dPad - Drum Sequencer for iPad - The Pretty Version! (As seen on TUAW)

video upload by newmediageekz

"New Media Geekz is proud to present dPad, created by Jason C Martin & Stu Helm in under 7 days. dPad is a fully touch driven drum sequencer for the iPad.

* Coming in future versions *

- Different drum sound packs via In-App-Purchase
- Ability to add your own drum sound packs
- Left-handed-mode
- Sequence save & load
- Recording"

KORG iElectribe

"Korg’s ELECTRIBE·R has been coveted by dance musicians for ten years running. Today, this indispensible instrument has been reborn as a dedicated iPad app – the KORG iELECTRIBE virtual analog beatbox!
The regular price is US$ 19.99; a special introductory price of US$ 9.99 is being offered until June 30, 2010.

With the iELECTRIBE, sound creation is easy, fun and intuitive – just as on a vintage analog synthesizer. Simply choose a part (or sound) and touch the 16-step sequencer to quickly build a groove. This easy-to-use interface combines forces with the iPad’s 9.7” multi touch display to offer an intuitive "hardware" feel, sure to inspire and captivate the imagination of any user.

The iELECTRIBE faithfully recreates the historic ELECTRIBE·R’s entire sound engine and sequencer capabilities. In addition, it provides advanced Motion Sequencing, eight supercharged effect types, plus 64 new preset patterns that instantly allow the user to create music in a wide variety of dance and electronic music styles. Get started today!

[Specifications]
Sound Engine:
- Analog Synthesizer Modeling; PCM Samples; Virtual Valve Force Tube Modeling
Instrument Voices (Parts):
- 8 Total: 4 percussion synthesizer parts; 4 PCM synthesizer parts
Effect Section:
- Master Effect: Assignable per step/per part
- 8 Effect Types: Short Delay, BPM Sync Delay, Grain Shifter, Reverb, Chorus/Flanger, Filter, Talking Modulator, Decimator Sequencer Section:
- Patterns: 64 steps maximum per part, Motion Sequencing can memorize all knob motions in a pattern
- Tempo: 20-300BPM (with Tap tempo and Swing function), Pattern-set function

Memory patterns:
- 160 Total: 32 preset patterns x 2 banks; 32 basic patterns x 1 bank; 32 blank patterns x 2 banksKorg’s ELECTRIBE·R has been coveted by dance musicians for ten years running. Today, this indispensible instrument has been reborn as a dedicated iPad app – the KORG iELECTRIBE virtual analog beatbox!

The regular price is US$ 19.99; a special introductory price of US$ 9.99 is being offered until June 30, 2010.



Update:

KORG iELECTRIBE for iPad : Preview Video


YouTube via KORGINC — April 02, 2010 —

"ELECTRIBE・Rの音源とシーケンサーを完全移植した、世界初のiPad専用インストゥルメント「KORG iELECTRIBE for iPad」のプレビュー・ムービーです。即戦力のプリセット・パターン、パワーアップしたマスター・エフェクトなどをご紹介します。

※　実際の製品とは仕様、外観が異なります。

http://www.korg.co.jp/Product/Dance/i...""

Googlish:
"Ported ELECTRIBE · R sequencer with full sound, the world's first dedicated instrument iPad "KORG iELECTRIBE for iPad" is a movie preview. Ready preset patterns, and introduce a powerful master effects. ※ The specifications and actual product may vary in appearance."

Yonac MiniSynth Pro

via Yonac Sofware

"Trusty, easy-to-use, chock-full-of analog goodness. miniSynth is the first and the original synthesizer for the iPhone/iPod Touch platform. Its persistence in satisfying tonebuds is attested by its undying popularity. Nominated for the 2008 Best App Ever awards, miniSynth combines features that professional sound-making machines of the golden age of analog synths with an elegant simplicity that makes it suited for all playing situations, whether ripping out at a gig or noodling on a commuter bus. Furthermore, it is the only synth in its class that provides recording and export/import features. Where else can you get such bang for your buck?"

on iTunes:


Update: the official press release:

"Yonac Software Releases miniSynth PRO, Brand New Synthesizer for iPad With a new, cutting edge sound engine, Yonac has created a fully featured synthesizer available for the opening of the iPad iTunes Store.

(New York, NY – April 1, 2010) Yonac Software is pleased to announce the release of the
miniSynth PRO for the iPad. Conceived and designed by the same team behind the original synth and the theremin for the iPhone OS, miniSynth PRO is a completely new, cutting-edge sound engine crafted especially, and deployed only, for the iPad platform.

miniSynth PRO is a fully-featured, professional-grade virtual analog synthesizer. It incorporates an improved version of the time proven zero latency "push-pull" Yonac keyboard algorithm that powers their existing synthesizers, and features a highly customized version of their original analog-clone "Vincent" tone shaping filter. More importantly, it marks the debut of the brand new YASSE (pronounced "Yah-See") modular sound sequencing and synthesis engine, developed in Yonac labs over the last three years.

As a step up on its predecessors, miniSynth PRO is designed as an FM / Subtractive hybrid synth. Among other innovations, it features custom “Vari-wave” dynamic waveform selection algorithm, individually parameterized voice processing, and carefully selected waveforms driving its dual interactive oscillators and its five-destination LFO.

miniSynth PRO offers many other features to render music making easier. They include a
dedicated arpeggiator module, dual individually adjustable keyboards, user control matrix, and 82 presets designed by actual musicians. Users are able to record their own performances, as well as save and recall any number of their own presets in the brand-new YPAT patch design format.

miniSynth PRO will be available at the opening of the iPad iTunes Store for $9.99.

Yonac Software was founded in New York City in 2008. The company mainly focuses on the
development of music and sound related software. Yonac’s iPhone applications include
miniSynth, the first iPhone synthesizer, TuneORama, an easy-to-use guitar tuner, and
Thereminator, a touch screen theremin.

Sound Clips:
http://www.yonac.com/software/miniSynthPRO/clips/unisphere.mp3
http://www.yonac.com/software/miniSynthPRO/clips/hybrid.mp3

Screen Shots:
http://yonac.com/software/miniSynthPRO/screens.html

Selected Specs:
• Dual Subtractive / FM virtual-analogue monophonic synthesis
• Fully configurable FM, filter or modulation based tone shaping
• 44100, 16-bit CD-quality stereo audio output
• Zero latency sound processing
• Built on the brand-new modular YASSE synthesis / sequencing platform
• Dual syncable oscillators
• Six optimized, custom waveforms per oscillator
• Dedicated oscillator octave, fine tune and mix
• Osc 2-to-1 adjustable frequency modulation
• Custom VCF ("Vincent") w/ adjustable quadruple (Initial, Peak, Sustain, Final) stages and
dedicated envelope
• VCA (Amplifier) ADSR envelope
• Noise generator w/ adjustable mix
• LFO with 8-octave range and 6 waveforms
• Dedicated LFO fine tune
• Five individually adjustable LFO destinations (Osc1, Osc2, FM, VCF, Amp)
• LFO key syncing and phase reset
• Control matrix w/ pitch shift (vertical) and filter modulation (horizontal)
• Adjustable continuous glide
• Faithful monophonic, "latest-priority" keyboard control algorithm
• Adjustable dual keyboards w/ individually settable key width & position
• Option to have dual keyboards cover the whole screen, half the screen, or just to have a single
keyboard.
• Option to wire upper keyboard to control the Arpeggiator and the lower for live performance
• Custom-design arpeggiator module w/ four different note orderings; hold, track or trigger modes;
5-octave stepping w/ up to 5 repeats-per-octave
• BPM-based arp timer w/ settable arp note value
• Custom analog-tone stereo reverb w/ individually adjustable channels
• Recording module w/ file saving and playback
• 82 carefully engineered sound presets, including retro, bass and arpeggio programs and more
• Users can save any number of their own presets"

Sonorasaurus Rex for iPad

YouTube via pajamahouse — March 31, 2010 —

A quick demo of Sonorasaurus Rex for iPad. Sonorasaurus Rex is an expanded version of Sonorasaurus, a deejay app for the iPhone. Rex takes advantage of the spacious screen and includes some new features, like waveforms, which can be seen in the video.

Learn more about Sonorasaurus Rex at sonorasaurus.com and look for it soon on the iPad.


pajamahouse — December 06, 2009 —

A demonstration of Sonorasaurus version 1.1. In this video you can see an example of mixing and headphone monitoring using Split Mode. For more info visit http://www.sonorasaurus.com or buy the app at http://www.itunes.com/apps/sonorasaurus


video upload by


pajamahouse — September 29, 2009 —

Sonorasaurus is a fully functional deejay app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This video gives a brief explanation of all of Sonorasaurus' main features.

iPad (and Smule)

Three music apps in this video presented by Smule co-founder Dr. Ge Wang.

Their upcoming Magic Piano [see this post], and Ocarina [albeit the iPhone version].

Realize this is behind doors at an Apple store for a private screening for ABC news about the iPad in general, and the one showing the demos is the creator of probably the most popular music (synth based) apps for the iPhone. Smule sent in videos to post here on MATRIXSYNTH before their fist apps took off.

Here's one for Ocarina from Dec 2008 and one for Sonic Vox from Oct of 08. It's pretty cool seeing them get the spotlight here.

Smule on iTunes Magic Piano on iTunes

The first app, or rather book I plan to pick up? It's not a synth, it's this. Be sure to see Boing Boing's review on the iPad here and the 3:47 mark in the video below [the Marvel comics app will probably be second - see 3:37 below - I've always wanted to re-read X-Man 94 on]. Also be sure to see this post and poll when the iPad was first announced. It's an interesting look back and it will just get more interesting over time.

PCMag: Apple iPad video review from PCMag.com Reviews on Vimeo.

"PCMag's Tim Gideon takes an in-depth look at Apple's first tablet, the iPad, prior to the April 3rd launch. Check out iWork, Maps, iBooks, and other apps and read the full review at pcmag.com"

Pianist Pro - The iPad Piano

YouTube via MooCowMusic

"The best-selling iPhone piano, Pianist, just went Professional with "Pianist Pro" for iPad. Available now in the iPad App Store. See http://moocowmusic.com for more information."

Making sound Tutorial for ARGON users #3 Bell sound

YouTube via icegearnet

"Making sounds tutorial for ARGON users
#3 How to make the Bell sound
http://iphone.icegear.net/a..."

RjDj Experimental Scenes

YouTube via RjDjme

"You can experience this new dimension of music with the RjDj player iPhone and iPod Touch app, FREE from the app store."

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Musikmesse: Lemur controlling Live - quick look at Musikmesse

YouTube via Moogulator

"just a quick look at the Lemur controlling Ableton Live 8 - by sequencer.de synth database from Musikmesse Frankfurt 2010 - uncommented"

RJC1000-Demo

YouTube via RjDjme

"A short video explaining the RJC1000 and the Rj Voyager"

Note: For product announcements not being shown at the Musikmesse as far as I know, I decided to include the Musikmesse label but not post title header. If I incorrectly label or miss something, let me know.

Reality Jockey Ldt. apps on iTunes:

Musikmesse: JazzMutant Lemur at MusikMesse 2010

YouTube via gearjunkies

"Demonstration of the JazzMutant Lemur during the MusikMesse 2010 at Frankfurt. We got a demonstration from the guys from JazzMutant."

[iPhone Beats] Technobox

YouTube via siedgey

"Thanks for watching!

Here's a wee track I made this morning in bed! Ah...the joys of technology. The app is called Technobox and features emulators of a TB-303, and a switchable TR-808 / 909. The latest update also includes various effects.

Of course, this is just a wee noodle but I reckon you could probably make something pretty decent if you put your mind to it! I've used the bit crusher effect on the 303 here, hence why it sounds really crunchy - without any effects the 303 reproduction is none too shabby for a phone!

Cheers,

Simon"

Technobox on iTunes:

OpenSoundControl breadboard feat iPhone

YouTube via MusicMiK

"Another quick hack...

Saturday afternoon - started to implement a chip driver for the ENC28J60 and basic IPv4 stuff. Sunday evening, ICMP (ping) and ARP worked fine, and even if the job used up most of the time yesterday and today (Tuesday), i had a working simple TCP socket this morning.

This evening, it took about 2 hours to hack together UDP support and some simple OSC message parsing.

So all in all - IP and OSC are really simple to implement, all this should also be no problem with an AVR MCU, and if i optimize memory usage, even a small ATmega168 or so might do the job. Everything is coded in C++ and with all the display stuff with graphics routines and lots more of garbage in the firmware, i currently get about 37KB code size on the ARM7TDMI used in this setup.

Imagine what's possible. Sure, OSC-MIDI is easy going. But how about controlling your home using the iPhone? Turning on and off the lights, studio gear, anything. I think, i will soon throw away the remote controlled power outlets and make a 19" 1U rackmount unit with some OSC features to control power of my gear.

Maybe the MonoMiK even gets more than MIDI. USB is quite sure, Ethernet would be also interesting now. A true analog synth with Ethernet? Why not? :)

Sorry for the blurred overall image, my camera can't re-focus during video and i set the focus for the details."

Niji ~nanoloop & SV-5~

YouTube via humanmaestro

"This tune is 'Niji' by DENKI GROOVE.
So I performed on "nanoloop for iPhone" and "Vocoder SV-5" these are Phone/iPod touch musical apps.

"nanoloop for iPhone" version 3.0.3 is 8bit game sound software by Oliver Wittchow. And "Vocoder SV-5" version 1.2.0 is authentic Vocoder and polyphonic Synthesizer like a Roland VP-330."

nanoloop on iTunes: Vocoder Synthesizers SV-5 on iTunes

Hex OSC - hexagonal musical OSC/MIDI keyboard for iPhone -

YouTube via denryokulabel

"Hex OSC is musical keyboard which has substantial 98 keys!
-play a chord with one finger
-adjustable key layout, comfortable transposition
-send OSC

Description:
Hex OSC is musical keyboard software for iPhone, which has substantial 98 keys.
Refined key design gives you 42 keys on a screen! Besides, the keyboard layout can be changed in order to extend tone range by a single shake while you play.
Hexagonal keys have certain note relationships like guitar chords. When you know the patterns, you can transpose smoothly.

Official Web
http://www.sky-light.jp/hex/?yt"

Hex OSC on iTunes:

midipad

http://www.midipad.de "midipad is an exciting new app for the iPad/iPhone for music creation and live-performance.

The striking feature of midipad is its ability to directly communicate via network-MIDI-protocol. So there is no need to install any communication - peer - software on the Mac! Simply plug-and-play via Apple Bonjour - wireless. This kind of connectivity has not been used in any similar iphone-software.

This multitouch-capable midi-controller-application communicates with your Apple Mac your Windows-based PC and even standalone hardware-synths via Wifi.

So you can control all of your music-applications with just a few finger-gestures without having to sit at your desk and no annoying cable.

In the production-environment midipad can control host-applications like Apple Logic, Steinberg Cubase/Nuendo, Ableton Live etc.

It can also be used to control stand-alone applications from companies like Native-Instruments, Spectrasonics and many more.

As a live-musician you can control sub-mixes of your virtual keyboard-rig, activate setups and change parameters of the virtual instruments or even hardware-instruments - all in realtime on stage.

If you are a DJ, you can control your favorite application wireless as well. So you just might take a stroll through your ecstatic audience.

midipad incorporates various commonly used controller-types like buttons, trigger-pads, sliders, ribbon-control in one & two dimensions, rotary-knobs, or complete functionality blocks like transport-control.

midipad also reacts to midi-data from the connected remote computer, to provide instantaneous feedback for your performance.

Preconfigured setups, divided in seperate views can be activated concurrently. Using multi-touch various functionality of the remote-software can be controlled. The features to be controlled can be configured by the user in the setup."

nanoloop for iPhone ~Okhotsk-Ni-Kiyu~

YouTube via humanmaestro

"This is my first playing on "nanoloop for iPhone" version 3.0.3.
"nanoloop" is a mobile music software by Oliver Wittchow.
And this song is "Megumi's Theme" from "Okhotsk-Ni-Kiyu" composed by Toshiyuki Ueno."

MIDI Memo App for MIDI Mobilizer - Record/Playback

YouTube via line6movies

"Learn more at http://line6.com/midimobilizer

Learn how to record and playback musical ideas using the MID Memo App with your iPhone or iPod touch."

MIDI Memo App for MIDI Mobilizer - Back Up Settings and Patches


MIDI Memo App for MIDI Mobilizer - Add Your Settings to Replacement/Rental Gear

Phoscyon - Randomizer

YouTube via d16group.

This on an iPad... follow-up to this post.
"Clip describing how randomizer inside Phoscyon works."

20100318(RB-338)

YouTube via morimadoka.

"DEMO song mode" This on the iPad would be fun. Propellerheads on the iPad.