The Most Popular Iphone Music Apps

By Author: Bonny Kominek
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The Pianist app for the iPhone lets you compose realistic-sounding piano pieces without the need for a piano! With its eighty-eight key virtual keyboard, soft and sustain pedals you can create tunes that are as complicated as you wish thanks to its overdub feature, and then record results.

Turn your iPhone into your very own woodwind instrument using the Ocarina app and you will be able to create flute-like sounds by blowing into a mouthpiece. You can press down on your iPhone to play different notes and chords and the app allows you to record your compositions too.

GuitarToolkit is an app that includes a metronome, a powerful digital tuner, and a database of over 500,000 chord shapes for the guitar. If you do not have a real guitar to hand, then you can always download PocketGuitar, which provides you with a virtual equivalent that can be strummed via the touch screen.

With the ingenius RjDj app you can use your iPhone to create a soundtrack to your day using the sounds that are naturally occurring all around you. RjDj records noises and sounds around you like the ticking of a clock, traffic sounds, and ...
... the voices of those around you and then fits them into preset musical pieces to create unusually listenable tunes that you can then add to using the effects stored within the app database.

Create the perfect radio station for you using the Pandora Radio app for the iPhone by choosing some starter tracks that you really enjoy. The app then looks for similar tunes and artists within its vast musical library. Skip past tracks that you do not like and Pandora Radio will soon learn what you do not like too!

Hearing a song somewhere that you fall in love with but have no idea who it is by or what the track is called can be more than a little frustrating! The Shazam app for iPhone makes it easy to find out who that mystery artist is. All you have to do is hold your iPhone up to the tune in question and it will let you know all the track details as well as letting you know where you can download the track on iTunes.

Bloom is an interactive light synthesiser designed by legendary producer and keyboard maestro Brian Eno. Touching the screen produces tinkling notes and shapes that repeat to create strange visual and musical patterns over time. Mesmerising.

A fantastic mini production studio in your pocket, the Beatmaster app for the iPhone is a sampler, effects processor, drum machine and sequencer, all in one little package! Surprisingly easy to use, you can create amazing sample, drum and loop tracks in minutes and then send the results to your friends via WiFi and you can export your tunes direct to your PC or laptop. Bonny Kominek, an expert in communications technology, who has been testing the new iPhone 3GS with Vodafone UK.