iPad Sequencer Meets Vintage Oberheim, and MIDI Endures
StepPolyArp for iPad controlling an Oberheim FVS from Logan Mannstrane on Vimeo. Logan Mannstrane sends in this lovely video combining an iPad MIDI step sequencer — with an Oberheim FVS. It’s a...
View ArticleGolden Age of Wireless: Korg iOS Sync, Android + MIDI Hardware, Enter...
Ready to cut the cord and go wireless? With mobile gadgets getting involved in music-making, it seems a logical solution – maybe not reason to throw away your MIDI cabling, but worth at least trying....
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Sociable Music Gadgets: Networked Android + Arduino Sequencer in a “Hack of...
Yesterday, we saw a bit of the idea of making mobile gadgets more sociable with each other. The idea is, through network/wireless and cabled connectivity, you extend possibilities for expression,...
View ArticleMusikmesse Wrap-up, with Keyboard Magazine: The Latest Gear [Gallery, Roland...
Like a World’s Fair of all the invention in music technology, the big trade shows still gather many of the latest creations from around the globe. And while the NAMM show in California is big,...
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Two MIDI Tools for Playing iPad/iPhone, One Whimsical, One Practical
From top, MIDIWriter uses what would normally be your text input for music; MIDI Studio takes a more conventional – but nicely-implemented – approach. Equipped with MIDI, a phone or tablet can...
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GarageBand for iPad Hands-on: Why It’s Ideal for Beginners, What You May Not...
Let’s get this out of the way: musicians are not a “niche” group. Recording has done some damage to the popular practice of live music, but still, you’ll find an astonishing number of people play...
View ArticleMultiplayer Music: Max for Live Patch Perfects Sync Over Wifi with Ableton –...
You’re not, in fact, a lonely bedroom musician with no friends. You’ve got friends. You’ve got collaborators. You’ve got audio and visual artists who want to play with your laptop with sync piped...
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Fractals, Bots, Nodes, and Patternists: Onyx Ashanti’s Cyborg Music Meets the...
Get ready: from one more-than-human musical cyborg, a robotic horde of beatjazz artists. Onyx Ashanti isn’t satisfied just augmenting his own body and musical expression with 3D-printed, sensor-laden...
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Bhoreal: RGB Grid as Open Source Hardware – Kit or Ready-Made, Wired or Wireless
We are Bhoreal from MID New Media Design on Vimeo. Grids are suddenly everywhere – in music control, but also in visuals and art. And they’re lighting up in RGB. But Bhoreal promises to do some things...
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Imagine a Musical Interface, Mirror it on Your iPad: Max + Mira
Start with any creation, and touch it right away from the iPad, with Max (or Max for Live). Photo courtesy Cycling ’74. I heard David Zicarelli once describe Max as a blank sheet of paper – a canvas on...
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How to Use the iPad for Music Control: Cables, Wireless, MIDI, OSC
Apple’s iPad Camera Connection Kit, providing a USB port, as connected to a first-gen iPad. (CC-BY) Håkan Dahlström Photography You know the possibilities are significant, but how do you explore them?...
View ArticleJamming Without Wires: Thavius Beck, Hands on with the QuNeo Rogue
The freedom to go wireless means being able to take a controller and move about a venue or studio space. Visualists can eye their projections and lighting; musicians can check sound levels while...
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Ableton Goodies: Push without Push – Free Lemur Template Puts Shove on iPad
Virtual Push. Photo courtesy the author. It was only a matter of time. An intrepid Lemur for iPad user has devised a template that emulates Ableton’s Push hardware. Cleverly entitled “Shove,” the...
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Mood Ring: Put on an iRing, Wave Your Hands in front of iPhone, iPad for 3D...
Put a ring on it: camera tracking allows 3D gestural control on any iOS device. Clearly targeted partly at non-musicians, IK hopes to give you a fun way to control an iPhone, iPad, or computer software...
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Apple’s OS X Yosemite Proves Largely Wrinkle-Free for Music; GarageBand...
Here’s a welcome change. OS X Yosemite (10.10 is a major update to a desktop operating system that brings with it almost no apparent headaches for pro audio. The normal advice applies. Backup your...
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touchAble 3 Controls Ableton Via Wire, Mimics Live Devices on iPad [Gallery]
Let’s get straight to it: there are two big problems with controlling Ableton Live from an iPad. One, relying on WiFi means risking disaster if a connection is unstable for some reason (OS updates,...
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BomeBox Lets You Connect MIDI, and Transform It, Any Way You Want
MIDI is a magical lingua franca between, well, sort of everything. But that’s only if you get it connected. And then once you do have it connected, you might want to tame its messages so they...
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Conductr Controls Traktor and Ableton All in One iPad App
If you want to control Ableton Live from an iPad, you’ve loads of options. If you want to control Traktor – not so much. The best all-in-one option is Traxus Control, which is free (though it requires...
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Link could change how you play music, even without Ableton
You’re probably so used to sync being broken that the first time you see Link, you might not believe what’s happening. Link began its life as a research project and has turned into a full-fledged...
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Link is out of beta; videos, what’s new in Live 9.6
The funny thing about Ableton Link is that it doesn’t require Ableton Live. It isn’t even an app. It’s a sync technology, one that allows software to jam together, wirelessly, without any one clock...
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