After the iElectribe Korg has developed another app emulating on of their greats! This time the KORG MS20 has been recreated for the iPad with added features like an analog sequencer, drum machine, Kaoss Pad and SoundCloud integration.
SKWOSH, is a versatile compressor offering 4 main modes of hard and soft; compression and signal-boosting. Envelope following comes in a choice of peak or 2 RMS modes with optional peak-hold and simple or complex follow modes.
Following the success of Wivi Band for iPhone, with over 100,000 downloads in the iTunes App Store, Wallander Instruments now presents its latest software instrument: Wivi Band – The Virtual Instrument.
Have you ever wanted to bring your DJ skills straight from the bedroom to the main stage of a big venue? Do you think you can play for a large crowd along top DJs on the scene? Aspiring DJs of all levels and horizons are offered a unique chance to get out on the scene and share their talent and tracks.
Street musician caught playing sitar on iPad. She apparently used app Seline HD for her performance. Also, sound was recorded using binaural microphones. Is this the future we are seeing here? Well, who knows but clearly it’s a sign of the times. Steve (Jobs) would approve…!
Renoise 2.6 Final, a tribute to the most tech savvy users, is out now. The highlight of this release is the scripting engine, which allows users to code new features in scripts that can be plugged into Renoise in packages called Tools. Furthermore there are some exciting changes under the hood, one of which makes working with longer samples a lot easier.
These are the releases we have encountered this week on the Loops and Samples front. Just like the quality of the audio software we use these days the quality of the content we use (loops and samples) equally matches the high standards of this software. Below is this weeks selection.
In a move designed to expand the power and flexibility of its popular UAD Powered Plug-Ins platform, Universal Audio (UA) today announced that it is an Avid RTAS developer, and that the UAD-2 platform is now compatible with Avid’s family of Pro Tools music creation and audio production solutions.
BIAS today unveiled Peak Studio – an exciting new edition of the award-winning audio editing, mastering, and delivery software exclusively for Mac OS X. Peak Studio will include Peak Pro 7 along with a complementary suite of powerful tools for multi-channel mixing, mastering, restoration, streamlined analog archiving, and more.
With part two of our iPad series we’ll continue were we ended with part one, the instrument apps. But this time not your regular drum, synth and piano apps. No. This time it’s ‘the peculiar and the strange‘ music apps. And I mean this in a good way! Because some of these apps are meant for the real freaks and sound designers among us. Experimental music apps with great sound and design!
iZotope has announced Nectar, a new plug–in which includes a complete vocal processing toolkit. Adding to the award-winning iZotope line of plug-ins, Nectar includes everything users need to quickly find the vocal sound they are looking for.
Arturia just released a new softwar synth plus a version 1.3. update for their Origin synth. The Analog Laboratory will be available for sale on November 25. Where the Origin Firmware 1.3 will be available as a free update, and comes embedded in the new Origin Keyboards and Origin Desktops.
Since the launch of the iPad, the App Store has been flooded with music applications. This was the main reason to start our ongoing extensive article series on all the different genres of these music apps for the iPad (part one and two already published). Right from the start we got our own iPad and the music apps, there was already one issue we encountered. And that was the MIDI compatibility/connectivity of these music apps. Better said, … there wasn’t any! No matter if the app was cool or fun or plain awesome. The use of these apps in a studio environment was close to nothing.
Avid today announced Pro Tools 9, a groundbreaking evolution of the industry’s most popular music creation and audio production solution. Leveraging a next-generation architecture, version 9 of Pro Tools offers customers the unprecedented choice to work with Avid audio interfaces, third-party audio interfaces, or no hardware at all when using the built-in audio capabilities of a Mac or PC.
ElectraX means not only having four powerful synthesizers in one interface. Explore the musical possibilities of multi-synthesis oscillators, analog modeled filters, chaotic fractals, samples, psychoacoustic processing, flexible modulation and an immense sonic range. Combine multiple polyphonic or monophonic synthesizers and 13 different synthesis methods to create incredible results. All this comes with an easy-to-use interface, high-end sound quality and remarkable low CPU usage for an instrument as feature-rich as ElectraX. The comfortable preset management provides instant access to a large library of sounds by professional designers.