http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzQLRPwZjIo
I’ve been having fun with Everyday Looper and it’s a good App. This guy makes it look great (in a French way)! About $5.
“I just spent two sessions with the Everyday Looper (5 hours and 3 hours, respectively) and I can honestly state that this $4 program gives my $250 looping pedal a run for its money.” – ProfHop
Download now on iTunes: click here
This entry was written by , posted on March 7, 2010 at 1:29 pm, filed under iPhone and tagged Everyday Looper, iPhone, looper. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnxOlar2BEk
Here is an interesting 80s Art of Noise style iPhone App from Jörg Piringer.
Jörg was “born in 1974. currently living in vienna/austria. member of the institute for transacoustic research. member of the vegetable orchestra (das erste wiener gemüseorchester). student at the schule für dichtung in wien (curd duca, sainkho namtchylak, etc). master degree in computer science. sound poet.”
For more info: http://joerg.piringer.net/
This entry was written by , posted on February 8, 2010 at 5:28 am, filed under iPhone and tagged Gibberish, iPhone, Jörg Piringer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I’ll admit I have Way Out Ware’s iSample (iTunes link) installed and didn’t even realize it updated to this slick new version. Two features are super slick: “Sample trimming with pinch to zoom, two finger scrolling and scrubbing.” and “Graphical Looper screen that allow you to position samples dynamically while looping.”. You can see them in action in the video above. iSample 2.0 is $9.99. Nice dancing Jim!
“iSample 2.0 is a very powerful sample based music production tool. New with the 2.0 update are an array of features that make iSample a leader among the beat making / pocket studio apps. iSample ships with over 50 MBs of samples created by Mutato Muzika (founded and run by Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh) that provide a great starting place to create your own jams, and also to get started with iSample.” – Way Out Ware
For more info: wayoutware.com
via sonicstate.com
This entry was written by , posted on January 25, 2010 at 6:05 am, filed under iPhone and tagged iPhone, iSample, Way Out Ware. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmt0ru2Y7wQ
FunkBox looks like it will be the most fun drum machine emulation on the iPhone yet. Coming soon for $1.99.
“Demo of the FunkBox Drum Machine iphone app from Synthetic Bits. FunkBox is a pocket-sized emulation of a classic vintage beatboxes, along with all their dirt and quirks.” – syntheticbits.com
For more info: syntheticbits.com
UPDATE… Available now: click here (iTunes link) Definitely fun!
This entry was written by , posted on January 18, 2010 at 9:26 am, filed under iPhone and tagged drum machine, emulation, iPhone, roland, tr-808, vintage. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QxN1u7KWDM
So I’ve been playing with Voice Band (iTunes link) for about 30 minutes and I can definitely say it’s fun. Like many iPhone Apps I will surely use this from time to time for a weird intro or background part in a song. All it takes is a simple import of the audio into Ableton Live. This does a similar trick as the now unfortunately discontinued Antares Kantos plug-in. Anyone remember Kantos? Read the Sound on Sound review of Kantos: click here
“A new iPhone app that turns your voice into an instrument in real time. You sing into the iPhone, and it turns it into a guitar or a bass, synth, etc.” – WaveMachine Labs, Inc.
For more info: wavemachinelabs.com
This entry was written by , posted on January 10, 2010 at 4:00 pm, filed under iPhone, song writing, sounds and tagged Antares, iPhone, Kantos, Voice Band, WaveMachine Labs. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I’m glad to see an iPhone piano keyboard controller. The big question is will it work with any music App. My guess is no but if I am wrong let me know. The next question is if it’s a NO then is there an API App developers can use to let these keys working with say NNN MONO, IStylophone, NESynth, etc… If you look at Engadget’s photos of the iDiscover Keyboard one of them is showing an App from Akai called SynthStudio: click here.
“The iDiscover keyboard, along with the companion iDiscover Keyboard app, has 25 keys and effectively turns your iPhone into a music studio complete with synth-action keys, and pitch and modulation wheels. Better yet, it doubles as a controller for MIDI software on either Mac or PC.” – Engadget
For more info: www.ionaudio.com/idiscoverkeyboard
This entry was written by , posted on January 9, 2010 at 10:32 am, filed under hardware, iPhone and tagged controller, iDiscover, iPhone. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
TOPLAPapp and GRID from Oliver Chesler on Vimeo.
Here’s a video I make of two terrific iPhone Apps that make random digital sounds. TOPLAPapp (iTunes link) and Grid (iTunes link) are must haves for any noise nerds out there.
“TOPLAPapp is a sonic puzzle based around a virtual machine for sound synthesis. This machine only accepts a few valid instructions, and you control it by placing each command letter within a grid, along with setting some associated parameter sliders. The machine runs through the grid, following the instructions to create the output sounds, which are usually of a somewhat noisy character, hopefully interestingly so. The historical antecedents include instruction synthesis as pionneered at the Institute of Sonology in the 1970s, and the live coding movement, of modifying a running program as it acts.” – Nick Collins
For more info: Nick Collins and Kin
This entry was written by , posted on January 8, 2010 at 7:13 am, filed under iPhone, sounds, synthesizer and tagged Grid, iPhone, Kin, Nick Collins, noise, TOPLAPapp. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ13uNxdKjk
With the Apple Tablet all but imminent Apps like the Argon Synthesizer just make me drool with anticipation. The Argon is $2 and has some nice reviews going for it in the App store. iTunes link: click here
“ARGON consists of three Oscillator, one filter, one amplifier, one saturator and one Delay. High-quality 32bit floating point Synth-engine. Delay Effect. 16 Step Sequencer. 512 user preset. 64 factory preset.” – iphone.icegear.net/argon/
For more info: icegear.net
This entry was written by , posted on January 5, 2010 at 5:43 am, filed under iPhone and tagged Argon, iPhone, sequencer, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I am hoping future versions of my favorite iPhone app Synthpond will let me use my own samples. You can do so today by incorporating some intense geekery via PD (Pure Data) or Max. If you’re interested in learning about PD check out a great article by Jim Alkin over at O’Reilly Digital Media called “Make Your Own Music Software with Pure Data”: click here. There is also a good Wikipedia page for PD: click here.
“I’m using the synthpond PD patch to controle the FPC in FL studio. The sound generator nodes don’t have samples mapped (except for the hi-hats). Only the reactor nodes are mapped to a sample. that way it’s a bit easier to “sync” everything.” – isnie zot
Download Synthpond for iPhone (iTunes link): click here
ps. Zach Gage the developer also has created what I consider the best take on Tetris for the iPhone. It’s called Unify (iTunes link): click here
This entry was written by , posted on January 3, 2010 at 8:18 am, filed under apple, iPhone and tagged iPhone, Max, PD, Pure Data, synthPond. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s92YywVZSPQ
I once owned a Magnavox Odyssey 2 (Wikipedia link) videogame system. I also spent a good amount of time at two Arcades. Galaxy and Mr. Arcade were their names and sadly they are both gone. I remember there was this gum filled grape candy I used to love. It was like a square Blow Pop without the stick. So no wonder when anything 8Bit retro pops up on my computer screen I stop for a minute and think to myself, “Yeah this is cool somehow”. 8Bitone (iTunes link) looks very solid and Vocoder Synthesizer SV-5 (iTunes link) look useful beyond retroness. I really like making music and every now throwing in the iPhone’s audio.
“This tune is ‘Behind The Mask’ by Yellow Magic Orchestra. So I performed on 8Bitone and Vocoder SV-5 that is iPhone/iPod touch musical apps by Yudo. 8Bitone is retro 8-bit sound monophonic Synthesizer and 4 track Sequencer. SV-5 is authentic Vocoder and polyphonic Synthesizer like a Roland VP-330.” – humanmaestro
8Bitone and Vocoder Synthesizer SV-5 are .99. Insert Coin!
This entry was written by , posted on November 23, 2009 at 6:16 am, filed under apple, iPhone, sounds, synthesizer and tagged 8bit, 8Bitone, apple, iPhone, retro, Vocoder SV-5, Yello Magic Orchestra, Yudo. 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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