Ins & outs

YOU’RE SURROUNDED!

Following the news that Apple have added Spatial Audio to their Apple Music service, they’ve also confirmed that authoring tools for the immersive standard will be coming to Logic Pro later in the year. Does this mean that we’ll all be creating ‘3D mixes’ soon?

SCARF OF NOISE

If you’re a fan of both knitwear k and expressive MIDI keyboards, you need to check out the KnittedKeyboard II, a textile controller with spongy keys that can also be played like a theremin and worn like a scarf. It’s certainly a big step up from our piano tie…

RADIO ENO

Can’t get enough of Brian Eno? Well, he’ll be debuting 300 previously unreleased tracks on Sonos Radio HD. “You will be listening to a sequence of tracks which will be randomly generated, … so there is the possibility of odd, I hope exciting collisions,” he says.

RIP PETER ZINOVIEFF

As co-founder of EMS back in 1969, Peter Zinovieff – who has died aged 88 – was a true synth pioneer. The VCS3, his company’s y most famous instrument, was s used usedu by everyone from Pink Floyd to o The Who, and has been emulated at ted multiple times in software.

LOSSLESS LEADER

Back to Apple, and while Eddy Cue, head of Apple Music, is a big fan of Spatial Audio (see above), he’s not convinced that Lossless Audio, another of his service’s new features, is such a big deal. In fact, he admitted that he can’t actually hear the difference.

NOT HAVING A FIELD DAY

Parts of the world may be starting to open up again after the pandemic, but The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) still estimates that more than half of UK festivals with a minimum 50,000 capacity have had to be cancelled this year. Roll on 2022...