Arturia adopts Audiobus 2 advances with iSEM synth app update

“'I have gained immense pleasure from experimenting with Arturia’s iSEM for iPad. Being an owner of the original hardware synth, I can confirm that this virtual app stands up, providing a combination of complete familiarity combined with total stability, versatility, and the welcome addition of plenty of presets, plus extra pages and functions, such as the performance layer. An absorbing experience of real quality, I am thoroughly impressed — and at a bargain price!'

- Alan Wilder (Recoil/ex-Depeche Mode)

GRENOBLE, FRANCE: music software and hardware company Arturia is proud to announce availability of an Audiobus 2-supporting update (V1.0.2) to iSEM, its authentic recreation of the 1974-vintage Oberheim Synthesizer Expander Module® (SEM) for Apple’s iPad, as of April 3...

As Arturia’s second supreme subtractive synthesizer recreation for iPad, iSEM has proven popular with both first-time buyers beginning a journey into the wonderful world of synths and also seasoned synth professionals like former Depeche Mode keyboard player/programmer/arranger Alan Wilder, who actively appreciates both its authenticity as an original Oberheim SEM owner and the latest developments possible via its iPad host: 'Being the owner of the original hardware synth, I can confirm that this virtual app stands up, providing a combination of complete familiarity combined with total stability, versatility, and the welcome addition of plenty of presets, plus extra pages and functions.'

While Arturia always appreciates such support from acclaimed artists, appealing iSEM improvements abound in V1.0.2 as one of the first such synth apps to support all Audiobus 2 functions. Running as many apps in parallel or series as the host device can handle, Audiobus 2 can handle multiple, independent pipelines, with as many inputs, filters, or outputs as the user wants. Thanks to this Audiobus 2 support, iSEM users can cleverly save presets of their connection graphs and share them via e-mail or social networks. Needless to say, the musical world is getting smaller, it seems, while more musicians than ever can enjoy those thrilling SEM sounds!

Indeed, iSEM continues to do what it does best — providing iPad users the world over with an authentic recreation of the still-sought-after analogue sounds of Oberheim’s original dual-oscillator SEM monosynth and its subsequent integration into that Californian company’s pioneering polysynth developments. Ingeniously, iSEM quite literally taps into all of this and then some, putting more musicality at anyone’s fingertips than its namesake designer dared dream possible back in Oberheim’s Seventies salad days!

Today, then, it’s hard not to be impressed with iSEM offering so much to so many for so little. Just ask Alan Wilder!

Appropriate iPad owners can purchase and directly download iSEM from Apple’s App Store for $9.99 USD/€8.99 EURO/£6.99 GBP."

iTunes: Arturia iSEM - Arturia | Audiobus - Audiobus Pty Ltd

Audio Mastering 2.4 has been released

iTunes: Audio Mastering - iMusicAlbum

"What's new:

- Improved Stereo Imaging module.
- New visualization tools for Stereo Imaging.
- Added reduction level meters for Compressor.
- Low and High cut filters in Equalizer.
- Added new presets manager.
- Copy, paste, email and share presets.
- Built-in description updated.
- Bug fixes."

via Igor Vasiliev on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Easelparade

"one shot with OP-1, analog four & buchla music easel"

via Grégoire Harrer on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Analog four : kick,fx and percu
OP -1 : sample , sketch synth
Buchla Easel : main arpeggio synth

aleph breakfast

aleph breakfast from tehn on Vimeo.

"http://monome.org

no laptops involved.

aleph and grid. dual step sequencer running within bees, driving euro modular synth via cv, continuous and gates. audio from modular synth fed back into the aleph and processed by the lines delay module with filters and feedback.

the sequencer shows two timelines which can have their position and loop lengths cut dynamically, a sort of performance step sequencer. these are the top four rows, showing the playback position and loop length per timeline.

the bottom four rows are the data bits, or notes. some rows are mapped to triggers attached to the envelope generators via cv output.

aleph knobs are mapped to feedback, delay time, filter cutoff.

i see infinity in this tiny white box."

One Sunday - A Reconstruction

One Sunday - A Reconstruction from Grain Bastard on Vimeo.

"Got up on Sunday, made a brew and played with my OP-1 and some new ipad apps :)

Made a track with the resulting audio on the afternoon and thought I would share that process with you in really basic overview of what I used.

Great instruments imo :)"

Update: Slither in the video is actually Sliver. Thanks goes to Tim of discchord for identifying it.

iTunes: iVCS3 - apeSoft | iterator - Bret Truchan | SECTOR - Kymatica (Jonatan Liljedahl) | Nave - Waldorf Music | Sliver - Alex Matheu

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