In news that probably isn’t really news to anyone who thinks for a second, it turns out Apple Loops (as found in Apple’s GarageBand and Logic Pro) are not as safe to use as one might think. Yes, Apple has provided them royalty free for end users to include in […]
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Initially surprising news based on testing suggests that Apple’s original Silicon M1 Pro chip may actually outperform the latest M3 Pro when running popular DAWs including Ableton, Pro Tools, and even Apple’s own Logic. The issue seems to be that the latest chipset is not being fully utilised by these […]
In the past week Apple has updated Logic Pro to version 10.8, adding in a number of interesting new features including the obligatory AI-powered functions. It’s taken us until now to realise the release had happened because of a rant point which we’ll save for the end of the article. […]
As if we needed another reminder as to how powerful Apple’s iPad has become, even outclassing some lower end laptop and desktop machines, Apple has announced that Logic Pro for iPad will be launching this month. Mac musicians and producers with Logic Pro have had access to arguably the best […]
On 23 October, Apple announced its latest run of tablets, computers and software. Among the crop of new gear came a new version of Apple’s popular music creation software GarageBand. GarageBand 10 (don’t ask what happened to versions 7 and 8 — the last release was GarageBand 6) is a […]
This article was written in 2012 about the 4th-generation iPad. For the latest iPad Air and iPad mini go here. It’s hard to avoid an Apple product announcement, so by now you’ve probably already heard about the “new iPad” (third generation). There are plenty of places to get an overview […]
The classic Beyer piano instruction books make their way to Apple’s mobile devices courtesy of the My Piano Lite app. Now it’s possible to watch and learn from the Beyer 1 book for free: “My Piano” remembers the lesson you were practicing last time and automatically jumps up to this […]
There are plenty of music creation apps for iPad but they don’t all necessarily have the ability, on their own, to interface with other equipment. Enter iConnectMIDI, a MIDI interface designed specifically for Apple’s portable products. The box can be connected up to an iPad, iPod touch or iPhone’s dock, […]
Temperamento has announced its Mesa Wavetable Visual Engine iOS/Mac app is due to launch. In something rather switching around the process of wavetable synthesis, Mesa turns visuals into wavetables and then displays the sound in real time. Unlike in traditional wavetable synths, which take a number of waveforms and then […]
Apple released Logic Pro 12 at the end of January this year, with a number of additions and developments including more AI session musicians, enhanced sound library, step sequencer enhancements, and (finally) a chord recognition tool. Chord ID Chord ID is what a lot of people have been asking for […]
Apple’s latest iPhones and iPads will be getting an ambient music feature in the next dot version of iOS and iPadOS respectively. Version 18.4 will see users being able to select from a handful of ambient-themed playlists fro the control panel. Although brave users can already gain access to a […]
Apple has released its latest update to Logic Pro for Mac, including a number of interesting additions to plugins and general user interface tweaks. Quantec Room Simulator Perhaps the most notable new feature is the Quantec Room Simulation plugin which provides advanced digital reverb effects. It uses a unique algorithmic […]
Although this guide was written in 2018, no subsequent releases of GarageBand have included the ability to change time signatures midway through a project. MuseScore has been updated to version 4 but the procedure remains substantially the same. Introduction While most music compositions and arrangements you’re likely to work on […]
If we’re honest, we never expected Apple iPads to become such a phenomenon in the audio and music world, yet here we are looking at an ultra-thin iPad Air and updated iPad Mini which are both sure to go down a storm with musicians. A year-and-a-half ago we were looking […]
Introduction The Apple iPad is quickly becoming a go-to portable music device for many musicians, whether they’re composing, sequencing, performing, DJing, notating, or crafting sounds. Thanks to the iOS 4.2 upgrade, MIDI is now very much a feature of all iOS devices. There’s now a huge range of apps available, […]
Amidio, maker of noise.io, Star Guitar and JR Hexaton Pro, has just released its latest iOS app — a virtual acoustic steel guitar for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Simulating a six-string acoustic steel guitar based on the legendary vintage 1979 Martin & Co dreadnought, the app contains 76MB of […]
Akai Professional has just launched its iMPC app for iOS devices, offering them a virtual music production environment based on Akai’s hardware controllers. It comes with over 600 samples, 47 editable programs and 80 editable sequences, and features an exclusive iMPC sound set plus classic Akai Professional sound library. Users […]
Apart from winning the prize for the longest titled app we’ve seen in a while, we’re wondering whether the Sound Effect+Music+Ringtone: Player, Downloader, and Recorder! from MobileVideo.TV is a decent iOS app. It claims to include over 200 high-quality sound effects, music snippets and ringtones, which are updated regularly. Categories […]
EarWizard is an app designed to train your ear into recognising and recalling musical chords. It’s modelled on the “Simon” game, in that you have to repeat back an increasingly long sequence of music chords. The app has been developed by Jordan Rudess and Felipe Peña. Features include: Three levels […]
Fans of Neo-Soul Keys, from the Gospel Musicians, will be pleased to hear they’ve just launched two new electric pianos for the app. Neo-Soul EX5 uses the synthesis technology from the Yamaha EX5 synth, sampled through the FDSP engine of the EX5 to simulate the modelled expression of an EP […]