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RhythmBud is an iOS app that creates rhythms and applies them to MIDI notes. It works with other apps and external gear, supports inter-app audio and Audiobus and syncs via Ableton Link. Groovy!
Available October 30, the Pros push forward with active noise cancellation, improved sound quality and a lighter, shorter in-ear design with changeable eartips.
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The latest Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 FLOOR packs in a 200-Watt power amp, four channels, digital effects, FX loop, pre-FX loop, a built-in Red Box AE+ and an IEM mixer. Wow.
The new USD 329 iPad is the nicest and most capable the entry-level iPad has ever been. Is this, however, the one to get for iOS music making? Let's investigate...
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Fishman launches the TriplePlay MIDI controller system to turn your guitar noodling into MIDI data - and it comes with a rather handy app for the Apple iPad. The best thing: it's non-invasive.
Avid has announced the S4 and S1 control surfaces at Summer NAMM 2019. The Avid S4 and S1 are designed to make the workflow of the S6 available to smaller studios at a lower cost, Avid says.
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Spectrum is a collection of AU plug-ins for iOS, based upon the open source designs of Mutable Instruments Eurorack modules. Why hadn't anyone thought of that before?
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Zoom has introduced the LiveTrak L-20R, a 20-channel digital rack mixer. The Zoom L-20R lets you control the FOH mix and six individual monitor signals using up to seven iPads.
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Positive Grid has launched a free trial of its BIAS FX Mobile App, giving you a fully customisable virtual guitar rig for your Apple iPad or iPhone (for two days, at least).
IK Multimedia has made Dimebag Darrell's Cowboys From Hell guitar rig available for Apple iPad or iPhone, so you can now take all his legendary tones for a walk!
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Stark is a cross-platform virtual guitar amp and effects bundle with a sleek, minimalist GUI design that does without all the glitzy graphics so common in virtual guitar amp packages these days.
The new iPad Air and iPad Mini are powerful, musician-friendly, and certainly among the nicest ~USD 500 pieces of gear you can purchase at the time. Headphone jack and Lightning port, anyone?
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The NUX Mighty BT20 has four channels, each with four sound presets available, potentially making this a versatile little practice amp. An app controls the onboard tones via Bluetooth.
Can an $18 iOS app can revolutionize speaker placement for live sound? The four modules included here use Augmented Reality and some pretty nifty tech to provide features we've never seen before.
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If you have the room for authentically sampled Mellotron tapes on your iOS device then Mellotronics Streetlytron Pro will serve you up some classically trippy tape-based sounds.
New busker orientated portable amp, the new Blackstar Black Fly is an expanded and upgraded version of the ever-popular Fly series of mini amps. A busker's best friend?
