Snake chain bits
A crossbreed of Pong and rhythm games. App Store link (1,59 €)
You control the paddle on the left hand side of the screen up and down by either tilt or touch control. In the game there are 3 levels which are actually electronic songs. According to the music the bits are approaching from the right side. As you hit them with the paddle they make a sound that becomes party of the music. It starts simple but soon the bits approach faster and in irritating ways and complex formations. You’ll have to play the levels over and over again and learn it to beat the boss at the end of a level.
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Grey Blocks
Guide the permanently bouncing Squareball through a horizontal maze and select different coloured blocks. App Store link (0,79 €)
The ball will bounce up and down in the centre of the screen inbetween the walls of a maze. You move the maze horizontally by either dragging it with your finger or tilting the iPhone according to the control type you chose. You have to collect the green and blue blocks. If the ball leaves the maze through one of the holes in the walls you’ll lose a live. A real fun game with a sweet 8bit soundtrack. Check the gameplay video & screenshots after the jump!
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.
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 »
