I try almost any audio creation app for iOS. I definitely have a group of favorites and Polychord is one of them. If you make verse chorus type of music connect Polychord to your DAW and recording. The MIDI generated is a nice secret weapon. Polychord 2 was recently released so if you passed by the original I suggest taking a look at 2.0.
“Shoulda Woulda Coulda, Inc. is readying a major update to their iPad music composition tool, Polychord. The version 2 update brings a vast quantity of new exciting features to this highly-rated app including the ability to record your song data, a new graphical user interface, and Palettes.” – Future Music
For more info: polychordapp.com
This entry was written by , posted on May 17, 2011 at 6:46 am, filed under drum machine, iPad, synthesizer and tagged drum machine, iPad, midi, Polychord, Polychord 2, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
The iElectribe is one of the best iPad music creation Apps so I’m into this limited edition. Do you really think they are going to stop selling it after 10,000 copies are sold?
“Korg has teamed up with the hugely popular and globally successful virtual band Gorillaz to create a new dedicated beatbox for the iPad: The iELECTRIBE Gorillaz Edition. A limited run of 10,000 units released at a very special price of US$9.99. The iELECTRIBE Gorillaz Edition features: a unique design and synthesizer engine including 128 new sounds created by Gorillaz; and 64 ready-to-use pre-programmed patterns by the sound team Gorillaz, Stephen Sedgwick, and Korg.” – Gwen Alexander
iTunes Store: http://itunes.apple.com/korg-ielectribe-gorillaz-edition
This entry was written by , posted on April 18, 2011 at 4:44 am, filed under drum machine, iPad and tagged drum machine, Gorillaz, iElectribe, iPad, Korg. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
A real analog synth and drum module from Korg. No MIDI or USB. If it sounds good… yeah if it sounds good that’s all that matters. I really like this a lot.
“DO WANT. SO MUCH WIN. love the tribes” – liliththekitten (Harmony Central Forums)
For more info: korg.com
This entry was written by , posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:15 pm, filed under drum machine, hardware, synthesizer and tagged drum machine, Korg, Monotribe, ribbon, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Here’s a trio for Tuesday. Three new interesting pro-audio related products. Number one we have Steinberg LoopMash. LoopMash mangles four loops. It’s an iPhone App. I grabbed it and it has a pretty cool faux 3D swipe to different screen effect worth checking out. Years after abandoning Cubase I’m using a Steinberg product again. Number two is Mike. It’s a microphone from Apogee that goes directing into your iOS device. It’s from Apogee so it deserves mention. Convenience and AD/DA conversion wise it should be a winner however I’m all about high end mic pres and Mike can’t use one. Number three we have SuperAnalog808 a Roland TR-808 sample pack from Goldbaby designed for Loopmasters. If you don’t own a real 808 or Acidlab Miami then samples are your friend. Goldbaby does them right and there’s a million suble differences between 808s and ways to record them so another sample set is always welcome.
For more info: LoopMash, Mike, SuperAnalog808
This entry was written by , posted on March 15, 2011 at 2:35 am, filed under drum machine, hardware, iPad, iPhone, sounds and tagged Apogee, drum machine, iOS, iPad, iPhone, LoopMash, microphone, Roland TR-808, samples, Steinberg. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
If you make electronic music you will enjoy this video. There’s some pretty cool moments and some gear I wasn’t to familiar with such as the Evans EVD-1000 Digital Delay (1:25 in).
“Roland TR-626, Roland TR-727, Roland EF-303, RolandDG CMU-810, KORG MS-2000R, KEIO GIKEN MiniPops-7, YAMAHA EMT-1, YAMAHA ED-10, SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS Drumtraks, Futureretro REVOLUTION, NOVATION BassStation and Talking calculator” – Caknobs
For more info: youtube.com/user/Caknobs
This entry was written by , posted on January 28, 2011 at 5:16 pm, filed under drum machine, hardware, synthesizer and tagged drum machine, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Dave Smith Instruments Tempest. An all new analog drum machine. Awesome. If you listen carefully the demo goes from all the way from 606 to 909ish with some nice Simmons tom emulation and synth stabs. There are a lot of specs but does it matter? A lot of buttons and analog stuff. $2000. link
Avid Torq 2. I secretly always liked Torq better than Traktor. I don’t know why I’ve keep it a secret. It’s just more fun to use and I like the flat interface a lot. I’m not sure 4 decks is better than two. Can you say tiny things to see in a big display? The new Traq Morph feature “blends music tracks in exciting new ways by intelligently applying audio effects during crossfade.”. That could be cool right? Lastly, the software is decoupled from any hardware so you can use it stand alone or with any controller. $250 link
Akai Synthstation 49. I want my car dash to be an iPad. Just the same let’s make my keyboard interface and sound source and iPad too! It’s from Akai so a few MPC pads are included. This will win or loose depending on quality. link
Alesis Studiodock. Professional audio and MIDI I/O for your iPad. Oh… and composite video out. I’m getting very close to being able to play an entire live show off my iPad! link
Izotope Stutter Edit. I love plug-ins like this. Stutter, a Stutter Matrix, Buffer Tricks, Bit Reduction, Pan, Gate, Delay, Filters and more take normal audio and mess it up. $149 link
Arturia Spark. I’m going to tell you right now that this new drum machine from Arturia won’t sound as good as the DSI Tempest. Your going to pay a lot less though and it does have a super fun TR style roll by sequencer. All drum machines are awesome. All of them. $600. link
Rob Papen Punch. I sense a theme at this year’s Namm. I remember it used to be work making killer electronic drum sounds, loops and patterns. Boy to kids have the toys today! If your not an analog purist Dutch Papen’s new VST punch could be of use to you. Will it compete with products like uToniq? Time will tell. link
Introducing Venom from Avid on Vimeo.
M-Audio Venom. I wasn’t excited about a new VA synth. Then I learned the price would be $499. I also learned it came with a VST editor. The marketing hype is pretty good for the new Avid synth too. link
MORE UPDATES TO COME. I will be adding things I find worthy to this post as the weekend continues.
This entry was written by , posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:16 pm, filed under drum machine, hardware, iPad, plug-ins and tagged Alesis, Avid, Dave Smith Instruments, drum machine, DSI Tempest, izotope, NAMM, Studiodock, Stutter Edit, synthesizer, Tempest, Torq 2, Venom. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Grade 3 and a Drum Machine from Selwyn House School on Vimeo.
This is how it all begins with a little honest playtime. One of these kids will go home and dream of drum patterns. They will hear 808s on records and know where the sounds came from. They will realize how special that machine they played with was. One may become the next Hawtin. I started young obsessing over a TRS-80 Color Computer. When I hit my teenage years, fell in love and heard Depeche Mode it was all over. I knew my calling.
“During computer class some of the grade 3s decided to teach themselves how to program a 30-year-old Roland TR-808 drum machine.” – Selwyn House School
photo credit: fr4dd
This entry was written by , posted on January 12, 2011 at 8:36 am, filed under drum machine and tagged children, drum machine, kids, roland, Roland TR-808, school, tr-808. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Mira Cook – Drum Machine from Sean Gillane on Vimeo.
Here’s a pretty cheesy indie video from Mira Cook about at Mattel Synsonic drum machine. The one in the image above is on eBay right now for $39: click here. I wouldn’t mind having one in my collection. Did I ever tell you I love drum machines?
“It was a cheap and cheesy toy and it sounded fairly horrible… but what else would you expect from a toy manufacturer’s attempt to cash in on the emerging drum machine market of the early ’80s?” – hollowsun.com/vintage/mattel
For more info: hollowsun.com/vintage/mattel
This entry was written by , posted on December 15, 2010 at 6:05 am, filed under drum machine and tagged drum machine, Mattel Synsonic, Mira Cook, music video. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Stuck at your desk today at lunch? Need to get your Electrohouse on for a few minutes? I’m not sure if director Ron Winter created this “bangin” browser sample player or it’s from someone else. Nevertheless it’s a good five minute time waster. To try it out: click here
“In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song. The wide spread use of sampling in popular music originated with the birth of hip hop music in New York in the 1970s. This is typically done with a sampler, which can be a piece of hardware or a computer program. Sampling is also possible with tape loops or with vinyl records on a phonograph. Often “samples” consist of one part of a song, such as a break, used in another, for instance the use of the drum introduction from Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks” in songs by the Beastie Boys, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Mike Oldfield, Rob Dougan, Coldcut, Depeche Mode and Erasure, and the guitar riffs from Foreigner’s “Hot Blooded” in Tone L?c’s “Funky Cold Medina”. – wikipedia.org/Sample
For more info: wikipedia.org/Electro_house
This entry was written by , posted on December 9, 2010 at 4:11 am, filed under drum machine, promotion and tagged drum machine, online, Ron Winter, sampler. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Last night i picked up an Amplitude iRig from Best Buy (about $40). It wasn’t too long until I had some old gear going through any music Apps that allowed input. The photo above shows a Boss Dr. Rhythm DR-110 into the Moog Filtatron app. iRig works as advertised and I was very impressed with Filtatron. I think that Moog hired some good coders because it sounds right. I also think it was smart of them to release this on touch devices and not as a plug-in that you would have use a mouse with. This thing begs to be played with. The feedback and tape delay effects are great. I tried to plug a Shure SM58 directly into the iRig but I think I need a pre-amp to get my signal much hotter before it will be of any use.
“Simply plug the iRig interface into your mobile device, plug your instrument into the appropriate input jack, plug in your headphones, amp or powered speakers, download ‘AmpliTube FREE’ version for iPhone or for iPad, and start rocking!” – ikmultimedia.com
For more info: ikmultimedia.com/irig
This entry was written by , posted on November 21, 2010 at 6:08 am, filed under apple, drum machine, iPad and tagged Amplitude, Boss, drum machine, feedback, Filtatron, filter, iRig, moog. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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