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.
Audacity takes a “major step towards transforming into a DAW” as it reaches version 3.2. The free and open-source software aims for “end-to-end production tool” status, adding realtime effects processing, cloud sharing and more.
Audacity have been around since 2000, but not only does free and open-source audio editor, it continues to evolve. Version 3.2 has now landed, and it promises to take “large strides” towards transforming the software into an “end-to-end production tool”. In other words, a fully-fledged DAW.
‘What’s new at Audacity 3.2?’ At a glance, list indicates that this is indeed a significant update. There’s now realtime effects support, meaning that processing can be applied non-destructively and parameters can be tweaked on-the-fly, and effects can also be ‘stacked’.
In other news, the interface has been cleaned-up – stripped back, simplified and made more ‘DAW-like’ according to Audacity developer Muse Group. VST3 plugin support is also part of the v3.2 package.
In addition, we have audio.com, a new audio sharing platform that enables you to back up your Audacity projects to the cloud directly from the software. You can then share your content publicly or privately.
Key new features in Audacity 3.2:
VST3 support
Realtime Effects support
The ability to upload and share audio with audio.com
Apple Silicon support
Audacity 3.2 runs on PC, Mac and Linux and can be downloaded now on the Audacity website. See the release notes for details.
