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Music app review – iMini by Arturia

March 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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As in the world of desktop music software, iOS now has its fair share of virtual analog synth music apps. You might, therefore, find your eyes glazing over at the launch of another bider for your bucks. However, when it comes to iMini by Arturia, I think it’s probably best to pay full attention. The company have an excellent track record in desktop music software and, with the release of the iMini app, they are trying to bring a recreation of one of the most iconic synths of all time – the … [Read more...]

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Figure music app gets aboard the Audiobus

February 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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If you read my original review of Propelerhead’s Figure music app you will know that I’m a bit of a fan. It’s not that the app is a fully featured music production system – it’s far from it in fact – but it was one of the best examples of an app designer thinking outside the box in terms of the playing interface. In short, Propellerhead made brilliant use of the touchscreen to provide an instrument that a novice musician could coax a dance tune out of and a more serious musician … [Read more...]

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Korg iPolysix synth studio – music app review

January 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Korg have really embraced iOS as a music-making platform and music apps such as iMS-20, iKaossilator and iElectribe have been enthusiastically received by the majority of users. The latest offering is the iPolysix that, as its name suggests, is a software recreation of their hardware synth from the early 1980s. Unlike the excellent MS-20 (and the iMS-20 app) – which was monophonic – the original Polysix was polyphonic and, of course, the app reflects that. In fact, in the app recreation, … [Read more...]

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Music app review – NLogSynth Pro by Tempo Rubato

January 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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In the world of desktop music making, there is a bewildering choice when it comes to software synths. And just like their hardware equivalents, software synths come in a variety of (virtual) types; whether it’s recreations of classic analog or digital synths or novel approaches that have no equivalent outside the zeros and ones. Despite being a much younger platform, music apps aimed at iOS musicians are starting to become an equally impressive set of options. As with any other app type, … [Read more...]

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Music App Blog review – GuitarJack 2 by Sonoma Wire Works

August 6, 2012 by 2 Comments
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With musicians embracing smart phones and tablet computers as practice, composition and recording tools in increasing numbers, hardware manufacturers are bringing a growing range of add-on audio input/output hardware to the market. Not surprisingly, the biggest share of this market supports Apple devices such as the iPhone, iPod and iPad. Some of the first examples of this technology were aimed at guitar players. For example, the iRig - which has now been around for quite a while - provides a … [Read more...]

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Music app review – Voxkit by Secret Base Design

July 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Despite the relatively short history of the whole iOS world, it is fair to say that there are already a good number of apps for creating drum sounds so, with Voxkit – a drum pad/sample triggering app - Secret Base Design already have some well-established competition. However, Voxkit does come with one very particular trick up its sleeve – the ability to trigger the drum samples via sound – so if you prefer the more natural way of playing your drum tracks by hitting real objects with your … [Read more...]

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