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Anyone know of music apps for the iPhone? Maybe something like a drum machine sequencer that can output .wav or .aif files?


Thanks

yeahh maybe not

Not yet anyway, give it a few months and somebody probably would have coded a Lemur type multitouch interface for Live.

Right now, there's no developer toolkit for the iPhone, so every app created for it has to be run through Safari, so you won't see apps like that in a while.

The day the iPhone was announced at Macworld, some of us immediately wanted to use it as a simple multi-touch controller for music. It’s no substitute for a dedicated, large, expressive multi-touch controller like the JazzMutant Lemur. But it’s also far less expensive, useful as a phone/Internet device/media player, and could easily be a simple, multi-touch controller. Basic multi-touch gestures could be a powerful tool for controlling music. Then, the sad news came that development wasn’t going to be open. Hearts sank.

Good news: Masayuki Akamatsu, the brilliant Max/MSP developer who first bridged the popular modular audio and multimedia environment to the Wii remote (see aka.wiiremote), is on the case. It’s still early in development, and for now is an extremely simple implementation: it only routes buttons and text on a Safari webpage to a Max/MSP patch. What’s cool is that it uses the OpenSoundControl (OSC) protocol to do it (with PHP on the Web end), and it works (you can even use it now if you’ve got an iPhone):

aka.iphone Preview

http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~aka/max/#aka_iphone_ex1


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZntmJhaU ... age%2F2%2F

YES!!!

Oh, interesting..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55JQK5300D4

Bleep!box "records performances to .wav files"

not heard it though.