The Album Is Dead, Long Live the App
There has been no shortage of news with regards to the future of the album here. How can artists sell more than just singles now that our culture seems to be so quick to acquire and discard whatever music is “hot right now?” Perhaps the answer is in the App Store.
BT’s Sonifi iPhone App
Sonik Architects and BT have teamed up to create Sonifi, a sweet little iPhone App that lets you remix four tracks (Bass, Beats, Synth/FX, and Melody) by using the iPhone’s accelerometer and touchscreen.
Depeche Mode – FREE iPhone App
Depeche Mode has released a free iPhone App that lets users play with samples from tracks on their new album, Sounds Of The Universe.
Spotify Everywhere… Except The U.S.
Imagine every song carried on iTunes, beamed for FREE to your phone, PS3, XBox, SlingBox, and whateverelseBox comes out next. Yeah. It’s kinda like that.
Coldplay Intros Tap Tap Revenge For iPhone
In the new musical climate where album sales are no longer suficient for sustinance, we’ve seen artists turn to video games to make money, and we’ve seen artists turn to the mobile platform to make money. Sooner or later, somebody was bound to merge the two, and Coldplay is that somebody.
NIN iPhone App Demo
The much anticipated NIN iPhone App is here. Check out Trent Reznor, Rob Sheridan and Kevin Rose giving you a quick look at the features here.
MuZoid – MusicMetric’s Twitter App
MusicMetric has released a Twitter app called MuZoid, which lets you tweet the name of a band to @muzoid, and within a few seconds MuZoid returns a link to MusicMetric’s file on the band.
Bandloop iPhone App
One of the more prominent show finders, Bandloop, has released an iPhone app for use on the go.
The Mentalists Cover MGMT’s Kids Using Only iPhones
Check out The Mentalists’ cover the MGMT hit Kids, using the iPhone Apps Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth, DigiDrummer Lite.
Sonos iPhone App
Sonos released an iPhone app that can control your music from anywhere in your home.
Amp Simulator For The iPhone
Check out iRock 1.0 in the Apple App store. It’s a guitar amp simulator for the iPhone and iPod touch. You can plug in a headset with a microphone to sing and modulate your voice through the amp sim, or hook in a cable with the proper pin-out to play your guitar through it. The [...]
Spotify iPhone App
I first wrote about Spotify a month or two back, as a potential game changer in the world of music distribution and P2P sharing. Though not yet available in the U.S. (which I’m more than bummed about), Spotify has taken another big step forward by launching an iPhone app that will let users stream music [...]
iPhone Vocoder App
We already wrote about Antares bringing Auto-Tuning to the iPhone. While that app’s not out yet, you can amuse yourself with a vocoder app found here. The reviews are way less than favorable; a lot of users even complaining that it doesn’t work. Clearly, Jet Daisuke didn’t seem to have any trouble with it though. [...]
The Presidents of the United States of America Unleash Multiple-Album iPhone App
I found this over at wired.com and thought it was pretty interesting. Remember that song Peaches from way back when? What about Lump, or my personal favorite, Dune Buggy? I can recall my Jr. High P.E. class having the Presidents of the United States of America album on heavy rotation while we stair-stepped our way [...]
Bebot iPhone App Combines Creative GUI With SoftSynth
Bebot: part synthesizer and part animated robot. Touching the screen causes the robot to move and make sounds controlled by your movements. Play it like a musical instrument, or just have fun watching the robot and making noises with your fingers. Features 4-voice multitouch polyphony, multiple synthesis modes, tweakable sound parameters and echo effects, and [...]
Antares To Bring Auto-Tune To iPhone
According to Time Magazine, Antares is currently working with Auto-Tune poster boy T-Pain to bring an Auto-Tune App to the iPhone and iPod touch. From Time: Let’s hope that pop’s fetish for uniform perfect pitch will fade, even if the spread of Auto-Tune shows no signs of slowing. A $99 version for home musicians was [...]
Cubase RC For iPhone
The big news from Steinberg at NAMM 09 was Cubase V, but a lot of people were buzzing about the iPhone app they demoed near the end called Cubase RC (or Remote Control). Cubase RC is a free app that will be available in the iTunes app store sometime this spring. Cubase RC – Transport [...]
Social Networking Sites Abandon Ship On Music Apps
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Just a few days after MySpace disabled the Project Playlist app, Facebook decided to do the same.
For those that aren’t as familiar with Project Playlist, it’s a web application that lets you create, share and manage music you enjoy. After creating a playlist of your favorite songs, you can then embed your playlist onto any site; most notably MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, hi5 etc. Project Playlist boasts “the largest music search engine on the net” and the “most popular music widget in the world”, according to their site…
Well now Project Playlist has found itself in a decent amount of trouble with the RIAA.
Forget the Korg NanoKey, Turn Your iPhone into a MIDI Controller!
Silicon Studios has developed a series of Midi controller apps to let you use your iPhone with your computer as a wireless midi controller.