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Intermorphic has released updates for Noatikl and Mixtikl, two generative music tools for Windows and Mac.

Both products now include native 64-bit standalone and plug-in versions for Windows and native 64-bit standalone versions for Mac OS X. Also, Noatikl is available for PPC Macs again.

Changes in Noatikl v1.6.0.3

• Added-back support for PPC Mac OS 10.4.
• Created 64-bit versions to complement the previous 32-bit versions, as noted below:
  • Standalone: Mac: 64-bit/32-bit Intel/PPC, Mac OS 10.4 or later.
  • Standalone: Windows: 64-bit/32-bit version installed appropriate to your operating system (Vista 64-bit/Windows 7 64-bit; XP/Vista 32-bit/Windows 7 32-bit).
  • Audio Unit: Mac: 32-bit Intel/PPC, Mac OS 10.4 or later.
  • VSTi: Mac: 32-bit Intel/PPC, Mac OS 10.4 or later.
  • VSTi: Windows: 64-bit/32-bit version installed appropriate to your operating system (Vista 64-bit/Windows 7 64-bit; XP/Vista 32-bit/Windows 7 32-bit).

Changes in Mixtikl v2.1.0.6

• Improved: Updated Menu approach to make it MUCH easier to do the core things you want to do with Mixtikl, such as create a new mix, save a mix, import and export a mix, and share and copy files between Mixtikl desktop and Mixtikl for iPhone/iPod touch, etc. It should let you get into Mixtikl much more easily. More to come, too.
• Improved: Partikl main screen to make it cleaner and clearer.
• Fixed: File sharing on Vista/Windows 7 (both 32-bit and 64-bit).
• Created 64-bit versions to complement the previous 32-bit versions, as noted below:
  • Standalone: Mac: 64-bit/32-bit Intel, Mac OS 10.4 or later.
  • Standalone: Windows: 64-bit/32-bit version installed appropriate to your operating system (Vista 64-bit/Windows 7 64-bit; XP/Vista 32-bit/Windows 7 32-bit).
  • Audio Unit: Mac: 32-bit Intel, Mac OS 10.4 or later.
  • VSTi: Mac: 32-bit Intel, Mac OS 10.4 or later.
  • VSTi: Windows: 64-bit/32-bit version installed appropriate to your operating system (Vista 64-bit/Windows 7 64-bit; XP/Vista 32-bit/Windows 7 32-bit).

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Intermorphic has released version 1.5.1.2 of Noatikl and version 2.0.1.4 of Mixtikl, two generative music tools for Windows and Mac.

Changes in Noatikl v1.5.1.2

• Re-introduced Noatikl “reset all column widths” menu item, that had gone missing from the menu.
• Improved random number generator within the music engine.
• Miscellaneous performance improvements and stability fixes to match the Noatikl engine embedded in Mixtikl.

Changes in Mixtikl v2.0.1.4

• iPhone/iPod play through main speaker if headphones not plugged in (or headphones if headphones plugged in.).
• Removed iPhone/iPod toolbar to make all screens display bigger; display OK/Cancel buttons in the FX etc. dialogs.
• Improved random number generator (random mixes now far more random, embedded Noatikl engine improved for all randomly weighted decisions).
• Fixed file sharing to/from Windows XP.
• Mixer: top left panel displays “Menu…” or Cancel text.
• Mixer: piece title in top right, overlaid with tooltip for a few seconds, removed the tap-hold messages.
• Mixer: swap around Actions and EQ items in skin, and introduce “i” cell to replace the pan change cell item.
• Mixer: pressing “i” in main menu, displays the “Mixtikl” YouTube tutorial forum.
• Mixer: tap top left cell to toggle volume/pan display.
• Mixer: Fixed bugs related to Randomize Column and Randomize Track macros.
• In the Apps menu, renamed the “File Player” entry back to “Partikl”.

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Intermorphic has released version 2.0.1.0 of Mixtikl, a generative music mixer for mobile, web & tweets.

Changes made have primarily been concerned with improving usability, and making it much easier to get started with a new mix.

Changes in Mixtikl v2.0.1.0

• New Random and New Empty have been added to all the included Tiklpaks; selecting New Random will create new mix populated from all the available content.
• You can add your own New Random files, where generative and audio loop content is identified in the underlying New Random.mixtikl mix file by: Gen content vol=88, Audio loops vol=87. If tempo is set to 0 then tempo will be randomised, too.
• Get Paks (was first item in mixes) now moved to More Mixtikl menu, again to simplify making new mixes.
• Tapping top _right_ in Mixer screen does not now load the main menu (which was confusing), and the tooltip text is now yellow to show it relates to the highlighted cell.
• New “Clear EVERYTHING” added to Actions menu, so you can clear everything in a mix back to default settings.
• In the Apps menu the Partikl entry has been renamed to “File Player” (which better reflects what it does, and where advanced access to Partikl settings for a file can be accessed).
• File Player layout improved.
• Windows Mobile: Product Key can now be entered.

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Intermorphic has released Mixtikl 2, a generative music mixer for mobile, web & tweets.

With its magical mix of sound sources, FX and music engines, Mixtikl 2 has firmly ushered in the “tweet mix revolution”. You may not believe your ears, but the 140 characters of a tweet really are easily enough for Mixtikl to play infinite music mixes of a quality that will astound and entertain you. We call the tweets mix “tikls” ["tickles"]. It plays tunes & sound fx tikls, too!

How is it done you ask? The boffins at Intermorphic built upon the vector audio techniques they pioneered back in 2000 where they found a way to deliver a sound in 300 bytes. Now they’ve found a way to play entire 12 track mixes in a tweet, loaded with FX and mix settings too!

It is a snap to create your own mix tikls, from chillout ambient to ear bashing beats, which you can tweet, email and embed in webpages.

Our generative music heritage means Mixtikl 2 presently excels at ambient mixes, but we also want to make sure it does what you want – let us know!

Mixtikl 2 for Mac OS X and Windows desktop (launch price of $19.99 USD) comprises a stand-alone version, a VST and AU plug-in for music sequencers, and a plug-in for web browsers. The Mixtikl browser plug-in allows tikls or more advanced and customised mixes to be played in a web page. Mixtikl 2 for Windows mobile (launch price of $4.99 USD) is available at launch for both Windows mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone.

Mixtikl 2 for iPhone / iPod touch is to be submitted to Apple iTunes within days.

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Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on August 27th, 2007:

• Interactive Frequency Chart – Easy to figure out which instruments are where in the frequency spectrum
• 20+ Free And Fresh Icon Sets – One can never have too many cool icons, right?
• Cassette MP3 Player – MP3 Player built into a standard cassette casing, letting you either use it as a uniquely old school shaped MP3 Player, or with any car cassette or cassette player to play MP3 Music
• Sony Bio Battery – Powers gadgets on grape juice and sports drinks
• 15 Ways To Create Website Screenshots – Plugins, standalone software and web based services to create website screenshots
• NOSO – NOSO is a real-world platform for temporary disengagement from social networking environments. The NOSO experience offers a unique opportunity to create NO Connections by scheduling NO Events with other NO Friends.
• Abduzeedo videocast – Ho to do water drops in Photoshop in 5 minutes
• Anywhere.FM – Upload your entire music collection and play it anywhere on a web music player
• Iconfinder – A search engine for icons.

Slashdot has launched Firehose, a collaborative system designed to allow users to assist Slashdot editors in the story selection process.

From Slashdot:

The hose contains submissions, RSS Feeds, journals and Slashdot stories, each color-coded along the color spectrum to indicate popularity. Red is hot, violet is not.

Slashdot Firehose

This seems pretty similar to the way Digg lets you digg or bury a story, except with Firehose you get a nice interface to select which stories you want to see by using the Firehose’s color filter.

Pete Cashmore writes:

Most likely, this will be seen simply as a Digg/Reddit clone. What Slashdot needs to understand is that the power of social news sites comes directly from how much traffic they drive: if a site drives traffic, bloggers will inevitably add favicons so readers remember to bookmark articles.

I don’t frequent Slashdot anymore, but when I used to a few years ago, the stories on Slashdot were on a much higher tech/geek level than Digg’s tech section ever was. Sure, Digg has a Technology and Science section, but a lot of these stories seem to have more entertainment value than anything else.

To illustrate, when I just opened the science section on Digg I get the following three stories:

1. Cool lenses (no idea what that’s about from the story title, turns out to be about colored contacts)
2. Marijuana Does Not Cause Psychosis, Lung Damage, or Skin Cancer
3. 5 Summer Sex Positions That Could Get You Hospitalized. Or Arrested

Slashdot’s science section features:

1. Monkeys and Humans Learn the Same Way
2. New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions
3. Building Artificial Bone

Not quite to same to me…