I was fortunate enough to get my hands on Noise.io a couple of days before its release. Now, a couple of days after, I have been absolutely stunned by the iPhone synthesizer and even bought the application, despite already having it, to support the small but talented development team who have invested months in this project. Fortunately, they’ve already shifted something in the region of 2000 copies to synth-heads across the globe and the more people with Noise.io the better the community, and user generated content, will get.
So, without further ado, head over the fold for my full Noise.io review.
P.S. if you want a cracked version of Noise.io, or are looking for the Noise.io cracked app, need a Noise.io crack or want Noise.io cracked… suck it up and buy the $9.99 application, you cheapskate! Failing that, wait for the demo version, it’s called “Noise.io Pro” for a reason.
Alas, I’ve been so addicted to actually playing with it, and so busy traveling down for the Microsoft Christmas Showcase that I didn’t have time to crank out a review to coincide with its release, rest assured a review is on its way for this fantastic iPhone synth- if you’re in a fit of indecision about whether or not to purchase it that must be resolved immediately then take my advice and do so!
I can say, with absolute certainty, that if you have any interest in sound design or synthesized music then this is an absolutely essential iPhone purchase that will blow you away with its sheer power. The idea of turning your iPhone into a pocket-sized synthesizer with this much power seems like a pipe dream, Noise.io has not only gone and done it but set the bar so absurdly high for competition it’ll likely be unchallenged for months, if not forever.
The concept of an iPhone Synthesizer is pretty brave, the memory management issues in the iPhone’s firmware are a pain to deal with and cause every single application to experience periodic crashes. You’ll be using Noise.io so often that you will, unfortunately, experience crashes and perceive them as being more frequent. Rest assured, though, that Noise.io is freakin’ stable and rebooting your iPhone before (and after, if you want other Apps to run without crashing) using it is a good idea.
From my first tentative try of the disappointing and absurd Band for iPhone, to immediately googling “iPhone Syntheszier” it’s been about two months with quite significant delays to the release of Noise.io. But those delays have more than paid off with some of the functionality they took the extra time to include, the step sequencer for example, being instrumental to my love of the app. What we have now is an absolutely genuine iPhone Synthesizer that looked so good on paper that people claimed it was vapor-ware. The reality of Noise.io is, however, beating all but the wildest of expectations and the only serious complaints I’ve seen thus far are lack of WAV export and crashes due to the iPhones rather unfortunate take on memory management and Noise.io’s heavy use of the iPhone’s resources. Perhaps a firmware 3.0 will make things better, only time will tell.
I will continue to tinker with Noise.io and create patch banks, but I’m sure there are sound designers out there who will massively eclipse my skills and come out with some awesome content for Noise.io that will go down a storm with the less tech-savvy owners and with those who just want to use Noise.io as a live performance tool.
I’ve been pining for a quality synthesizer application on the iPhone since picking one up a few weeks ago.
Noise.io seems to deliver almost exactly what I was looking for, and it boggles the mind that I only discovered it yesterday.
Noise.io is set to sequeeze every last drop of functionality and controllability out of the iPhone by using everything that could constitute an input device, right up to using the Microphone as a breath controller.
Professional Music Technology, winner of “Best UK Music Retailer Chain” for two years running has taken on Sound Control stores in Norwich, Leeds and Manchester Salford adding to their existing stores in Birmingham, Northampton, Oxford, Romford and Southend.
This is good news for our local Norwich store which will remain under the management of Giles Massingham and continue hosting the excellent Roland Planet and all the lovely music tech that comes with it.
Warwicks annual limited edition bass model has arrived and this year it’s set to be the undeniably gorgeous envy of bass players the world over.
The humble sounding Warwick Streamer LX LTD 2008 boasts an impressive real-wood aesthetic with an exotic madrona burl top and matching burl pickup covers complemented by a swamp ash body that sports elegant “sandwich” ekanga-walnut-ekanga stripes, giving it a look reminiscent of a rally-stripe.
Korg has unveiled their new nanoSeries controllers at the London International Music Show 2008. nanoSeries consists of the nanoKEY Slim-line USB Keyboard, nanoPAD Slim-line USB Controller and nanoKONTROL Slim-line USB Controller.
All three controllers heavily emphasize both compactness and somehow also functionality with intuitive layouts and bucketloads of controls packed into a small form factor.
Roland have announced that 76-keys of Juno Stage goodness will be available this August. If you’ve ever read my coverage of the lesser Juno-D you will know this is set to be a solid product at a reasonably affordable price.
A couple of interesting features are the inclusion of an 88-note multi-sampled piano and support for the SRX boards left over by upgrades from the Fantom X to G series.
The next in the GW series of workstations from Roland is set to arrive this september. The Roland GW-8 will deliver one-man-band performance power in a compact 61-key form factor that weighs in at a compartively feather-light 6kg.
Joining our ranks of Novation products is the XioSynth Controller and Synthesizer which is a mixed bag that might appeal to some and turn off others with its incredibly compact and good looking silver/grey finished body with rounded edges for an appealing but not necessarily very robust aesthetic that seems more suited to the studio than the stage.
The Korg Kontrol 61 has made it into the Gadgetoid studio for a once over and is an impressively different control surface that’s, unlike any I have used before. In short it’s built like a brick shi… err outhouse.
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