To celebrate the release of the latest version of the CMI App from Peter Vogel Instruments, which includes support for the increasingly popular Audiobus system on iOS, Peter and his cohorts have cooked up a competition where the winner can take away a cash prize of $1000 AUD!! Here’s the skinny… “To celebrate the release [...]

Nearly 18 months after Akai first publicly demonstrated v3 of their iOS synth app, SynthStation, in conjunction with their (equally delayed) SynthStation49 iPad based controller, it has finally hit the app store in a blaze of strange silence and “anti-marketing” from Akai. No fanfare, no announcement on Twitter of Facebook, which is most unusual as [...]

This statement was released by Fairlight Instruments Pty this morning… “A facelift for Fairlight Instruments Fairlight Instruments Pty Ltd is changing its name in anticipation of the release of some exciting new products. The new name, Peter Vogel Instruments, reflects the company’s transition from building on the past to inventing the future. I am delighted [...]

In light of this week’s WWDC, I was inspired to write this article. If you had suggested to me a couple of years ago that not only would I be writing this blog post on a Mac, but that I’d also own an iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, I’d have laughed. More like scoffed. I [...]

At last, Propellerhead Figure has appeared in the App Store. I’ve downloaded it and had a little play, enough to make me late for work this morning. Early impressions are that it is great fun, very intuitive and contains more patches than I’d expected. It’s being billed very much as a “snack” type app, more [...]

This one has popped up on all the music tech blogs over the last week or so so I don’t lay claim to discovering this at all, but it definitely needed mentioning. Artist Rob Ricketts has created a series of four posters entitled Program Your 808, depicting the programming of four classic Roland TR808 tracks. [...]

Ok, so, in what is probably the greatest April Fools joke that wasn’t actually an April Fools joke, Moog have today released an update for the iPad Animoog app as well as an hilarious but real sound pack, complete with Jordan Rudess spoof video. This is April Fools done properly. Hats of to the guys [...]

Our awesome friends over at SonicState.com have just posted a video of the new Figure app for iOS, demonstrated by the Props Product Manager for Mobile, Kalle Paulson. Check it out…

Announced today via this press release… Sampler pioneer Fairlight Instruments has teamed up with Variety, the Children’s Charity to create a very 21st Century fundraiser. iGrowUP is an entertaining new app for iPhone and iPad. It costs less than the price of a cup of coffee and is a fantastic last minute Christmas gift for [...]

Well, what can I say about Animoog. This app has exploded onto the scene in a blaze of rave reviews and publicity, so I won’t even bother trying to compete with that. All I will say, however, is you need to own this app. It’s 69p until next month so there is no excuse. Get [...]