Satelite Plugins mixedinkey

 mixedinkey.com/satellite

This amazing plug-in allows direct collaboration in projects across many popular DAW's - ideal for working across our student's many different patterns and collaborating remotely. 

Say if you are working in Logic and want to collaborate with someone using Ableton - rather than constantly sending stems, you can both load up the plugin and then collaborate: it seems like magic and we can't wait to try it out. Also, it seems to be free?!

Thanks to Oskar for noticing this :)

Camo

Use any iPhone as a 1080 WEBCAM

 As an alternative to the wireless iRuin, Reincubate Camo uses any old iPhone in a wired way (not wireless) and has a host of image options. 

Compatible with many platforms for meetings and streaming. There are additional paid features like removing the (small unobtrusive) watermark from the screen.

Linn Drum 1 emulation: EGLM1

So if you have been watching Haim doing lockdown performances or want to sound like Prince - you will be interested in this. Doesn't display very well and only gets the all important volume sliders on the iPad version (unless you have a huge phone - I don't know- terrable on my 5SE - doesn't even display properly on that at all!) Irritatig that it uses Korg Whist (does anything use that?) to sync rather than good old Ableton Link. I'm not convinced by the sounds, doesn't seem to have the sound I'm looking for, although when out through a big reverb and saturated compression in Logic it seemed a lot closer. MAybe I was after an LM2 instead of the Price Lm1? Faders might be large enough to tweak on a live performance (like Danielle Haim) but could easily miss that snare. Overall, I'm a bit underwhelmed for the £4.99 price tag, Meh. but if you find a better LM2 emulator out there please let me know! I tried the EG808 version and it is ok but there is a lot more choice out there for that one - see the audiokit version below.

Looper by Audio Kit INSPIRED BY RC505

Very affordable (£2.99) by the great developer Audiokit who brought us Synth One. Ableton link enables synchrnisation with other devices and apps. Sound quality seems good, very easy to use and quite flexible. A good selction of effects and 16 channels of looping. Easy to share and mix down. Good for live work. An external mic for your iPhone would be an advantage, try it with headphones nd the results re not bad with the built in mic Aims to bring the functionality of the RC505 to a £2.99 app (normally £19.99)

FLIP sample based DAW for iOS

Affordable and insanely featured Sample based DAW for iOS by Andrew Huang. Has Ableton Link. Has some great performance features. Would be great for EDM and beatmaking, live Tech based performance with Ableton Link devices. Might be useful for basic Sound design possibly. Also Stings etc.

Soundtrap

From Spotify, an online garageband like tool that allows for collaboration on tracks and creation of classes and tutorial tools in one package. Easy to use with decent effects and good basic sounds - press tweak and you can get under the hood of the synthesis. Works with midi controllers, piano rolls, seems to do everything a DAW should whilst being able to collab in real time. £199 a year for an educatonal licence for 50 students. Bit pricy but could be a great tool for those students without access to a DAW at home. Vimeo tutorial

AudioKit AR909

Ok, So Audio kit have just done this new Roland 909 emulation - Looks better than the 808 below and cheaper at £2.99!!