Mikrosonic has released RD3 HD – Groovebox – an app that turns a Honeycomb Android Tablet into a virtual music studio: RD3 HD – Groovebox is an audio application designed for Android tablets that is easy to use. It combines two 303-style synthesizers, a drum machine with different drum kits and three audio effects.
Ableton announced Live 8.2.5: Live 8.2.5 now officially supports Mac OS X 10.7 Lion – please make sure to check that all of your third-party plug-ins and audio/MIDI hardware are Lion-compatible before upgrading your OS. Live 8.2.5 introduces significant improvements to MIDI sync, in addition to other feature changes and bugfixes. For the full list of what’s… Read More Ableton Live Updated For OS X Lion Compatibility
Jacob Joaquin is exploring the idea of composing for Twitter. Can you make music within the constraints of 140 characters? Here’s Joaquin’s SuperCollider Bohlen-Pierce Tweet – above as audio, and below as text: fork{loop{play{f=_*3.pow(17.rand/13);e=EnvGen.ar(Env.perc,1,0.3,0,1,2); PMOsc.ar(f.([438,442]),f.(880),f.(e))*e};[1/6,1/3].choose.wait}} That only weighs in at 135 characters – imagine what you could do with another 5 characters! Microtonal tuning courtesy… Read More Music That You Can Tweet About (140-Character Twitter Music Challenge)
Earlier in the week, we reported on the Open Music App Collaboration Manifesto – a call to iOS music developers to push ahead with inter-app collaboration feature. The Manifesto defines a set of best practices that should help make the user experience as great as possible for people who want run music apps in parallel. One… Read More MIDI Instruments On iOS (Best Practices)
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Developer Dmitry Sches has released Diversion, a new software synth for Windows. Features: Sound generation – 4 oscillators with a wide range of different waveforms with a near to zero level of aliasing. Oscillators generate sounds in real-time with algorithms for optimal sound quality at high frequencies. All waveforms have two independent parameters X and Y… Read More New Windows Synth VST – Diversion
Free Music Software: DSK Music has released DSK SynthDrums – a free drum synth for Windows. Features: 12 Patch drum Synth Easy assign sounds to keyboard Deep control over sound design Selectable output Midi automation User presets Filter, Distortion, EQ It’s a free download at the DSK site.
Rolf Wöhrman, developer of the NLogPoly Synth line of iOS apps, has posted an Open Music App Collaboration Manifesto, calling on iOS music developers to push ahead with inter-app collaboration features: This is a doc about how iOS apps should use MIDI while running on same device. It provides a set of best practices which… Read More The Open Music App Collaboration Manifesto
White Noise Audio has released Genome MIDI Sequencer (GMS) – a pattern based MIDI sequencer for the iPad. According to the developer, “It’s simply the best app on the iPad for controlling all your MIDI gear. You can sequence single patterns or an entire 16 track song.” Features: CoreMIDI, Line6 Mobilizer Mk I & II compatible… Read More Genome MIDI Sequencer For iPad Now Available
Pocket Organ C3B3 – a musical keyboard application for iPhone/iPod touch that simulates the Hammond Organ – has been updated to version 1.4. New in Pocket Organ C3B3 1.4: CoreMIDI & MIDI Mobilizer support minor & Major pentatonic scale minor & Major blues scaled keys
