Comments on: Noise.io, “First” Synth for iPhone/iPod Touch, Will Bring Gestural FM Synthesis Control

By: Fayina

Fayina — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:26:33 +0000

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By: Create Digital Music » iPhone as Serious Instrument: New Synthable iSyn, Strummable Star Guitar

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:22:05 +0000

[...] software instruments that could ease its transformation into a handheld idea-capturing gadget. noise.io lays claim to being the first full-featured soft synth on the platform, with unusual FM synthesis control – [...]

By: tomh

tomh — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:38:42 +0000

The proximity sensor (which turns off the iPhone’s screen when the phone is placed near your face during a call) should be used as a kind of Theremin sensor!

By: Doug Edwards

Doug Edwards — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:49:11 +0000

Wow this is pretty amazing. If the iPhone ran Flash it could run jamstudio.com – the online music factory where you create songs and backing tracks in minutes using a complete virtual band. Does Jobs saying Flash is not fast enough actually mean the iPhone hardware is slow?

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:33:59 +0000

@Alex: obviously, no, the fidelity of what comes out of the DACs / headphone jack is nowhere near what you’d get from a high-end audio interface. (Latency is another issue — in this case the *input* interface may be the biggest issue. Because these devices don’t have to run an OS, low-latency performance should actually be quite good.)

The original Game Boy scene was really about what was unique in that sound, and people even mod the hardware to get better-quality output. This is more about fun. But I think there’s nothing wrong with occasionally using something that’s lo-fi and seeing what you can do with it musically. It’s not as though you’re using these as your primary recording device.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:44:58 +0000

I wonder why no one cares about audio quality…everyone speaks about Nintendo DS synths and I-Phone music “madness” but no one ever mentioned the actual quality of the audio hardware inside these portable gadgets…is it relative to a professional audio interface? Has it got lower latency or better DACs etc?

I’m not convinced for the use of an i-phone as a professional music instrument..maybe it has some controlling potentials..

By: john z

john z — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:11:02 +0000

…i agree, poorsod, midi controllers for iphones!

By: Free audio recordings from the Berlin S-Bahn, Critter and Guitari, Noise.io, Paul Rubenstein kids, MeTeoR, and Image scanning sequencer

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:14:48 +0000

[...] Noise.io, “First” Synth for iPhone/iPod Touch, Will Bring Gestural FM Synthesis Control – Peter Kirn writes: The iPhone and iPod Touch are getting their share of metronomes, guitar [...]

By: poorsod

poorsod — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:04:29 +0000

TBH I’m more interested in Iphone controllers… before I upgraded to 2.0 I had mrmr and aka-remote on my Touch, and I’m very interested in seeing that concept redeveloped in a more robust way (MIDI please!). It would make a cool addition to an Ableton-based live show.

By: Ilya Tretiakov

Ilya Tretiakov — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:02:34 +0000

Currently Noise.io’s primary aim is creation of non-musically tempered sounds and effects.

Anyway, there will be support for playing single keys, but researches show that’s not too usable.

We see it in this way: leave playing keys to the keyboards, and iPhone synth for extracting sounds that are changed in realtime – with your jestures.