Riven soon available on iPhone ?

A thread may indicate the upcoming release (this summer) of Riven on iPhone, as well as Uru Live. This information hasn’t been officially confirmed (nor rejected) by Cyan’s forums members. An iPad version would be even better suited for.

Synthogy Ivory II / upgrades

Synthogy announces Ivory II (available by May), an enhanced version of Ivory piano libraries : new audio engine and new samples. We can get the upgrades prices here (45 euros for Italian Grand upgrade. As it was deceiving, we hope that the new samples will be far more better).

Corona SDK for iPhone

Ansca company (founded by formers Adobe mobile engineers !) presents Corona, a development environment for iPhone that uses a proprietary SDK based on Lua language (scripting language widely used for games), a compiler (requires an Intel mac) and a simulator (that also works on PowerPC).

Among SDK’s features we note an OpenGL ES accelerated graphics engine, video support, as well as accelerometer, touch and camera support. A command-line debugger is provided. Multiple platofms support is planned. The compiler produces very small binaries..

A 30 days trial is available.
The full version (99$) includes a one-year membership to the Corona Developer Program, that allows to deploy to AppStore, and provides free SDK updates. It is stated however that compiling requires membership, so it may have to be renewed each year.

Infinite zoom effect with CSS3

At Roman Cortes’s blog we can find an infinite zoom effect made using CSS3.

iSpectrum : iPhone dev in Java in Eclipse

We knew Xmlvm, a Java to Objective-C cross-compiler (that uses XSL stylesheets to transform JVM calls to Objective-C instructions) – that also provides a subset of Cocoa APIs in Java. Now we can discover iSpectrum from FlexyCore (french startup founded in 2008 by people that worked at INRIA and Texas Instruments), a solution composed of an Eclipse plugin (3.4 version min), Java ports of iPhone APIs (UIKit, CoreLocation, MediaPlayer), and an emulator. The Java code is compiled into Objective-C, and the Eclipse debugger is available. Compiling and using the emulator however require an Intel mac.

A 30 days demo (15 compilations) is downloadable, and a free open licence is provided for applications released under open source licences (for commercial applications, a Pro or Entreprise licence has to be purchased – prices not listed yet).

iConnectMIDI : Midi interface for iPhone

The first Midi interface for iPhone, iConnectMIDI, has been announced. Besides the usual connector for external power supply, this compact device provides two Midi IN ports, two MIDI out ports, a standard USB port (to connect a Midi instrument fitted with USB connection), a mini-USB port (to connect to a computer – in the same way as Fastlane USB Midi interface), and finally a RJ-50 connector (network) to connect to an iPhone. It will allow to share Midi message between an iPhone, external Midi instruments and a computer, simultaneously.

We will then be able to use iPhone’s multi-touch screen (from existing or future applications) to control external Midi instruments (for example an external sampled guitar from iShred), or the opposite (control iPhone’s audio applications from an external Midi keyboard or sequencer). The price isn’t available yet.

MuseScore : free notation software

MuseScore is an open source (GPL licence) and cross-platform notation program. It manages unlimited number of staves, MusicXML format, and includes a sequencer that provides audio instruments based on Soundfont 2 samples. We can watch a video and download the latest version (0.9.5, universal binary) here.

Free H264 licence extended

The free use licence for H264 codec has been extended by the MPEG LA until late 2015, for freely provided videos. This should then help HTML5 video tag spread in blogs, social sites and companies sites (sites that sell video content still own purchased licence). Thus, Adobe’s recent decision to (finally) optimize Flash on OSX seems logical.

Flash 10.1 : CoreAnimation

In an article about Flash, we learn (in comments) that the 10.1 version will use CoreAnimation on OSX, and then will be at least as fast as the Windows version. Performances also seem to be tied to the browser.

Notion SLE for VSL

Notion Music presents NOTION SLE for VSL Special Edition and Special Edition Plus, a version of Notion dedicated to VSL :
NOTION SLE features presets created for Vienna Instruments, Vienna Ensemble and Vienna Ensemble PRO and include all standard articulations, which are all mapped and balanced for best playback directly out of your score.

As you write and articulate your score, NOTION SLE will follow your instructions and automatically change the VSL patch in playback to accurately and realistically perform your score. Dynamics, hairpins, articulations, glissandos and even portamentos will faithfully be reproduced in playback. And of course, you can take full advantage of our live performance features and conduct the full orchestra with unmatched level of control in the industry.

The software is compatible with MusicXML format besides Midi, and we can watch videos here. It is priced 89$.

iPhone OS 3.1.3 / iMac firmware udate / iTunes 9.0.3

Apple provides many updates : iPhone OS 3.1.3, 27-inch iMac Display Firmware Update 1.0 and iTunes 9.0.3.

5 years site anniversary

The first news at Cjed Audio Home site was written just 5 years ago. Since, more than 3000 news/articles have been published, and Cjed music downloads at musique-libre (Dogmazic) reached 200 000, without counting direct access.

Most of the previously available 70 songs have been temporarily deactivated (only 4 are still downloadable), in order to give focus on MJ Style album.

There are still about 90 percent unreleased songs (700 total) to be discovered (first were composed in 1987).