Bring the Noise.io!

Noise.io is an interesting-looking synthesizer app for iPhone, due to appear in the App Store in the coming weeks.

What’s interesting about it is the emphasis on live performance. This is an app designed for use on stage, and comes complete with the advice: “Simply connect the sound output of your iPhone/iPod touch to the mic/line
input of your mixer, recorder or sound card - and there you are, now you can enrich your tracks or mixes with superb sound effects.”

Right now, we shall just have to take the developers’ word for that, because the app isn’t officially released and all we have to go on are the screenshots and a single preview video that hints at what’s to come. For seven bucks, it looks like it might be hard to resist.

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Tenori-On Inspired PacklSound1 iPhone App Coming Soon, But Not Soon Enough

The Tenori-On is the zany Yamaha touch-based musical sequencer that caught our eye earlier this year, but this cool PacklSound1 iPhone app could very well be the portable version that puts us over the edge. It’s a simpler version of the original $1,200 Tenori-On box, but that didn’t stop the designer from laying down a quick, catchy beat. Seeing it in action, makes me want it right now:
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A low cost guide to making music with your Mac, part three

Here we are with the long-awaited third part of my series on how to make music with your Mac. In the first installment, we looked at audio hardware; in the second installment, we discussed digital audio workstations. Today we’re going to look at useful DSP (or digital signal processing) plugins and software synthesizers to help aid in your music making.

Again, a disclaimer: these are only a small handful of the options open to you. There are thousands of Mac-friendly synths and plugins out there, and you can spend as much time playing with demos and tweaking presets as you can making music. Having said that, these are a few tools I’ve personally found useful in my quest to become a halfway-decent digital producer.

More after the jump.
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