free iPhone music software

ModBox (App Store link) is a free universal Tracker Format Player for the iPhone that plays Amiga and PC module music (e.g. Protracker, Fasttracker, Screamtracker). It features a song database with direct-download from various authors, an integrated FTP Server and support for all common module formats (e.g. Protracker, Fastracker, Screamtracker, etc.). Read more…

TonePad (App Store link) is a free iPhone app that’s a bit like musical crack.

It’s a matrix synthesizer/sequencer, derived from the design of the Yamaha Tenori On, via Andre Michelle’s ToneMatrix, letting you create musical phrases by pressing virtual “buttons”.

Description:

TonePad features a clean minimalist user interface with a full 16×16 matrix. The sound quality remains excellent regardless of how many notes are playing at the same time. You can save an unlimited number of songs.

The current song is also saved automatically on exit. Sharing your musical creations couldn’t be simpler.

You simply press the Upload button and give your friend the song code. Your friend then downloads the song directly into TonePad by pressing the Download button and entering that code.

Use headphones for best sound.

Calabarock (App Store link) is a free internet-enabled multi-track audio recorder for the iPhone.

When you create a track in Calabarock, it’s available almost instantly in MP3 format on calabarock.com for others to hear.

The new track is also available instantly for other musicians to play on top of, just as if you were in the studio laying down one track at a time on a multi-track recorder.

If you’ve used Calabarock, leave a comment with your thoughts!

NOTE: 3G network access is great for browsing and listening to Calabarock tracks, but WiFi access is recommended (for speed purposes) when recording.

NLog Free Synth (App Store link) is a free iPhone synthesizers, based on the NLog Sound Engine.

Features:

• 32 factory sounds, plus 7 bonus sounds
• Sound playback using NLog Sound Engine.
• Editing by 4 selectable performance parameter

Description:

Substractive sound algorithm with classic analog waveforms. Professional 44.1 kHz Stereo CD quality with internal high performance realtime floating point engine. Real POLYPHONIC synth.

Sound generator features:

• 2 Oscilators with classic sine, square, sawtooth and triangle waveforms as well as 5 additional complex artificial waveforms
• True pulsewidth modulation, frequency modulation and ring modulation
• Noise generator
• Filter with cutoff and resonance control
• 3 Envelope generators
• 2 LFOs each including delay and sample & hold
• Rich set of modulation parameter
• Stereo delay with cross-feed
• chorus
• distortion
• 32 factory sounds plus 7 bonus sounds

Keyboard:

• sliding octave control
• dynamic velocity from vertical position
• optional after touch modulation

If you’ve used NLog Free Synth, leave a comment with your thoughts!

ATTENTION: Keep care of resonance, feedback, ultra low and high frequencies when working with headphones or strong amplification.

Bacterial Orchestra – Public Epidemic No 1 (2009) (App Store link) is an unusual iPhone app designed to turn a group of iPhones into “a huge musical organism that is not only self-organizing, but also evolving with the sound environment.”

The video above is a first test of the prototype – with only a few cells. The first performance will be the 6th of June at Volt Festival in Uppsala/Sweden.

Details on the Bacterial Orchestra below. Read more…