Amidio has updated OMGuitar, adding AudioBus support, MIDI and more.
Here’s what’s new in OMGuitar 2.0:
OMGuitar is available for $4.99 in the App Store.
Giorgio Sancristoforo has announced Berna 2.0 – a new version of his virtual vintage electronic music studio for Mac OS X.
Berna is a software simulation of a late 1950s electroacoustic music studio. Oscillators, filters, modulators, tape recorders, mixers, are all packed in a easy-to-use interface with historical accuracy.
Berna 2.0 adds:
Here’a a video intro to Berna 2: Continue reading
Fingerlab has announced that DM1 – a software drum machine for iOS – has made the jump to the Mac.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
DM1 for Mac OS Included 86 superb drum kits, a gorgeous fullscreen user interface for your desktop and laptop, an easy to use Duo FX Trackpads for real-time sonic destruction and multi-FX, DM1 for MAC OSX is fully compatible with DM1 for iPad, you can share files between them.
With Midi In & out, and separated tracks export, DM1 is ready to fit your digital audio workstation.
Note: DM1 for the Mac is a standalone virtual instrument. Details below. Continue reading
These videos, by developer Bastus Trump, offer an introduction to Orphion, his instrument for the iPad.
Orphion is one of the more expressive instruments available for iOS, because of the way it allows for different types of sounds to be played, depending on how you touch the screen. Continue reading
Developer Patrick Madden contacted us to let us know that he’s updated Live Guitar – a universal iOS app that provides a guitar-style interface. It’s designed to make selecting chords quick and easy, with enough space to either play the guitar finger-style, pick, or strum.
Velocity sensitivity is emulated by adjusting volume based on where a string is touched; this allows for more expression and more natural sound.
The new version works with Audiobus, and also has full MIDI out support, so that you can drive other synths (and multiple synths at the same time, with each channel being transposed if you like). Because most guitar based songs revolve around a few chords, you can load in sets of chords on a song-by-song basis, and these chord sets can be imported and exported using Twitter.
Madden, the software developer at Secret Base Design, is also the developer of Audio MIDI Connect and MIDI Control. Continue reading
Retronyms has introduced three new devices for Tabletop, its virtual studio for iPad.
Here are the details: Continue reading