Hal Leonard Publishes The iPad in the Music Studio Book

An interesting new book from Hal Leonard’s Quick Pro Guides series, The iPad in the Music Studio focuses on the iPad’s connectivity to the professional, project, and home music studios. An interesting tour of the latest iPad-related music hardware and software (apps) on the market which is important to explore now, because it will be old news by this time next year.

Our October edition of audioXpress is full of great articles on current topics and trends in audio electronics, acoustics, and technology innovations. Our October cover story highlights the start of a new series on Wireless Audio. In another timely topic, our usual “Speakers” column turns to the fascinating subject of “Audio for Mobile Devices.” We review NUGEN Audio’s Loudness Toolkit Bundle and Rick Silva from Audionamix explains audio source separation using its new software, ADX TRAX. For our DIY audio readers, we bring you a shunt-type level control project, a one-of-a-kind guitar amplifier and tone controls for a three-channel tube-based guitar preamplifier.

Cirrus Logic confirmed the acquisition of Wolfson Microelectronics . The Austin Texas company says the acquisition of the Scotish company will strengthen its leadership position in Audio ICs and Software for Portable Applications, adding new product categories such as MEMS microphones to their portfolio.