Ableton today released Live 9.6, adding support for Ableton Link – a way to wirelessly sync multiple devices, including computers running Live, iOS devices running compatible applications and even hardware. Here’s the official video intro:
Apple today introduced Music Memos, a free app for iOS that lets you quickly capture, organize and develop musical ideas on your iPhone or iPad. Musicians and songwriters around the world have used the Voice Memos app on their iPhone to record ideas. The new Music Memos app is inspired by Voice Memos and takes the functionality even… Read More Apple Intros Music Memos For iOS, Like ‘Voice Memos For Music’
This video, via Ryan Hemeon, is a review & demo of Korg Gadget, an iOS app that Korg calls ‘the ultimate mobile synth collection’.
Developer Alexandernaut (Arpeggionome, Fugue Machiune) has released Link to MIDI – a free iOS app that lets you use Ableton Link to sync MIDI Clock on hardware MIDI devices. Link to MIDI connects Ableton Link to musical devices that support MIDI Clock Sync. Simply join a Link session, connect your MIDI device, and that’s it. Your MIDI device is… Read More LINK to MIDI Delivers ‘Incredibly Stable’ MIDI Clock
Best of 2015: We asked and you voted on the Best New Mobile Music Apps of 2015. Synthtopia readers picked Olympia Noise Co’s Patterning Drum Machine as the best new mobile music app of 2015. Patterning could be the poster child using mobile devices for music, pairing polyrhythmic + polymetric power with a great UI and an surprisingly… Read More The Best New Mobile Music Apps Of 2015
Developer Matthew Caldwell has released Nebulizer – a creative echo effect for iOS – as a free download. Here’s what he has to say about it:
Ableton recently introduced Ableton Link – a new way to streamline syncing of multiple devices – both computers running Live and iOS devices running music apps. It’s now starting to appear in iOS apps. Here’s a video, via developer Oliver Greschke (Triqtraq and Elastic Drums), that demos syncing and performing with 7 iOS devices, wirelessly, using Ableton Link.
Roli today announced the release of Noise, a free app that takes advantage of the expressive music-making potential of the iPhone. Stemming from the company’s years of research into “touch-sensitive musical interfaces,” Noise is a ‘full-bodied instrument’ that makes use of the 3D touch-sensitive capabilities of the iPhone 6s. Noise support Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression (MPE), which… Read More Roli Intros Free Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression Synth, ‘Noise’, For iPhone
Auxy has released Auxy for iPhone – a mobile music app designed to let you ‘focus on your musical ideas and be more creative’. “Building the iPhone version has helped us clarify our mission: to provide the best tools for mobile creators and make it possible to produce real music just using phones,” says Auxy… Read More Auxy For iPhone
The latest episode of the iOS Update takes a look at using Audio Units in iOS.
