Macworld At its Let Loose event on May 7, Apple announced an all-new version of the iPad Air. As expected, the update includes a larger-screen model and an upgrade from the M1 to the M2 processor. The new Air comes in four similar colors: blue, purple, Starlight, and Space Gray. But there’s a lot more to this upgrade than appearances. ...

Macworld As the Let Loose event wound down Tuesday, Tim Cook had one last announcement before the stream ended: the 10th-gen iPad now starts at $349, an impressive $100 price drop. What he didn’t say is the move also means the 9th-gen iPad is gone. Apple hasn’t updated the 9th-gen iPad since September 2021, so it’s not a huge surprise to see it go away. ...

Macworld For some reason, Apple sells three accessories all named Apple Pencil, each with different features and compatibility. The solution? A fourth Apple Pencil! The new Apple Pencil Pro may seem like an unnecessary complication to a stylus lineup for an accessory that shouldn’t need a lineup, but there’s no arguing that it doesn’t deliver the features ...

Macworld Apple introduced a major update to the iPad Pro during Tuesday’s “Let Loose” event. Promoting the new iPads as AI-capable tablets, the new 13-inch and 11-inch iPad Pro have several upgrades over the models they replace—with a higher starting price to go with them. ...

Macworld On some Apple products, including the Apple Studio Display and M4 iPad Pro, a feature called nano-texture glass is available. This is something that was first introduced on the incredibly expensive Pro Display XDR, before coming to other Apple products beginning with the now-discontinued 27-inch iMac. ...

Macworld Apple’s new iPad Pro is powered by the M4 processor, skipping the M3 entirely. Apple has never debuted an M-series processor in a product other than the Mac, so the launch of this new processor in the iPad Pro is an unexpected surprise. ...

Macworld When the Apple Store goes offline it’s usually an indication that Apple is about to launch a new product. On May 7, the morning of the Let Loose iPad event, Apple pulled its store offline after 9am ET. ahead of the event at 10am. ...

Macworld The Macalope asks, do you want AI fast, or do you want it right? The Washington Post, it seems, wants it fast. “Apple is behind in AI and killed its self-driving car project. What’s next?” Based on the implications here, we can safely assume it’s one or more of the following: Filing for bankruptcy. ...

Macworld Apple’s Let Loose event has concluded and we’ve got everything you missed right here, including video from the event, coverage of all of the announcements, and a chronological live blog. ...

Macworld Whether it’s picking up a new skill for your resumé or using that knowledge to better understand an entire people and their customs, learning a new language is still one of the most valuable self-improvement steps you could take. Through May 12, a lifetime subscription to Babbel is on sale for $149.97. ...

Relab Development has announced the release of Sonsig ACE, a new dimensional expander plugin, saying: Sonsig ACE is a cutting-edge dimensional expander designed to be the 'Swiss-army... Read More

NovoNotes has announced the release of a significant update for SideRack, expanding possibilities for real-time use cases, saying: This update enables latency adjustment by... Read More

AIR Music Tech announced today the launch of a public beta that brings Apple Silicon, VST 3 compatibility and improved Windows 11 to some of their most classic plugins, including Xpand!2,... Read More

Toontrack Music has updated Superior Drummer to v3.3.7 and released The Jazz Sessions SDX by James Farber. The Jazz Sessions SDX by James Farber Expansion For Superior Drummer... Read More

UnitedPlugins has released BassRift, a plugin designed for speed, power, and maximum simplicity when effecting electronic bass tracks. BassRift is the all-in-one solution for... Read More

Larry Taylor has updated StandaloneHost for macOS to version 2.6.1. Changes: Added MIDI output. Improved audio device detection. Improved synth detection.... Read More

KV331 Audio finally releases SynthMaster 3 Beta version after many years of development. What's New In Synthmaster 3: Modular Architecture: Each SynthMaster... Read More

Polyspectral has announced the version 1.1.5 update for Polyspectral MBC, their low-overhead and low-latency multiband compressor plugin. With this update, Polyspectral have... Read More

MusicDevelopments has updated MIDI Mutator to version 1.4. This significant update introduces enhanced features for non-destructive rhythm and rests processing, along with... Read More

Techivation has intoduced T-Saturator, a smart level-independent saturation plug-in designed to give precise control over the sound's tone and character. According to the developer:... Read More

iPhone, iPad / Education / Chords and Scales: MovableChord is a unique application specialized for playing basic chords. You can check and play the sound and progress of the chord with the sound of a beautiful acoustic piano. Use it for searching/learning chords for a tune, building your solos...

iPhone, iPad / Tools / Metronomes: Metronome M1 supports a wide tempo range between 10-300 BPM, ranging from Grave to Prestissimo covering all popular styles including Lento, Largo, Adagio, Andante, Moderato, Allegro, Vivace and Presto. The 'Tap Tempo' feature lets you quickly set your desired...

iPhone, iPad / Education / Chords and Scales: This is the revolutionary piano app to support playing chords. This app can display each note of the component tones (root, triad, 7th, tension, on chord) of selected chord on the keyboard, play chord sound. In addition, it has 6 octaves keyboard, and...

iPhone, iPad / Education / Games, Ear Trainig: Kids' Piano Game 1 app has 2 functions, Piano map game and Stickkids piano. Stickkids piano have color patterns sheet music, kids can follow to play the piano music,when the stickkids is pressed, it displays a balloon, then you can use balloon...

iPhone, iPad / Tools / Analysis: SmaartTools for iOS single channel RTA is a full-featured audio spectrum analyzer based on the single-channel portion of Smaart 7 by Rational Acoustics. If you need a two-channel FFT for your iOS device, check out Transfer Function, a module in our AudioTools...

iPhone, iPad / Tools / Analysis: Transfer Function is a dual-FFT acoustic analysis app that is used for sound system audio analysis. Since it can operate with music as the signal source, it can be used during a musical performance to monitor and turn the system equalization during the show....

iPhone, iPad / Instruments / Rythme Mach. & Loops: Funk Drummer is the grooviest drum machine with the ability to improvise like a proper human drummer. Now with even more possibilities with the new 2d control for Jam / Intensity parameters. The new Live Pads lets to play live sessions on the way...

iPhone, iPad / Tools / ToolBox: AudioTools Wireless is a pro-caliber SPL Meter, with A and C weighting, and also includes an audio signal generator that can produce sine waves, square waves, and white and pink noise. It also can send the microphone audio wirelessly to other Studio Six Digital...

iPhone, iPad / Portable Studio / MultiTracks: D0TS Echoplex is a basic music sequencer designed to let you perform the Nine Inch Nails song “Echoplex�. During the “Lights In The Sky� tour, the band used to play this song with a giant sequencer at the background of the stage. D0TS Echoplex...

iPhone, iPad / Education / Courses: Play guitar or want to learn how to play guitar? Download TrueFire’s app to your iOS device for access to over 50,000 video guitar lessons, 30,000 guitar tabs, and 20,000 jam tracks at your fingertips. TrueFire’s library of 1,000+ guitar courses covers all...