Archive for category iPhone Musical Instruments

iDaft Turns You Into a Daft Punk DJ (Free iPhone App)

Apr 21

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iDaft 2 is a free musical app that puts you in control of the Daft Punk’s sound effects for their songs “Harder Better Faster Stronger” (better known for being used in Kanye West’s “Stronger“) and “Technologic.”

The sound in the app is excellent—you could plug the iPhone into your stereo and pump out a version indistinguishable from an mp3—of course it doesn’t sound so great coming out of the iPhone’s speakers. The app features the entire background beats and bass line for the songs. You control the various sound effects via a soundboard by simply tapping the squares at any moment you want.

The app is a lot of fun to play with. Even professional DJ’s have put it to use via an iPad, as seen at around 11:45 in the video below (press play to jump to it):

iDaft 2 is a free download from the iTunes App Store.

Music Made With iPhone Apps: Part III

Jun 8

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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)

More Music Made With iPhone Musical Instruments

Mar 5

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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.

Reminder: Ocarina Contest Ends This Friday (Feb 13)

Feb 9

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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?

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Music Made With iPhone Musical Instrument Apps

Feb 5

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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.

Ocarina Mashup of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”

Jan 19

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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.

Rock Out With a Pan Flute iPhone App

Nov 7

Posted by Alan in iPhone 3G Native Apps, iPhone Musical Instruments, iPhone Native Apps | 3 Comments

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.

Twinkle Twinkle

Ocarina is a 99-cent download in the iTunes App Store.

Pan Flute

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Simple Drummer: iPhone Drum Machine

Sep 28

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Updated Drummer for iPhone

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.

  • Name: Simple Drummer
  • Developer: Kentaro Matsumae
  • Price: $0.99
  • iTunes Download: Drummer