In the first 3 weeks alone, the application has seen 300,000 downloads. The average user spends around 66 minutes within the application — an absolutely ludicrous number for any app, much less one out of the entertainment category.

To date, 4.1 million performances have been recorded within the application.

At $2.99 a pop, I Am T-Pain’s 300,000 downloads mean that you’re going to see a lot more pro audio software getting repurposed for mass-market consumption.

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Now you, too, can sing like T-Pain on monster classics like, I’m Sprung, and the immortal I’m N Luv (Wit A Sripper).

Better yet – you can share your T-Pain with the world via MySpace, FaceBook or email.

WTF? They missed Twitter!

Maybe that’ll be in the “pro” version! Lulz.

The I Am T-Pain iPhone App (App Store link) is brought to you courtesy the good people at Smule.

Artists using I Am T-Pain

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Even Ryan Can Sing Like T-Pain

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This is a demo of Smule’s Leaf Trombone: World Stage (App Store link), which takes advantage of the latest features of the iPhone operating system.

“Without the iPhone, there would be no Smule,” said Dr. Ge Wang, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Smule, and Assistant Professor at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). “And without iPhone OS 3.0, there would be no leaf trombone duets on the world stage.”

Leaf Trombone World Stage is the first massively multi-player musical game, and was designed from the ground-up to take advantage of all the iPhone offers, including multi-touch, location services, full-time data access, and real-time graphics.

Feel the Love is a contest to see who can get the most love on the World Stage with Leaf Trombone, a virtual instrument for the iPhone.

Go to http://lt.smule.com/love to enter or for more details.

Smule has announced that Leaf Trombone World Stage, an iPhone app described as the first massively multi-player musical game for the iPhone and iPod touch, is now available (iTunes App Store link).

Leaf Trombone builds on Smule’s work with Ocarina, creating virtual instruments that are interesting by themselves – but more interesting as part of music social networks. Leaf Trombone also throws in a dash of American Idol competitiveness.

If you try out Leaf Trombone, leave a comment with your thoughts!

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Smule, the company behind Ocarina and Sonic Lighter, presented a sneak peek of the Leaf Trombone World Stage at Apple’s iPhone 3.0 event last month. As the name suggests, anyone can perform a tune on the Leaf Trombone before a global audience. A player can also request a panel of self-appointed judges, randomly selected from anywhere in the world, providing an instant critique of the performance, using a combination of emoticons and text. Judges can reward a performance or veto it mid-note.

The World Stage will separate the Music Gods from the Wannabes. “People can play at home, alone, as badly as they want. It’s like singing in the shower. Where’s the challenge? The thrill?” asks Smule CTO and co-founder Dr. Ge Wang. “We are inviting people to abandon their egos and put it all out there, before a global audience and a potentially merciless tribunal.”

Inspired by traditional Chinese leaf instruments, Smule’s Leaf Trombone is ideally suited to both the iPhone and iPod touch platform. Users move the slide up and down to change pitch, and, with iPhones, blow into the microphone to create sound. Leaf Trombone ships with a group of songs already loaded, so users can immediately begin learning how to play the instrument. A music box provides accompaniment, and floating leaves show beginners where to place the slide to achieve the correct note. Once users have mastered a song, they’re ready to perform on the World Stage.

“Leaf Trombone was developed to unleash people’s creativity and their inner rock star.” said Wang. “Now, with the Leaf Trombone, anyone can perform on the World Stage.”

Smule Demonstrates iPhone Software 3.0

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Using close proximity, new features on the iPhone allows Smule to pair two iPhones together to do a duet musical performance.

At Apple’s 3.0 Software event on March 17, the biggest applause of the day easily went to these guys after they performed Phantom of the Opera” on their Leaf Trombone iPhone app.

Dr. GE Wang of Smule and Stanford University demonstrate Leaf Trombone, a new virtual instrument for the iPhone that takes advantage of iPhone 3.0’s multiplayer capabilities.

Leaf Trombone was introduced at the Apple iPhone OS 3.0 preview yesterday.

For more thoughts on the music implications of the new OS, see 5 Reasons Apple’s iPhone 3.0 Software Kicks Ass For Music.

This interview by Mark Mosher of ModulateThis features Dr. Ge Wang, CTO and Co-founder of Smule.com – the makers of iPhone apps Sonic Lighter and Ocarina.

Wang is also an assistant professor at Stanford at the Center for Computer Research in Music an Accoustics and founding director of the Stanford Laptop Orhcestra.

In Part 1, above, Dr. Wang discuss the iPhone as an app platform, how constraint drives innovation, and his vision of how technology can bring us closer together.

In Part 2, below, Dr. Wang discusses how people are using Ocarina and how Ocarina has brought music to the disabled. He also discusses the future of the Ocarina and Smule, and what it’s like to be “Smulian”.

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Mosher’s interview highlights that there’s a lot more the Ocarina app’s success than just letting people play tunes on their iPhone.

Virtual instrument company SMule is looking for the most “smulian” Ocarina videos in their This Contest Blows contest..

The Smule team does their holiday greetings on the iPhone Ocarina app.

I’d like to think it was a result of our previous Ocarina coverage – but I think it may have been this video of a girl playing Phantom Of The Opera on the iPhone with her nose that did it:

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Smule has introduced a new app, Ocarina, that turns your iPhone into a virtual Ocarina. 

I’ve been skeptical about a lot of the iPhone virtual instruments, because many of them don’t offer much in the way of expressive capabilities. 

Ocarina challenges that skepticism by offering an application that responds to your breath, so you can control the pitch via the multi-touch pad while you control the dynamics with your breath. 

It’s priced at the chump change level, $.99. That’s pretty impressive for software that actually turns your phone into an expressive instrument. 

Now, if they’d just do an expressive synth!

Here’s a video of an iPhone Ocarino band doing Stairway to Heaven:

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And, of course, there’s Zeldarian mode:

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Ocarina is the first true musical instrument created for the iPhone. Both experts and beginners will be amazed by this innovative player. Ocarina is sensitive to your breath, touch and movements, making it even more versatile than the original. Unlike other musical applications, there are no pre-compiled riffs so musicians will find unlimited opportunities for self-expression. Advanced options allow you to choose between diatonic, minor and harmonic scales. Or channel your favorite video game adventurer with Smule’s Zeldarian mode.

Also, like most Smule products, Ocarina is a social application. Tap on the globe icon and you will see and hear other Ocarina players throughout the world. The globe view will highlight the source of the music. Rate your favorite performances so that others may benefit from your judgment. Name your Ocarina if you want listeners around the world to identify your performances. With this robust application beautiful music is created, appreciated and shared.

There’s a lot more great information on Ocarina at the Smule site.

Smule’s Sonix Vox is a $.99 iPhone app that lets you do real-time audio processing. Sonic Vox shifts and contorts your voice while you are talking, letting you sound like Darth Vader or a chipmunk.

Features:

• Alter your voice with a swipe of your finger. Want to cross over to the Dark Side? Slide your finger to the left. Now say it. You know you want to. “Luke, I am your…”
• Or maybe you are feeling conflicted about having lost a “preciousssss” ring? Move your finger back and forth horizontally and go ahead, rant on
• Transform your voice even more. Simply swipe your finger up and down and hear what happens, hear what happens…
• Use it like a phone, with headphones, through an amplifier, or over Skype

Looks dumb but fun!