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Connected Car: Glympse Partners with BMW and Mini for Location Sharing
BMW hasn’t pushed it smartphone app integration as much as its competitors like Ford or GM, but at last week’s New York motor show the German car manufacturer announced new partnerships with Glympse, Rhapsody, TuneIn and Audible. Each app, as you’d expect shows up on the LCD in BMW models…
Spotify Launches Web-Based Player for UK
Spotify has made the online version of its music streaming software available to all UK users as it continues to extend the player’s public beta. The Web-based app has been online at https://play.spotify.com for several weeks, but has now been announced in an email sent out by the company, and…
iRig HD: Nature of the fret
Technology can be a burden. The frustration I feel when one of my gadgets lets me down is almost palpable. Even the slight lag that’s started when I open the Mail app on my iPad is starting to get to me. But when it’s all working it can be truly…
VOX amPhones: Plug and Play
I might just have my new favourite toy. I’m lucky enough to have been lent a pair of VOX amPhones to play with and I’ve been indulging in some of my wildest axe-wielding fantasies over the past couple of days. If you’re a guitarist or bass player and live with…
iLP: Cut out the middle man in vinyl to digital conversion
Yes I know – another article about iOS accessories. But the iOS world is drawing a lot of the brightest minds in the gadget game. And the makers of a lot of crap too. I would love to do a list of all the stuff that doesn’t make it onto…
Bloom FM: iOS streaming radio done right
I love music and when I was 15-18 nothing in the world was more exciting to me than a free CD. When I started reviewing albums at university and was given, yes *given* free CDs every week I couldn’t believe my good fortune and was pretty sure that I was…
Top Five Christmas Gifts for music makers
Whether tinkling the ivories or keeping it real on the wheels of steel, music is a wonderful pastime and if there’s that special someone in your life who is that way inclined then we have some gadgets on hand that are going for a song. Impacktor – the Drum Synthesizer…
Blue Spark Digital Microphone: Mobile recording in a flash.
I was at a rock concert the other day and quite near the sound desk as it happens. The thing is, the sound engineer was nowhere near me; he was moving around the theatre with an ipad and controlling the mix from there. Whilst this might not be headline news,…
IK Multimedia iRig STOMP: Pedal powered
IK Multimedia’s iRig STOMP is the first stompbox-style guitar and bass interface for iPhone/iPad. If you are unfamilar with stompboxes they are small pedals used by guitarists and bassists to control their effects without tying up their hands – useful for songs that have that Pixies style quiet-quiet-LOUD dynamic. The…
KORG’s mini KAOSS PAD 2: Technological trickle down
Korg have been on a roll recently. Hot on the heels of the KAOSILLATOR 2, which we discussed here comes the mini KAOSS PAD 2, a handheld effects unit that can make you a moving dubstep disco. The original Korg KAOS PAD in 1999 was a big musical (and I…
Arcam rPAC packs a powerful punch
Coming hot on the heels of Arcam’s recent drDock which brought a smile to any Apple device owner seeking an audio boost, this is another shot in the arm for audiophiles everywhere. Having said that, you would need to be a significant audiophile to want to shell out £150 on…
Korg KAOSSILATOR 2: There are no wrong notes
Korg are no strangers to the electronic music game and have been lovingly giving the world organs, beatboxes and synths since the sixties. It’s refreshing to see such an old hand at the music game constant exploring change and looking at new ways for people to create crazy sounds. Whilst…