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iPhone music apps are haunting all my RSS feeds from sites that used to have quality software and hardware reviews.

OK, the touchscreen technology is cool I guess, but c'mon! I mean, am I really gonna get groupies by playing an iPhone on stage? iPhone is to the computer what Whitesnake was to Led Zeppelin. Wait... Whitesnake had some groupies. So iPhone is to DJing what They might be giants were to Guns and Roses. humph!

i hear you. I have an iPod touch so i'm even interested. All the apps are just... meh. Gettin there, but just let us know when. We don't want to be along for the ride.

CDM has been awash with it of late.

djgroovy wrote:CDM has been awash with it of late.

exactly. and now matrixsynth. I personally think the iphone is cool, but the apps are pretty nerdy. I don't think its the huge breaktrough technology that everyone thinks it is. and everyone knows the iphone is just a crappy os disguised in a pretty case.

Particle man, particle man, doing the things a particle can!

Could be worse - theres a korg toy synth for the Nintendo... Ugh!!

Live version 1 was a sorry piece of software. Luckily nobody bought it and we didn't have to hear about it until version 6. Being informed about developing technology as it progresses is a huge waste of time. Don't tell me about it until it appeals to my needs and interests.

i think playing live off an iPhone or gameboy is daft, but literally just got emailed about this, http://www.intua.net/

live sampling recording and sequencing on the move. Might be nice as a tool for jotting down a quick beat/recording/sketchpad idea on a train or at a mates if you don't have a computer and copy of Live handy. I think an iPhone music app is completely justifyed to be reviewed on places like CDM.

synthpond is actually cool http://apps.stfj.net/synthPond/

and TMBG too!! well that explains isnt it.

the korg ds-10 is capable and awesome. its not a toy. deal with it.

You elitist bastards. Just because it brings easy music making to the masses, so that idiots can sit around writing trash on the bus to work, you are sat here fucking one another's assholes.

What did you expect - to be able to improvise, arrange, master and distribute everything from the phone?

+1, I can barely read CDM anymore...

The iPhone marked the start of the long lingering painful death of everything that was once good and cool about Apple. The iPod was the for-shadowing of that death march.

duluxdog wrote:You elitist bastards. Just because it brings easy music making to the masses, so that idiots can sit around writing trash on the bus to work, you are sat here fucking one another's assholes.

What did you expect - to be able to improvise, arrange, master and distribute everything from the phone?

duluxdog, love his iPhone apps...

My two penneth - some of them are not bad; I really like that iDrum app as it's at least half-inventive. Alot of them, however, are a bit poop. Too much 'ooh, let's make toys for the iPhone' and not enough 'Right, guys. Let's make something that looks good and also does the right thing!'

Sometimes I think I am the only one who isn't interested in the iPhone.