Planet Waves has released Guitar Tools, a suite of guitar tools developed by Audiofile Engineering.
Guitar Tools is the ultimate hand-held utility kit for guitar players of any style or skill level, brought to you by Planet Waves, one of the D’Addario company’s family of world-renowned musical instrument accessory brands.
Enjoy the full functionality of the Chordmaster and Scale Wizard apps, the core features of ProTune and ProTempo, plus reference tools that make it easy to find the nearest music store or instructor wherever you may roam.
Developed exclusively for iOS by the minds at Audiofile Engineering, Guitar Tools packs a wealth of easy-to-use, professional-grade guitar utilities into one elegant application for your iPhone or iPod touch.
Guitar Tools features
- CHORDS — Explore a library of more than 7,000 guitar chords by simply tapping and strumming the touch screen. View chords in every position up and down the guitar neck and hear each one played back in pristine audio. There’s even a “lefty” mode for the oft-neglected southpaw.
- CHORD FINDER — You know how to play it, but what do you call it? Select frets and finger positions to discover the proper name for your chord.
- SCALES — Improve your technique by choosing from thousands of scales, modes and arpeggios to practice. Try multiple positions and alternate tunings to boost your versatility. Use “big stretches” for unique, challenging fingerings.
- TUNER — Keep your instrument in tune with a professional-grade digital tuner, powered by Audiofile Engineering’s precise AETune™ pitch detection technology. Choose between strobe or needle interface and access dozens of presets.
- METRONOME — Keep in time with a hyper-accurate and visually stunning digital metronome. Set tempos numerically or by tapping the touch screen. Choose from multiple sounds and time signatures.
- TEACHERS NEAR ME — Looking for lessons? Access an international list of music instructors and find the ones nearest you. Powered by The Lesson Room, D’Addario’s online hub for music education, resources and valuable content (www.thelessonroom.com).
- STORES NEAR ME — Broke your last string? Need some picks? Find a nearby music store in seconds, whether you’re out on tour or close to home.
The Guitar Tools App is available as a free download from the iTunes App Store through 17 July, 2010. It will then be available to purchase for iPhone and iPod touch for $8.99 USD. Android and iPad versions coming soon.
More information: Planet Waves / Guitar Tools App
Audiofile Engineering has released version 1.5 of Spectre, a multi-instrument real-time audio analyzer for Mac OS X.
Spectre focuses squarely on live audio analysis by offering 17 different multi-channel and multi-trace meters. Each meter can have any number of traces or indicators, and each trace can have it’s own number of input channels, gain, mixing, filtering, ballistics and color (including transparency). You can have as many meters (or copies of meters) as your screen will allow! Spectre also gives you very precise control over color gradients.
Changes in Spectre v1.5
- Inspector
- A/B/C-weighted filters
- VU and BBC Meters: calibration
- VU Meter: Peak LED light (is a trace type)
- Oscilloscope: trigger sync
- Numerical Meter > Measurement: Crest Factor (ratio of the peak to the RMS)
- Numerical Meter > Measurement: Form Factor (ratio of the peak to the average)
- Lissajous meter: autozoom switch
- Gain control for individual traces
- Individual traces can be active/inactive
- Individual traces hidden/visible
- “Duplicate Meter” in Edit menu
- Ability to show/hide grid in relevant meters
- Redesigned Player featuring Ogg Vorbis and FLAC support
Spectre for Mac is available to purchase for $79 USD.
More information: Audiofile Engineering / Spectre
Blue Microphones has released Blue FiRe, a free, high-fidelity field recording app for iPhone and iPod Touch, developed in partnership with Audiofile Engineering.
“The Blue FiRe App was a natural next step for Blue Microphones as we continue to expand our superior quality audio recording products and services to consumers,” said William Merchan, vice president, Sales of Blue Microphones. “We are excited to extend Blue FiRe’s high-quality recording capabilities for the Mikey to both the iPhone and iPod touch.”
Coupled with the Mikey, Blue FiRe provides high-fidelity recordings in mono and stereo, while allowing users to see the accurate audio waveform in real-time. Featuring the ability to create editable audio markers and tag recordings with location data.
Blue FiRe features
- Navigation of waveform via double-tap with configurable behavior.
- Configurable time units display.
- Record For, Record Until, Record Over Threshold and settings.
- Quality settings: Low (11.025 kHz), Medium (22.050 kHz) and High (44.1 kHz).
- Browser based file export via local web server.
- WAV, AIFF, CAF (Core Audio Format).
Blue FiRe is available as a free download from the App Store.
More information: Blue Microphones / Blue FiRe @ iTunes App Store
Audiofile Engineering has released FiRE, the world’s first professional field recorder built exclusively for iPhone and iPod Touch.
FiRe was created for audio professionals by audio professionals. It’s powerful enough for the most experienced musicians and recording engineers, and its efficient workflow and intuitive interface makes it a breeze for business and casual use.
FiRe will revolutionize what you expect from a portable recording application. It’s the first iPhone recorder to display an accurate audio waveform in real time, and the first to support markers, Broadcast WAVE metadata, and the instant downloading of files in multiple file formats. FiRe is also the first recorder of its kind to offer native SoundCloud integration. SoundCloud makes it simple to upload recordings directly to the web and share them with the tap of a button.
FiRE features
- Record in mono and stereo.
- Live waveform view.
- Scroll waveform with touch.
- Navigate waveform via double-tap with configurable behavior.
- Moveable Playback Head.
- Tap Playback Head handle to add markers.
- Editable Markers list.
- Preference to add markers at time intervals.
- Overdub mode.
- Beautiful and accurate VU Input Meters.
- VU meters change to output in playback.
- Configurable time units display.
- Tag Recordings with location data.
- Pause gracefully when interrupted by phone call.
- Countdown with gorgeous graphics.
- Record for… settings.
- Record until… settings.
- Record over threshold… settings.
- Quality settings: Low (11.025 kHz), Medium (22.050 kHz) and High (44.1 kHz).
- Preference to automatically move to end and/or add marker when recording starts.
- Preference to limit recordings to 2GB.
- Screen rotates 180 degrees for better control of the iPhone’s internal mic.
- Broadcast WAVE metadata.
- Preference for amount of info displayed in Recordings List.
- Ability to lock recordings.
- File export via local web server and FTP.
- Choice of export file formats via web server and FTP: WAVE, AIFF, CAF (Core Audio Format).
- SoundCloud integration (http://soundcloud.com).
FiRE is available from the iTunes App Store for $5.99 USD.
Visit Audiofile Engineering for more information.
