If you want to connect an iPad or iPhone into the hub of your music studio, you need to be be able to get audio and MIDI in and out easily. Hollin Jones investigates Music IO, a promising solution.
Iain Anderson delves into iOS9, the next incarnation of the operating system for Apple's iPhone and iPad. Here are six features he feels are worth mentioning above the others.
Waldorf's new wavetable synth, Nave, is now available as a Mac & PC plug-in: VST, AU & AAX. But that's not all! They've also released their popular drum synth, Attack, for iPad wielding producers.
If you make music and own an iPad (capable of running the upcoming iOS 9) then allow yourself a wide smile. Apple are bringing audio units (you know effect and instrument plugins) to iOS 9 iPad soon.
The web has beautiful ways we can easily create music and video content. But what about written content? If you want to create cool stories online Adobe's Slate may be able to add the sparkle.
Flux:FX is a new ingenious multiFX iPad app that provides real-time audio effects that GW says "can hardly be expressed in words." He manages though in this review.
Are you fed up with the tangles of wires, cables and adaptors between your MIDI keyboards, drum pads, pedal controllers & your iPad? PUC aims to banish those wires from sight.
If you're looking for a free iPad touch mixer for Ableton Live which includes a Lemur template and Max for Live device and is FREE, then DSRT Sound's LTC-1 is for you.
With their earlier JamUp app, Positive Grid made a splash with guitarists. Now with BIAS FX, they hope to bring on a flood. Matthew Loel T. Hepworth takes the plunge to find out more.
How much more mobile can a mobile music workstation get than as an app for iPad? In making the iM1, Korg have made a complete reproduction of the M1. Excited? We are too!
Keith McMillen Instruments SoftStep2 is a MIDI controller full of expression and unusual capabilities for hands-free performance. FLUX:FX are giving you the chance to get one at 20% off!
IK's mobile guitar and bass tone studio adds a new ultra-realistic DSP, new dual 3D mic positioning, a new Looper feature, an updated interface with an improved browsing system and more. Videos below.
The latest update for Vibrant's Diode-108 Drum Machine gives MIDI Note In, MIDI Learn and MIDI Sync, so you can use it with other iPad apps like Cubasis and Loopy.
Sugar Bytes are best known for their Mac and Windows-based synth and effects plug-ins. Well, now you can get their Cyclop synth on your iPad. Does G.W. Childs find it easy on the eye? Read our review.
The app formerly known as LIVKONTROL has had a BIG update and a name change. LK is more than an Ableton Live controller and more than an iPad app (it's Android too!) Here's what makes it great.
It's not hot news anymore when we realize that Apple's iPad is now powerful enough to run a dedicated DAW. So, which DAW iOS app is the best around? Here are our top four choices...
When iRig was released it became the standard for recording guitar into your iOS device. And now there's iRig 2. Matt Vanacoro finds out what improvements have been made to this second edition.
Designed to 'stop monophobia' the new ENKL monophonic synth from Klevgränd is great for creating fat basses, glitchy noises, leads and chip tune sounds. Check out the video below.
We recently took a look at how Duet Display performed for iPad users, by turning the iOS device into a second screen for your Mac. How does Air Display 3 weigh up? Iain Anderson finds out.
Conductr 2, an IPad app environment aimed at DJs and producers, launches a brand new in-app iPad module allowing users to control Traktor alongside their already released Ableton Live controller.
Has the latest update for Novation's Launchpad for iOS improved the overall experience of this mobile music station? G.W. Childs puts it to the test in our in-depth review.