under OS X.
- Other changes
- Introduced the new iZotope Crash Reporter to help customers automatically submit crash reports to iZotope for rapid diagnosis & bugfixing.
- Greatly improved RX’s support for frames in the time ruler, including drop-frame mode.
- Better support for Carbon-based plug-ins under OS X, in RX 2.00 some of these plug-ins would display with a blank UI (RX 2 Advanced only).
- Fixed issue when using “Open with” in OS X’s Finder to launch RX.
- Fixed bug with iZotope authorization where authorizing to a USB flash drive wasn’t working properly.
- Better support for Unicode characters in RX’s “Save As” dialog.
- Many minor bugfixes and performance enhancements.
RX2 for Windows and Mac is available to purchase for $349 USD. RX2 Advanced is $1,199 USD.
More information: iZotope / RX
.reflection
Interative physics balls application.
This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad.
Download: free
Category: Entertainment
Released August 18, 2010
Publisher: aircord
Version 1.0 [3.9 MB]
download this app
j.mp/9WHf5s
LFOTool
LFOTool is a VST and AudioUnits plugin (32 and 64-bit) which syncs up to your sequencer with sample-accuracy, and allows you to draw custom shapes for one or more graphs (up to 12) and perform rhythmic effects (autopan/trancegate/autofilter/tremolo/sidechain-simulated ducking, and more). LFOTool will be $24.95 but *FREE* with purchase of the xferrecords EP “Fish”, released March 22nd on beatport.com
More info:
“LFOTool is an FX utility plug-in for VST and AudioUnit hosts for both Macintosh OS X® and Windows®. It empowers music producers to create tremolo, auto-pan, trance-gate, side-chain compressor simulation, and dubstep-type wobble effects with minimal effort.
LFOTool will process incoming audio as well as generate a MIDI message stream for controlling other instruments.
This unique plug-in also allows users to sculpt custom LFO curves and shapes and comes equipped with dozens of presets to achieve desired results quickly.
Consistent with other products in Xfer Records’ software lineup, LFOTool is coded entirely in C++ in order to minimize the CPU load during operation.
LFOTool will cost $24.95.
Ear Machine has announced the release of EARs
Ear Machine has announced the release of EARs , an app that turns an iPhone or iPod touch into a powerful, easy-to-use hearing aid. With EARs, users can quickly manipulate the tone of the sounds around them by dragging a single dot around the screen.
Ear Machine has announced the release of EARs, an app that turns an iPhone or iPod touch into a powerful, easy-to-use hearing aid.
With EARs, users can quickly manipulate the tone of the sounds around them by dragging a single dot around the screen.
“Every listening situation is different, so it’s important to be able to customize the tone as you move from one environment to another,” said Andrew Sabin, Ear Machine owner and psychoacoustics researcher. “EARs provides a simple interface where users can quickly get the sound quality they are looking for, and then get back to listening.”
EARs picks up sounds in real time using the iPhone’s built-in microphone or an external microphone. The sounds are processed according to where the user has placed the dot, and then sent out via earphones. EARs can also help if the user has different hearing in their two ears by providing separate controls for the right and left ears.
In the United States, only about one-third of the people who could benefit from a hearing aid actually use one, and self-contained hearing aids can cost as much as $3,000. “We hope that EARs will provide a convenient and affordable way for people with hearing loss to improve their hearing,” said Joshua Cooper, co-creator of EARs. “Even if you have normal hearing, EARs can enhance your ability to listen in difficult environments such as noisy restaurants or bars.”
EARs is for available to purhcase from the iTunes App Store for $3.99 USD.
More information: Ear Machine / EARs
Mind-blowing music app for creatively mixing and rearranging beats
Steinberg today releases LoopMash, a mind-blowing music app for creatively mixing and rearranging beats, tunes and effects. Now available for your iPhone and iPod touch, this inspiring mobile instrument lets you choose from over 40 presets and 250 addictive loops ranging all the way from ethno to disco.
With its innovative approach to mixing music, LoopMash simultaneously merges up to four two-bar loops by matching and replacing comparable elements. By using the included studio-grade effects, you can easily spice up your performance and make your music sound even gnarlier.
Quality content, intuitive control and 3-D navigation for effortless page browsing make this app a must-have for party-goers, music aficionados and pretty much everyone in between.
Key Features
- More than 250 addictive audio loops included
- Over 40 presets to get you started right away
- Intuitive 3-D swipe-page navigation
- Load and play with up to 4 loops per scene
- 8 scenes available per preset
- 4 studio-grade effects for more sound control
Loopmash at the iTunes App Store
technoBox adding features like dual 303s and drum machines
AudioRealism has announced technoBox2, the next version of technoBox adding many asked for features such as dual 303s and drum machines, export recordings of songs and SoundCloud integration.
A performance page has been added which allows access to the most commonly used controls on one page. The drum machines now allow you to load your own samples (via iTunes documents). technoBox2 runs on iPad and retina displays with crisp native resolution.
Featuring the same high quality audio engine as ABL2 which was painstakingly optimized to be able to run on mobile devices. For the uninitiated our audio engine has aliasing free oscillators and full range non-linear filters.
The drum section features 11 parts with 808 or 909 sounds (for a total of 22 sounds) with variable amount of shuffle per pattern, volume and decay per part. You can now load your own .wav and .aif samples into the drum machines via iTunes documents.
The newly redesigned FX panel now allows effects to be set on any or all of the four machines.
A performance page has been added which allows access to the most commonly used controls on one page.
technoBox2 features
- Dual 303s and drum machines.
- Improved song sequencing with Start/End and Loop markers.
- Lock parameters to sequence bar.
- Export recorded songs (as .wav) via iTunes.
- Upload recorded song to SoundCloud directly and share.
- Load your own .wav and .aif samples (uncompressed 44.1kHz 16-bit) into the drum machines (via iTunes).
- Performance screen with the most accessed controls on one page.
- Completely redesigned FX panel: You can now activate effects on any or all of the 4 machines.
- Improved tempo synced phaser and distortion effects.
- Global filter cutoff and per part decay added to the drum machines.
- iPad and retina display native resolution support.
- All technoBox1 features remain.
technoBox2 will be available soon at the iTunes App Store.
More information: AudioRealism
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