Strike Up The Band on the New iPhone
Posted by jamesfrankel on June 10th, 2008
Like many other people I know, I have been staring through the window at the iPhone since it first hit the shelves last year. Although almost every one of my friends and both of my siblings have one, and sadly I do not. First it was because I had a two-year contract with Verizon, then it was because my job required that I have a Windows compatible smart phone. This made it even more difficult for me to read about the new iPhone on the Wired Magazine website, and perhaps more importantly, the fact that Moo Cow Music is releasing an application for the iPhone called simply “Band“. This is the from the Wired story:
All instruments will be usable in the same song, while a multi-touch interface will allow up to five notes or samples to be played at the same time. Animated keys and strings will appear to move when activated, and any part can be edited, erased or overdubbed. An included metronome keeps the beat to keep each part on time.
The application looks really cool, and very user friendly. I can just imagine what this will do for home music making and the students that we teach. Check out their video on YouTube.
What do you think? Will there come a day when we will ask our students to pull out their iPhones in our music classes to make music?
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June 10th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Jim,
Do you have the have the phone you have because of microsoft exchange email service? Because if you do they are adding that to the iphone this time around.
June 11th, 2008 at 6:23 am
Steve,
Great to hear from you!
Don’t rub it in. I have a Treo that I bought in January because at the time the iPhone did not run Active Sync. When I found out that the new one would be able to I was even more upset about not having one.
Maybe the new price can justify my having a second phone….
James
June 14th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
James,
I don’t have one either. But now that the price has gone down…