macOS 

Apple New 12″ Macbook – no fan(s), USB C & audio jacks (only), Retina Display, but expensive as hell

(deutscher Text unten / German text see below) Apple just have released quite cost intensive flat macs, without fans. That means they don’t get fans? No, it means – the put in a dual core processor that is almost optimized for mobile use at 5W of power – but it is running at 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 GHz and can boost up to 2.4, 2.6 or 2.9 – depends on what you dare to add to the not so low price of more than 1400€. (the 512 GB SSD is…

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B-Step Sequencer – Major Update 2.1

Remember B-Step? it’s an all platform sequencer that can be controlled from controllers running on tablets and computers of all OS types incl. Linux. Audio Bus is added for iPads there id a management of loading chords and optical mods to it & im/exporting everything sort of cloud upload to a dedicated server keep settings and assignments of audio samples (!) design stuff added (colours) fixed bugs, updated to work with most recent OS versions (Yosemite etc), better performance – improvements there is some more changes in details as well..…

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Camel Audio is now owned by Apple – Apple kauft Camel Audio

it’s now for sure – Camel Audio has been acquired by Apple. As a user we can refer to CA’s service until this Summer / July. So expect something to come in Logic / Garage Band 10.2 right? And Apps? Expect no Windows stuff anymore! New „formal“ Address is now Apple London / (Heather Joy Morrison), that’s why it is known now – not that Apple ever have posted something official ;) Ja, Camel Audio (Alchemy und diverse Plugins wie „Space“ und „Phat“..) gehören jetzt Apple, dh. wir können wohl…

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Affinity Photo – Photoshop CS Killer without subscription BS

Ok, you did your covers with Photoshop, right? You were searching for something to avoid that totally unacceptable 50€ model per month model of their cloud bullshit and ran into Pixelmator or Acorn, right? But the Pro-side of life wasn’t there – something that could do the Adobe CS Photoshop jobs? well you can do for 40€ with Serif Affinity. Looks like I’ve found it – I really was hoping for things like this to happen! Link to them: Affinity Photo – Professional image editing software for Mac. via Apples Shop…

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Zed Physical Modeling with mic input iOS Synth

remember Patch Morpher? The interpolation tool for sound creation on hardware synths – here’s the first synth of JazzMan – which can listen to the microphone re-model it and use this as a synth waveform but can also just synthesize sounds from oscillators via filter and stuff – the GUI is nice – you can just move the whole user interface by swiping it – so you can see the structure, the physical model engine and resonantors, the „mallet“ section, 2 OSCs, filter like this: added is sort of Clavia…

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Yamaha GS1 Programmer - internal use only App 

Yamaha AN1X-like App with Synth Book of History – FM Programmers

Yamaha wasn’t presenting any synth at NAMM but they put up a nice history page – but there’s a little 8 voice synth in it near the AN1x Digital Synthesizer but not exactly IT plus drums – called SynthBook and within the iOS App it’s called AN2015 running on iPhones.. here’s what you can do – see the tabs? it’s quite capable of a lot of synthesis. UPDATE – there is a free FM app as well – here called FM Essential. Yamaha Synth Book PV2Dieses Video auf YouTube ansehen and there is plenty of cool…

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macOS Synth Windows 

Roland – Promars for System 1

beside the JD-Xa and JD-Xi and the very interesting Aira MX Automator/Mix there is also something new for the System 1 platform – the Promars, MRS2 subtractive,analog synth – I recently sold mine. so there’s only some SHs and System 100 / 100m missing and the System 1 going polyphonic for emulation – maybe the new JD synths might do their part of that job. I assume this is not only a Plug-out but a Plug-in as well as SH101 and SH2 were..   img: synthbug.com – also did audio demos of…

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