News/Rumors

Beatsurfing Released – the Organic Midi controller Builder for iPad that provides the best music

Beatsurfing copes perfectly with Djs, music producers and passionate music folks that want that want to provide something original when it comes to music.

For $11.99  from App Store, you get to connect and control any MIDI enabled audio or video software through a MIDI interface or through Wi-Fi. So the easiest way for playing with Beatsurfing and conneting the controller to a computer is through Wi-Fi. You also get to control Hardware and also other iPad apps.

The app was designed for live performances and studio productions and the user gets the possibility of drawing their own controller, having 4 objects available: the Line, the Polygon, the Fader and the Circle. Beatsurfing is not like any regular app, meaning that you don’t get to hit objects on the screen for performing music, you only have to slide over with fingers along routes, colliding with objects, triggering samples or effects. Dare to play a piece of music that you like and afterwards reinterpret it in many ways.

Accessories, iPhone, iPod

JBL On Air Wireless: Speaker Docks from JBL that breaths the purest sound into your world

JBL On Air Wireless is the eye-catching speaker dock for your iPhone and iPod that enables you to clearly stream your iTunes tracks and the Internet radio via Wi-Fi.

The sound is streamed to a clear quality due to the design of the speakers and to the proprietary DSP technologies. JBL On Air features a 360-degree HALO (horizontal acoustic level optimization) design that produces a pure sound field of high quality and depth. Moreover, the design not only that is purposeful, but it is also uncommon and attractive; it integrates a bright color LCD screen that displays album covers and tracks metadata.

The advanced DSP technologies takes care that you enjoy the high quality sound. The Computer-optimized equalization (COE) combines with the Optimized compression topology (OCT) to adjust the spread of the sound to a rich and wide soundstage.

It may sound complicated but in fact the JBL On Air Wireless speakers are easy to use and the setup is almost absent, you’ll just have to dock your iPhone or iPod to JBL’s docking connector. And as an extra feature, your device will charge while connected.

A small but powerful IR remote controls all the functions of the speakers, even if you are 15 feet (4.5m) away. You can also connect your MP3 or your CD player to JBL On Air and play music also from flash storage devices.

If you want your favorite tracks to be streamed through the purest sound then you can purchase your JBL On Air Wireless speakers from the Apple Store and from iStyle Premium Apple Reseller Store for South-Eastern Europe.

Source: JBL

iOS, News/Rumors

Plugication tweak automatically resumes music when you plug in your headphones

This Plugication jailbreak is made especially for music junkies offering a higher level of comfort when listening to music. Once you plugged the headphones into your iOS device, it automatically resumes your music, so you won’t have to open the Music app and resume it manually.

After installation, you just have to enable the tweak from the Settings option and afterwards, every time you connect the headphones, music will automatically start playing.

It’s pretty simple, but let’s see it in action on this video from iDownloadBlog:

The tweak is free and available for download within Cydia through ModMyi repository.

iPad, News/Rumors

Griffin announces StudioConnect Audio/MIDI interface for iPad

If you trip a lot and were looking for a way to connect a guitar, bass or MIDI instrument to the iPad, Griffin Technology comes with a audio/midi interface called StudioConnect which can be purchased directly from their website for $149.99.

“StudioConnect gives your iPad: audio in/out, MIDI in/out, and a stereo headphone jack with its own volume control so you can monitor what’s going in (or out).”

“StudioConnect connects your guitar, bass, keyboard or any MIDI-capable instrument straight into your iPad so you can use GarageBand and hundreds of other music and effects apps available through the App Store.”

StudioConnect is perfectly compatible with GarageBand app and can be optionally used with other accessories such as GuitarConnect Pro ($79.99) – Analog to digital interface for iPad and iPhone 4, Guitar Cables ($19.99), DJ Cable ($19.99) – Headphone and master output splitter cable for Algoriddim Djay app.

Please, watch this video tutorial to see how Griffin’s employees combined these great tools to work together:

I would say they did a pretty nice job with this material and other documentation and support existing on their website.

Source: Griffin

News/Rumors

Apple iTunes Match available now for 19 more countries

The service, part of iCloud, was officially released last November but spread slowly because of some inconsistency problems. It has been refined and it appears now, glorious and available to a big list of new countries from Latin America and Europe, totaling 37 countries that can access iTunes Match.

Didn’t find out about iTunes Match by now? Well, I guess this image covers all your curiosities about the service:

It works pretty simple: once purchased, the service scans your iTunes collection of songs and tries to match them with the ones already existing in the iCloud. Your songs are uploaded only if not found and the nice thing is that you can listen them at any time, on any device played back from iCloud at 256-Kbps AAC DRM-free quality — even if your copy was of lower quality. You can also import and store songs from CD’s.

We are waiting to access it also from Romania :)

Source: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/17/apple_opens_up_itunes_match_to_19_more_countries_across_latin_america_europe.html