Monkey Drum Deluxe 1.0 for iOS - Educational Music App Featured By Apple

Flippfly is proud to announce that Monkey Drum Deluxe 1.0 has been featured by Apple in the "New and Noteworthy" section of the App Store. This exposure for their latest universal iOS app could allow it to compete with larger well-funded studios. With hundreds of apps submitted to Apple's App Store every day, it has become extremely difficult for small developers like Flippfly to garner attention for their releases. While larger studios have the ability to draw attention to their products through expensive advertising campaigns, small independent developers have few options to get their app noticed.

However, an app that earns Apple's coveted "New and Noteworthy" feature can gain attention and exposure that would cost tens of thousands of dollars through traditional online advertising. This is the fortunate placement of Flippfly's latest offering, Monkey Drum Deluxe. The app, which is designed to be a fun way for children to learn about music, allows users to create detailed musical compositions by drawing on a touch screen. After being released in relative obscurity, it has risen to the thirtieth place of the education category on the App Store. The week-long feature has the potential to push the app into the top twenty-five, at which point it would gain even more exposure on the mobile version of the app store.

Monkey Drum has drawn widespread praise from parents and app reviewers like Rebecca Fuller, a music teacher and blogger who said, "It's a really great way to use creativity and rhythm and wrap it into a whole lot of fun."

Monkey Drum Deluxe 1.0 is only $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category.

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Classical Music for Babies Makes it Easy to Turn on the Mozart Effect

It's not unusual for an app to make claims about improving intelligence. There are dozens, possibly hundreds, of apps on the iOS App Store that claim to have cognitive benefits. Classical Music for Babies is different from the majority of those apps, though. As the name implies, Classical Music for Babies is geared towards letting children experience what's commonly referred to as theMozart effect.

This effect, first described in a 1991 release by Dr. Alfred A. Tomatis, is purported to improve any numbers of brain-related activities in children under three. The idea is that the complexity of Mozart's music helps the brain to relax and regain its focus. For very young children, this would lead to overall increased brain activity. With the goal of helping children experience the effect, Classical Music for Babies comes loaded with dozens of different songs. In total, there are twelve individual compilations of the musician's work. All that you need to do is play a song or a set of songs for your child. 

With an interface featuring cheerful yellows and baby blue, this app comes across as very baby-friendly. There are no unnecessary bells and whistles in this app. It's designed to help parents easily find and play music by Mozart. And that's pretty much what Classical Music for Babies does.

The app is free and comes with enough music to get you started. When you're ready for more Mozart, additional listening packs are available via in-app purchase. Most people who want to use the app regularly will ultimately find themselves making a purchase. These compilations are broken up into categories based on what they're used for. Packs such as Peaceful Resting and Restful Sleep are available. Every pack is $1.99, but users do have the option to pay $14.99 and unlock every song in the app.

The question on the minds of most at this point is likely whether or not the app works. After all, the download page in the App Store makes some lofty claims. In reality, these aren't claims aren't specific to the app. They are all supposed benefits of the Mozart Effect. In addition to improving spacial intelligence and creativity, listening to classical music from Mozart is believed to help improve test scores and learning times. Of course, even if you're a skeptic, it's hard to argue that such music would have any sort of negative effect. At the very least, it's likely to be soothing for young listeners.

Overall, Classical Music for Babies provides a streamlined method to let children listen to the music of one of the greatest musicians in history. Quite likely, parents will find themselves enjoying Mozart as much as their children do.

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Musik Freedom Gives Users Complete Control Of Their iPad Music Library

Announcing that Joliware, the developer of Musik Freedom, has just released the latest update for iPad users. Musik Freedom 1.1 is a complete entertainment center for music and music videos. This app takes full advantage of the iPad's native music player, while augmenting it with a host of features that give users total control of their music library. Notable updates for this version include a 10 band equalizer with 22 presets, a real time, bounce meter, and the all new "urDJ" tool that generates custom playlists across genres, artists and even other playlists from the user's library. The urDJ tool even lets users search and add songs based on BPM (tempo) or track length.

Musik Freedom 1.1 Features Include:
- The Hot List displays the current song, the previous song, plus the next two
- Share Hot List via Twitter or Facebook
- DRM support
- Music video support
- Musik Freedom Queue plays in cooperation with all music lists, playlists, albums, DRM files and Music Videos on the iPad
- Airplay support lets users move their music video party to any airplay supported system or Apple TV
- Song ratings! Apply ratings such as G, PG, R and Explicit. Musik Freedom will only play songs with the rating level users choose
- 3Peat- Tap one button and the app repeats a song or video up to 3 times
- 10 Band Parametric Graphic EQ
- 11 Band bounce meter with color adjustment saves your last color choice
- Playlist Recovery protects against accidental changes or deletions
- View music in Cover Flow, List View or Grid View. Sort different views by song, playlist, album, or artist

Musik Freedom 1.1 gives users the freedom to have their music exactly the way they want it. The app makes it easy to add, delete or rearrange songs without disrupting the the current selection. Users can also add one song or several into the Plat Next spot, and have the option to add or delete all songs from a particular artist, playlist or album from the current playlist, while leaving the rest of the queue unchanged.

The 10 band graphic equalizer not only offers 22 different presets, but music aficionados can choose different settings for each song and the app automatically remembers and applies those settings each time the song is played.

Musik Freedom includes a rating system for listening in mixed company. Users can assign a rating of G, PG, R or Explicit to every song in their iPad. When a rating level is selected for a playlist, the app will only play songs from the list that are at or below the selected rating. With the rating system in place, every playlist is Kid-Friendly!

This developer has also introduced Social Musik DJ. This free app is designed to act as a companion app for Musik Freedom 1.1. Social Musik DJ lets the user's friends and family check in via their own iOS devices and vote for the songs they would like to hear next. This can essentially put the playlist on auto-pilot, as it automatically bumps songs up the playlist as they accumulate votes. Songs with large amounts of votes are automatically bumped to the Hot List.

There is no other app in the App Store that gives users this much control over their music at this price point. With the addition of the free Social Musik DJ companion app, music fans can always have their music, their way, whether at home, in the car or at parties.

Musik Freedom 1.1 is only $9.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Music category. Promo codes are available for qualified reviewers. Please specify the website or blog you represent when making your request.

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Samplodica offers Innovative but Mediocre Beat-Making

Looking to mix yourself some crazy tunes or beats on the go? Care to do it in a new an innovative way? Perhaps them you may want to get a good look at a new beat-making app from bryn space calledSamplodica.

To be honest, the biggest feature you're going to notice out of this app is its innovative design. While most beat-making apps for the iPhone incorporate pressing keys and such to adjust the sounds created, Samplodica takes it a step further and has you not only press keys, but shake the iOS device to generate the sound. However, as this actually offers no manipulation, and only activates the sample you want to play, it essentially is nothing more than a gimmick feature to take advantage of the accelerometer. In fact, when changing sample sets you can simply play the same beats without shaking the iPhone in a 'demo' mode, proving how useless this feature is beyond the shock value of showing your friends. 

As for making actual samples, there is a lot lacking in Samplodica. For starters, there appears to be no easy way to record the samples you create for usage in real mixing software such as ProTools. While you can record your own sounds to sample, the Samplodica software appears to only allow manipulation in real time unless you record through your headphones cable, this can be severely limiting when sampling on the go, and adds to the feeling this is only a live-experience type of app. While the mix-tape system is nifty to add in samples of your choosing, the bottom lines really comes in that it's very difficult to balance out a beat at a regular pace and experiment without perhaps getting a pretty tired hand.

To add insult to injury, buying the app only gives you access to a few samples. If you want to add additional samples or make special feature changes, you have to shell out an additional $2. You're essentially not getting an entire app for your money. A lot of features are already included but it leaves a bad impression to pay for an app only to find you don't have the entire experience — especially when the extra content is not exactly adding enough to call it a DLC, but not simply an a la cart addition either.

In the end Samplodica gives mixed feelings. It's really unique, really cool in concept, but this proof of concept is not owing up to what you'd expect out of a game.

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iFretless Bass: a new musical instrument app for iPhone and iPad

Blue Mangoo Software is pleased to announce the release of iFretless Bass 1.3 for iOS. IFretless Bass is an app that sounds like a real bass guitar and has an original user interface design that makes it more playable than other iPad guitar apps. YouTube videos demonstrate the developers making music in a way that shows iFretless as an expressive new musical instrument, capable of taking its place in the studio alongside guitars, keyboards and drums.

"If you've ever watched youTube, chances are you've seen an iBand; a group of musicians who get together and jam on their iPhones and iPads. It's a joke, usually," said Hans Anderson, Director at Blue Mangoo Software. "Some of the performances are polished and well played, but it's the novelty of watching rock stars strumming on mobile phones that attracts viewers, not the quality of the music. But with iFretless, the iPad is now a legitimate musical instrument. Have a look at the videos and you'll see what i'm talking about."

The iFretless user interface is designed to allow users to play live music on an iPad, cleverly avoiding the usual limitations imposed by the small screen size. Here are some of the features that make it more playable than other musical instrument apps:

9 String Bass:
Squeezing the 34 inch neck of a bass guitar onto the screen of a 9 inch tablet is a challenge that requires compromise... or ingenuity. Most guitar apps approach this challenge by adding a scrollbar and by making the space between the frets much smaller than the fret spacing on a real guitar.

IFretless takes a different approach - instead of scrolling along the length of the strings, it adds more strings in the vertical direction. The iPad version has nine strings and nine frets on the screen so you can comfortably play a range of three octaves without scrolling at all. A total of 81 notes are visible, each note having a touchable area that leaves plenty of room for the sloppy fingerwork that happens when musicians are grooving hard.

An Expressive MIDI Controller:
The iFretless Bass sound is solid enough on the low strings to stand in for a real bass guitar but the selling-point of the app isn't the bass sound. Instead, it's the MIDI feature that gives this app the ability to connect the iPad to electronic keyboards, software synthesizers, and digital audio workstations and make use of the high quality sounds and samples there.

Virtual MIDI: iOS Users Don't Need Midi Hardware:
There's a wonderful secret among the iOS musician community: virtual midi apps. On the app store is a growing collection of software synthesizers that run directly on the iPhone or iPad without using any external hardware at all. These apps run in the background; when connected to iFretless via virtual MIDI, each time the user plays a note in iFretless, instead of hearing the built-in bass sound, she hears a Hammond Organ, an electric guitar or a Moog synthesizer. Whatever sound you're looking for, chances are there's an iOS virtual midi app that offers it.

An Instrument Designed From The Ground Up For iOS:
The iFretless developers didn't want to make another guitar imitation app. The GUI borrows from guitar design but whenever there was a choice between making it more like a guitar and making a smoother playing experience on the iPad, they chose the better playing experience.

To start, they chose not to include an imitation of guitar string bending. "There are much better ways to use the vertical axis of motion than bending strings. And there's no need for bending; sliding horizontally, a la fretless bass, is so much more expressive, more precise." said Hans Anderson, Director at Blue Mangoo Software.

Instead of bending the strings, sliding a finger in the vertical direction allows you to smoothly slide between strings, making for some very fast arpeggios. Removing the string bending also makes it possible for the user to scroll the strings in the vertical direction by pulling up or down vertically. If you find this difficult to visualize, the last of the three videos explains it well.

Supported Languages:
- US English, Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Vietnamese

iFretless Bass 1.3 is $4.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Music category.

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DokRemote 1.0 for iOS - New App for Music Remote Control

DokRemote is a new iPhone app which enables users to control their device's music playback remotely - from a web browser on a laptop, desktop or tablet device.

A recent survey, conducted online from June 21st - 24th, 2012, has shown that 74% of iPhone, iPod and iPad users listen to music by connecting their device to external speakers. But 84% of them don't have any means to control the music that's playing other than getting up and manually changing the tracks on the device itself.

DokRemote is a simple app provides browser-based control of music playback. A user simply opens the app, connects their iPhone, iPod or iPad to their speaker system and then uses a web browser on another device to access the DokRemote control interface.

The clean, intuitive design on the DokRemote web interface makes it easy for users to start, pause, skip or change tracks all without leaving their desk or chair.

DokRemote is ideal for people who work at a PC or laptop but want to have their iPhone or iPod playing through their full stereo system across the room. Our survey showed that 82% of those who listen in this way would be interested in using the app. And amongst those who don't currently listen through speakers, 79% felt they would be more likely to do so if they had the app to allow them to control the music.

DokRemote 1.0 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Music category. Promo codes are available for review copies on request.

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Tones! Innovative Ringtone Creator Offers Advanced Options for iPhone

UK-based Cinnamon Jelly today announces Tones! a brand new ringtone / tone creator for the iPhone. Tones! builds on the company's previous success with Drums! the No.1 selling Apple App of the week and generally regarded as the best drum app in the app store.

Tones! for iPhone is the next generation in tone creation. It allows for ease of use yet offers some very advanced features not available in any other app within the category. With realtime audio scrubbing, true waveform editing, looping and voice overdubbing as just a few of Tones! unique features. 

Users can select a track from their music library or record their voice to create tones for use as ringtones, text message alerts, alarms in fact any assignable tone on their iPhone.

The ability to share their creations with friends and family via email and Wifi really brings a social aspect to tone creation.

Tones! is easy to learn and quick to master and offers the best tone making experience available in the app store to date.

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Schott Pluscore Sing-Along - Innovation for Singers on the iPad

Music publisher, Schott Music GmbH has announced the release of Schott Pluscore Sing-Along 1.0, its new voice trainer app for Apple iPad. This unique app with adaptable accompaniments is the ideal trainer for rehearsing opera arias and other repetoire.

Pluscore Sing-Along offers sheet music that can be set to the individual needs of the singer and includes an audio version. Users may add page breaks, select a zoom factor or transpose the music to another key. The audio version allows singers to hear the piece and it provides an adaptable accompaniment.

The integrated MIDI Studio as well as the so called Virtual Conductor enables the user to adjust the accompaniment to his/her own interpretation. The singer can set the tempo and change the volume. When making use of the Virtual Conductor the singer may conduct his/her own accompaniment and use this version while practicing afterwards. Singers also have the option of listening to the voice part separately or of recording their own voice.

The app offers opera arias for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone and bass. The repertoire includes arias by composers such as Verdi, Donizetti, Bizet or Wagner. New sheet music will be added to Schott Pluscore Sing-Along on a regular basis. The app is free of charge. The sheet music has to be purchased via 'In-App Purchase' in the integrated Schott Store.

Features at a glance
- Virtual shelf displaying all downloads
- In-App Purchase
- Horizontal and vertical view of sheet music
- Table of contents and table of roles
- Playback cursor

MIDI Studio:
- Choose instrumentation
- Change volume of staffs
- Mute staffs
- Change tempo
- Set concert pitch
- Transposition
- Record your own voice

Virtual Conductor:
- Control tempo and volume
- Record your own conducted interpretation
- Key transposition
- Page breaks
- Zoom

Schott Pluscore Sing-Along 1.0 is Free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Music category. Over the course of this year Schott Music plans to publish another version of the Pluscore App for instrumental music.

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SpaceSampler: Making Professional Audio Filters Easy & Fun on the iPhone

Independent designer Colin Ritchie of Periscope Audio Lab today is pleased to announce the immediate update (v1.2) of his app SpaceSampler - An audio convolution app that lets you record, apply filters from real acoustic spaces and equipment and then share with anyone. Building on the core functionality, v1.2 adds a professional quality, 3-band Parametric Equalizer with independent, variable High Pass and Low Pass filters, the ability to loop audio and Sonoma Wireworks Audio Paste (v1.1). High quality audio convolution reverbs and EQ's are used everyday in professional recording studios to give depth, color, clarity and uniqueness to audio. This technology now comes to iOS as SpaceSampler.

For musicians and non-musicians alike, SpaceSampler can be used with nothing more than an iPhone. Simply record audio via the built in microphone, use the resume-recording feature to stop and add more audio to the end of this recording, audition the impressive selection of 15 meticulously crafted Impulse Response Filters, set the mix via the big red knob, slide over to the Parametric Equalizer to surgically cut or boost frequencies, and then save the audio. Saved audio can then be shared via e-mail, Dropbox, Soundcloud, copied to other compatible music apps or even loaded back into the sampler and looped. With the now included Sonoma Wireworks Audio Paste, recordings or audio made in other apps can be pasted into SpaceSampler for filtering.

iLounge recently said that SpaceSampler is "...doing for audio what apps such as CameraBag and Instagram do for photos" and developer Colin Ritchie said that "Adding a professional quality Parametric Equalizer, Looping and Audio Paste shows our commitment to releasing compelling enhancements to SpaceSampler."

The Filters:
Start with this core set, then combine and set your mix for an infinite variety of tonal colors:

- Tape Echo: A classic old-school tape echo with a touch of spring reverb
- Glitchy: Unique delay pattern blips add a circuit-bent type sound
- Studio Vox: Smooth UK mic pre, EQ and a nice studio vocal booth
- Slap Back: Classic '50s Rock-A-Billy slap back echo
- Dream Plate: The venerable 60s plate reverb
- Great Hall: Long and spacious hall reverb
- Smooth Spring: The classic guitar-amp reverb
- Pop Doubler: A rich doubled sound, perfect for pop vocals
- Warm Room: A medium length, woody sounding, warm room reverb
- Inverse: A strange reversed room effect
- Studio One: Get down with this fun dub delay
- AM Radio: Emulation of a vintage, band-limited AM Radio
- Stadium: Announce your favorite game, or take the stage with this big delay
- Electro: Robotic, vocoder type voice disguise
- Slow Wave: A classic 1980s chamber with a hint of delay

Features:
Record, paste or import audio, select between filters, EQ, set the mix, and then share. The high quality filters, or Impulse Responses (IRs), are captured from real gear and acoustic spaces, creating realistic, unusual or far-out effects for any type of audio source.

- Effects are modeled from actual rooms, spaces and gear
- 3 Band Parametric EQ & variable High and Low Pass filters
- Integrated sampler with resume recording and looping
- Live monitoring for low-latency, real-time effects
- Recording browser for easy file management
- Copy & Paste audio in and out via Sonoma Wireworks MAPI
- Share via e-mail, iTunes File Sharing, Dropbox & SoundCloud
- Choose between .wav and .mp4 for file encoding
- Big mix knob blends between effected and dry signals
- Re-load recordings for mulit-layered effects
- Fast convolution algorithm
- Simple, intuitive interface

SpaceSampler 1.2 is available for $1.99 (or equivalent in other currencies) and is available worldwide on the App Store in the 'Music' category. For more information and screenshots please visit Periscope Audio Lab online.

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Hear Your Music the Way it Was Meant to Sound with Aphexs New Music App

Aphex, a leader in audio enhancement technology for more than 35 years, today is proud to announce Audio XciterTM, the first audio app that dynamically improves the quality of music on your iOS devices through a proprietary Xciter digital signal processor (DSP). Audio Xciter uses patented Aphex DSP technology to improve the quality of your music by analyzing and enhancing the audio signal in real time. The iOS app is available today with an Android version to follow next month.

Legendary musicians such as Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, and Led Zeppelin have relied on the Aphex technology behind Audio Xciter for years and pay $30 per minute to use it for audio mastering. Now music enthusiasts can experience the original sound quality created in-studio through the free Audio Xciter app.

"Heavily compressed digital music files reduce sonic performance in music recordings," said David Wiener, CEO of Aphex. "We've leveraged our professional studio technology and created Audio Xciter to restore the detail, richness and spaciousness to your audio experience. All the musicians and producers we work with feel this is a revolutionary product for mobile music."

"The Audio Xciter app brings musical detail to life, no matter what style of music you're listening to. You will hear increased clarity, along with space and detail, that will impress anyone," said Alan Parsons, the legendary musician and record producer.

The free Audio Xciter app allows 15 minutes of enhanced playback per day. Users have two upgrade options: Audio Xciter Basic removes the time restriction and Audio Xciter Studio allows users to fine-tune the Xciter DSP settings for a truly custom experience. The launch pricing is $2.99 (USD) for Audio Xciter Basic ($4.99 after July 31st) and $7.99 for Audio Xciter Studio ($9.99 after July 31st). Audio Xciter can be purchased through iTunes for iOS and will soon be available at the Android Store and Amazon for Android devices. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Audio Xciter will go to Respect the Music, a nonprofit organization supporting musical education and immersion. Additional information including demo videos and screenshots are available at Aphex online.

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Renowned voice instructors Susan Carr and Wolf Carr release iPhone App

Renowned vocalists and voice instructors Susan Carr and Wolf Carr have made their successful singing techniques available in a new instructional iPhone app. With combined experience of 45 years, Susan and Wolf teach acclaimed Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles musicians how to produce the sounds they want, protect their voices, and develop their singing stamina. Now, with The Art of Screaming-Create Your Own Vocal Warm-up, Susan and Wolf are making their celebrated singing methods available to all genres of singers at the Apple Store.

Many musicians struggle with challenges: a hoarse voice, throat pain, loss of falsetto, or difficulty in trying to hit high notes. The Art of Screaming-Create Your Own Vocal Warm-up addresses these concerns with an iPhone app, allowing the busy on-the-go musician access to comprehensive singing lessons wherever or whenever they need them.

With the choice of beginning, intermediate, and advanced level expertly crafted exercises, The Art of Screaming-Create Your Own Vocal Warm-up includes 30 instructional videos with a piano accompaniment for each vocal exercise. Users are able to create their own personalized vocal warm-ups to use before they take the stage from categories including head voice, head belt, chest, falsetto, blending, controlling air flow, strength, breathing exercises, and a bonus scream section as well as an S.O.S section if your voice is in trouble.

Through their extensive experience as teachers and performers, Susan and Wolf know firsthand the technique required to perform night after night without hurting your voice. They have translated this knowledge into a user-friendly, professional app that makes the artist feel as if they have a vocal coach in the room with them.

Susan and Wolf's students have received many accolades including Grammy Nominations. Their list of clients include: Modest Mouse, The Fleet Foxes, Mastodon, Alice in Chains, Minus the Bear, Yacht, Biohazard, Grizzly Bear, Yob, and Sunny Day Real Estate.

The Art of Screaming-Create Your Own Vocal Warm-up 1.01 is $12.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Music category.

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OneTuner - Powerful Radio Play and Integrated Personal News Channel

Workas LLC are pleased to announce the launch of their new product, the OneTuner Radio, which enables users to search for new and exciting radio stations from around the world. This subscription free application has been specially designed to be run on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

With access to thousands of pop, jazz, dance, rock and talk stations, OneTuner radio users will be able to enjoy more than 1 million music tracks every day. With 65 genres available, OneTuner makes it easy for even the most discriminating audiophile to find the music that suits their mood, no matter how eclectic their personal preference that may be.

The really exciting aspect of the OneTuner app is that users have the ability to create their own personal news channel. The feature makes use of a virtual newscaster to convert Twitter and Facebook feeds into actual audio news channels. For this, Workas have partnered with iSpeech who provide the highest quality text-to-speech voices.

Users simply set up the feeds they would like to have integrated within their personal audio news service and whenever they tap the 'My News Channel' tab from a list of bookmarked stations, the personal news channel will begin to play an audio broadcast of all the feeds assigned to that channel. Users could choose to listen to the latest celebrity, sports or financial Twitter feeds or even enjoy a broadcast of what their friends have been up to that day on Facebook.

The easy and intuitive navigation of the application, along with the polished interface, allows for fast access to the most frequently used features.

OneTuner is currently available in two versions. OneTuner Pro 1.1 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Music category. There is also a free version, OneTuner Lite that is ad-supported. The really great news is that the software is compatible with the new iPad 3.

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Ringtonium is a Cool, Easy Way to Create and Edit Ringtones

While it won't perhaps irradiate you the old fashioned way, you may find yourself irradiated with joy and glee when you discover Ringtonium, a nifty new way to make ringtones from the Bamboo Group. Whether it be for a ringtone, notification, alert, alarm, or just plain fun editing, this app gives you a fun and easy way to make it, save it, and get it where you need it to be.

For as long as there have been cell phones, there has been the intoxicating desire for your favorite tidbit, noise, music, or etcetera as the ringtone for your device. These days, thanks to our cell phones getting smarter and smarter, the variety of ringtones has become greater, the types of ringtones we can have has grown, and even the ease of making them has become apparent. What once involve a workstation and hours of processing or the bootstrapped weekend project  is now as easy as an app right off the appstore. In this case,Ringtonium offers a key to open up the vast opportunities you could perhaps have with making ringtones of all shapes and sizes to your heart's content. 

With Ringtonium, you get yourself an interface to easily and quickly compose ringtones and actually get them where you need: in iTunes, on your phone, and even in your Dropbox for offsite storage or easy sharing. It all begins with grabbing the "clip" - or source for your audio solution. Whether it be a song, sound byte, or actual recording off your iPod's microphone, it can honestly be to whatever really is your heart's content. While it would have been cool to see a line-in solution here with the headphone jack, we aren't complaining either.

Once you select your clip, you'll be selecting your format  from one of three options: Ringtone (which is about a minute), alert (which is a few seconds), or long sound (which can be up to 10 minutes). It's nice that the app treats me intelligent enough to want a variety of sound types - even those I can't actually use as ringtones, adding to the editing value for on-the-go changes  without breaking out the laptop.

While the features are somewhat limited, Ringtonium doesn't disappoint. The app goes beyond the minimum expectation and offers a fair selection of modifiers. Ringtonium lacks the cheezy FX found similar (more bloated) apps, and focuses on offering a variety of simple and effective FX (such as pitch, speed, and audio reversal) that will work at whatever setup you prefer.

The interface is great and reminds us of a real professional environment, offering knobs to fine tune changes and really get the perfect ringtone if you so choose to take the effort in. While you can pinch to zoom on the waveform, you can't seem to mix in additional audio clips. We have to say, Ringtonium gets the job done in a sleek, clean, and very effective way. Dropbox is an added treat for getting easy uploads in.

Help and tips are pushed through a promotional page where developer, Bamboo Group, pitches its other apps, but gives you easy access to their social media to reach out as well as some tips and tricks. In the end you're getting a very decent ringtone maker that, while it doesn't emphasize much on flair, really gets the job done and makes it easy and pretty fun to mess with the audio.

Ringtonium is a universal app for iOS devices running 4.1 or later.

Image Gallery: Ringtonium Pro - a remarkable ringtone maker with free music library inside. Cut and edit unlimited ringtones, create unique tones and alerts!

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InQBarna launches Riffer 2.0 for iOS - Music becomes social

InQBarna, mobile multimedia company based in Barcelona, developer of the successful mobile music apps deej and TunerTool, today is pleased to announce the release of Riffer 2.0, a music sharing platform for users to share their musical experiences with friends and family. The app is available for iPhone and iPod users in the App Store and will be soon available in Google Play.

In a moment where sound has followed the success of image as a mobile sharing experience, InQBarna wants to lead this sound revolution with a music-central social network, that gives both professional and amateur musicians a chance to share a brief (15 seconds of recording) sample of their talent, spreading the result to the social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr...).

Riffer includes the following features:
- Record your favorite music moments and share them to Riffer, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook
- Search the map for music and musicians around you, and create new music communities
- Follow the users you like and create your own stream of Riffs
- Connect with Facebook and share your activity to your stream, Riffer will become your new daily app to share the things you like
- See what's popular right now, who's trending and who's creating the most hot music pieces around you
- And, if you feel 15 seconds is not enough, upgrade to 1 minute recording for those extended inspirational moments

The company has also announced that TunerTool, the insignia app of the company, will be favored with this new social network, allowing millions of guitarists to share their guitar riffs with Riffer seamlessly. With more than 2M downloads in the AppStore, TunerTool will become the first guitar social network, where users will have the ability to like and comment on other people's creations, discovering new talents and creating new musical content.

The intention of the company is to release an open-source SDK for other music apps to share their sounds in Riffer, allowing the creation of new interactions and enhancing the product with new features.

Riffer 2.0 is Free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Music category.

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Drum Loops HD Lets iOS Users Add a Live Drummer To GarageBand

Announcing that Go Independent Records, the developer of Drum Clinic HD, has just released an exciting new app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users who are serious about making music with their iOS device. Drum Loops HD 1.0 app adds a new layer of reailsm to GarageBand and other popular digital audio workstations by allowing users to add a real drummer to the mix with a simple copy/paste operation. Where most other apps offer only programmed drum sounds, Drum Loops HD gives users more than 700 drum loops, recorded by Hans Eijkenaar, Holland's first call session drummer, at Sound Vision Studios in Arnhem.

Drum Loops HD 1.0 Features Include:
- Full drum loop library for anyone making music on an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch
- Copy/paste to your favorite multitracker
- Perfect drummer to play along with when practicing your timing on any instrument (all grooves loop automatically within the app itself)
- Performed, recorded and built (may 2012) only for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch
- Many styles in many bpms (check content list)
- Two sounds for all loops and fills, in every style and tempo (modern and vintage)
- 4/4, 6/8 loops and shuffles, brushes loops, loops in straight time and shuffled time
- Uncut, not time stretched, not chopped but actual high end recordings
- Audio quality: 44.1 khz, 16 bit (cd)
- All loops and fills actually played in all bpms, by a living and breathing drummer

The app is perfect for song writers and producers who are looking for a way to step up their game. Drum Loops HD 1.0 gives them more than 700 drum loops and fills, in 7 styles, with a wide range of tempos, and all recorded by Hans Eijkenaar, Holland's first call session drummer, at Sound Vision Studios in Arnhem. Users can choose from two microphone settings: The "Modern" setting, which uses close miking, room ambience and 14 mics; and the classic "Vintage" setting, that utilizes 5 mics placed around the set.

Styles include:
- Ballads- 5 loops and 3 fills at 60, 66, 72 and 78 bpm (beats per minute)
- Pop/Rock- 5 loops and 3 fills at tempos ranging from 80-170 bpm, in 10 bpm increments
- Funk/Hip-Hop- 5 loops and 3 fills at 80, 90, 100, 110, 120 and 130 bpm
- Dance/DnB- 5 loops at 120, 130, 140, 160 and 180 bpm
- Soul- 5 loops and 3 fills at 100, 110, 120, 130 and 140 bpm
- Brushes- 5 loops and 3 fills at 60-130 bpm, plus 2 crashes and 1 crash kick
- 6/8 and Shuffles- 5 loops and 3 fills at 75, 85, 95, 110 and 130 bpm

Drum Loops HD also includes crashes and ending drum fills:
- Single crash A 
- Single crash K
- Cymbal roll 1
- Cymbal roll 2
- Crash plus kick 1 
- Crash plus kick 2 
- Double crash 1
- Double crash 2 
- Ending drum fill 1
- Ending drum fill 2

All tracks are automatically looped within the app, and cut into 2 or 4 bar loops, allowing the user to mix and match to achieve distinctly different sounds for intros, verses, choruses and endings.

In addition to giving users a revolutionary new way to create music, Drum Loops HD also offers musicians the chance to get more out of their practice sessions. Users can easily copy and paste a loop into their favorite DAW and play along. With a first call session drummer leading the practice session, musicians will generally practice for longer periods of time than if they were using a boring, monotonous metronome!

Drum Loops HD 1.0 is only $9.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Music category. Promo codes are available for qualified reviewers. Please specify the website or blog you represent when making your request.

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