Following on from the original Deadmau5 Touch Mix comes the new version (App Store link), featuring 20 tracks including tracks from his new album For Lack of A Better Name, new effects, tilt control and an integrated Twitter feed.

It retails for $2.99.

iPhone Music Software: Check out this visual demo of PatternMusic (App Store link) a gorgeous new matrix synthesizer for the iPhone.

PatternMusic retails for $4.99. Detailed specs below.

If you’ve used PatternMusic, leave a comment and let me know what you think of it!

PatternMusic Features:

• The Stage
  • Intuitively mix and arrange your songs by moving instrument icons.
  • Effortlessly add, duplicate and delete instruments.
• Multi-Touch™ Pattern Editor
  • Easily create unique looping note patterns.
  • Editor zoom – because not everyone has the same size fingers.
  • Up to 64 notes per pattern via the scrolling timeline.
  • Scroll through a 4 octave range for each instrument.
  • Solo mode – focus on a single part of your composition.
  • Dynamics for individual notes.
• Voices
  • 50 instrument voices to choose from.
  • Change voices at any time.
  • A full drum kit and percussion set.
• Built-in Help and Tutorials
  • A complete Help system is accessible throughout the app.
  • Access built-in and on-line Video Tutorials without leaving the app.
• Instrument and Song Settings
  • Tempo (including “tap tempo” for interactive tempo matching).
  • Time Signature
  • Scales – work within a mode and avoid “wrong” notes (more than 40 scales available).
  • Note length configurable from 1/16 note triplets to dotted whole notes.
  • Looping control – infinite or counted.
  • Configurable instrument start point.
  • Swing – create shuffle effects.
  • Transpose – up or down up to two octaves (an 8 octave total range).
• Song Management
  • Auto-save – PatternMusic automatically saves your songs when you quit or when you are interrupted by a phone call, and it automatically restores your last session when you return.
  • Manage your songs including song duplicate, rename and delete.
• Play along with your iPod Music
  • iPod Music Library access and control without leaving the app.
• Small app download
  • You’ll be creating music in no time.

This is a video demo of IK Multimedia’s GrooveMaker Electro – a beatmaking app for the iPhone.

via ikmultimedia:

Hear the sounds of the new GrooveMaker Electro: mechanical and aggressive uptempo beats, weird and chemically altered sounds. A huge collection of phreaked out bass lines and alien noises. Includes 4 songs, plus 1 FREE song by registering, and a total of 315 loops in 85-98-100-120-135 BPM ranges for 215 MB of samples.

John Keston demos a sound art performance application that he’s developing in Max/MSP. The control is handled with TouchOSC on the iPhone or iPod Touch.

iPhone Music Software: The Strange Agency has announced the launch of Slice (App Store link), a $.99 beat-juggling app.

Check out how it works in the demo video above.

If you’ve used Slice, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Naughty Panther describes Plinkton as an application that lets you “create a rhythmic groove over a bed of smooth ambiance.”

Plinkton is less Kenny G, though, and more ambient Pong.

The app lets you select from three background tracks and 4 “plinkton sounds”. The “plinkton” moves around the screen, triggering sounds as it bounces off the edges of the screen.

Plinkton can also act as an OSC sender, letting you use it to trigger other apps.

Plinkton sells for $.99.

Synthwerks is offering a sneak preview of their modular synthesizer, which is still under development, at their Facebook page.

They’ve announced an interesting array of modules, including a “thumbstick” joystick controller; force sensing resistor modules; and this iPhone/iPod touch Player Module, designed to integrate an iPhone into your modular synthesizer.

Synthwerks is a small company in Seattle, Washington which designs and makes synthesizer modules in the Eurorack form factor.

According to Synthwerks:

Synthwerks will be focusing initially on making alternate controllers and modules for processing/modifying CVs. We will make some other modules that will be aimed at filling the gaps we find in the available offerings by other companies or to compliment modules they make. Some will just be for fun.

In other words you probably won’t see a standard VCO or LPF with a Synthwerks logo on it. Those who are on FaceBook, you will find a Synthwerks page there, and you are encouraged to comment on the modules and make suggestions for ones you may want. If interest is high enough, our modules may be offered in kit form. Stay tuned…

via Matrix

Natasha Adorlee Johnson (Natasha and the Rejects) performs Counting Stars, while demonstrating how the TouchOSC iPhone application can be used to control video and sound.

TouchOSC was used as wireless OSC to MIDI controller in conjunction with Ableton Live and Resolume VJ Software. Johnson altered and mixed the visuals and sound live using the TouchOSC application on the iPhone.

All aspects of the performance demonstration, including effected sound and video processing, were done live. The top right hand shot clarifies Natasha’s actions on the iPhone to control the performance.

For more information about the demonstration and the group, visit: NatashaAndTheReject.com

Sunday Synth Jam: BT rocks the crowd at Full On Ferry 2009 in Rotterdam, using Sonifi on the iPhone. 

Note to BT: This segment is too short to see how much of an individual spin you can bring to a Sonifi performance. Let’s see you melt some faces!

The Beat Kangz have announced that Beat Thang Virtual – a virtual music production system for Windows and Mac, is now available.

Features:

• One octave pad layout with 8 banks so you can bang out beats or play the keys.
• 16 tracks so you can create patterns that can be performed and remixed on the fly.
• 16 layers of velocity sensitivity for emotive performance.
• High Quality Sampler & waveform editing. Sample your own sounds using your computer’s built in mic or line input.
• Edit sample start and end times. Process samples using features like normalize, reverse and resample.
• Easy to use Realtime Sequencer. Create patterns in real time using quantize, swing, individual bar lengths, tap tempo then string them together in SONG mode.
• Mixer with built in FX Change track, pad and pan levels.
• Add 24bit reverb, delay, flange, phaser, pitch shift, old record and many more.
• Add BANG with onboard mastering.
• Export your songs as .wav files or save them to your Beat Kangz Playa Thang equipped iPhone or iPod Touch.
• Connects seamless with Beat Thang Hardware.

Beat Thang Virtual retails for $149 USD.

iPhone music software: This is a demo of SoundFields (App Store link), a new iPhone music app that’s designed to make it easy for people that don’t have a good ear for music to play tunes.

Not sure if that’s a good thing or not, though.

If you’ve used SoundFields, leave a comment with your thoughts!

via NightRadio2007:

Code and music by NightRadio.

Background tracks composed in SunVox. tu

iPhone music software. This is a video demo of NNN Mono (App Store link), a monophonic software synth for the iPhone.

Specifications below.

Oscillators
- OSC1
– Waves : Saw, Pulse, Triangle, Sine
– Control1 : Modifying the waveform
– Control2 : Depth of modulation produced with LFO1
- OSC2
– Waves : Saw, Square, Triangle, Sine
– OSC MOD( to OSC1) : Ring, Sync, Ring Sync
- OSC3
– Waves : Saw, Square, Triangle, Sine, Noise

Filter
- Type : Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass, Band Stop

Envelope generators
- Filter EG
- AMP EG1
- AMP EG2

LFO
- LFO 1
– Waves : Sine ,Saw1, Saw2, Square1, Square2, Triangle1, Triangle2
– Freq : 0.0 ~ 20.0
- LFO 2
- – Waves : Sine ,Saw1, Saw2, Square1, Square2, Triangle1, Triangle2
– Freq : 0.0 ~ 60.0

Modulations
- Sources : LFO1, LFO2, OSC3, FILTER EG, AMP EG1, AMP EG2, KEY PAD, ACCEL1, ACCEL2
- Destinations : OSC1 FREQ, OSC2 FREQ, OSC3 FREQ, AMP, CUTOFF, OSC1 PAN, OSC2 PAN, OSC3 PAN

Arpeggiator
- Up, Down, UpDown1, UpDown2, Ramdom

Delay
- Stereo Delay, Cross Delay, L/R Delay

Program
- 30 preset sounds (A.1 ~ E.6)
- 6 user default sounds (F.1 ~ F.6)

Sound Quality
- 44.1kHz Stereo

More examples at Kazuyuki Okamoto’s Vimeo page.

This is a demo of the new GrooveMaker Trance for the iPhone.

IK Multimedia is releasing versions of GrooveMaker targeting various electronic music genres.

via ikmultimedia:

Hear the sounds of the new GrooveMaker Trance: allows you to immerse yourself in a total state of trance with anathematic bass lines, progressive structures and lead melodies; a hypnotic journey with no interruption! Includes 4 songs, plus 1 FREE song by registering, and a total of 315 loops in 140-150 BPM for 230 MB of samples.

Yudo, creators of 8-bit and recording iPhone music software, have released Matrix Music Pad (App Store link), a new iPhone app that’s part game and part matrix-based synth sequencer.

Here’s what they have to say about it:

You don’t any knowledge about synthesizers to make cool sounding music! RxR project are DJ nagureo aka Reo Nagumo he is very famous musician about music games. & Reo Yonaga he also famous game designers about music interactive games. RxR will be produce a lot of like this in 2009.

Something may have been lost in translation on that……

Click here to view the embedded video.

If you’ve used Matrix Music Pad, leave a comment with your thoughts!

iPhone Music Software: This is an overview of the features of the Beat Kangz Beat Thang Virtual – a beatmaking app for the iPhone.

Have you tried out the Beat Thang? If so, leave a comment below!

via BeatKangz

iPhone Music Software: IK Multimedia has released GrooveMaker Techno and GrooveMaker Trance (App Store links) for the iPhone and iPod trouch.

Both are available now and sell for $9.99.

Description:

GrooveMaker Techno is an app for creating electronic, dance and hip-hop tracks in real-time. You can automatically remix the hundreds of loops included, on the 8 available tracks, in virtually limitless ways.

Features:

• Massive loops library of drums, bass, bass-drums, lines, pads, percussion, effects
• Techno style
• 4 included songs + 1 FREE song when you register
• 315 loops – 140-150-160-180 BPM
• 228 MB of samples

GrooveMaker Trance:

• Instantaneous control over 8 stereo loop tracks
• Play, Mix and Randomize loops on the fly
• Combine studio-quality loops to produce a million possible grooves
• Manipulate loops in real time (pan, volume, mute, solo, group, tempo)
• Arrange grooves easily with drag and drop to create full-length tracks
• Save, preview and recall you mixed tracks
• Upload your tracks as hi-quality WAV file to your Mac/PC (*Wi-Fi network required)
• Interactive Help allows quick learning simply following the indicated steps

Features:

• Massive loops library of drums, bass, bass-drums, lines, pads, percussion, effects
• Trance style
• 4 included songs + 1 FREE song when you register
• 351 loops – 140-150 BPM
• 230 MB of samples

khu.sh Chief Executive Officer Prerna Gupta and Chief Technology Officer Parag Chordia demonstrate LaDiDa, their “reverse karaoke” application for the iPhone, by having it create the accompaniment for a Bollywood duet.

iPhone music software update: Soundgrid (App Store link), an $1.99 iPhone/iPod touch virtual matrix synthesizer, has been updated to export directly to SoundCloud, for your mobile beat blogging pleasure.

Details below.

SoundGrid Features:

• Support for unlimited number of Sound Banks with high-quality stereo sounds of any length (currently 7 SBs included)
• Download and install additional Sound Banks right from the app
• Up to 8 layers each playing from any Sound Bank with up to 8 patterns per layer which you can quickly switch between
• Song mode to automatically play one pattern after another
• Select one of 8 colors for each layer to create visual performance synchronized with notes played
• Real-time sound effects: delay and resonant lowpass/highpass/bandpass/notch filter
• Adjustable project tempo, adjustable looping range for each pattern, grid randomization feature, switchable musical scales
• Save and load multiple projects; it’s easy to find the one you want thanks to graphical previews
• Share your compositions with other users, browse, download and rate their projects
• Recording to audio file, direct upload to SoundCloud or export via email. As ringtons, too.

Video review via TapCritic

Let’s get this out of the way up front: The answer is – because it was there.

This video demonstrates an iPod with TouchOSC controlling a vintage Commodore 64 synthesizer (SID Chip), with a home made C64 MIDI interface.

Hacktacular.

Littlescale, we salute you.

iPhone music apps: This is a sneak preview of The Strange Agency’s Slice, a beat-juggling app coming soon to the iPhone and iPod touch.

via TheStrangeAgency