What's New? (or How We Spent Our Summer Vacation)

Hi Everyone!

We've been working hard all summer long to bring you Magellan 3.0. And it's here! Right now! With inter-app audio! And iOS 7 compatibility! Exciting!

Here's a quick list of some of the new features:

• Inter-App Audio: use Magellan 3.0 as an instrument plugin with Inter-App Audio compatible hosts 
• Completely updated & tested for iOS 7! 

New, more powerful MIDI framework we designed from ground up, with features including: 
• Faster MIDI I/O handling 
• Inter-App Audio MIDI support 
• Keyboard splitting with settable split in channel, left/right out note ranges, learn & invert 
• Improved MIDI-UI interaction 
• Import/Export Magellan MIDI CC Maps 
• Individual MIDI Out channels for the synth engines 
• Individual MIDI In on/off toggles for the synth engines 


Many improvements and new features, including: 
• Master FX mix 
• Increased max polyphony to 10 per-engine for iPad 2 or newer 
• Envelope curve selection for VCA and FM envelopes 
• Extended octave range for Osc 3 with key tracking off 
• Direct one-touch access to either synth engine's control panels, arp or chordmaker 
• Continuously settable filters tracking 
• 59 new modulation outlets for the XY-pad and the modwheels 
• Presets now save BPM data 
• BPM Lock feature: specifies if you want BPM data to be loaded with a preset 
• Bounce whole sequences or individual patterns to audio via Song Library -> Export 
• Adjustable touch-velocity sensitivity 
• Preset & Bank renaming 
• A new free preset bank ("Boleskine") 
• Target-foreground-synth mode for the XY-pad 
• One-touch waveform selection 
• Continuously adjustable knob response: set to "Fine" to make precise adjustments to a knob-controlled parameter 
• Many other UI improvements 


Introducing In-App Purchasing (iOS 6 or later): 
• New professional preset packs available for purchase within Magellan's Store 
• Atlantic - 65 new presets from Yonac Inc. 
• The Explorer Series from Sunsine Audio - available as individual 64 preset packs or one bundle of 192 presets 

• Updates to latest Audiobus & Sonoma SDKs 
• Many other improvements

Pretty cool, eh? And to celebrate, we've put Magellan on sale for a limited time, now 33% off! 

ORGAN+ ...the Power of Seven Organs in Your Pocket

Here is our newest app, now available in the iTunes store: ORGAN+! ORGAN+ features seven different types of organs and a full effects stack to help you find the organ sound you are looking for. 36 presets are included to start you out, along with the ability to save an endless number of user presets. Creating and exporting songs is a cinch with USB MIDI input via the Camera Connection Kit (iPad only), WiFi file export, and Audio Copy! Check out our video below and our website for more information.





In other news, we are working on some user manuals for our apps. First up is miniDrum PRO, which should be available in the next couple of weeks. If you have any requests or want to know more about certain areas of certain apps, it would be a HUGE help if you would shoot us an e-mail: support AT yonac DOT com

miniDrum PRO - An Introduction

Here's a first look into our latest app for the iPad, miniDrum PRO. It'll be available very, very soon on the iTunes App Store. The video contains some basic beat creation, using the event-based recorder and then making some edits on the sequencer matrix. Some of the FX are demoed briefly as well.

MiniSynth PRO for iPad Demo with Jim Yonac

We collaborated with our good friends at Williamsburg multi-media think tank One Line Creative to create an awesome new video! In this video, Yonac Software CEO Jim Yonac demonstrates how simple it is to create sounds and music on MiniSynth PRO. While MiniSynth PRO is a very powerful synthesizer - you don't have to be an expert to create your own sounds! We also scored the entire soundtrack using only MiniSynth PRO.