With the iPhone 4 sporting a new operating system and Apple’s A4 1Ghz processor (which it shares with the iPad), the question has to be asked; will the iPhone/iPad be fast enough to be a reliable simple synth for live use?
I was recently doing some music tech consultancy work which presented me with an interesting conundrum. Picture this: my client has a control room running a G5 Mac, with tie lines down a stairs to a live room containing the most beautiful vintage grand piano. The challenge was to be able to record ones-self on the piano, without a tape op, and without having to make constant trips up & down the stairs. (more…)
Apple’s Backup software is a really handy way to incrementally back up selected data, whether to your iDisk or to an external hard drive.
Unfortunately, Apple just upgraded Backup to 3.2, and as it says in the dialogue box above, “Backup no longer supports backing up files and folders outside your home folder.” (more…)
I’ve always been a fan of PowerKeys for the iPhone/Touch. It started off a bit buggy and crashy, but since the last update, it seems very stable. A really nice feature of the new version is that you can (more…)
Mobile Roadie has a very neat way of creating iPhone apps, mostly aimed at the music market. It’s very, very neat. Rather than me rabbiting on about it, have a look at the video here.
So, this week’s been a pretty bad one for Apple then. The three most important things to Apple over the past number of years have been the Mac user experience (ie OS X and the Mac computer), the iPhone, and of course, the iPod & iTunes. Every single one of these came under serious attack this week from either Microsoft or Google.
Apple put an instant hole in the pocket of people like me everywhere today, by releasing updates to their two premium software products for media professionals, Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio.
Logic Studio adds features like “flex time”; a much needed upgrade to its time manipulation abilities on the timeline, and better workflow tools to allow easier exporting and importing of settings and tracks between projects. Also (more…)
So, I’m finally getting some quality time to myself, sitting down listening to some music on my Media Center, controlling iTunes from my iPod Touch. Maybe I’ll listen to the new Duffy album I just bought. (I like buying music. Hell, if I’m not gonna buy someone else’s, why should I expect anyone to buy mine!) (more…)
I’ve been tearing my hair out for a couple of weeks trying to find the best way to stream internet radio to my iPod Touch. Every single free internet radio app, and many of the paid ones, say much the same thing, “Over 5,000 radio stations”. Of course, what they don’t say is most of them are (more…)