I’m personally considering adding 4 or 5 iPod Touch’s to my music rig, selling one or two laptops, getting rid of the 19″ rack, and doing an *ALL iPhone/iPod Jam Session Rig*.. its really feasible! Imagine having 4 or 5 i-Devices, each running their own apps, and a little 3.5″ mini-jack mixer (anyone got a recommendation before I put my Freescale SoundBite into action on it?) to serve as audio i/o routing.

So, one device running RJDJ, one running noise.io, a couple running iRecorder, some iDrum and BeatMaker love in there two, all of them rigged up to one device running a local web server for storage, and a couple more running for example TTW, or miniSynth, and .. oila .. instant jamming setup!

If anyone wants to send me a few iPhone Touch’s, I’ll do all the work to get it set up and working, and jam on it for all to see: the iPhone is the next-gen studio device we’ve all be wishing for (or, at least this ex-German Synth Mfr. employee has, anyway.. heh heh)

look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQCZnwNr0ms

From 0:40 on, shows you how better a DS is interface wise. And I can tell you Gorgull’s technique is even far more superior now :)

Touch the Wave
this is a DJ app. that allows you to touch waveforms and perform a “Scratch.”
you cannot use the audio data that was “sync”ed from iTunes, you have to upload the file on the network, specify the URL and download it into your device.
the development is done on iPod touch (1st and 2nd gen), it has NOT been tested on iPhones.

features;
-changing loop speed within -16%～+16% range in increments of 0.01%
-2 assignable cue points and loop playback in between
-tap tempo

supported formats;
WAV, AIF (linear PCM format only)

known issues;
scratching might not be as smooth right after downloading audio files, especially those around 1MB in size might cause the app to shut down. it is recommended to restart the app after downloading.

download screen;
1, type in the URL for the file you want to download,
2, press “Start”
3, you can determine the frequency of renewing player screen. 12fps is recommended for 1st Gen, 24fps for 2nd Gen.

player screen;
1, switch between playback and pause
2, loop playback on/off – when it’s blue, the app plays the look between the cue points determined by 7 and 8,
3, tap to go back to the head of the file, press and hold to cue up the previous file,
4, tap once to set the BPM – by setting the length between 7 & 8 as 1 beat. tap more than once for a regular tap-tempo feature,
5, tap to go to the end of the file, press and hold to skip to the next file,
6, volume
7, set the cuepoint 1 (blue)
8, set the cuepoint 2 (purple)
9, move the tapehead to cuepoint 1
10, move the tapehead to cuepoint 2
11, slider that moves the tapehad
12, memorize the loop speed
13, change the loop speed to what was set by 12
14, change the loop speed to 0% (orange)
15, lower the loop speed by 0.01%
16, increase the loop speed by 0.01%
17, slider that changes the loop speed
18, when paused, you can touch and slide left and right for a scratch action, slide up and down to zoom in/out

Sure many of the tools are unsophisticated and toy-like. The ideas and capabilities embodied in hand-held music are evolving. I sincerely believe that hand-held digital music making tools will emerge to be as compelling as any other domain. To dismiss them is as premature as dismissing portable recording tools as toys would have been a decade ago.