Another excellent song created from iPhone music apps and sliced together using Final Cut Pro:
Musical instrument apps used:
Link to video on Vimeo.
(Via Just Another iPhone Blog)
Ah, the sound of a well-tuned iPhone. We previously posted a collection of songs performed using musical instrument apps on iPhones and iPod Touches. Here’s another featuring the group The Mentalists covering the most excellent song “Kids” by MGMT.
Smule, the developers behind Ocarina, the lovable iPhone wind instrument, have already chosen 10 winners for their This Contest Blows song contest. The winners each got $1000 for performing songs with the Ocarina on YouTube. Check out the official contest page for the details. There will be five more winners, so get to recording. Check out a few of the top 10 winners below. Do you think you got what it takes to beat the competition?
One of the growing categories for iPhone apps is musical instruments. Ocarina is probably the most well known in the genre. But are any musical groups using these apps to perform music?
A group called iBand (www.iband.at) is using the iPhone and iPod Touch to write and perform music live. Their website currently has two songs available for download, “Vitality” and “Life Is Greater Than the Internet,” both made with instruments available in the App Store.
Sure, Ocarina ($0.99, download) is everyone’s favorite iPhone musical instrument app. But this is just wrong. Someone thought it’d be a good idea to do a mashup of an Ocarina with 6-year-old Connie Talbot singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” from the classic YouTube clip from Britain’s Got Talent. Who stays in key better, the Ocarina or little Connie? Find out below.
See the adorable original version of Connie on Britain’s Got Talent here.
Pan flutes are perhaps the most underrated rock instruments of all time. For the uninitiated, the Ocarina ($0.99, download) app is now available in the iTunes app store.
Ok, so the app is physically not like a pan flute at all. But it sure sounds like one, and the spirit is the same. You blow into the iPhone’s microphone to produce sound and tap and hold buttons on the screen to change notes. It actually works really well. At $0.99, it’s worth checking out for its novelty.
The Ocarina website has some tablatures for playing some classic songs. Check out one for “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” below, and free the rock from within. Hopefully we’ll see more tabs in the future.
Ocarina is a 99-cent download in the iTunes App Store.
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Simple Drummer ($0.99, download) is a basic drum machine for your iPhone. It comes with a complete drum set that can be rearranged. The app supports multitouch, so you can play all of the percussion instruments at the same time, and their sounds will also play without cutting each other out.
The drum sounds are actually pretty good, although they won’t sound that great coming out of your iPhone’s speaker. The next time a buddy breaks out his acoustic guitar at a campfire, you can break out your iPhone and back him up with your portable rhythm section.
