Some music-making apps are designed for Jedi-level music producers who can’t wait to get back into the studio, while others are for beginners looking to have a little fun. FiddleWax ($3, iOS), from Adam Kumpf of Luxemborg, sits somewhere in the middle. Anyone could pick it up and make something resembling music, but if you know…
We focus on apps for mere mortals here — and, by that, we mostly mean people who are not musicians. Still, there are plenty of musicians and music types out there who might appreciate SongDasher (iOS) app, especially because it’s free until February 15, after which it will cost $6. This is not an app for…
We haven’t seen anything remotely like Isle of Tune for iPad, which was released today, with the exception of the web-based Isle of Tune, which impressed us late last year with its utterly unique approach to songsmithery. Both apps let you draw roads, populate them with houses and trees to indicate beats and notes, and then…
OscilloScoop, a loop-based electronic music jam station for the iPad released this week in the iTunes app store, presents music through an entirely new interface based on years of research: rotating cylinders that one carves to influence pitch, a resonance cut-off filter, and volume. It’s a deceptively simple instrument, taking seconds to learn and an…
The first commercial album recorded with an iPod was over three and a half years ago by an artist called Jimmy Camp, more or less just to prove that it could be done. But the iPhone, with its touchscreen and apps, is much more than a mere gimmick when it comes to recording and composing…
Polychord, an intriguingly-designed iPad music creation and composition app, lets anyone compose relatively complex musical statements by tapping on chords, playing with some basic parameters, and accompanying themselves on a strip of golden keys on the right of the iPad’s screen. Having tested it in the waiting room of a doctor’s office and in my…
