Secret Base Design’s Sidecar is designed to work with the slide-over and split-view features of iOS 9 on the iPad and to bring new control options to iOS music making. Sidecar is an iOS app designed for slide-over and side-by-side view on the iPad (with iOS 9). It features IAA hosting, a mixer, built-in audio… Read More Sidecar Brings New Control Options To iOS 9
Developer Frédéric Meslin has announced a Kickstarter project to develop the OP-A, a multi-timbral FM synthesizer Arduino Shield. The Arduino is popular open-hardware microprocessor platform. A Shield is essentially a PCB that plugs into an Arduino and gives it new features. The OP·A is an FM synthesizer shield for Arduino, that Meslin says is “great… Read More OP·A – A Multitimbral FM Synthesizer Shield for Arduino
Modular synth-makers WMD have launched a new video series, WMD Test Lab, highlighting modular gear and guitar pedals in an improvised live performance setting. The first video in the series features WMD’s Tyler Thompson (who performs as T2) in a performance using only eurorack modular gear.
Tracktion Corporation has released Tracktion T7, a major update to its namesake digital audio workstation. “With T7, we’ve taken the Tracktion paradigm a lot further,” says Lead Developer, Dave Rowland. “In addition to a great looking, more dynamic user interface, there are a lot of practical improvements designed to boost productivity. I’m most excited about the new… Read More Tracktion Updated To T7
Developer Georgi Dianov has launched a Kickstarter project to fund the projection of The MIDI Thing – a wireless bridge that’s designed to bring MIDI over Bluetooth to standard MIDI hardware. The MIDI Thing (TMT) is a bridge device that wirelessly connects your hadware MIDI instruments to your Mac or iOS device. Dianov says that it’s… Read More The MIDI Thing Brings MIDI Over Bluetooth Wireless To Hardware Instruments
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/148525461] Jan Poope’s Audiopill – part of the art exhibition Prolapse of Love – is a conceptual art piece that is designed for “enjoying music from the inside”. According to Poope (aka Jan Strmiska):
Synthrotek shared this sound demo of their new West Coast Noise System – an all-in-one Eurorack modular system, inspired by classic ‘West Coast Synthesis’. “The amount of insanity you can create from so few modules is incredible,” according to Synthrotek. “It’s analog drums, 8 bit crunch and noise married to a sequencer.”
Andrew McPherson of the Augmented Instruments Laboratory, C4DM let us know that they have launched a new Kickstarter project to fund the development of Bela – a high-performance, ultra-low-latency (< 1ms) platform for audio and sensor processing based on the BeagleBone Black. The project has already met its funding goal, with about a month left… Read More New Ultra-Low-Latency Interactive Audio Platform, Bela
apeSoft has updated iVCS3, its software take on the EMS VCS3, to version 1.6. The update adds Ableton Link and more. Here’s what’s new in version 1.6.4:
Sunday Synth Jam: This series of videos, via ROLI, captures a fusion jam session at the 2016 NAMM Show. The ROLI booth featured a series of performances, featuring their new Seaboard RISE controllers. This jam session featured Snarky Puppy and The Funk Apostles star Cory Henry, along with Marco Parisi and Larnell Lewis. Watch for extensive use… Read More ROLI RISE Fusion Synth Jam At The 2016 NAMM Show
