MacBook Air 13″/MBP Retina Next Generation Mid 2012 – no user serviceable parts inside, SSD apple prorietary! RAM soldered – Retina MBPs

MacBook Air 13″ Mid 2012 Teardown – Page 3 – iFixit. tells us – you can not replace SSD or RAM yourself, since RAM is soldered and the SSD has a very special apple only connector, which is for the sake of apple being the one and only a very own unique one, so – you CAN’T do anything or buy SSDs or RAMs at fair prices anyware, same for the 11″ MB Air. so, guess what I think – the same thing on the new next generation Macbook Pro…

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Apple WWDC 2012 event links & talk, facts

more on the new WWDC news soon here but check out Macsites, they do know faster and better, lean back, relax, listen… lehn dich zurück, und lausche der Neuigkeiten von der JETZT laufenden Apple WWDC Ton hier – eine Liveberichterstattung: –> Apple WWDC 2012 Event LIVESTREAM – Audio, german. Bilder und Text da –>  www.mactechnews.de –> Livechat im Forum hier WWDC Juni 2012… –> full livestream – english http://live.twit.tv/   campare sizes: left: MBP 15″ classic, right retina 15″ 2012 – the effect: look for 5-10 Mins on the Retina, then check out…

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triqtraq – jam sequencer (iphone only)

triqtraq – jam sequencer for iphone – reminds just a little bit of Propellerheads Figure, It’s a simple track trigger for loops that can be played/started and SEQUENCED on the iOS iPhone in realtime (by tapping), there’s no iPad version, which could be more enhanced or could have added some TR-sequencer things- this reminds of a Roland SP404-style groove machine. looks like fun. App by Sebastian Schatz, Amsterdam (NL). Programmer Olaf van Zo, Gui Designer Jörg Peschel – schnelles und intuitives Einspielen von Grooves, in Echtzeit oder mit Hilfe des Step-editors –…

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Textsound – PD Surface / Controller for iPad — and: Multyer, a synth

textsound is a helper for iPads to deal and interface with PD, Max’s little brother – well, you won’t need it if you do not use PD, so it’s the best just to tell you there is a nice 3€ App thats lets you easily control all your PD „patches“. It has a very staight „system os x style“ controller set which isn’t a bad thing, – just wondering why it took so long to have a tool like this and there is a free lite version of it. aaaand,…

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Drum Machine Legends for iOs

Drum Machine Legends for iOs is a real time pad recoring drum machines that supports and shape shifts from Linn Drum to Emu SP1200, TR 808, Oberheim DX, MPC 60 or TR 707 – it features 8 bars lengths .. check this: the skins look like this so it is not a replica of the original but a simple pad layout that correspond to the originals design. thats why the Linn Drum looks like this you can add all drum machines to one single pattern, so you are not limited to one…

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Voco (der) and Strange Attractor Chaos Effects Generator for iPad

Voco for iPad  – these 2 apps do vocoding (Voco) which is a touch controlled phase model (a bit more than usual) and the chaos thing is basically… At its heart is a feedback system which can spontaneously oscillate, or respond to incoming sounds, processing them into fractal sonic textures.It generates a wide range of undulating sounds, controlled by touch, which slowly evolve in unpredictable ways. The sound is visualised as an ever-changing dynamic form. and looks like this very much like metaphysical function but almost „automatic“, no parameters to set..…

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