Comments on: iTunes App Store is Here, But Early Music Entries May Disappoint

By: CrazyDog

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By: Create Digital Music » Intua BeatMaker Arrives for iPhone/Touch: Sequencer, Sampled Drum Pads

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:45:39 +0000

[...] is the serious music creation app the platform has been waiting for, and it app gives you way more power for your dollar than a lot of what Iâ€™ve seen on the iPhone. [...]

By: VJ Anomolee

VJ Anomolee — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:54:26 +0000

Gentlemen,
I give you… the Beat Maker!!!!

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=285512415&mt=8

http://www.intua.net/products.html

Takes care of the content syncing
really looks to be a full fledged audio creation app.
…wow!

Now if i can just get LSDJ running on it hehehAH

By: Create Digital Music » Beyond Mobile Music Making: Organizational Musical Uses for iPhone, Other Smart Devices

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:23:48 +0000

[...] Despite my complaints, you will find some useful music apps in the iTunes App Store â€“ you can at least get some fine tuners. (Andy Ihnatko was excited on Twitter that one of them helps him tune his ukulele, thanks to four string support!) We do expect more hefty music tools in the coming months, and via the jailbroken platform. [...]

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:29:10 +0000

@Art: That makes sense, absolutely. The floating point capability is pretty significant to at least some people I know — and might explain why people are going to the trouble of developing for more challenging mobile platforms in general, because they can make use of FP.

I certainly don’t fault developers for not having something out, though generally I’d still say the short-term outlook may be better for the jailbroken platform than the official platform, because of various reasons.

I’m very excited to see what you’re up to, for sure. :)

@quone: IR-909 looks great, I agree. I like that it uses tilt, as well.

Anyway, diversity is wonderful… and I expect you’ll see lots of people out with mobile gadgets from PSPs to Windows Mobile to DS to GamePark things, etc., etc., and not just iPhone. And that’s a good thing. (I’m serious about rescuing the PDAs other people don’t want!)

By: velocipede

velocipede — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:46:02 +0000

Art+Very Capable Drum Machine+iPod Touch=Ubiquitous Beatmaking

I look forward to this and the other music-making applications that should trickle out in the following months. The best is surely yet to come.

By: quone

quone — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:40:42 +0000

the best thing i have found on pre-v2.0 software has been IR-909:
http://roventskij.net/index.php?page=3

It’s limited to 8 sounds at once but its a sample player based on a 16step x0x drum seq. i have even reached out to the maker, made a bunch of kits specific to it and sent them over to him â€” super cool guy.

he also made iPhone synth.

am def waiting for BeatMaker and see what thats like.

By: Art Gillespie

Art Gillespie — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:45:08 +0000

I think the reason there aren’t more top-tier music apps for the iPhone at launch are pretty obvious:

* Limited number of developers admitted to program.

* SDK only available for three months before launch, and low-level audio examples only in the last month or so… before that we were all figuring out how to use the RemoteIO interface by poking it with a stick. “I bet it works like AUHAL, let’s try… nope, how about… nope” I’m pretty sure that dropping down to sub-1024 frame buffers only became possible in the last few weeks (beta 7, iirc)

* I think ‘three friggin’ months’ deserves another bullet.

There’s a deeper technical issue, too: there’s no FPU on the iPhone, which means any developer’s library of finely-tuned floating-point desktop dsp is pretty much useless for realtime processing and has to be rewritten for fixed-point. Not the end of the world, but not trivial, either.

I suspect we’ll be seeing a lot of very cool and innovative things in the months to come as people get to spend more time with the SDK (and more people are granted access to it) I know for a fact there’s a very capable drum machine coming next week. :)

By: miniMusic

miniMusic — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:29:17 +0000

@Peter Kirn: Better or worse? For file types that are syncable now (photos, contacts, etc.), it is better, for other file types it is worse; although iPhone is young — Palm was pretty bad early on until they added VFS and memory card slots. Conduits were a pain.

Our first app, “No.2″, is a drawing app specifically because Apple HAS provided a way to sync graphics. I hope this suggests that other types of files will be syncable over time.

-Chad

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:04:46 +0000

Good point, RichardL… and other apps have done this with music instruments, etc., for sample loading. Of course, having it all happen OTA from the phone would be nice. It’s kind of frustrating to me that Apple doesn’t even support most of the usual Bluetooth functions.