Retronyms has updated Tabletop – its virtual studio for the iPad – to version 1.2. Here’s what’s new in Tabletop 1.2: New RS4000: Powerful Synth Easy sharing using SoundCloud New Gridlok & M8RX samples from +verb Bugfixes & performance improvements Tabletop is currently available for .99 in the App Store. Some virtual instruments are in-app… Read More Tabletop Adds RS4000 Synthesizer
AudioThing has introduced TapeStation – described as “what happens when a ’90s analog synth meets an ’80s tape recorder”. AudioThing sampled “a famous Analogue Bass Synth” (BassStation, cough, cough) to tape using a new old stock cassette, and then turned it into a Kontakt Instrument.
Pulse Code has announced that it will be adding a Moog inspired monosynth to Rhythm Studio, its virtual studio for the iPad: As hinted at by our new app icon, we are adding another subtractive monosynth in the classic Moog style. It will be a 2 oscillator synth with oscillator sync and ring modulation. The oscillators… Read More Moog Synth Coming To Rhythm Studio + More Effects
Pulse Code has announced that it has updated Rhythm Studio, its virtual studio app for the iPad. The virtual studio’s collection of instruments has been expanded with the DR-9, a 909 style drum machine and the Hornet ribbon synthesizer. Here’s what’s new: You can now have FOUR instrument devices in your song. You now have the… Read More Rhythm Studio Updated, Gets Price Cut
Retronyms has updated Tabletop, its virtual studio for the iPad. New devices in Tabletop 1.1: Compressor Limiter Expander Bit Crusher Splitter High-pass Filter Tabletop is a modular virtual studio that comes with a variety of devices, including a pad sampler, matrix synthesizer, mixer, turntable, low-pass filter and more. Additional devices are available as in-app purchases.
Wavesfactory has introduced 1850 Pipe Organ, a pipe organ sample library for Kontakt. Features: Stereo recording, 44.1 Khz, 24 bits. High quality mics, preamps and converters. 54 keys Pipe Organ from 1850 recorded in Arta’s church (Mallorca, Spain). All notes sampled, no pitch shifting. 430 sampled notes, 860 files (sustain+release). Volume control over all pipe… Read More Wavesfactory Intros 1850 Pipe Organ
Native Instruments has released KOMPLETE 8 and KOMPLETE 8 ULTIMATE, two new software bundles that offer about half a zillion instruments and effects. While KOMPLETE 8 has been expanded to include 27 individual products at an unchanged price, KOMPLETE 8 ULTIMATE combines the full arsenal of Native Instruments’ KOMPLETE Instruments and Effects range, with 50… Read More Native Instruments Komplete 8, Komplete 8 Ultimate Now Available
Native Instruments has just unleashed a bunch of new stuff – sort of like they used to at the Winter NAMM Show, when they still attended that. Here’s what’s new: KONTAKT 5 is the next generation of the leading software sampler. The new version offers profoundly enhanced sound shaping through a host of new high-quality… Read More Native Instruments Intros Kontakt 5, Guitar Rig 5 Pro & More
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.
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
