Nov
29
Posted by Paul
Intua BeatMaker
The mobile music creation studio for the iPhone and iPod Touch
BeatMaker introduces a new generation of mobile instruments and music creation software. Inspired by hardware beatboxes, loop samplers and software sequencers, it combines them to turn the iPod into a unique, inspirational software instrument. Using BeatMaker creative tools, you can compose, record, arrange, and tweak live your ideas into a complete song, ready to be shared with others.
BeatMaker is available exclusively through official Apple’s AppStore. You can find it in the Music and Entertainment categories. BeatMaker can be purchased for only $19.99 (please check the AppStore for other currencies conversions).
- In your pocket, ideally suited for live or for fast, intuitive composition, the 16 multi-touch pads enable you to load, slice, tune, and trigger sounds from an extensive sample library. Live pattern recording and sound control with the simplicity of a finger movement
- Experience BeatMaker step sequencer for creating your grooves. The tactile editor makes music composing really quick and easy while keeping a precise synchronization. Limitless patterns, endless possibilities, delivered on tune and on time.
- Arrange your song snippets to your liking, loop and improvise in real time all the building blocks of your tune into something meaningful.
- Give a new impulse to your sound material using audio effects. BeatMaker provides two independent effect channels including synchronized delay, 3-band EQ, and the famous “Bit-Crusher”. You can apply new rhythmic pattern to your drum loops, change textures and frequencies and recreate the lovely vintage sound.
- Time to pack your bag and move on? Want to use that drum kit in another song? BeatMaker lets you load and save your sound kits and projects at anytime.
Mar
20
Posted by Paul
Just found this today. It’s runs just like FireFox but integrates a music player that plays just like iTunes and a TON on add-ons that help you with you music blogging. Really cool stuff. I have been getting into blogging a lot recently as you can tell. and this is a great tool to use for music bloggers. I’ve just started messing around with it today and already I have found a lot of things that it is helping me a lot with. Give it a try and see if you like it.
Play music. Play the Web.
Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet.
Songbird is a player and a platform. Like Firefox, Songbird is an open source, Open Web project built on the Mozilla platform. Songbird provides a public playground for Web media mash-ups by providing developers with both desktop and Web APIs, developer resources and fostering Open Web media standards, to wit, an Open Media Web.
Songbird is a complete desktop media player or “jukebox” with a uniquely open approach to Internet digital media network services.
Songbird is developed by Pioneers of the Inevitable, a small, chirpy team of digital media innovators whose previous incubations include the Winamp 5 and Y! Music Engine media players and Muse.Net, a location-independent digital media network service acquired by Yahoo!.
Q. What are digital media network services?
Digital media network services, simplistically put, are Web sites that do stuff with digital media. Examples of digital media network services include eMusic’s á la carte MP3 store, Last.fm’s social networking service, Odeo’s podcast service or La Blogothèque, a personal MP3blog.
Digital media network services are varied and produced by a diversity of service providers, just like Web sites. New services and service type opportunties are fomenting as Internet users utilize more digital media in novel ways.
Songbird’s Lineage
Songbird is built atop the Mozilla Foundation’s XULRunner platform also used by the Firefox browser, the Thunderbird email client and other desktop applications.
Thus, Songbird runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux personal computers with few OS-specific tweakages.
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