By –   The fiddle (or violin) is a very difficult instrument to learn. It's also difficult to maintain: strings, the bow, and so on. While the experience may be very rewarding, some of us may just want to have fun with music. The folks at Smule are great with music-type Apps, and their latest is the Magic Fiddle. It's an application that emulates the sound of a fiddle. It sounds pretty nice, and the video above shows that it can be played to make some beautiful music. Smule is the maker of the Ocarina and the popular I Am T-Pain App At $2.99, it doesn't sound like a bad deal. Here's another one of our favorite music Apps, Seline HD:         Related Posts Read More

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It's not perfect, but this video of the St. Lawrence String Quartet performing Pachelbel's Canon in D major is yet another example of how the iPad is revolutionizing music. Created by the innovative Ge Wang of Smule, the folks who have given us Ocarina, I Am T-Pain, Glee Karaoke, and Magic Piano, the US$2.99 Magic Fiddle turns your iPad into a lovely string instrument. No skill is required, and you can play songs that are included in the SongBook by following streams of colored light. If you really want to learn how to play, the StoryBook takes you through eight chapters of different techniques and instructions -- of course, you'll have to practice to master the Magic Fiddle. Enjoy watching the video, and if you and your friends happen to get good enough to do Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor on iPads, TUAW wants your video first -- just Read More

...- Ocarina - http://itunes.apple.com/eg/app/ocarina/id293053479?mt=8 #iTunes A really cool app... Read More

The big knock against smartphones, iPods and iPads is that no one really needs one. There is no question you can get by without any of the nearly 300,000 mobile apps on the market. But if you ever felt the need to express yourself with music, and you test out some of the better apps, your definition of “need” may quickly wither. Tricked out with apps like Glee ($1), Band ($4), Bebot ($2) and others, the iPhone is history’s most versatile music creation device. The iPad offers a different and, in many ways, expanded dimension to the iPhone’s musical abilities, with apps like Magic Piano ($1), Air Harp ($2), Xewton Music Studio ($15) and Korg’s iElectribe ($10). And although users of other types of mobile phones, like the Android and the BlackBerry, are so far without these particular apps, they can still find a few decent ones to help tap into Read More

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Smule's new iPhone app Glee is getting a lot of great press. Smule was behind the hugely successful Ocarina app, which transforms the iPhones into a musical instrument. According to Mobile Beat, for its latest app, Smule partnered with the popular Fox TV show Glee, and it’s looking like another big success. Read More

As anyone who has browsed the App Store will know, musical instrument apps don’t have their own category, but are in fact spread out across “Music” and “Entertainment,” alongside what seems like an unholy number of fart- and burp-themed efforts. To separate the proper musical apps from some less desirable offerings, we’ve highlighted 10 great iPhone apps that provide a darn good musical experience on your handset. Whether you’re looking to strum, blow, shake, tap or hum, here are the apps that’ll do it for you, and all of them offer more than just a novelty experience. With this many musical instruments available for $2 or less, why not get a few friends together and start a band? iBone quite simply offers a masterclass in musical instrument design for the iPhone. It works on so many different levels. You can pick it up and have fun playing, but if you know Read More

In less than 24-hours the iPad will finally be released. Now, the hardware, however sexy it might be, is not why so many people are itching to buy the device: It’s all about the apps! In the ramp-up to the iPad release, more and more applications have been announced or previewed and now that the apps are live in iTunes, we already know what apps will be available on day one. Over the last few weeks, we’ve thought a lot about what apps we most want to try on the iPad upon its release and these ten represent some of our favorites. The selection of applications is varied — from games to web services to whole new product types. However successful the iPad ends up being will hinge in part on the apps available for the device. If these ten are any indication — iPad users have a lot to look Read More

Mar 27th 2010 at 9:00AM Every one dismissed the fact that she was saying "charima" instead of "charisma" did make me wonder if they were watching the girl and not listening to what was she saying... I LMAO . She needs to work on her pronunciation first because she can't speak clearly. LOOOOL. If she's reading this thread, she'll find the link below very useful :) Does anyone recognize the equipment/stand that is holding the iPhones? Thanks! -Joe Where do people get 4 iPhones? and how do they afford that many? Time to eliminate the obsessive "Found Footage" in the tittle of every TUAW video! Yah she speaks korean, japanese and english. The song is ok, but her other rendition of Irreplaceable by beyonce is much better. I agree. Irreplaceable (vocally) is a lot better. The music in the Poker Face video is definitely better. She did a good job. I Read More

Musikprogramme könnten am iPad abermals kräftig in Schwingung geraten: Musicnotes.com zeigt digitale Klaviernoten auf dem neuen Apple-Gerät, Smules Ocarina (0.79 €; App Store-Link) gibt in seinen Update-Beschreibungen bereits “support the iPad” an, und auch Etude (2.39 €; App Store-Link) – sheet music on steroids – verspricht einen iPad-Adaption ihrer Lernsoftware. Taschenhersteller Vaja kündigt ihre luxuriösen Lederetuis im iPad-Format an. Webbrowser-Hersteller Opera reicht nach den diskussionsgeladenen Gesprächen seine ‘Mini-Version’ offiziell in den App Store ein. Durch die serverseitige Kompression sollen sich (vielbefahrene) Webseiten schneller darstellen lassen. Durch die direkte und offene Kommunikationspolitik steht Apple jetzt unter Druck, zu prüfen ob der Browser den eigenen App Store-Richtlinien entspricht. Im Februar 2010 benutzten 28.8 Millionen Facebook-Anwender das iPhone-Programm als Zugang zum sozialen Netzwerk. Das sind ungefähr 1/3 der mittlerweile im Umlauf befindlichen 75 Millionen iPhones und iPod touches sowie 7-Prozent der 400 Millionen registrierten Facebook-User. Seit Juli 2008 existiert der App Store. Schätzungen zufolge Read More

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...アプリの #Ocarina 世界中に演奏を発信できる。。 http://bit.ly/3y7DgQ #Smule... Read More

...and Ocarina http://bit.ly/7U2b6x is one of my fav iPhone apps. Truly thinking-outside-the-box! It's a rock star app!... Read More

Wie Pocketgamer.co.uk korrekt ankündigte, erschien am heutigen Freitag plattformübergreifend FIFA 10 von Electronic Arts. Die iPhone-Version der Fußball-Simulation sieht sehr berauschend aus und spielt sich auf den ersten Metern ganz passabel. Gerade bei dieser Art von Sporttiteln fehlt mir jedoch die haptische Rückmeldung eines Joysticks. Die offizielle Mannschaftsliste fällt mit 570 Team recht lang aus und die Spielmodi gestalten sich umfangreich. Damit auch mal ein paar deutsche Teams in den YouTube-Welten vertreten sind, oben ein unkommentiertes Video meiner ersten (nicht erfolgsgesegneten) Spielminuten. Dev-Team Mitglied cpich3G verkündet über seine Twitter-Seite, dass es gelungen sei eine individuelle 3.1 Firmware auf einem 3GS-Gerät einzuspielen. Die Vorraussetzungen begrenzen jedoch den Spaß: Auf dem 3GS muss die Firmware 3.0 mit Jailbreak vorhanden sein um den ‘Gefängnisausbruch’ auf Firmware 3.1 ‘hinüberzuretten’. Zum derzeitigen Stand würde dies bedeuten, das der ‘Jailbreak’ für Firmware 3.1 von einem Exploit in 3.0 profitiert. Benutzer, die das letzte, offizielle Apple-Update eingespielt haben, Read More

Smule, the creators of hit iPhone music apps like Ocarina and Leaf Trombone, have partnered with hip hop/R&B star T-Pain to bring you a brand new iPhone app that utilizes Antares’ Auto-Tune technology to make your singing voice sound pitch perfect. You don’t need to know who T-Pain is or what Auto-Tune is to enjoy Smule’s I Am T-Pain, but here is a crash course anyway.  T-Pain, along with many other artists, use Antares’ Auto-Tune technology to change the pitch of their voices to make it sound unique or to disguise inaccuracies.  The technology has become standard equipment in professional recording studios and somehow Smule was able to cram it into an iPhone app. So how does I Am T-Pain work?  Simply launch the app and choose your favorite song, or you can choose to go freestyle.  The app allows you to sound like T-Pain, or you can customize the settings Read More