Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

A few months ago, I asked the question, will your iPhone be your next sound module? Well, perhaps that time has come, thanks to Akai’s SynthStation25 and SynthStation49 keyboards, which threaten to turn your iDevice into a fully fledged music workstation.

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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?

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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.

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Has IRMA taken it too far this time? Check out this new article by Eric Kennord.

Spotify has managed to jump the many, varied and often bemusing hoops of the iPhone App approval process, and get accepted. Despite being a very clear and possibly quite threatening competitor to the (more…)