The biggest buzz of the week in electronic music has been generated by the release of Propellerhead Figure for iOS. The app is basically a mobile groove generator, letting you create short sequences using great-sounding preset drum, bass & lead synth engines. The interface eliminates the need for traditional musical skills. Groove-based quantization and a… Read More Propellerhead Figure Review Roundup
Reader Tim Webb sent word of additional details about the new Waldorf wavetable synth for the iPad, which is currently being developed by Waldorf and iOS developer Rolf Wöhrmann (Tempo Rubato): The primary concept behind the synth is an evolution of the design in Waldorf’s PPG series synths. These wavetable synths used a set of tables,… Read More The New Waldorf Wavetable iPad Synth (More Details)
We reported last week about Csound Touch – the upcoming app that will bring Csound to the iPad. Now Victor Lazzarini and Steven Yi have announced a software development kit for working with Csound on iOS. Get the details at the project’s SourceForge site. Yi also notest that “iOS, like Android, will be maintained as first class… Read More Csound iOS Software Development Kit Now Available & It’s Free
Arturia has released an updated to Jupiter-8V, its virtual recreation of the Jupiter 8 synthesizer. Here’s what’s new in Jupiter-8V version 2.5: Support for 64-bit VST and Audio Unit Support for Pro Tools 9 & 10 Support for Mac OSX 10.7 (Lion) MIDI Control Assignment Improvement Features: More than 400 high quality and innovative sounding… Read More Arturia Jupiter-8V Updated, Here’s What’s New
Ableton and SoundCloud have teamed up to bring you some goodies, whether you’re a Live user or not. It’s not Ableton Live 9 – but it’s still a pretty cool set of announcements: Ableton Live has been updated so that it now comes with SoundCloud sharing baked in. You can now upload straight to SoundCloud. SoundCloud is… Read More Get Ableton Live Lite For Free! Plus – Live Users Can Now Upload Straight To SoundCloud
Archifon is a big interactive virtual musical instrument, created by The Macula Project, originally made for the Olomouc Baroque de-baptized chapel. Architectural elements within the chapel are turned into laser-controlled triggers by mapping a virtual surface to the chapel’s interior. Up to ten visitors at a time can interact with the Archifon through the laser pointers.… Read More Does This Laser-Controlled Musical Church Satisfy Your Need For Audio-Visual Nihilism?
Musicrow has released Golden Ensembles 3, a collection of 44 ensembles for Native Instruments Reaktor 5. Golden Ensembles 3 now includes the two ‘mega-synths’ Ebola and Cobra, the new Bass Lab bass machine, and many other synthesizers and instruments. In addition, it contains classic processor emulations like Crow Tape Echo and Plate Reverb, and unique… Read More Musicrow Intros Golden Ensembles 3 For Reaktor
The latest episode of The SoundWorks Collection takes a look at the sound design of the film version of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games. Movie Director Gary Ross and his sound team including Supervising Sound Editor Lon Bender, Re-recording Mixer Michael Keller, and Re-recording Mixer Mike Prestwood Smith discuss their approach to creating the lush soundscapes… Read More Sound Design Of The Hunger Games
Musikmesse 2012: For the 13th time, representatives from more than 100 magazines, from all over the world, have gathered at Musikmesse to select their picks for the best musical instruments and audio equipment of the last year. The Musikmesse International Press Award (MIPA) were awarded at a ceremony held Thursday, March 22nd, 2012. Here are the… Read More The Best Of Musikmesse, The 2012 MIPA Awards
Musikmesse 2012: Novation has introduced Automap v4.3 adding support for four more DAWs. Automap comes free with all Novation controllers and is designed to give you instant access to your DAW’s transport, mixer and plug-in instruments and effects, as well as third-party plug-ins. Automap also gives you visual feedback of whatever you are controlling via… Read More Novation Intros Automap 4.3, Adds Support For More DAWs
