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Quixonic has released a new DJ application for iPhone and iPod Touch, Quixpin DJ (App Store link). The app translates the concept of a two-channel DJ mixer into a multi-touch environment.

The above demo is from the DJ’s perspective. See below for another video from the “dance floor” perspective.

Limitations:

Quixpin DJ has two notable limitations: the two channels of audio offered by the iPhone and an inability to access the iTunes music library. These limitations aren’t specific to Quixpin DJ, though, but are a reflection of Apple’s iPhone design decisions.

Quixonic works around the lack of iTunes music library access by letting you upload songs into Quixpin DJ. It works around the limitation of two channels of audio by treating the left and right channels as independent mono channels.

In spite of its limitations, though, Quixpin is a milestone in mobile electronic music.

It’s a real DJ app that demonstrates that the iPhone is viable as a platform for DJing. It also demonstrates that there are usability benefits to a multitouch screen.

Extrapolate out from this a year, and it’s likely that we’re going to have some very powerful iPhone DJ apps available.

Let’s hope that Apple sees this as an important development direction to support and opens up the OS to let developers make the iPhone a full-fledged DJ platform.

More details on Quixpin DJ below.

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

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Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures a little live techno jamming using SunVox, a multi-platform modular music creation studio for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, PalmOS, Windows Mobile and iPhone.

via NightRadio2007

bleep!BOX (App Store link) is a combination drum machine and synthesizer for your iPhone or iPod Touch. Read more…

This video demos the Spoke groove machine iPhone app (App Store link).

According to developers The Strange Agency:

The drum machine began with analog sounds, but its brain was always digital; the step-sequencer places voltage potentials on a grid.

Analog synthesis was, in truth, merely a convenience; it did the job adequately. Analog is great for warmth and richness, but analog is shit for timing. So-called analog sequencers are, at their best, digital with regard to the time axis. True analog was never feasible for timing.

Contemporary sequencers have extremely high resolution; Logic has a resolution of 960 ppqn. Theoretically, Spoke places beats at sampling resolution. At 120 bpm that is 22050 ppqn. A frequency of 22050 Hz is sufficient to reproduce audio at the threshold of our hearing range. What is the threshold of our timing range?

At 22050 ppqn we are surely beyond the limit of human timing sensitivity. At 22050 ppqn position becomes effectively analog.

This is what Spoke seeks: analog positioning on a digital platform.

Yudo has announced Rectools08 Lite (App Store link), an 8 channel multi track recorder for the iPhone / iPod Touch.

There’s one limitation to the “lite” version, though – you can’t save anything.

C’mon guys – you could limit it to two channels or something!

Anyway – if you’re interested in the idea of turning your iPhone into an 8-track audio recorder, you can try this out for free. Just don’t try to record your masterpiece on the “lite” version.