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At the Apple World Wide Developer’s Convention, Steve Jobs highlighted Moo Cow Music’s Band for the iPhone as part of his keynote speech.
Band lets you record tunes on your iPhone or iPod Touch. It’s one of the many iPhone music software apps we’ve featured previously. Expect to see iPhone virtual instruments, iPhone virtual studios, iPhone [...]

 

Intua has introduced BeatMaker, a new iPhone virtual studio spired by hardware beat boxes, loop samplers and software sequencers
Features list:

16 triggerable pads with polyphonic control
Automatic sample slicing on multiple pads
Edit pads individually
Duration and tonal controls
Reverse
Gain
Output selection (Dry, FX Bus1, FX Bus 2)
Graphical sample bounds editor
Instant muting
Muting individual pads makes your song breathing
Sample [...]

 

Joining an rapidly growing number of iPhone music apps is the IR-909, a software version of the classic Roland TR-909 drum machine:
IR-909 is a drum machine for the iPhone inspired by the Roland TR-909. IR-909 features a 16-step sequencer, 4 patterns and 8 different drum sounds. To change the value of any property in IR-909, [...]

 

Moo Cow Music’s Band lets you record tunes on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Do you think these iPhone apps are anything more than music toys?

 

This iPhone synthesizer video is making me lookforward to iPhone apps in iTunes.
FYI - this is just the latest of many iPhone music software stories.

 

Looks like we’re going to be seeing a whole crop of iPhone music applications in June.
MixMeister has announced MixMiester Scratch for the iPod Touch or iPhone. MixMiester Scratch let’s you scratch your music tracks:
Features:

Comes with preset vinyl scratch sounds to choose from
Scratch on top of any existing song on your iPod Touch or iPhone
Control volume [...]

 

iPhone Piano

16Feb08

The iAno is - you guessed it - a virtual piano for the iPhone.
This is available now as a free download for jailbroken iPhones. Let’s hope that when Apple officially opens up the iPhone to developers that they let everybody get at this sort of delightful weirdness.
Features

A complete four octave keyboard.
Multi-touch. Up to 5 [...]