NanoStudio Adds AudioBus Support

nano-studio-audiobusDeveloper Blip Interactive has updated NanoStudio, adding AudioBus support and more.

Here’s what’s new in NanoStudio 1.4:

  • Audiobus support for input (sampling) and output (main mix)
  • Virtual MIDI inputs for note and controller data
  • MIDI input transpose
  • 4 extra banks for your Eden presets
  • Fixed ‘empty sample’ bug when pasting from some Waldorf apps

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MIDIBus Designed To Make Adding MIDI To Apps Easy

midi-30th-anniversaryDeveloper Nic Grant (Audeonic) has announced MidiBus – a C and Obj-C source code library for developers, designed to make it easy to add comprehensive MIDI support to their apps. It is based on the MIDI engine in MidiBridge.

Grant describes MidiBridge as “a tool for helping developers manage their MIDI implementations.” He adds, “It will be their choice whether to use it or not and will not lock anyone in to some sort of new MIDI bus as it is just a layer on top of CoreMIDI to help make MIDI on iOS more consistent to the end, user as well as saving developers work in making it so.”

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Can BlackBerry Succeed Where Android Has Failed?

moog-animoog-blackberryAt BlackBerry Live – an annual event focusing on the Blackberry platform - CEO Thorsten Heins introduced the latest version of BlackBerry OS, BB10.1.

Heins also told attendees that Moog will be bringing its synthesizer app Animoog, previously exclusive to iOS, to the BB10 platform. Moog shared an image, right, that shows Animoog working on Blackberry.

The huge growth in mobile music apps has left some Android-using musicians and developers frustrated, because of years of inaction on Google’s part to address latency issues on Android. Latency is enough of a problem on the platform that music app developers have focused on iOS, despite a larger possible audience on the Android platform. Continue reading

Arpeggionome for iPhone Now Available

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Alexander Randon has released Arpeggionome for iPhone, the iPhone version of Arpeggionome Pro.

Arpeggionome for iPhone lets you create intricate patterns of musical notes, then trigger those patterns at different pitches and speeds with an x-y matrix. Tilt the iPhone for accelerometer-controlled pitchbend and volume.

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