This is a video demo of IK Multimedia’s GrooveMaker Electro – a beatmaking app for the iPhone.

via ikmultimedia:

Hear the sounds of the new GrooveMaker Electro: mechanical and aggressive uptempo beats, weird and chemically altered sounds. A huge collection of phreaked out bass lines and alien noises. Includes 4 songs, plus 1 FREE song by registering, and a total of 315 loops in 85-98-100-120-135 BPM ranges for 215 MB of samples.

justanotherguy put together this condensed version of Apple’s recent music keynote address, which featuredL

• Steve “really nice” Jobs introducing the new iTunes;
• Jeff “really easy” Rubin demonstrating iTunes 9; and
• Phil “amazingly great” Shiller showing off the latest iPods.

Is it any wonder people come away thinking that these things are smarter, better, really incredible and insanely awesome?

Rockstar Games and Timbaland have announced that Beaterator, a new DJ/remix game previously announced for the PSP and Playstation Network, will be coming to the iPhone and iPod touch this fall.

Beaterator features thousands of loops and sounds, made by both Timbaland and Rockstar, and is designed to make making professional-sounding music portable, accessible and fun.

Details are available at the Beaterator site.

Novation has announced that Automap for the iPhone and iPod touch is now available (App Store link).

The video above offers an overview of using Novation Automap for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Combined with Novation’s Automap 3 software, the $2.99 Automap app provides two horizontal faders and eight buttons per page, displayed on a single iPhone or iPod touch screen. The number of pages, and thus controls, is unlimited.

Note: Automap for iPhone / iPod touch works in conjunction with Automap, which needs to be installed on your computer. You can upgrade the Automap software on your computer from Standard (which is free) to PRO, by downloading and purchasing from www.novationmusic.com.

Features:

• Turn your iPhone / iPod touch into a MIDI controller, with multiple faders and buttons easily assigned to parameters in any software that allows MIDI control, and even some that don’t.
• Instant, wireless, palm-sized control of all automatable VST, AU or Pro Tools format plug-ins in any DAW.
• See at a glance how every control on your iPhone / iPod touch is assigned, both on the iPhone / iPod touch itself, and across your computer screen.
• Make and delete assignments directly from your computer screen using “Click-Touch-Assign” facilities.
• Ideal for remote track arming and muting, transport and master level controls in a growing number of supported DAWs. (Control these elements in non-supported DAWs using separate dedicated Automap systems, or your own custom mappings.)
• Get to the right software fast. Control maps are automatically placed into categories depending on type (instrument, mixer etc.) for quick and easy browsing and selection with hardware or software.

Additional features in Automap PRO include:

• Place the shortcut power of your QWERTY keyboard in your iPhone / iPod touch. Automap 3 PRO can assign almost any computer keyboard shortcut, and combinations thereof.
• Use your iPhone / iPod touch alongside any other Automap compatible hardware controller, perfectly integrated for seamless control. DRAG AND DROP Make control re-assignment directly from your computer screen by simply dragging and dropping controls from within the Automap heads-up GUI.

Description:

The official ‘The Prodigy’ application for the iPhone and iPod touch.

This application is an avenue for mobile fans, connecting you to the latest information about The Prodigy, including other digital assets.

This release includes:

• Audio player with iTunes purchasing capabilities
• The latest news
• Lyrics
• Bio
• Pictures
• Tour dates
• Video
• Official links

If you give it a try, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch

Requires iPhone 2.1 Software Update

Novation has announced Novation Automap for iPhone and iPod touch, a new application that turns your device into a multi-touch MIDI controller.

Description:

The power behind Novation’s SL MkII, SL Compact and Nocturn MIDI controllers is now available for your iPhone / iPod touch, providing an instant and intelligent, wireless, palm-sized MIDI controller. Now you can use iPhone / iPod touch to control all of your music making software.

Whenever you want to control music software and the mouse is out of reach, Automap for iPhone / iPod touch delivers. And the possibilities are endless, give your artist remote control of reverb levels; a hand-held cross-fader for laptop DJ’ing; controlling multi-effects whilst tracking guitar; switching drum kits whilst you’re sat at your V-drums.

The Automap for iPhone / iPod touch app will be available to buy from the Apple app store in July. Combined with Novation’s free Automap 3 Standard software, or Automap 3 PRO, it provides two horizontal faders and eight buttons per page, displayed on a single iPhone / iPod touch screen. However, the number of pages and thus the number of controls is unlimited.

Automap lets you see at a glance how every control on your iPhone / iPod touch is assigned, both on the iPhone / iPod touch itself, and across your computer screen. Combining all this visual feedback with intelligent software browsing also helps you get to the right software fast! Control maps are automatically placed into categories depending on type (instrument, effects, mixer and so on) for quick and easy browsing and selection.

Although Automap automatically and intelligently maps to all major music making software, you will inevitably have your own unique way of working. Consequently, editing maps and re-assigning controls in Automap is extremely quick and easy. Simply click a parameter in learn mode, then touch a control on your iPhone / iPod touch to assign it. Double-clicking ‘learn’ allows you to ‘Click-Touch-Assign’ in quick succession.

Using your iPhone / iPod touch with Automap 3 PRO (available to buy from www.focusrite-estore.com) delivers some extremely powerful additional features.

Firstly, it harnesses the shortcut power of your QWERTY keyboard. It then allows you to assign almost any computer keyboard shortcut, and combinations thereof, to any of the controls on your iPhone / iPod touch. Editing maps is also improved, allowing you to simply drag parameters in the Automap Heads-up GUI from one control to another. Finally, with PRO you can use your iPhone / iPod touch alongside any other Automap compatible hardware controller and it’s all perfectly integrated for seamless control.

Details below.
Key features

• MIDI CONTROL IN YOUR PALM
  Now you can turn your iPhone / iPod touch into a MIDI controller, with multiple faders and buttons easily assigned to parameters in any software that allows MIDI control, and even some that don’t!
• AUTOMATIC PLUG-IN MAPPING
  Instant, wireless, palm-sized control of all automatable VST, AU or Pro Tools format plug-ins in any DAW.
• INSTANT VISUAL FEEDBACK
  See at a glance how every control on your iPhone / iPod touch is assigned, both on the iPhone / iPod touch itself, and across your computer screen
• LEARN AND CLEAR MODES
  Make and delete assignments directly from your computer screen using lightening-fast ‘Click-Touch-Assign’ facilities.
• AUTOMATIC MIXER CONTROL
  Ideal for remote track arming and muting, transport and master level controls in a growing number of supported DAWs. (Control these elements in non-supported DAWs using separate dedicated Automap systems, or your own custom mappings.)
• PLUG-IN AND MIXER MAP BROWSING FACILITY
• Get to the right software fast! Control maps are automatically placed into categories depending on type (instrument, mixer etc.) for quick and easy browsing and selection with hardware or software.

Features exclusive to PRO

• KEYSTROKE ASSIGNMENTS
  Place the shortcut power of your QWERTY keyboard in your iPhone / iPod touch. Automap 3 PRO can assign almost any computer keyboard shortcut, and combinations thereof.
• MULTIPLE DEVICE SUPPORT
  Use your iPhone / iPod touch alongside any other Automap compatible hardware controller, perfectly integrated for seamless control.
• DRAG AND DROP
• Make control re-assignments directly from your computer screen by simply dragging and dropping controls from within the Automap heads-up GUI.

MIDI Player (App Store link) is a $6.99 app for the iPhone and iPod touch that plays MIDI files.

Description:

iPhone Midi Player plays MIDI files on the device (hear “In the Stone” in video)

Features:

• Built in synthesizer
• Download Midis from the internet
• Edit Tracks
• Mix View

via iPhoneMidi

Theodore Watson demos his app for “spinning vinyl” on the iPod touch:

The app uses the accelerometer of the ipod touch to control the speed of a ‘vinyl record’ on the ipod screen. Slowing down the record and speeding it up is just a matter of controlling how fast you spin the device.

Note:

It only really works on the ipod touch 2nd gen as the case design is perfect for spinning on smooth surfaces. Might have to make a little spinning attachment for all the other ipod/iphone djs

Not a must-have app, but at least an interesting technology demonstration.

via hack-a-day

iSyn – a full-featured virtual music studio for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, is now available (App Store link). iSyn features two monophonic synths and a drum machine.

If you give iSyn a try, leave a comment with your thoughts!

This video demos making beats with iSyn Virtual Music Studio, a virtual music studio for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, with two synths and a drum machine.

iSyn will retail for $4.99.

Here are the details:

iSyn is a virtual music studio for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, developed by audioMIDI.com and programmed by Harry Gohs of Virsyn Software Synthesizer.

iSyn features two fully programmable virtual-analog synthesizers and a drum machine. The synths are the real deal- three oscillators, 24 db/octave ladder filters, two envelope generators, full mod routings, effects, the works. And the drum machine has eight fully-editable kits.

This is a demo video for AudioRealism technoBox, an app that puts a Roland TB303, TR808 & TR909 onto your iPhone.

via jetdaisuke

The Mentalists may get their 15 minutes of fame as the first iPhone girl group.

They do a cover of Kids, by MGMT, on their iPhones and iPod Touches, using only apps downloaded from the Apple App Store. Apps used include Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth and DigiDrummer Lite.

via ijustine

iRock features 6 different classic/modern amplifier simulations and 5 carefully modeled cabinet emulations (None, Marshall, 12″ Speaker, Fender and Vox). iRock also offers High, Mid, Low Tone, Gain and Drive controls, with Stereo Delay and LFO contour.

iRock also features a recording and playback function with a built-in file server for accessing recordings from a computer.

if you’ve used iRock, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Features:

• Six Amp types and Five Cabinet emulations
• High, Mid and Low Tone controls
• Gain and Drive
• Stereo Echo with LFO
• Custom Presets
• Recording and Playback
• File Server for Downloading Recordings
• Includes an audience for inspiration

System Requirements: iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2 or later.

Pulse Code has released DB-303 Digital Bass Line synthesizer – a Roland TB-303 emulator, with effects, for the iPhone and iPod Touch.  

It’s $4.99 via the App Store.

If you’ve tried out the DB-303 Digital Bass Line synth, leave a comment and let us know what you think!

Description:

via Pulse Code:

Armed with the passion to bring to life a virtual 303, we have gone to great lengths to recreate the ultimate acid machine. We used our very own vintage 303 as reference, running the machine through a battery of feature specific tests to better understand and emulate in our application.

What we discovered is that the 303 is not just another subtractive monosynth as some may claim and we believe that our emulation captures its true expressive essence. Our emulation has nuances that only owners of a real 303 know such as what happens when all of the pattern steps are slides or how each parameter truly reacts to the tempo.

Not only does Digital Bass Line give you a full featured virtual analog synthesizer, it also gives you two versatile effects stomp boxes to bring more life to your bass lines. The easy and intuitive design makes creating bass lines fun and quick, whether you are a veteran of analog and digital synthesizers, or a newcomer to electronic music.

Download the owner’s guide and view “How-to” videos at www.pulsecodeinc.com/db-303.

Features:

• Virtual Analog Bass Line Synthesizer Emulation
• Precise oscillator emulation (not a simple waveform, but a true emulation of the analog circuitry)
• Classic analog style low pass filter finely tuned to a real 303
• Internal sequencer which has all of the features of the classic, but with a quick and easy programming interface 
• Envelope Modulation and Accent to really make your bass lines expressive 
• Stunning visual representation of a 303 style synthesizer meticulously designed and 3D modeled from the real thing
• Virtual knob controls which precisely track your finger touch
• Additional Functions: 
  • Random pattern generator that will instantly program incredible bass lines for you! 
  • Group 1-8 patterns in to play back as a loop 
  • Transpose Pattern 
  • Shift Pattern 
  • Copy Pattern 
  • Delete Pattern 
  • Tempo range from 40-240 beats per minute 
  • Automatic memory save if application is interrupted or exited 
• Integrated Stomp Box Style Effects Units: 
• Distortion 
  • Extremely harsh distortion tuned to make your Digital Bass Line scream! 
  • Tone control to add extra fatness or shimmering highs 
  • Level control for precise control of audio output
• Delay 
  • up to 1000ms variable delay time 
  • Feedback amount for adding extra depth and echoes to the delay
  • Mix control for blending delay output with input signal 

The Electro Harmonix Voice Box is an intelligent harmonizer and vocoder in pedal format.

In this video, it tested with an iPod touch and guitar.

This video, by organofqwerty, was created on an iPod touch, using Synthpond and Cosmovox, with the audio mixed in Ableton Live.

This video, via GoMakeMusic.de, is a quick Demo of controlling Ableton Live with iPhone-Application TouchOSC.

TouchOSC is an iPhone / iPod Touch application that lets you send and receive Open Sound Control messages over a Wi-Fi network using the UDP protocol.

It looks like an interesting new iPhone synth – it’s motion controlled and has some interesting features, like  support for Balinese gamelan scales.

Better yet, it’s 2 bucks!

Here’s the description, and don’t miss the demo video below.

Cosmovox

Cosmovox uses the built-in accelerometer of your iPhone or iPod touch to control a powerful, professional quality synthesizer. As you rotate your iPhone, the pitch of the synthesizer changes with uncanny precision.

Cosmovox owes some of its inspiration to the Theremin, an early 20th century electronic music instrument which is played by moving your hands near an antenna. Cosmovox can convincingly imitate the sound of the Theremin, and other similar electronic instruments which haunt pulp sci-fi movies, yet Cosmovox uses the computing power of your iPhone to do far more.

Cosmovox gives you the power to perform with more than 30 different musical scales. The scale selection includes scales used throughout the world: popular diatonic scales such as Major and Minor, Church modes, Balinese gamelan scales, Japanese pentatonic scales, microtonal scales and many others. You can change the musical scale Cosmovox uses while you perform, and you have 9 other powerful sonic parameters to control too — all of which are available in interactive real-time.

DJ-1800, the pro DJ software for Mac, has been updated to let you use music stored on the iPod touch and iPhone.

Features:

• Support for music stored on an iPhone or iPod Touch
• Support for new DJ controllers, including the Denon DN-HC4500, M-Audio X-Session Pro, Numark DMC2, Numark iCDX and Numark Total Control
• A full plug-in API, enabling you to create your own controller plug-ins for any DJ controller
• A new Mid-range EQ control
• User-definable Low, Mid and Hi EQ ranges of up to -20 dB / +12 dB
• Improved audio sync for MP3 files
• Many other improvements and fixes

DJ-1800 v3.1 requires Mac OS 10.4.9 or later and QuickTime 7.3 or later.

The new release, version 3.1, is now available for download. A free upgrade for 3.0 users, DJ-1800 costs $80.

i3L (pronounced “i thrill”) is a freeware music controller app,  developed using Max/MSP from Cycling74 and is a support application for akaRemote by Masayuki Akamatsu.

And guess what? You can use it to control Ableton Live!

i3L receives pre-defined UDP messages from akaRemote.app running on the iPhone, scales the values to MIDI, and allows you to configure the sending MIDI channel and control change message number. You can use this program with any audio or video software which receives midi messages.

v 0.2 features:

• Multiple Screens
• Accelerometer
• XY slider pad
• Preset Saving
• Multiple Devices
• Port Configuration
• Sending and Receiving values
• Supports all current Firmware Versions

System Requirements

• Apple computer running Mac OS X 10.4.10 or later with Internal AirtPort
• jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch