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Have you ever wished for better sound on your iPad for travel, business and entertainment on the go? Now you can grant your iPad an amazing audio experience, anywhere, anytime! Sound Cover ™ , an ultra-thin iPad case with built-in NXT stereo speakers, offers solid, powerful, crystal clear sound that boosts your iPad's volume by up to 300%.
Sound Cover™: iPad Cover with Powerful Built-in Speakers by Petur Hannes Olafsson
Connect your guitar, bass and MIDI instruments to your iPad and GarageBand. Digital music-making has never been easier. Owning an iPad makes it easier still, taking it to a whole new level of versatility and portability. StudioConnect gives your iPad: audio in/out, MIDI in/out, and a stereo headphone jack with its own volume control so you can monitor what's going in (or out). Whether you're a serious musician, a confirmed hobbyist, or a budding composer, you know about MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface).
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Stompbox: Footswitch controller for iPad, iPhone, & iPod touch
A professional-quality pedal for your effects. With four assignable foot switches and a 1/4" effects pedal input jack, StompBox recreates the experience of an actual pedalboard on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. With StompBox, you can control guitar and effects apps like JamUpPro XT and iShred LIVE and your iPad becomes a portable, programmable effects board and practice rig.
iShred LIVE - iPhone and iPad Guitar Effects!
Absolute beauty! Sonny - Canada One of the best guitar app/pedal/guitar connect packages! Worth every penny. yooo よおゆゆ - JapanPOD Studio™ KB37 is a powerful USB interface that boasts a versatile a 37-key MIDI controller, a comprehensive I/O and the stunning sound of POD Farm™ 2. POD Farm 2.5 features every model necessary for pro-sounding recordings. It features over 80 immortal and fully adjustable guitar amps from vintage classics to must-have modern monsters, plus bass amps, stompboxes, preamps and more to deliver legendary POD® tone to your DAW.
USB Audio Interface | POD Studio KB37 | Line 6
iOS Sampler, Sir Sampleton, Gets MIDI Support
Developer Paul Slocum has updated Sir Sampleton – a sampling keyboard for iOS – adding support for the Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer . Slocum also notes that CoreMIDI support is ‘coming soon’, along with a multi-timbral mode. Description: Sir Sampleton’s sound and simple user interface are inspired by sampling Casio and Yamaha toy keyboards of the 80′s, but with some additional features that those keyboards lacked, like the ability to save your samples.
Download version 1.3 1.3 MB What is it? SysEx Librarian is a utility for Mac OS X which lets you communicate with MIDI devices using System Exclusive messages, also known as SysEx. The most common use is to backup patch data from synthesizers, although there are others (such as sending firmware updates). SysEx Librarian makes it easy to keep a library of the SysEx files you use most often, and to record new SysEx files.
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AKAI Pro SynthStation – Check This Out!
This is a sneak preview of AKAI Pro SynthStation , a new app that looks like it’s going to have some people rethinking their ideas about iPad Music Software . SynthStation combines sequencing, beatmaking, synthesis, MPC-style pads and XY effects control in one app. Features: Three virtual-analog synthesizers, each with three oscillators Range of drum kits and sequencer Create melodic and accompaniment parts using arpeggiator with preset patterns Unlimited creativity with effects and filters More SynthStation action below!
Akai intros MPC Fly pad controller for iPad 2
Controller doubles as iPad case Akai has introduced the MPC Fly , a compact music production center designed specifically for the iPad 2. The tablet connects to a dock connector within the hinged case, enabling users to take advantage of buttons, including 16 backlit pads and several other controls, while working with Akai's MPC app on the iPad's touchscreen display. The MPC Fly app enables users to simultaneously sequence four tracks, built from a library of instrument samples and drum kits or sampled using the iPad microphone or line input. The utility provides further control over attack, velocity, tuning, time correction, effects and other parameters. Akai has yet to announce pricing or launch information for the MPC Fly.
Akai's iPad-docking SynthStation 49 and updated app: eyes-on at NAMM 2011
Remember when everything had an iPhone dock? The coming dock revolution will be just like that, but a lot more massive. Akai is showing off a non-functioning version of its SynthStation 49-key MIDI controller at NAMM this weekend, and it's pretty much the same idea as the smaller iPhone-docking Synthstation25.
January 21st, 2012 by: Range More and more, we’re seeing solutions for electronic musicians who want to take their show on the road without getting too cluttered up. The iPad is one of the most portable computers available right now, and there’s no doubt that performers are happy to turn theirs into a music-making machine. While there are plenty of dedicated music-making apps for the iPad, the Akai MPC Fly Pad Controller for iPad 2 is an interesting addition to any musician’s arsenal, since it adds tactile pads, while taking advantage of the iPad 2′s powerful brains. It’s especially cool if you want to you to create music on the go. The controller/case features a double hinge which docks with the iPad, allowing it to sit upright, lie flat, or close – clamshell-style, protecting your iPad for travel.
Akai MPC Fly iPad Controller: Turns Your Pad into a Portable Music Production Center
SynthStation Music Production App for iPhone and iPod touch
New v3.2 Update! SynthStation v3.2 is all about streamlined workflow. You’ll find a totally refreshed user interface that’s easy to navigate and instinctual to use. Optimized for the larger screen of your iPad, the new UI spreads out the controls, dramatically reduces the need to shuffle through menus, and lays out all the synth parameters on a single screen. The leading music production app just got more powerful.Multitrack recording is taking different forms on iOS. From linear, tape machine style recording, to modern non-linear graphical editing, recording audio on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch comes in many flavors. Each program has it’s trade-offs and limitations, but all will inspire creativity. Since this technology is still new, we feel like there is a lot to look forward to.