free iPhone software

Walkthrough of the new Nine Inch Nails iPhone application with Trent Reznor, NIN art director Rob Sheridan, and special guest Kevin Rose of Digg.

The application is a state-of-the-art example of how musicians can use new media to interact with their fans.

NIN: Access is a free app for iPhone and iPod touch that gives you mobile access to nin.com’s media and community features, as well as a new “Nearby” feature that lets you exchange messages and photos with other fans in your area.

NIN: Access will be released in April 2009. More info: http://access.nin.com

TMsoft has released a new free app for the iPhone (App Store link) that promises to give your iPhone an Audiogasm:

Description:

Audiogasm uses the iPhone microphone to visualize sounds and music. Enjoy the hypnotic visuals created while listening to your favorite songs or whistling a tune.

Features:

• Music visualization using the iPhone microphone and real-time audio analyzer
• Dynamically generated artwork that is unique, beautiful, and hypnotic
• Visualize sound frequencies in the color spectrum with amazing animations
• Swipe to take a snapshot and store in your photo album
• Shake device to change the current animation
• Configuration screen for adjusting microphone sensitivity Instructions

Just put your favorite song on your home stereo or whistle your favorite tune. Audiogasm will paint what it hears in “a hypnotic like fashion”. 

Note It is not possible for Audiogasm (or any app) to access to your personal iTunes music. iPod touch (2nd generation) users need to attach a microphone, such as the Apple earphones with mic.

Audiogasm probably won’t leave you screaming for more – but it’s the price is hard to beat.

Aero Synth (App Store link) that turns your iPhone/iPod touch into a simple synth music game. The company behind Aero Synth, Yudo Inc, has also released a free drum machine game, Aero Drum Free.

Not serious music tools, but just some fun free electronic music games.

Rockifone has released another so-called “digital drug” iPhone App, Binaural Beats (App Store link). 

Binaural beats are illusory “beats” that you can hear when pure tones of slightly different frequency are separately and simultaneously presented to each ear.

It’s an interesting psychoacoustic effect – one that at least some people think can help you do things ranging from concentrating to opening your chakras. Mainstream media has picked up on this so-called “digital drug”, though, and is offering hysterical coverage that recalls the days of Reefer Madness.

Binaural Beats is a free download.

Description:

Binaural beats helps you concentrate, relax or fall asleep by inducing the brain to perceive different brainwave states such as: beta, alpha, theta, delta.

Combining with different nature sounds, you can make your own themes for many purposes such as: Sleep induction, study aid or headache treatment etc. Blocking noise from the outside world, no more distraction! Read more…