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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Kyle P. Snyder
05/02/12 01:41 PM,
This is a review of Quiztones, frequency ear training apps for Mac & iOS from Audiofile Engineering. As engineers, we all have particular strengths and weaknesses. Some are musically gifted and play multiple instruments, while others naturally take to composition. However, what about the most basic of skills - our hearing? Unless you have absolute pitch or synesthesia, we’re all playing with the hand dealt to us a birth. The only thing we can do is hone our auditory perception.…
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012
PSW Staff
05/01/12 06:00 PM,
The Mackie DL1608 digital live mixer with iPad control, introduced at Winter NAMM this past January, is being field tested in anticipation of its release this summer, including the launch of the Master Fader control app in June. Recently, the DL1608 got some face-time with mix engineers for Dierks Bentley and the band Brad (Stone Gossard, Shawn Smith, Regan Hagar, Jeremy Toback) at a live show at Seattle independent music store Easy Street Records. The live show was part of…
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Friday, April 06, 2012
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04/06/12 07:37 AM,
MGP Editor, a free software app that provides additional control of new Yamaha MGP mixer DSP settings via iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, is now available from the Apple iTunes store (here). With an intuitive graphic display, MGP Editor provides detailed control of REV-X and SPX effects parameters—as well as Hybrid Channel’s Priority Ducker, Leveler and Attenuator. Introduced at Winter NAMM 2012, the new MGP16X and MGP12X mixers include D-PRE discrete Class A microphone preamps and Xpressive EQ using Yamaha’s…
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
PSW Staff
03/21/12 06:44 PM,
Get more of the latest news from the 2012 PL+S show. Prolight & Sound 2012 marks the unveiling and preview of the new Soundcraft ViSi Remote iPad app, which enables a single iPad to control multiple consoles from the Soundcraft Vi Series and Soundcraft Si Compact range on one wireless network. The Soundcraft ViSi Remote app allows users to roam around in a venue and not only adjust input channel levels and mutes, but also adjust aux send levels…
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Bobby Owsinski
02/12/12 05:13 PM,
This article is provided by Bobby Owsinski. About a year ago one of my publishers, Hal Leonard, asked me if I’d be interested in doing a phone app. If I was going to do one, I wanted it to be something that I would use myself, all the time, so I came up with the Delay Genie. The Delay Genie basically replaces those time delay charts that most studios used to have so you could easily set the reverb…
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Friday, December 23, 2011
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12/23/11 02:02 PM,
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iZotope has announced the release of six iOS software developer kits (SDKs) and a free guide to audio programming for iOS. “By releasing licensable SDKs and a free guide for iOS Audio development, iZotope is providing iOS developers with high-quality, easy-to-use audio effects and resources for their apps,” says Alex Westner, iZotope’s director of business development. “With hundreds of thousands of applications being released into the market every month, the world of mobile development has become an extremely competitive environment.…
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
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12/20/11 11:09 AM,
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IK Multimedia has announced that SampleTank 1.1 for iOS is now available as a universal app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, through the iTunes App store. The update, for both regular and free versions, is available as a free download to existing users, and also adds a 4-track MIDI recorder, a new beat-making interface, an expanded set of instruments and patterns, more compatibility with third party docks and more. SampleTank is a pro-quality, sample-based sound and groove workstation available…
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Monday, December 12, 2011
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12/12/11 01:29 PM,
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Soundcraft has announced that it is released its popular tutorial, “The Soundcraft Guide to Mixing,” as an iPad app. Derived from the popular “Guide to Mixing” booklet, it provides an introduction and explanation about what an audio mixer is, what its functions are, and the basics of setting up and using a PA system. “Since its introduction, ‘The Soundcraft Guide to Mixing’ has become a popular reference for learning about what a mixer does and how to use it, and…
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
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12/07/11 09:57 AM,
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Studio Six Digital has announced the upcoming release of a new Transfer Function Module within the AudioTools suite of applications for the iOS platform. The Transfer Function Module includes a magnitude plot, phase plot, and coherence curve, and will also include an accurate impulse response–based delay finder, capable of resolving delays down to a single sample. It does not, however, include delay tracking, multi-time window based analysis, or any Smaart v.7 code or routines supplied by Rational Acoustics, nor will…
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Monday, December 05, 2011
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12/05/11 12:05 PM,
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Audiofile Engineering, creators of professional audio software for Mac OS X and iOS, has announced the release of Quiztones for Mac as well as an update to the iOS version for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Quiztones is an ear training application designed to help audio professionals and musicians accomplish better mixing, recording and live sound. Quiztones uses quizzes to engage users in training exercises from frequency tones to EQ boosts/cuts on pink noise, instrument loops, and songs in a…
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