Easy MIDI turns your Mac keyboard, trackpad and mouse into a powerful MIDI keyboard controller. It sends MIDI notes and control messages to any soft synth or DAW such as GarageBand, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Cubase and Digital Performer (so, for DP, we know this function is already done with MIDIkeys, but just for MIDI notes...).

Easy MIDI even allows you to control iPad apps that support CoreMIDI or hardware synth via MIDI interface.

The major change of this update consists in the "Edit" panel, that was taken off with the arrival of the version 2 of this sampler, as well as UVI second-generation libraries - the scripted ones.

However, they decided to put this "Edit" feature back into the sampler with this update. From now on, all UVI libraries, scripted and not-yet-scripted, can be used under the new interface, simpler, more powerful and more convenient.

64 new presets for Animoog covering a broad range of genres from Ambient to Dubstep. Smooth ambient pads, wobbly basses, subtle drones, rhythmic sequences and organic sound effects such as a true budgie tweet, the hypnotic song of whales and the natural purr of a cat.

Luftrum 8 is compatible with both the iPhone and iPad version of Animoog. Included is an easy install instruction, describing how to get the sounds onto your device. All presets are nicely sorted with LUF initials to separate them from the factory presets.

It's a monophonic monster, armed to the teeth with jaw dropping effects and wobblier than a jelly on a space hopper.

CYCLOP is the scratch-looping, sample-mashing, sub-generating, harmonic-splicing mothership of the twisted bass alliance and it's landing on your desktop soon. With masses of new sounds for you audio-junkies, from screaming analog syncs through brutal FM sounds to scintillating spectral shimmers.
The integrated sampler also works as wavetable synth and pitch transformer for creating unbelievable and disturbing monster voices.

Indianapolis based Blue Prophet today announces Shakie Percussion 1.2, an update to its musical instrument app for iOS.

Shakie is a new type of instrument made possible with an iPhone or iPod touch's palm sized, motion sensing display. It uses a realistic physics engine to model and animate pellets to simulate maracas, bells, shakers, tambourines and more. Version 1.2 brings the ability to change the shape of the pellet container, volume sensitivity, richness and nuance of the sound and more.