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Count The Beats: AmpliTube and iRig review for the iPhone

by Matt Tinsley (Jun 16th, 2010)

A few weeks ago IK Multimedia announced its iRig hardware and AmpliTube app for the iPhone / iPod touch. Today the software has officially gone live on the UK iTunes store ready for your perusal. The app comes in three variations: AmpliTube Free, ...

Count The Beats: IK Multimedia announces Amplitube iRig for the iPhone

by Matt Tinsley (May 11th, 2010)

To all you guitarists out there, we know you're incredibly particular about tone when it comes to your axe and the boutique pedals you play it through. But lets be honest, every now and again it can be a little tiresome lugging that oversized pedal ...

Count The Beats: IK Multimedia brings GrooveMaker to the iPad

by Matt Tinsley (Apr 14th, 2010)

On the heels of the popular GrooveMaker app for the iPhone / iPod touch, IK Multimedia (musicians first) has released GrooveMaker for the iPad. Perfect for that upcoming house party (DJ set) you've been planning. If you're into house, hip-hop and ...

Mac 101: Adding new microphones to your Mac

by Erica Sadun (Feb 16th, 2010)

There are, roughly, several billion kinds of microphones and headsets, all of which can theoretically be used on your Macintosh to let you voice chat over iChat or Skype. The problem is that a fair percentage of them fail to work exactly right, just ...

Macworld 2010: MacSpeech Scribe brings transcription to the Mac

by David Winograd (Feb 11th, 2010)

Being a user of MacSpeech Dictate, a program that allows me to speak to my Mac and wind up with nicely formatted text, I was very happy to learn of today's release of Macspeech Scribe (US $149), which turns recorded audio into Rich Text Format files ...

Count The Beats: Playing keys and synth live on a Mac (interview).

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 3rd, 2010)

Over the coming months, the Count The Beats series is going to be taking a closer look at how the Mac (and the accompanying software) fits in with the various components of a typical rock band (drums, bass, electric guitar etc. You get the idea). ...

Jawbone brings new, very iPhone friendly headset to market

by Mel Martin (Jan 19th, 2010)

Jawbone has a new, feature rich Bluetooth headset called the ICON that is a nice match for the iPhone. New to this headset is a battery meter that displays on the iPhone, something the Apple Bluetooth headset also did. The Apple headset was quietly ...

TUAW Review and Giveaway: Twelve South BassJump subwoofer for MacBook

by Steven Sande (Jan 14th, 2010)

It's no secret that I am an unabashed fanboy of Mac accessory design firm Twelve South. Their BackPack for the iMac and Apple Cinema Display is sleek and utilitarian, and the BookArc is a stylish way to stash that MacBook Pro when you want to use it ...

Logic Pro and MainStage updated, now 64-bit friendly

by Steven Sande (Jan 12th, 2010)

Two pieces of Apple's Logic Studio suite for Mac, Logic Pro and MainStage, have been updated today and the new versions are available immediately through Software Update or the links below. The Logic Pro 9.1 update includes support for 64-bit ...

Count The beats: Training your ear with RelativePitch

by Matt Tinsley (Jan 12th, 2010)

Relative pitch, let alone perfect pitch (some people are born with it, everyone else has to learn!) is an invaluable skill required when it comes to playing an instrument and understanding the music you are hearing. Thankfully, Easy Ear Training has ...

Second-generation Blue Microphones Mikey announced, uses free app

by Steven Sande (Jan 5th, 2010)

The audio wizards at Blue Microphones have wowed Mac and iPod fans with their Snowball, Snowflake, and Mikey microphones. Now, just before the start of CES 2010, Blue has announced the US$99.99 second generation Mikey Portable Recorder for iPod and ...

Dragon Search hits the app store for free

by Mel Martin (Dec 17th, 2009)

It looks like Nuance will have two iPhone hits in one month. Dragon Search [iTunes link] has just gone live on the App Store for the iPhone. Using the same technology that's in Dragon Dictation for the iPhone, Dragon Search allows you to speak ...

Count The Beats: Interview with a mixing engineer

by Matt Tinsley (Dec 6th, 2009)

In the last year I've spent a fair amount of time doing some recordings. In particular, I've been working on some of my own material. Having invested a large amount of time and money into pre production and the actual recording sessions, what started ...

MusicNAO offers unique dock for iPhone and iPod touch

by Mel Martin (Nov 24th, 2009)

Canadian company Cignias has announced an interesting product in the home audio/iPhone category. It's called the MusicNAO and it allows you to wirelessly control a docked iPod with an iPhone or iPod touch. It also lets you play music wirelessly to ...

Sonos adds a portable music player with room filling sound

by Mel Martin (Nov 14th, 2009)

Sonos, best known for wireless music systems that link to your iTunes library and internet services like Pandora, Rhapsody and Napster, is offering a one piece, 5 speaker system that can be placed in any room. It's called the Zone Player S5 and it's ...

Apple quietly updates the 5th Generation iPod nano to 1.0.2

by Joachim Bean (Nov 13th, 2009)

This week Apple issued an update to the iPod nano, bringing it to version 1.0.2. Fixes and additions include: Fixed audiobook playbook setting so Normal, Slower, Faster, works for audio podcasts Resolved issue where Genius Mixes did not work ...