Music Apps

Party Monster brings good looking, great working DJ features to iPhone and iPad

By Dave Wiskus, Wednesday, Dec 5, 2012 a 5:41 pm

Imagine you're at a party. A totally epic all-night event with hot girls walking around the pool, wearing bikinis and sipping champagne. With ping pong tables covered in red SOLO cups, surrounded by guys with popped collars wearing ironic retro sunglasses and saying "bro". There's a guy in cargo shorts doing a keg stand, and you're pretty sure not everyone here is old enough to drink. You hear cheers from behind you and turn around just in time to see a young man run by, wearing nothing but aviators and carrying a beer in each hand.

It's okay, I wasn't invited to that party either. But I was invited to Party Monster.

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Pandora 4.0 for iPhone and iPad gets complete redesign and goes social

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Oct 29, 2012 a 11:17 pm

Pandora for iPhone and iPad received a huge update that includes a complete redesign and tight social integration. It still includes the same great ability to create personal stations of music that include your favorite artists and songs and similar music , but now you can share your latest discoveries to Facebook and Twitter, follow your friends, re-discover your favorite music on your profile page, get full lyrics, and more.

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Recall for iPhone review

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 a 1:25 am

There are always new movies, music, books, TV shows, and apps coming out and friends giving recommendations about the old and new. It can be hard to keep track of what blockbuster hits you wanted to see, which Indie band your friend was telling you about, and that classic book you've been meaning to pick up for ages. With Recall for iPhone, you'll never forget again! Recall lets you quickly add music, movies, tv shows, apps and books to your list and provides you with all the info you need, allowing you to get in and out of the app within seconds. If you want to be reminded on a release date, Recall will do that for you, or if you want to be reminded to download that book on the night before you travel, Recall will do that too. Unfortunately, it's U.S.-only at the moment, so you'll need a U.S. iTunes account to use it.

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djay for iPhone, iPad now enhanced for the iPhone 5's larger display

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Sep 25, 2012 a 4:06 pm

djay by algoriddim, the very popular and incredibly awesome DJ app for iPhone and iPad, has received a big update that not only brings new features and support for iOS 6, but also optimization for the iPhone 5's larger display. And by optimization, we don't mean that they've spaced out the elements of their UI to fill the screen, but they've redesigned the UI to include more controls on the screen to increase functionality and usability.

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Create killer music videos with vjay for iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Jun 7, 2012 a 4:31 pm

The makers of the popular DJ iPad app, djay, has released a new iPad app called vjay that is all about layering videos and mixing them with music to create unique music videos.

Best free iPhone apps

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Apr 16, 2012 a 11:59 am

iMore's authoritative guide to the very best, absolutely free apps and games for iPhone and iPod touch

Looking for great free apps and games for your iPhone or iPod touch? The App Store is home to over half a million apps and games, and a surprising number of them are available for free. That's free as in free of charge to buy, free of subscriptions to use, and free of any crippling or time-bombing to make you pay later. They're just free. But which free apps are the best? Which are the top free apps you just absolutely have to download right now?

That's where iMore comes in! Here's your ultimate, authoritative guide to the top, 100% free iPhone and iPod touch apps for social networking, IM and communications, education, entertainment, finance, fun and games, health and fitness, kids, music, navigation and location, news, photography, productivity, reading, shopping, sports, travel, and general utility.

Whether you're new to iPhone or iPod touch and looking for a fast, free way to get started with apps, or you're just bored and looking for a little free fun, check out the apps and games below. And hey, since they're free, you can download them all!

Everyone can make music with Figure for iPhone

By Leanna Lofte, Friday, Apr 6, 2012 a 9:06 pm

Figure is a great new app that puts music creation into the hands of everyone, even non-musicians. It has a very unique interface that's easy to use and makes creating music a lot of fun. You slide your finger around a pad to play bass and lead, and tap columns to play the drums.

What makes Figure so great for non-musicians is that you will always be in the correct key and play to the beat. You get to be creative with the pitch and tones, but Figure will always make sure that your choices are "correct" musically.

GarageBand review: Get jamming with the new iPad

By Gary Mazo, Sunday, Mar 18, 2012 a 1:17 pm

Are you a musician? Have you ever wanted to be a musician?GarageBand for the iPad gives seasoned musicians and those with rock star dreams an opportunity to create music.

Apple gave GarageBand a substantial update after the release of iOS 5.1 – in preparation for the new iPad. The graphics have been bumped up in quality and the options for creating music have been enhanced by the inclusion of iCloud integration, multiple users over Bluetooth and new instruments.

The premise of GarageBand is just as the name implies – amateur musicians and musician wannabees can play, record and share music they create using instruments on the iPad.

Futulele turns your iPad or iPhone into a ukelele

By Simon Sage, Tuesday, Mar 6, 2012 a 10:24 am

Are the instruments in GarageBand for iPad just not good enough for you? Amidio is in the process of making a universal iPad/iPhone case with Bluetooth connectivity and... wait for it... a dedicated ukele synthesizer app. Futulele will support 12 chords for each song, with the ability to switch chord sets easily. Sharing, recording, and effects from their previous app, OMGuitar, will be ported over to the app.

How my iPad helped me learn to play guitar

By Gary Mazo, Friday, Mar 2, 2012 a 3:08 pm

When I decided that I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, I wasn’t sure where to start –- so I turned, as I always do, to my trusty iPad.

I’m not the most spontaneous person in the world – my wife and kids would say that is a huge understatement. I am a bit programmed and disciplined and really work on “trying new things.”

So, in my disciplined way, I decided that at 48 years of age, it was time for a mid-life crisis. Since I’m not terribly spontaneous, I have an amazing, beautiful wife and six great kids, my mid-life crisis needed to be something out of the norm.