IK Multimedia has released SampleTank for iPhone and iPod touch, a $9.99 app (App Store link) that basically turns your iOS device into a rompler with 4-part multi-timbral operation. The $9.99 version comes with 68 virtual instruments and is expandable to 400+ instruments though in-app expansion pack purchases. Does this make dedicated hardware romplers obsolete?… Read More SampleTank For iPhone, iPod touch Now Available
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Reader Tim Webb, aka Discchord, offers his thoughts on One Red Dog Media’s Arctic Keys, one of the latest software synths for the iPad. “Arctic Keys improves upon the standard Subtractive Synth model with an elaborate step-sequencer,” says Webb. “This is great for a rhythmic control over the parameters.” Unfortunately, Webb’s bottom line on Arctic Keys… Read More Arctic Keys For iPad Review – Interesting, But Buggy
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Livid Instruments has introduced three new expansion devices for the Block and OhmRGB MIDI controllers. These add-ons connect to the expansion jack of Block and OhmRGB MIDI Controllers, letting you customize your controller to better meet your needs. The 4K2JS has four rotary knobs and two Playstation style XY joystick controls. This one is a… Read More Livid Intros XPC Expansion Controllers For Block & OhmRGB
Björk’s Biophilia album for iOS has been updated, to add support for iOS 5 and MIDI out. MIDI out? Björk’s never been one to conform to expectations, but adding MIDI out to an album of music, even in app form, is unexpected. Biophilia is a suite of original music and ‘educational artworks and musical artifacts’. All… Read More Is Björk’s Biophilia The First Album With MIDI Out?
Image-Line has introduced a new plugin, Groove Machine – a virtual ‘groove box’ for Mac & PC. Here’s how they describe it: Groove Machine’s power lies in its ability to quickly link to MIDI controllers and automate every parameter of the sampler, synth and effects channels on a PER-step basis. Get a groove happening quickly and… Read More Image-Line Intros Groove Machine ‘Virtual Groove Box’
Native Instruments has introduced Damage, a new instrument that offers ‘hard-hitting cinematic percussion for professional movie scoring and high-impact music production’. Created by sound design house Heavyocity and powered by the Kontakt 5 engine, Damage combines industrial sounds and orchestral percussion. The instrument is based on over 25,000 individual samples recorded in 24bit/96Kz, resulting in… Read More Native Instruments Intros Damage ‘Cinematic Percussion’ Instrument
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Opxs_nwyM Free Music Software: Phutura is a free VST for Windows that’s designed to emulate the Roland Alpha Juno synth. The Alpha Juno is known for the classic ‘Hoover’ sound, which is recreated using Phutura in the demo above.
Free Live Rack: AfrbroDJMac sends word of his latest free Live rack, BroStep Rack: Yo SynthBropia! I come with news of a synth that emulates the crazy vowel formants and dirty destruction of the most beloved of all new musical genres, Brostep. I’ll have to leave it to the Brostep experts to grade it on its… Read More Free BroStep Rack For Ableton Live
