Macworld Ballet dancers, bigfoot hunters, and trombone players, today is a special World Emoji Day for you! The Unicode Consortium has announced the newest set of emojis to be released, whittled down from the submissions late last year. ...

Macworld Atomic Keyboard has provided an update on the development of its MDR Dasher Keyboard–what most people might otherwise call the Severance keyboard–that was announced back in April. After receiving input from potential customers, the company has revealed its price: a whopping $599 for early adopters, and an eye-widening $899 retail price. And that doesn’t include a waffle party. ...

Macworld If there’s one area where Samsung beats Apple (other than folding phones), it’s displays. Sure, Apple’s Studio Display is gorgeous and all, but $1,599 is an awful lot for a 27-inch display. ...

Macworld On Thursday, Apple introduced Emoji Game to Apple News+, a new game that joins the service’s offerings of word and number puzzles. Emoji Game is available to subscribers of News+ in the U.S. and Canada. The object of Emoji Game is to complete word phrases by interpreting a given set of emoji, including Genmoji. ...

Macworld With a little less than two months to go until Apple unveils its late-2025 phones, an intriguing new feature which had looked increasingly unlikely to appear has suddenly roared back into contention. The iPhone 17 Pro is reportedly going to get an anti-reflective screen after all. ...

Macworld After five long years, Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate is finally available for the Mac today, several months after Apple teased Mac gamers during the M4 MacBook Pro reveal in October. (Actually, Apple said in the presentation that the game is coming in the “early” part of 2025, but better late than never. ...

Macworld Apple popularized digital music consumption in 2003 with the launch of its iTunes Store, selling both albums and individual tracks. But in the years that followed, the industry evolved from selling to streaming music, with companies like Spotify leading the way. ...

Macworld If you’re anything like me, your iPhone has basically become your co-pilot. Whether it’s navigating to the next client meeting, queuing up a playlist for the road, or taking hands-free calls, it needs to stay visible—and stay put. That’s where the HyperMount vacuum car mount comes in to make it easier to stay connected while driving. On sale now for just $24.99 (reg. ...

Macworld 2026 is shaping up to be a very big year for Apple. On this episode of the Macworld Podcast, we’re talking about the new products Apple could release next year, including an unexpected change for the Mac. This is episode 942 with Jason Cross, Michael Simon, and Roman Loyola. ...

Macworld Apple has racked up more Emmy nominations than ever before. Apple’s press release states, “Apple TV+ today earned a record-breaking 81 Emmy Award nominations across 14 hit Apple Original titles,” but Apple counts its two nominated commercials, which nobody else does. Anywhere else you look, you’ll see 79 nominations. ...

Sound Magic has updated its free Violin One to version 0.99 along with Neo Orchestra CE to version 1.5, with a number of improvements. Free Violin One - Changes in V0.99 Add EZ Gesture feature of MIDI 2.0. Add New Modelling Vibrato Algorithm. Many minor changes. {PRODUCT-HEADER-31164-violinone}. Neo Orchestra - Changes in V1.5: Add Taiko Drums in percussion. Adjust Piano Sets. ...

Universal Audio has announced the release of LUNA v1.9, a significant software update to its free Digital Audio Workstation. The new version introduces a preview of powerful new AI-powered features designed to streamline the recording process and help musicians stay focused on their performance. ...

n-Track Studio has been updated to version 10.2.2, adding project transfer between DAWs, Screen MIDI Keyboard updates and MPE support. The new features include: DAWproject file support: Import and export DAWproject files to share projects between different DAWs. Screen MIDI Keyboard updates: New 'simple' mode displays only notes in the selected scale. ...

Samplicity has released version 2.0 of its Number Seven reverb plugins featuring new high-definition captures of all presets. Number Seven Essentials: Improved: New high-definition captures of all 48 presets. Number Seven Core: Improved: New high-definition captures of all 134 presets. ...

The Crow Hill Company has released Bridge Guitar, the latest freebie expansion pack for the free Vaults plugin. A novel way of treating guitars pioneered by LA luthier Rueben Cox and featured on hits by Perfume Genius, Wilco, and Taylor Swift has been faithfully recreated as part of our ever-growing Vaults range. Perfect for songwriters. It's called bridge guitar. ...

Reflex Acoustics has released updates for most of its plugins, affecting everything except the Reflex Spectrum Analyzer. These updates include reduced CPU usage, more-stable auto-gain, and minor compatibility improvements and bug fixes. A few plugins have also received more-substantial enhancements: Fourier Compressor has gained an extra dial for taming harsh or clashing frequencies. ...

Aqeel Aadam Sound has updated the modular sequencer plugin Waymaker to v1.0.4 with new features such as robust syncing options for increased usability, an overhauled Beat sequencer, and a new Probability sequencer. New features: Robust syncing controls for keeping Waymaker synchronized to your DAW. Waymaker can now be started and stopped via MIDI notes, CC messages, and parameter control. ...

Mix Dojo from Sifu Audio is a new, standalone app that delivers an easy way to see and hear how your mix stacks-up against favorite reference tracks. Intuitive tools let users adjust drums, vocals and other levels to match the reference. It's aimed at both those learning to mix as well as seasoned audio engineers who want to research how others approach their mix. ...

Nektar has announced the Impact LX mk3 series of MIDI keyboards, featuring four models— LX25, LX49, LX61 and LX88. Each delivers a consistent feature set designed to enhance the creative process through customized DAW integration and performance-friendly tools. ...

Techivation has released AI-Rack, a modular channel strip plug-in that hosts all five of the company's AI-Series processors within a single interface. The plug-in also introduces a sixth processor, a spectral Tilt EQ, which is available exclusively inside AI-Rack. ...

iPhone, iPad / Education / Training: An app for choral singers who don't read music well. Snap a photo or import JPG, PNG or PDF. Touch notes in the image to hear the pitch. Not for instrumental parts - see details below. Whether you sing in a choir, or a barbershop quartet, or other vocal group,...

iPhone, iPad / Education / Training: All aspiring music students understand the importance of Sargam practice. Practicing Sargams each day does wonders to your “Sureelapan” as well as confidence. Practicing every day under watchful eyes of your Guru is the ideal way. But that is difficult...

iPhone, iPad / Instruments / Sound Effects: Get the simplest soundboard creation app: Load sounds, samples or songs through your iTunes library Create and edit soundboards quickly and easily Up to 8 sounds per soundboard Make the most of your screen thanks to the adaptive layout Play multiple...

iPhone, iPad / Education / Games, Ear Trainig: Introducing Notes - Sight Reading Trainer, the ultimate iOS app for mastering sight reading in music! Whether you're a beginner or an experienced musician, Notes is your is your tool to become the musician you were meant to be. When you are ready to...

iPhone, iPad / Education / Games, Ear Trainig: StaffWars is a game designed to help beginning and intermediate musicians learn, practice and woodshed the note names on the grand staff, treble, alto and bass clefs. THE APP for anyone who wants to master these clefs.

iPhone, iPad / Tools / Analysis: SPL Graph is an audio Sound Pressure Level (SPL) environmental noise analyzer, real-time frequency analyzer, chart recorder and data logger. It includes: Plot sound level over time Record audio while plot is running, playback to identify sounds that may have...

iPhone, iPad / Education / Sheet Music & Tablatures: PLAY FREE MUSIC SCORES Whatever instrument you play, whether it's a piano, trumpet, guitar, or harmonica, or kalimba, you will always find notes of excellent quality. • Browse the most extensive sheet music collection from MuseScore....

iPhone, iPad / Tools / Tuners: Plays tuning notes for Viola (C G D A)

iPhone, iPad / Education / Training: Accelerate your sight reading skills with instant feedback on timing accuracy. Our carefully graduated levels, from beginner to professional, allow you to start at your optimal skill level and progress at your own pace. You'll improve more rapidly than...

iPhone, iPad / Tools / Tuners: Sleek, efficient, and responsive, TuneWave is the no-nonsense utility that lets you tune your instrument quickly and easily. TuneWave puts everything you need front and center for optimal visibility and glanceable feedback. It can transpose if you’re using an...