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Free iOS App – Propellerhead Take Creative Vocal Recorder

Take is a creative recorder for musicians. It’s got the same simplicity you’ve come to expect with your voice memos, with features custom-tailored to vocalists’ needs—like the ability to record harmonies along with your voice, blend in effects to sweeten the sound and sing along to an array of beats and rhythms:

Propellerhead Software has announced the release of Take Creative Vocal Recorder, a new free app for iOS.

▪ Sing, hum, rap, strum. Take captures your musical ideas—any time, anywhere.
▪ With a single tap you’ll be recording, beatboxing, overdubbing, riffing, writing, trying out song ideas that you’ll want to share with the world.
▪ Feel the groove. Stay on the beat. Keep in time.
▪ Inspiring built-in clicks, loops and beats to kick start your creativity.
▪ Add new parts, double them up, create harmonies, sketch out the song.
▪ Three tracks to build on your tune and flesh out your ideas.
▪ Surprise yourself with how good you sound.
▪ Processing and effects that make your iPhone’s mic shine.
▪ Share on Facebook, Twitter, email.

Note: Take is optimized for the built-in microphone on your iOS device. Wear headphones to hear your backing tracks. Best results come from using headphones (the ones without an integrated microphone) and recording into your iPhone/iPod/iPad mic directly.
Price: Free in the iTunes App Store.

Take Creative Vocal Recorder – Propellerhead Software AB

SquashIt Multiband Distortion Free for Mac Cheap for iPad

Its developer, Klevgränd Produktion, says that it features adaptive distortion algorithms and is suitable for use on any kind of material. What’s more, its interface suggests that it’s pretty easy to use.

SquashIt multiband distortion released for Mac ( Free ) and iPad

Check out the video above to find out more. The Mac AU version of SquashIt can be downloaded for free from the Klevgränd Produktion website, while the iPad app (which offers Inter App Audio compatibility) can be yours for £0.69/$0.99 on the Apple App Store.

Plugin Boutique Big Kick – Kick Drum Design Plugin Mac PC

PluginBoutique – Loopmasters’ sister site selling music software – has just released their first proprietary plugin, “Big Kick”. Created in collaboration with Credland Audio, Big Kick was Developed to help producers make kick drum design easy and enjoyable and includes a set of features to help them get results quickly. With ease of use in mind, the interface is simple to grasp and controls are limited only to those useful in achieving the plugin’s purpose of producing great drum sounds.

PluginBoutique (www.pluginboutique.com ) – Loopmasters’ sister site selling music software – has just released their first proprietary plugin, “Big Kick”. Created in collaboration with Credland Audio, Big Kick was Developed to help producers make kick drum design easy and enjoyable and includes a set of features to help them get results quickly. With ease of use in mind, the interface is simple to grasp and controls are limited only to those useful in achieving the plugin’s purpose of producing great drum sounds.

http://youtu.be/61fP15E1uk8

Key Features of the plugin include the following:

·         Kick drum synthesis – can replicate the majority of today’s and yesterday’s kick sounds*
·         Factory library includes 300 attack types and 110 presets*
·         Tuned kick drums
·         Easily integrates with your existing sample libraries
·         Easier to use than any previous kick drum design tool
·         Drag-and-drop sample creation
·         Auto-play mode for instant start and jamming
·         No-phase-shift free-sound-shaping Overdrive
·         High pass filter (again, phase-shift-free): avoid nasty surprises in the bottom end.

*Preset designers include Audialize, Cutline, Daniel Daly, D-Product, Freemasons, Jamie Anderson, Jim Credland, John Lead, Kris O’Neil, Niche Audio, Rasmus Faber and Timo Garcia. With some extra input from Nick Sentience.

“Big Kick” is available for both Mac and PC and is available in both 32 and 64bit formats.

Full product details available HERE

EZdrummer 2 Product Preview [Videos]

Toontrack’s Ezdrummer 2 has been a big hit with musicians who want a simple way of creating high-quality rhythm tracks for their productions, so it comes as no surprise that the company has now announced version 2.

Said to be a completely new program, this brings new features for songwriting, a new user interface, a remodelled audio engine, a new mixer with effects chains, two new sound libraries and a selection of percussion sounds.

Check out these preview videos:

Toontrack has also updated its range of EZX expansion libraries for use with EZdrummer 2. Each one now has new effects chains and optimised graphics.

You can find out more about EZdrummer 2 on the Toontrack website. It’ll be available on 6 May at a list price of $179/€139. Upgrades will cost $99/€79

Convert CAF Apple Loops to Wav & AIFF Files to Use in Other DAWS

Easy CAF Converter for Logic Pro automatically converts Apple Loops installed with Logic Pro 9 and X to uncompressed audio formats (aiff and wave).

Audio Helper Project has released Easy CAF Converter for Logic Pro v1.0.2 on the Mac App Store.

Easy CAF Converter for Logic Pro automatically converts Apple Loops installed with Logic Pro 9 and X to uncompressed audio formats (aiff and wave).

With the Easy CAF Converter for Logic Pro, musicians using other major DAWs (e.g., Cubase, ProTools, Ableton Live, and Studio One, etc.) can now easily use the rich set of apple loops of Logic Pro in their music productions.

Features:

Supported file format: aiff and wav.
Bit depth: 16, 24, and 32-bit (32-bit added at v1.0.2).

Tech Specs:

Mac OS X 10.7, or later.
Logic Pro 9 or X installed.

Important Notes:

If you don’t have properly installed Apple Loops of Logic Pro 9 or X, the Easy CAF Converter for Logic Pro does not work.
The Easy CAF Converter for Logic Pro can convert only apple loops in audio format (i.e., caf files), that is, apple loops in MIDI format cannot be converted using the Apple Loops Converter.

Easy CAF Converter for Logic Pro – Young Ho Lee

Voice to MIDI Software Mac PC

imitone is an app for PC and Mac which transforms your voice into musical notes, live. As you sing — or whistle, or hum — imitone instantly converts the sound into “MIDI signals” which can control almost any music software.

imitone is an app for PC and Mac which transforms your voice into musical notes, live. As you sing — or whistle, or hum — imitone instantly converts the sound into “MIDI signals” which can control almost any music software.

Anyone can use it. No set-up is needed: opening the program is just like plugging a musical keyboard into your computer. To hear your voice transformed into a violin or flute, you need only start imitone, select that instrument in your music program, put on some headphones and start singing. It’s that simple.

No ear for music? Imitone has you covered. It’s designed to help you sing in tune, providing constant feedback on the pitch of your voice. Additional tools like scale-snapping help it to correct your errors.

Works with everything. Because it acts as a MIDI controller, thousands of music programs already work with imitone, including the popular (and free!) GarageBand for Mac. You can control imitone with your voice or a musical instrument, and a regular laptop-quality microphone.

You can use imitone to compose music, perform it live, digitize recordings, dynamically control audio effects, train your singing, or tune your instrument. Other, still stranger uses exist, but those are for you to discover!

The best part: It’s not just a promise. Imitone is fully-functional right now, and will be available to backers within a month after this Kickstarter concludes.

The creator of imitone, Evan Balster, is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to help cover development costs. And to date the initiative has managed to raise over $43,000, well past its $20,000 goal. You can pre-order a copy of the software, which is set to be released in May, with a donation of just $25. Or reserve a copy of imitone prime for $60 which includes more advanced features and nationality.

Kickstarter Link

Organize Audio Unit Plugins with Auganizer

You can now change the developer/manufacturer name and use a much more logical workflow orientated layout. You could, for instance, arrange by the type of effect, and we even allow you to go further by making multi layers with sub folders. This gives you the ability to create hierarchies such as; “Compressor > Multi-band” and “Compressor > Single-band”, so you have full control over how YOU want your plugins organized.

Organize Audio Unit Plugins – Auganizer Highlights

More Info & Download Here

Make House Rap, Hip Hop, DubStep,Trance And More With This All-In-One Beat Studio

Making music is fun. You could spend years learning one instrument, and still not be able to produce the sounds that you feel inside. With Dr. Drum Beat Making software you can do it all, and you can do it right now.

Dr. Drum makes it possible for anyone, even someone who has no formal music education, or playing experience to create awesome sounds and music tracks in any genre.

An affordable beat maker without compromising on quality, start making sick beats today even if you have no experience whatsoever!

Download it here

Dr. Drum will make anyone sound like a pro and it is affordable. When you’re ready to step into the big time, do it with Dr. Drum and be a pro without spending money like one.

String Master for iPad

StringMaster is an advanced iPad application suitable for beginner through to advanced Guitarists and other fretted instrument Musicians. With its beautiful, natural sound, StringMaster supports a wide range of instruments. The chord building and detection, comparison between instruments, fretboard learning system, scales and advanced song writing tools are all supported with any instrument in any orientation, and with tremendously flexible alternate tuning and capo support.

With its high resolution graphics, StringMaster has been fully optimized for the iPad Retina Display, and also works with the iPad 1 and 2. Note StringMaster is an iPad Only application and is not supported on the iPhone.

Key Features:

* Play and discover a wide range of chords and fingering, all with beautiful natural tone.
* Display and play scales, including scale runs up the fretboard
* Display chord notes or suggested fingering
* Using a set of complex musical algorithms, StringMaster will show you the name of a chord based on the finger positions you define!
* StringMaster’s easy-to-use Song Writer recommends which chords sound best together making it easy to write and store killer songs and progressions, including individual notes
* Explore and learn the fretboard, Chords & sounds of a range of instruments
* Learn to play a new instrument by comparing it with one you already know. Select a chord on one instrument, then display the equivalent chord pattern and fingering on any of the many other instruments.

Supports the following Instruments:
* Acoustic Guitar
* Electric Guitar
* Electric Guitar – 7 String
* Bass
* Bass – 5 String
* Banjo
* Banjo – 4 String
* Mandolin
* Ukulele