Spitfire Audio has released Electronic Antique – a free virtual instrument that recreates the sound of the rare Ondioline.
What they say about it:
“Discover a rare gem of music history with one of the world’s earliest synthesisers — the Ondioline. Designed and patented by French inventor Georges Jenny in the early 1940s, the LABS team captured its delightfully off-kilter sound, transforming the raw recordings into a range of playful presets. Fizzing with smile-inducing possibilities — the Ondioline is as wild as your imagination.”
Ambient electronic artist Steve Roach and developer Eric Freeman have released updated versions of their Immersion Station ambient music apps as free downloads for iPhone.
The Immersion Station series features four iPhone apps that enable you listen to continuous, evolving ambient soundscapes. The App plays an ambient soundscape, made up of 5 loops that are represented in the interface by orbs. The loops different in length, so they the combine in constantly changing ways.
You can reposition the orbs to customize the mix, with the left-right axis controlling panning and the top-bottom axis controlling the prominence of elements in the mix.
What they say about the updated apps:
“As an elegant interactive sound immersion tool, users can create infinite mix combinations from five different soundworlds of varied lengths, for endless evolving playback.
Created from the soundworlds of ambient music pioneer Steve Roach, Immersion Station IV places the listener in the center of a sublime, ever evolving sound environment. The user can create mixes for a personalized immersion experience or use it in the evolve mix mode.”
Compatibility:
Phone
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
Mac requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Madrona Labs has updated all of its instruments with native Apple Silicon support.
All of Madrona Labs’ software instruments have been updated to version 1.9.5, adding native Apple Silicon support for M1 and M2 Macs. The new versions are Universal Binaries, which support both Apple Silicon and Intel processors.
Users with Apple Silicon computers should be able to run 30% more voices or more, as compared with the previous versions in Rosetta 2 emulation.
The new versions are available now as free updates:
System requirements for Aalto, Kaivo and Virta are: either Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and a VST2 host, or macOS 10.10 or higher with Intel or Apple Silicon processor, and an Audio Units or VST2 host.
