This is the latest sneak preview for Glenn Marshall’s Zio – an interactive generative psychedelic visualizer:

Presently you can change most of the branching and shading and can easily navigate with dragging/pinch zoom and rotate.  You can pause the animation at any time and still interact/move around, and also save pictures to your photo library.

The interface is just a temporary one at the minute for testing, it will be redesigned and probably have twice as much features seen in the demo – including particle motion and trails and the ability to tweak the underlying math and algorithms.

This demo is a screen cap of the iPhone simulator – at times the frame-rate is jerky – but actually runs okay on the real device! (don’t know why that should be).

Zio is still in developement and Marshall is looking into various options for letting the iPhone access audio, so that the visuals may be able to react to music.

If Marshall can get this right, though, Zio could be one of the coolest apps yet for the iPhone.

BT and Sonik Architects have released Sonifi (App Store link),  a new $4.99 iPhone app that lets you “Remix, Record, Control dynamic live FX & beautiful visualizers AND Stutter Edit….. LIVE.”

Features:

• Four channels of four tracks (Bass, Beats, Synth / FX and melody) with arrangement mapping for true and limitless remix options
• Three studio class X/Y controllable FX (Lo-Fi, High Pass Filter and Low Pass Filter)
• Stunning and interactive visualizers that respond both to music and touch
• Numerous visual behaviors and screen-sets
• Save, Edit and rework your mix
• First ever use of BT and Sonik Architects Stutter Edit technology

Requirements

• iPhone OS 3.0 Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch (first and second generation)

Here’s a video demo of Sonifi:

Click here to view the embedded video.

If you’ve used Sonik Architects’ Sonifi, leave a comment with your thoughts!

More info, and some rip-roaring press release hyperbole, below.

Description:

Sonifi is the world’s first true audio and visual remix application and protocol.

Created by BT, this application showcases futuristic new music and remixes of The Rose of Jericho from his forthcoming 2009 artist album. Sonifi is a powerful, portable, real-time remix engine.

For iPhone and iPod touch 3.0 users, a revolutionary new multi-player feature has been added.

Jam Link gives 3.0 users the ability to link with a friend (via Bluetooth) and remix live….TOGETHER. The mixmaster selects control over “Beats and Bass” or “Melody and Harmony”. Once JamLinked you and your buddy can remix, select tracks and Stutter Edit live. This is a first for any application, on any device.

In Sonifi, four channels of four unique tracks allow extreme flexibility and remix possibilities. The (4×4 matrix of) tracks can be mixed, muted or soloed and contain four completely unique elements and arrangements per-channel. There are four tracks of ripping beats to choose from, four tracks of fat bass lines, four tracks of glitchy synths and FX, and four tracks of cutting edge melodies. Everything in Sonifi happens in-time and on-beat; so making a mix is both fun and effortless.

Currently, three discrete real time effects are controllable using the X/Y axis of the iPhone or iPod touch screen: Lo-Fi, resonant high pass filter, and resonant low pass filter.

There are mesmerizing visual elements that respond elegantly to user touch as well as the frequency and amplitude information of your remix. You are not just remixing, you’re visualizing what you are creating. Finally, Sonifi contains BT’s patented Stutter Edit technology and is the first application to showcase to its abilities.

Instead of using a mouse, USB device, or other input peripheral (like you would with a computer), your phone becomes an instrument!! Simply shake the phone in one of six vectorial directions (left, right, forward, backward, up, or down) and at the next 1/8th note the Stutter Edit plugin will perform a micro-note or fill pattern repeat, some with release crashes and hits.

Basically, you shake your phone and sound like a genius. (Sorry – this is straight from the press release guys!)

Endless fun ensues!

Planned upgrades will include downloadable Sonifi media packs containing other artists songs and remixes, new visualizer elements and band & artist links.

Saturday Synth Porn Video: Here is a first look at the new Ellatron Remote Visualizer, which is a new add-on for Ellatron 1.4 that runs exclusively on the Mac, and is currently in development.

Ellatron Remote Visualizer connects over WiFi to Ellatron 1.4 (and above), duplicates Ellatron’s display on the Mac, and adds customizable, swirly, groovy, hyper-psychedelic backgrounds for that authentic Pink Floyd UFO Club oil wheel experience.

Ellatron can be connected to a guitar radio transmitter for audio and to Ellatron Remote Visualizer over WiFi for video.

Description:

Audiogasm uses the iPhone microphone to visualize sounds and music. Enjoy the hypnotic visuals created while listening to your favorite songs or whistling a tune.

Features:

• Music visualization using the iPhone microphone and real-time audio analyzer
• Dynamically generated artwork that is unique, beautiful, and hypnotic
• Visualize sound frequencies in the color spectrum with amazing animations
• Swipe to take a snapshot and store in your photo album
• Shake device to change the current animation
• Configuration screen for adjusting microphone sensitivity Instructions

Just put your favorite song on your home stereo or whistle your favorite tune. Audiogasm will paint what it hears in “a hypnotic like fashion”. 

Note It is not possible for Audiogasm (or any app) to access to your personal iTunes music. iPod touch (2nd generation) users need to attach a microphone, such as the Apple earphones with mic.

Audiogasm probably won’t leave you screaming for more – but it’s the price is hard to beat.

Beatesthesia is a highly customizable WYSIWYG music visualizer, inspired in motive and design by synesthesia.

It’s a free download, but is currently in beta form, so there’s a bit of a learning curve and you may encounter some weirdness.

Description:

Synesthesia has inspired many works of art. Art that is meant to evoke synesthetic associations in a non-synesthetic audience has been dubbed synesthetic. Most artists synced sound and light in their performances to achieve this goal. Their efforts were deemed arbitrary because the all relied upon one set schema for an entire audience. If it is at all possible to evoke synesthetic reactions each experience should be fine tuned to a single person.

Beatesthesia allows the user to design their own music visualization. The WYSIWYG editor allows you to easily add audio reactive graphics to either Kick Snare or Hat beats. When a beat is detected the graphical event programmed is then fired.

The interface its self is audio reactive. This increases the speed of the feedback loop. You know exactly what beat you are adding to because you can see it flashing. Beatesthesia allows anyone to create their own music visualization. There is no prior knowledge of audio manipulation or video software needed. Beatesthesia is equally capable of competing with live visual software, the VJ version features a dual display set up for live performance. You can share you creations with others, using the copy paste code system.

MachineCodex Software has announced the release of AudioCodex v1.0, a Mac media player on steroids:

AudioCodex is made for musicians, DJs, audiophiles and casual listeners alike. AudioCodex tightly integrates your media, iTunes Library, Quartz Compositions and CoreAudio Audio Units effects.

AudioCodex allows users to easily create loops and apply real-time Audio Units effects to tracks from iTunes and elsewhere. It is built around a unique hybrid CoreAudio/QuickTime playback engine which preferentially plays files with CoreAudio.

Check out the feature list:

• Pitch Shifting: -1200 to +1200Hz
• Time Shifting: 1/4x to 4x speed
• Opens most audio files
• Opens most video files
• Unique Core Audio + QuickTime hybrid playback engine
• Real-time Audio Units Effects chain
• 10 band Graphic Equalizer
• Looping controls to isolate one or more sections of a track
• iTunes integration with built-in iTunes media browser, or drag & drop direct from iTunes
• Powerful Audio file conversion, exports to AIFF/ AIFC, WAV, MP4, M4A, AAC, SD2, CAF
• Fullscreen mode
• Create and edit your own Visualizations in Quartz Composer

AudioCodex is available now for Mac OS X at a price of $29.95. A free 30 day trial version is also available.