Category: Music

David Ellefson Rock Shop App – Review

Apple, Apps, First Look, iPad, iPad 2, iPhone, iPod Touch, Music, Review, Tablet 1

Rock Shop is a universal app that works with any iPad, iPhone (4 or 4s), or iPod Touch (4th gen or later) running iOS 4.3 or later. To use the app, you need to have a way to connect your guitar to your iOS device. Pocketlabworks, Inc. would like you to purchase their $99.99 iRiffPort adapter, which allows you to connect your guitar’s cable to a splitter that connects to the 30-pin port on your iOS device. I use IKMultimedia’s iRig adapter when connecting my guitar to my iPad. At $39.99, it’s an option for those for whom price is a bigger consideration.

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Sonoma Wire Works GuitarJack Model 2 – User Report

Adapter, Apps, Audio, Features, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Music, Review 0

GuitarJack is an audio interface for iPhone and iPad that allows the user to connect a wide range of instruments, microphones, and other audio hardware to the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This user report takes a look at the latest GuitarJack Model 2 (GJ2), which is designed to be compatible with iPhone 4, iPad 2, iPad, iPod touch (2nd, 3rd and 4th gen.). I tested the unit with an iPhone 4S running iOS 5.01. GJ2 has a broad range of functionality, so make sure to visit the company’s website for full details.

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Interesting, but Ultimately Flawed Audio Player – Review

Audio, Features, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod Classic, Music, NAS, Network, Review 1

Pioneer, a venerable name in home audio, has come up with a pair of interesting devices to better integrate the audio part of the internet and your own digital music library into your home audio system, the N-30 and N-50 Networked Audio Players. The Networked Audio Players are part of Pioneer’s Elite product line, noted for their excellent construction and superb audio quality. Pioneer foolishly loaned me an N-30 to evaluate. I say foolishly only because I seem to attract products for review that have fundamental flaws that cause me to write far too many negative reviews. Sadly, this is one of them.

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Vienna Instruments Pro 2

Vienna Instruments PRO 2 – Review

Audio, Music, Review 5

When we looked at Vienna Solo Strings a few months ago, mention was made of the ways in which its audio samples can be controlled’ parameters changed; presets configured and saved; sound properties experimented with, and so on. By default VSL’s bundled Vienna Instruments usually handles such control; you are referred to that review for this context..

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Ivory II from Synthogy

Ivory II Grand Pianos Review

Audio, Music, Review 0

Ivory II is a Virtual Instrument (vi) – a large set of sophisticated high-quality sound samples of the concert piano. It can be used as a standalone application, which has a sophisticated yet easy-to-use single window interface; this was custom built with its own DSP engine and worked extremely well during testing. The piano samples in Ivory II also function as a bespoke plugin soundset for sequencers, DAWs and notation software such as Sibelius 7. The latter was concentrated on during this evaluation.

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Headphones Comparison: V-Moda Remix Remote vs. Arctic E461-BM

Adapter, Audio, Earphones, Headphones, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod Classic, iPod Mini, iPod Nano, iPod shuffle, iPod Touch, Music, Review, Shoot-out 1

One of the greatest assets to any iOS device is the ability to listen to your favorite music, audiobooks, or your favorite apps. There is nothing more annoying than trying to do so with earphones that simply ruin the experience with their shoddy qualities. Most of us aren’t in the market for expensive earphones that can cost over $200, so what’s out there for those of us who want to find a balance between sound quality and cost? V-Moda and Arctic each have earphones in their lineups that try to reach such a balance. How do they compare?

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