Noise
A modular synthesizer in your hand. App Store link (3.99 €)
This synthesizer is not for the faint at heart, but for the rest, it is a great instrument.
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synthPond splendour
Play the music of the spheres with synthPond. App Store link (1,59 €)
synthPond is a synthesizer to create music in a new way. Instead of a standard keybord and some knobs, you have a graphic interface, a space in which you put nodes of different types to create sounds.
Playing a song
Leaf trombone is a musical instrument application with interesting online features. App store link
Playing the leaf trombone is technically easy: you hold your iPhone in front of your mouth and blow into the mic to produce the basic sound. If you don’t like blowing you can use the touch mode. You control the tune by moving the golden handle attached to the leaf. You can make squeezing sounds by dragging the handle or play clean notes by tabbing somewhere on the leaf. The little green pegs mark the positions of notes. The plus and minus buttons will shift the octave up and down. That’s basically it for the free play mode.
Lost in music
Lilt Line is a music game from the underground. App store link
In this music game everything works a little different. The first obvious difference is that the music is really good for a change. It was produced by 16bit and it’s not at all pop-songs, it’s dubstep. Music is always hard to describe – you better listen to a snip of “PCP” by 16bit:
RJDJ listening screen
RJDJ generates music with the help of the headset microphone and different algorhythms to manipulate the input. The result is a soundtrack to your realworld experience. App store link
One scene for example takes the sounds sourrounding you and echos them. But it’s not a simple echo – the sounds are bend and pitched which produces a mind-boggling effect. Another scene somehow seems to undestand different kinds of sounds. So it able to replace the actual sounds with it’s own sounds. Read the rest of this entry »
