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= iPhone Apps for Musicians =


 * n-Track Tuner
 * iHearYou
 * SoundPrism
 * songsterr

Sheet Music Reader

Bluetooth Foot pedals are available to turn the pages http://airturn.com/



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There are a number of sites which give away really great apps that normally cost money for free. This is usually for one day only and the sites also feature sales on other apps. Lately they have had some awesome instrumental music apps.

 Here are the 2 free for a day sites I check every day for some very very cool free ipod/ipad/iPhone apps.  :-)

 http://appchronicles.com/category/apps-gone-free/

 and

 http://www.dailyappdream.com/

 The gift that keeps on giving all year long!  :-D

iPod Touch and iPhone Apps•The App Store is one of the defining features of the iPod Touch/iPhone – there are over 100,000 applications that have been downloaded over 2 billion times•There are apps for everything – including powerful tools for music educators•A few of my favorite apps suitable for the music classroom…•Instruments In Reach•Rhythm In Reach•MooCow Pianist•Pitch Pipe•Karajan•ClearTune •Tempo•iPro Recorder•Musictionary •iRealBook •Mobile Air Mouse•Remote•AirSharing

Phone Orchestra news ** Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO) **

//** "do mobile phones dream of electric orchestras?" **// [] [|iPhoneOrchestra2009.mp3] [] [] http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stanford-Mobile-Phone-Orchestra-MoPhO/166068963518

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=University of Michigan iPhone orchestra prepares for performance=

**An orchestra that uses iPhones instead of musical instruments is holding a concert at the University of Michigan on Wednesday**
Published: 7:00AM GMT 08 Dec 2009 [|Link to this video] The **[|Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble]** is one of several university orchestras that has foregone traditional instruments in favour of music applications, downloaded on to **[|Apple]**'s iPhone, to play songs. The musicians took a course at the university, entitled "Building a mobile phone ensemble" and learned how to create instruments on their iPhone. The instruments are played using a combination of gestures, including tapping the touch-screen and blowing in to the microphone.

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The instruments also use the phone's built-in GPS, digital compass and accelerometer, which knows which way round the device is being held, to produce a certain note depending on whether it is being tipped or shaken. The iPhones are attached to speakers, worn around the musicians' wrists, and the instruments produce a combination of familiar and unusual sounds. Georg Essl, the computer scientist and accomplished musician who taught the course, said iPhone music was still "in its infancy". "But it's a hot and growing area to use iPhones for artistic expression," he said. "The mobile phone is a very nice platform for exploring new forms of musical performance. We're not tethered to the physics of traditional instruments. We can do interesting, weird, unusual things. "To make technology interesting, you also have to engage with the musicality." One of the techniques used by the students is to turn the iPhone's microphone in to a wind sensor. Players can blow into the microphone, much as they would a flute, to produce 'sounds' using iPhone music apps such as Ocarina. The Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble is one of several orchestras using iPhones to make music – there are similar groups at Stanford University in the United States, and at colleges in Germany and Finland. The 20-strong ensemble is playing a one-off free, public concert at the University of Michigan on Wednesday evening. 1) **[|Ocarina]**: If you're a fan of the Zelda computer games, you will recognise the ethereal flutelike notes of this music app immediately. Blow in to the microphone and tap the screen to produce a beautiful sound 2) **[|Band]**: This collection of virtual instruments includes a blues guitar and grand piano. Record the instruments, mix a track and play your composition to friends 3) **[|ClearTune Chromatic Tuner]**: Use this chromatic tuner and pitch pipe to tune up a wide variety of musical instruments, and is accurate to within one hundredth of a semitone 4) **[|SoundMatrix II]**: Follow in the footsteps of Little Boots with this Tenori-on style synthesizer. The two-track drum kit brings compositions to life, and you can layer up to 10 different voices on top of each other
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media type="youtube" key="tERtCiAvdfQ" height="340" width="560" 5) **[|Beaterator]**: Rockstar Games might be better known for the Grand Theft Auto series, but this music-maker is a gem. They've teamed up with Timbaland to produce Beaterator, which enables users to build and loop sounds to create their own composition //(Price: £2.99)//. **[|Read our review of Beaterator]**