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Blue Microphones releases Blue FiRe

Blue Microphones has released Blue FiRe, a free, high-fidelity field recording app for iPhone and iPod Touch, developed in partnership with Audiofile Engineering.

“The Blue FiRe App was a natural next step for Blue Microphones as we continue to expand our superior quality audio recording products and services to consumers,” said William Merchan, vice president, Sales of Blue Microphones. “We are excited to extend Blue FiRe’s high-quality recording capabilities for the Mikey to both the iPhone and iPod touch.”

Coupled with the Mikey, Blue FiRe provides high-fidelity recordings in mono and stereo, while allowing users to see the accurate audio waveform in real-time. Featuring the ability to create editable audio markers and tag recordings with location data.

Blue FiRe features

• Navigation of waveform via double-tap with configurable behavior.
• Configurable time units display.
• Record For, Record Until, Record Over Threshold and settings.
• Quality settings: Low (11.025 kHz), Medium (22.050 kHz) and High (44.1 kHz).
• Browser based file export via local web server.
• WAV, AIFF, CAF (Core Audio Format).

Blue FiRe is available as a free download from the App Store.

More information: Blue Microphones / Blue FiRe @ iTunes App Store

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Korg microSAMPLER

I’ve owned a few hardware Samplers. When I was in high school my father bought me a Roland S-50. Later, I had an Akai S950 and further down the road a S3000XL. I’ve always thought sampled sounds cut through a mix in a strong interesting way. The best part of a sampler is that if you actually use it to Sample sounds you have audio that’s unique all to you. Make a song out of your kitchen pots and pans rattling? No problem.

I’m thrilled to see Korg is going to release a new hardware Sampler keyboard. The microSampler is the right size, has some effects, mic input, software control and it can apparently attach to an iPhone. I have no idea if all this will add up to yum but milk, sugar, eggs and chocolate usually equals awesome.

For the first few posts about the microSAMPLER on Matrixsynth: click here

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Eclipse Phase: CC-licensed tabletop singularity RPG

Eclipse Phase is a pen & paper RPG launching at Gen Con. It's a transhuman/singularity near future milieu with horror & conspiracy elements added for mood.

- Reputation Economies. In designing the game's material culture, we threw out the idea of money as a major motivator for characters ("Money is for people who don't know how to take care of themselves"), instead focusing on how characters network to get things they need. There are corporate interests in the setting trying to keep money alive, but we don't portray this in a good light.
We really want to see someone try doing this in a massmorg, and we're hoping our game spreads the idea around. Reason: massive simulations of new economic systems in environments like massmorgs may well be predictive of how they'd work in real life.

- Weird shit. Players can choose to portray a giant transgenic crab with a cyberbrain run by a red market AGI if they're feeling it.

- Wide synthesis of other transhuman SF concepts. Microfacturing, open source blueprints for same, personality uploading (leading to virtual immortality), and a lot of other stuff you'd see in works by Stross, Reynolds, and... heh, Doctorow. Making an RPG out of this gives people a toolkit to explore these ideas on their own, and we think that's pretty cool.

- Creative Commons. The game is being released under a CC license.

Eclipse Phase

(Thanks, Jack!)

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Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, free download

Bradley Denton's homepage

Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede PDFs: Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3,
Part 4

Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede PDFs (Coral cache mirrors): Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3,
Part 4

Alive and Well movie site

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Science Fiction Inspired By The Ambient Electronica Of Robert Rich

Ambient electronica artist Robert Rich sends word that a collection of short stories, Enriched Visions, inspired by his music, is now available in paperback:

A collection of short science fiction and surreal stories by Matt Howarth, based on the compositions of ambient pioneer Robert Rich.

Embark on a series of fantastic voyages, where you’ll encounter:

• the link between a massive brushfire and aboriginal cave art,
• a mathematician’s quest into the desert,
• giant lizards orbiting the Earth,
• an old man captivated by dancing moss in a park,
• a kidnapping in the new Ice Age,
• the music a lonely lighthouse keeper uses to while away the nights,
• the fate of the last Martians
• the unnatural hunger of Dame Procol’s new lifeforms,
• a man in search of amnesia,
• an antique dealer specializing in artifacts from the 21st Century’s texplosion era,
• an alien spire that reaches beyond the sky, and more.

This book also features story notes in which Howarth and Rich discuss the connections between the stories and the source music.”

Enriched Visions is available for $17.50.

If you’ve read Enriched Visions, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Jasuto Modular Synth for iPhone, Mac + Windows VST: Build Your Own Instruments

Jasuto envelope example from Jasuto on Vimeo.

Imagine friendly creation of custom synths and sounds by dragging visual nodes. Now imagine you can do that on a mobile device and your computer – and eventually combine the two. That’s the vision of Jasuto, and while it’s not quite there yet, it’s incredibly promising.

The laws of combinatorics predict that, on a regular basis, you’ll see countless soft synths that are slight variations of one another. With the iPhone/iPod touch gold rush in full swing, we’re starting to see the pattern repeat itself, just as it did in Windows and Mac plug-ins. Some are brilliant; others are just the usual variations on a theme.

Of course, even better is the ability to build exactly what you want out of the same buildings blocks. Powerful toolkits like Max/MSP, Pd, Reaktor, SuperCollider, SynthMaker and the like let you do this, but they qualify as the more-sophisticated Erector Set of synthesis. Sometimes you just want some simple, LEGO-style building blocks that cover the basics.

That’s why Jasuto looks so promising. It’s actually two pieces of software – a plug-in for Mac and Windows VST. Combine basic modules, and you get some powerful features, even on the iPhone:

• Multiple synthesis methods: additive, subtractive, FM/PM/AM, hard-sync synthesis
• Basic math functions: add/subtract/delta/constant values
• Filters: LP, HP, BP, and a Moog emulation
• Signal tools: envelopes, dynamics processors, and an envelope follower
• Effects: Delay, reverb, saturation, digital distortion
• iPhone hardware features: Accelerator and mic access (and of course mic access on your computer, too)
• 16-step sequencer with looping, pattern manipulation
• Performance options: a tappable keyboard, glide functions, and so on

That’s just the specs, though. To me, the most interesting thing is the zoomable, nodal design, reminiscent of the reactable. There’s also the ability to record “motion” anywhere in the app, and to modulate everything with everything else. And I especially like the idea that “patches” and “synths” are one and the same: just as on an early modular, creating a new “patch” really is about connecting modules into something unique.

I can’t imagine it being the last computer instrument you need, but if successful, it could well be the last iPhone synth you need. I like the idea of

It’s under “heavy development,” so expect some bugs. The software can be yours for all of US$1.00 on iPhone. The PC/Mac VST looks a little rougher, but it’s available for free download.

Jasuto Site

VST Plug-in

iTunes Link

Thanks to sublamp for turning us on to this via comments.

Free, Open-Source iPhone Synthesizer

mobilesynth (App Store link) is an open source classic monophonic synthesizer for the iPhone, designed for live performance.

Developers are encouraged to visit the project website and contribute.

If you’ve used mobilesynth, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Features:

• Monophonic, playing one note at a time like a class synthesizer
• Oscillator Module
  • Dual oscillators
  • Square, Triangle, Sawtooth, Reverse Sawtooth waves
  • Octave selector, supporting 5 octaves
  • Glide between notes (Lag Processor)
  • Oscillator fine tune (more than one full octave)
  • Oscillator sync
• Low Pass Filter Module
• Modulation module
• Tremelo/Wave
• Vibrato/Pitch
• Filter
• Envelope Generator module
• Supports ADSR (Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release)
• Volume
• Filter (amount of low pass filter)