The number of musical instruments available on the iPhone has increased dramatically since Apple released their SDK for developers (watch this blog for a iphone instrument roundup soon!). Before this, most virtual instruments could only be run on a Jailbroken iPhone.
The complexity of some of these new instruments (like the amazing soon-to-be released iphone synth ) is getting astounding, but a Japanese band called Denki Groove has used some fairly simple apps on jailbroken phones & ipods to do a fantastic version of the song “Smoky Bubbles”.
Here’s a video of the performance:
You can get a copy of their excellent CD as an import from Amazon right here .
The apps that they used for the song are:
- BeatPhone (Drums)
- PocketGuitar (Bass and Guitar)
- Pianist (Keyboards)
- iPhone Synth (Synthesizer)
I for one think that the iPhone is opening up a whole new area of very portable music generation and look forward to the many more apps that will be available. Also, check out the official Denki Groove website .
Have you got any iphone music that you’ve made? if so, tell us !
