Ross Bencina has updated AudioMulch to version 2.1.1. This update resolves bugs in last month’s version 2.1 release. Audio Unit plug-in compatibility on Mac has been improved. The update also includes usability and user-interface tweaks.
Changes:
Fixed bug where documents that used a missing VST plugin would load with an arbitrary placeholder VST rather than warning that the plugin was missing.
Fixed bug where a LoopPlayer with an automation mute change at the beginning of bar 1 wouldn’t recognise the mute change until bar 2 when playing from start or exporting.
Fixed bug in Arpeggiator where selecting only one note in Random and UpDown Direction mode would play more than one note. Made Random Direction mode more uniformly random.
Fixed bug where changing Settings/Preferences for MIDI sync offsets or MIDI generate sync device would cause MIDI control and chase sync to stop functioning until you restarted AudioMulch, disabled/reenabled these functions, or selected a different MIDI device.
Fixed crash if you quit while a contraption preset window was visible.
Mac (OSX 10.6 only): fixed intermittent audio freeze when selecting a file in the open sound file dialog box (previously fixed in 2.0.4 but back in 2.1.0).
Mac: fixed Preferences and Export To Sound File dialog boxes to not stay on top of all applications. Resolves issues with file selection and help windows appearing behind these dialog boxes.
Mac: fixed crash when creating Audio Units that provide MIDI output (e.g. Bidule, Chipsounds, Kore2).
Mac: fixed crash on exit with ‘BuilderNotFoundException’ when some Pluggo-based Audio Units are installed.
Mac: fixed bug where some Audio Unit editors (e.g. Prosoniq) would display as a blank white window.
Mac: Removed Audio Unit Instrument/Effect category, listed these Audio Units in the Effect category.
Windows: Fixed bug where View > Windows Volume Control menu item didn’t work on Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Fixed bug where opening a document and saving it with Save As… would not add the original document to the Reopen/Recent Items menu.
Fixed Play and Record buttons on File Players and Recorders so that you can right-click and choose Automate, Quick-map MIDI etc, even when the buttons are disabled because no file is selected in the contraption.
Fixed bug where the patcher contraption input/output info tooltip was not hidden correctly after connecting a patch cord. Tooltips are now updated while connecting/reconnecting patch cords.
Fixed bug in pattern editors (Drums, Bassline, SouthPole, Arpeggiator) where you couldn’t easily scroll or zoom past bar 32 unless there were pattern triggers present near the end of the pattern — the sequence length was ignored.
Fixed bug in Bassline where you couldn’t always see the note name cell text if you were zoomed in too far.
Fixed bug where automation lines weren’t always highlighted correctly when you hovered the mouse cursor over them (e.g. minimum line for Range parameters).
Streamlined layout of Parameter Control window.
Prevent multi-file Player and Recorder contraption editors from being resized beyond the maximum useful height.
Changed increments on MIDI sync offset number boxes to increment by +/- 1ms (previously 200ms).
Refined button and label text in Settings/Preferences dialog box and elsewhere.
AudioMulch is an interactive musician’s environment for Windows and Mac OS X (Intel processors only). It is used for live electronic music performance and composition. Other uses include mash-up performance, experimental music, sound design, music education and industry research.
Christian Blomert has released touchAble, an app with allows you to control Ableton Live from your iPad.
Navigate around your live set with the touch of a finger, tweak Lives mixer, instruments and fx with full automapping and unlimited tracks & parameters.
touchAble allows live users to walk away from their computer and perform live from anywhere within Wi-Fi range while keeping latency at a minimum.
Play your favourite synths with the unique double keyboard or record your rhythms with the 16 drum pads, including 5 velocity steps & octave selectors. Access the most important transport and clip functions without losing focus on your set and tweak the same set with two iPads with the unique Dual-User-Mode.
You need to adjust volume, launch a new clip and play a device? Don’t worry – a smart and intuitive screen menu empowers the user to arrange and switch modules on the fly.
Rewritten the “Getting Started”, “Projects”, “Project Window”, “Project Start Page” and “Browser Window” chapters in the Podium guide.
Added “Refresh file list” button to the file browser toolbar.
Added “Explore Folder” to the file browser menu. The command opens a Windows Explorer for the folder shown in the Podium file browser.
Podium Free is a fully functional freeware edition of Podium. It is identical to the licensed version, except for the following limitations:
- MIDI interface setup is limited to one input and one output
- 64-bit mixer engine option is disabled
- Plugin multiprocessing is disabled
- ReWire is disabled
- Surround-sound playback is disabled
Podium is a modern production host that integrates audio recording, VST plug-ins and external MIDI and audio gear. An object based project structure allows for advanced media and device management.
iVoxel is not only an amazingly sounding vocoder for iPhone/iPod and iPad – the unique concept of iVoxel turns this vocoder into a singing machine going far beyond the capabilities of traditional and software vocoders on any platform.
iVoxel is a combination of a voice optimized synthesizer and a vocoder with an unprecedented intelligibility. The vocoder part is based on the Matrix vocoder from VirSyn used by many famous artists – one of them the well known german group Kraftwerk. The channel filters used by iVoxel are based on the Sennheiser Vocoder VSM201 resulting in a rich and fat analogue sound characteristic.
Changes in iVoxel v1.2
Speaker switch to enable loudspeaker on iPhone.
Improved voxel recording quality.
Improved performance for iPhone 3G / iPod 2.Gen.
Consonants can now played voiced by turning consonants all the way down.
Shortcircuit is a free software sampler in the shape of a VSTi-plugin for the win32-platform.
Shortcircuit was created as a reaction against the ongoing trend where software samplers are being designed with the primary intent of library playback. It is intended for people who, like us, consider a sampler to be a musical instrument in its own right, and not just a way to emulate other instruments. It has been a vee
The sample hierarchy in shortcircuit allow you to place samples directly at the highest level of the multi, without having to deal with instrument hierarchies and patches. Want to add a sample to your song? Just drag & drop the sample into shortcircuit and you’re ready to go. Samples can be put in groups for multi-sampling and kit-building, but the complexity is only there when you need it.
Sound quality is another concern, and shorcircuit is using high-quality sinc-interpolation, together with oversampling when upsampling, to provide pitch-shifting without audible artefacts. What this means in plain english is that a sample played back at another pitch sounds like a sample played back at another pitch, without any additional muck.
Features:
Streamlined user interface for fast sample management & editing.
Splendid audio quality while resampling.
Flexible selection of filters & effects.
Powerful modulation system, with the ability to modulate itself as well as
loop-points in addition to the usual destinations.
Envelope follower.
Stepsequencer/LFO combo.
Imports wav-files, AKAI S5000/S6000/Z4/Z8 .akp banks and NI battery kits.
Jokosher is a simple yet powerful multi-track studio. With it you can create and record music, podcasts and more, all from an integrated simple environment.
Jokosher is a simple and powerful multi-track studio. Jokosher provides a complete application for recording, editing, mixing and exporting audio, and has been specifically designed with usability in mind. The developers behind Jokosher have re-thought audio production at every level, and created something devilishly simple to use.
Easy to use interface, designed from the ground up. Jokosher uses concepts and language familiar to musicians, and is a breeze to use.
Simple editing with splitting, trimming and moving tools.
Multi-track volume mixing with VU sliders.
Import audio (Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, WAV and anything else supported by GStreamer) into your projects.
A range of instruments can be added to a project, and instruments can be renamed. Instruments can also be muted and soloed easily.
Export to MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV and anything else GStreamer supports.
plug-in compatibility on Mac has been improved. The update also includes usability and user-interface tweaks.
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