SoundCloud has announced that it’s looking for iPhone and Mac OS X developers: We’re really excited about the release of our brand new Cocoa/iPhone development kit, built by Ullrich and Gernot! This means you can really easily integrate SoundCloud in any Cocoa-based (iPhone 2.0+, Mac OS X 10.5+) application, complete with oAuth-based authentication, asynchronous requests… Read More SoundCloud Looking For Mac, iPhone Developers
MellowMuse Mellowhead is a guitar and fx modeling plug-in for OSX. Description: The emphasis here is on creating the raw organic sound of a miced tube amp. There are 10 convolution based speaker cabinets and 10 different pre-amp/tone settings, ranging from clean to brutal distortion, as well as 3 band tone controls. The 5… Read More New Guitar FX Plug-in For OS X
i3L (pronounced “i thrill”) is a freeware music controller app, developed using Max/MSP from Cycling74 and is a support application for akaRemote by Masayuki Akamatsu. And guess what? You can use it to control Ableton Live! i3L receives pre-defined UDP messages from akaRemote.app running on the iPhone, scales the values to MIDI, and allows you… Read More Use I3L To Control Ableton Live With Your iPhone
Apple has an interesting profile on DJ Paul Van Dyk. It looks at how he’s working now, and also provides a current look at the gear he uses: “I’ve developed the same passion I have for making music as I have for DJing over the last 15 years,” he says. “It’s the ultimate thing to… Read More Paul Van Dyk’s Gear List
Deckadance, the dj software with what some think is the most offensive gear ad ever, is coming to the Mac. “Many professional DJs, producers and remixers use Macs as a preference platform, so the release of version 1.2 will make Deckadance a real proposition for them” commented Luis Serrano, the developer of Deckadance. Here are… Read More Image Line Announces Mac Version Of Deckadance
A new web site promises to turn your genetic sequence into a musical sequence.Rie Takahashi and Jeffrey Miller of the University of California at Los Angeles describe the system in the open-access journal Genome Biology. They set up a system is to translate amino acids – the building blocks for human protein sequences – into… Read More Web Site Turns Your Genetic Sequence Into A Musical Sequence
Leading Mac musicians, producers, and technologists will share their technological insight and creative experience in a day-long, intensive event at Macworld Conference & Expo 2007. Macworld’s first-ever Music and Technology Symposium will bring together some of the most cutting-edge and multi-talented artists on the Mac, including producer COUNT (DJ Shadow, Radiohead, Halou), guitarist Joe Gore… Read More Mac Music Luminaries To Share Secrets at Macworld Music Symposium
Macintosh Universal Binary applications are ones that run natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Mac computers. These are sometimes referred to as Mactel versions, because they run and the Macintosh Intel-based machines. Mactel Music Applications: Airfoil AudioExpress AudioLeak – an Leq (Long-Term Equivalent Level) analyzer for audio files. CastAway – Wooden Brain Concepts Crystal Synth… Read More Mac Universal Binary Applications
MacWorld Update: Apple today unveiled the new iMac featuring Mac OS X running on the new Intel Core Duo processor. According to Apple, the new iMac offers performance that is up to twice that of its predecessor. The iMac now features dual-core processors, a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing out-of-the-box, and the media… Read More Apple: Intel iMac is Twice as Fast as Predecessor
Macintosh OS X has joined Windows and other Unix systems in a inauspicious top 20 list – the SANS TOP 20 Vulnerabilities. OS X was added not because of any particular hack or vulnerability, but because “MacOS includes software that has critical vulnerabilities and Apple has a patch policy, described below, that do not allow… Read More Mac OS X Joins SANS 20 List of Computer Vulnerabilities
