Forss – Ecclesia App Preview: Church-Inspired Electronic Music
Ecclesia App coming 2nd of May.
See more at http://forssmusic.com
Swedish-born artist and technologist Eric Wahlforss has been busy. His album is an app, appropriately for someone who is the co-founder and CTO of SoundCloud. Recordings of strings, choirs, organs and ambient noise from church concerts which have been cut up into fragments and rearranged into a new mosaic of music, and recordings of wooden, stone and metal objects which make up the beats and percussion. These are the plosive, rhythmical noises that provide the link between the traditional to modern electronica.
The live show premieres May 2 in Berlin at Berghain/Panorama Bar, with the app out the same day. The album itself releases on June 12.
Konsonant for the iPad
“Play with letters and sounds, build acoustic machines, control morphing clouds and experiment with the alphabet!
Enjoy the sounds and shapes of letters by line drawing, physics simulations or acoustic networks in the four sound games included in the app.
konsonant is an extraordinary exploration of letters, voice and technology by the media artist joerg piringer.
Containing a suite of original music tracks (downloadable for free as mp3s) as well as interactive musical artifacts, the app is in fact a music album with conventional music as well as sound toys for mobile technology.
Following the award winning success of piringer’s app abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz konsonant is the next iteration of the artist’s ongoing research on the potential entertaining qualities of letters and sound.
more info, mp3s & video here:
apps.piringer.net/konsonant/
Features:
* four different sound games
* abstract letter graphics
* physics simulation
* includes 15 exclusive mp3-tracks by joerg piringer (downloadable for free)
* works for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
apps.piringer.net/konsonant/”
Jim’s Tips & Tricks: VIDEO SONG – RAKTATAK
Rock Video Song Features Face-Melting Moog Synth, Hammond Organ, Fender Guitar & iPad
Background data:
My first video song, an original I called RAKTATAK. What you see is what you hear, and everything you hear is seen.
Using some of my favourite instruments, this song came out of jamming on my Moog Little Phatty. Layed down the groove and added instruments – arranged with Fender Strat guitars, Fender Jazz Bass, Nord C2 Organ and Ipad Apps M3000HD and Animoog.
Drums programmed in Boom and Addictive Drums.
For lesson information in the Vancouver area, please visit:
https://jimmclaren.musicteachershelper.com/
Koushion and Moog Slim Phatty
Just a quick test run.
“Koushion is a new kind of MIDI controller for your iPad, and is similar to the Yamaha TENORI-ON. While it looks like a simple Tone Matrix step sequencer, this is no toy.”
It allows you to wirelessly control your music production software on your Mac or PC over a network. The tone matrix and variety of settings available in Koushion make it the perfect tool for creating your next track or performing live at your next gig.
Features:
* 16-step sequencer with a 2-octave range.
* Integrates with your hardware MIDI setup via the iRig MIDI iPad accessory from IK Multimedia!
* Connect wirelessly via a either a connector application (for Windows) or CoreMIDI (for OS X).
* Syncs to any MIDI clock source or sends a MIDI clock signal so that the performance or production always stays synced.
* Tap to set tempo (great for syncing with a live band)
* Plays up to eight scenes/banks individually (wrap-around or rebounding loop), chained in succession, or simultaneously.
* Adjustable quantization.
* Switches easily to any major, minor, or pentatonic key with the push of a button.
* Chromatic scale mode (useful for drum machine programming).
* Configurable scene/bank MIDI channel assignments to enable control of multiple instruments at the same time.
iRig MIDI and Koushion for the iPad
iRig MIDI is an ultra-compact standard Core MIDI interface for iOS that connects any MIDI compatible device to the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It is the only compact iOS MIDI interface sporting 3 MIDI ports: IN/OUT/THRU. These connect to any standard MIDI jacks using the included 2 x 1.6m/5.2′ cables. iRig MIDI also has 2 LEDs for displaying the MIDI activity on the IN and OUT ports.
For more info on iRig MIDI go to: www.ikmultimedia.com/irigmidi
Waviary – new generative ambient music machine
Holderness Media has released Waviary, a new, App for iOS that is part instrument, part generative ambient music machine, and part virtual wind chimes.
Simple multi-touch control allows anyone to effortlessly create lush ambient soundscapes and environments, or simply listen as Waviary generates its own “forest-like” sonic environments. The generative player can run while you play as well, allowing for a randomized ambient jam session.
A sleep timer is included… put on headphones and let Waviary’s weird, wonderful sounds lull you to sleep.
Features:
- Lush ambient tones and textures.
- Multi-touch controls allow expressive creation of rich ambient soundscapes.
- Generative mode creates endlessly evolving sonic environments.
- Varied tone sets (additional tone sets added FREE with updates).
- Pitch control.
- Octave up/down buttons.
- Lock button to lock spirals in place, or unlock to move freely.
- Sleep Timer.
Price: $0.99.
Orphion – new musical instrument with a unique sound
Orphion is a musical instrument with a unique sound between string instrument and percussion. Everyone can play expressive, wonderful sounds and easy or virtuosic melodies on it just by moving fingers on virtual pads.
This update brings MIDI support to Orphion
Get it here:
itunes.apple.com/en/app/orphion/id495465097
Sine+Noise Synthesis, featuring 3D displays
Related to this week’s buzz around the new Waldorf synth, Wolfgang Palm has shared a link with information that might give us more info on what the new project is all about:
Sine+Noise modelling is an analysis/synthesis technique, where an audio signal is decomposed into sine waves plus an additional noise signal.
I started developing such a system in 2003, and refined it over the years. It is now sold to Waldorf. The release is planned later this year.
The advantages of Sine+Noise modelling:
- all audio signals can be resynthesized
- each partial sine wave can be edited individually in its loudness contour
- time/pitch manipulation in a wide range
- morphing of totally different sounds possible
- arbitrary filtering in the frequency domain
My Synthesizer features 3D displays, which allow easy editing of the audio components directly.
Sound editing in a spectral 3D displaySound editing in a spectra
Wolfgang Palm | Myspace Music Videos
UPDATED: New iPad wavetable synth by Waldorf
Here’s today’s updated Press release on the subject:
Following the tradition of wavetable synthesis – from first PPG synthesizers to the latest developments in terms of Blofeld and Largo – and utilising Rolf Wöhrmann’s (TempoRubato) experience with iPad synthesis, Waldorf & Wöhrmann have come up with a wavetable concept for the iPad.
Thanks to intelligent gesture recognition and plenty of available graphic performance the iPad is perfect for bringing wavetable synthesis to a new level. For the first time it will be possible to plunge into the depths of wavetables and to make their sound content visible with 3D technology.
The cooperation between Waldorf and TempoRubato, also known for their product line NLog Synth, doesn’t stop here: the application will also offer new possibilities for sound manipulation based on Waldorf’s very latest spectral research.
Completely new and unheard sounds
An innovative approach to wavetable synthesis allows for the transposition of the spectrum and the balance of periodic and sound spectra entirely independent from a wave’s position. The existing wavetable technology is thereby extended by two new dimensions, and allows for formant shifts as well as numerous other unheard sounds. Also, unlike with typical wavetable instruments, the number and length of waves in a wavetable will no longer be restricted. It’s the era of wavetable synthesis V2.0!
This app will support a huge number of hardware MIDI interfaces, e. g. all Core MIDI compatible interfaces by IK Multimedia, iConnectMIDI, MIDI Mobilizer II by Line6, ioDock or the Camera Connection Kit by Apple, as well as proprietary interfaces such as the SynthStation by Akai.
App collaboration standards like Sonoma‘s Audio Copy/Paste, Intua‘s Audio Pasteboard and Virtual Core MIDI will also be supported like the upcoming AudioBus standard and KORG’s WIST synchronization technology.
Joachim Flor, executive manager at Waldorf Music GmbH is pleased: “We are truly excited about our collaboration with Rolf Wöhrmann from TempoRubato. Considering his great experience with the iPad synthesis we are planning to release this excellent synthesiser this summer. Then it will be available at the Apple App Store. It’s going to be an exciting time!“
Rolf Wöhrmann is also looking forward to the challenge: “The cooperation with Waldorf Music and the Waldorf developers is a great honour. Waldorf‘s long history in wave table synthesis and the new and innovative possibilities of the iPad will create an astonishing synthesizer for musicians, sound designers and producers.”
Further information at www.waldorfmusic.de
Waldorf and iOS developer Rolf Wöhrmann (Tempo Rubato) are working on a new wavetable synthesizer for the iPad, here’s what has been stated about it:
The application will offer new options for sound manipulation, based on 3D modeling and Waldorf’s latest research:
An innovative approach to wavetable synthesis allows for the transposition of the spectrum and the balance of periodic and sound spectra entirely independent from a waveís position. The existing wavetable technology is thereby extended by two new dimensions, and it allows for formant shifts as well as numerous other unheard sounds.
Also, unlike with typical wavetable instruments, the number and length of waves in a wavetable will no longer be restricted. It ís the era of wavetable synthesis V2.0!
This app will support a huge number of hardware MIDI interfaces, e. g. all Core MIDI compatible interfaces by IK Multimedia, iConnectMIDI, MIDI Mobilizer II by Line6, ioDock or the Camera Connection Kit by Apple, as well as proprietary interfaces such as the SynthStation by Akai.
App collaboration standards like Sonomas Audio Copy/Paste, Intuas Audio Pasteboard and Virtual Core MIDI will also be supported like the upcoming AudioBus standard and KORGs WIST synchronization technology.
The new Waldorf wavetable synth for iPad is expected to be available this summer. Pricing is to be announced.
SpaceLab Synth Review // IOS iPad
An overview, sound examples and review of SpaceLab v1.0.1 for iPad.
SpaceLab is a monophonic synthesizer. It has four ways to play: keyboard, graph, guitar, and wind controller. Underneath those interfaces is a fully programmable subtractive synth with oscillators, filters, envelopes, effects, FM, presets, an arpeggiator, full MIDI control, and much more!
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