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We could not resist the proposal for this program: to make our iPhone in a music machine. It’s quite good, is fun for a while, but unfortunately is only a small sample of what is nice might do with an iPhone and a more serious approach.

Band features six musical instruments:

Rock Kit

Rock Kit is a battery, pads, so that when you tap on each pad can hear each instrument in the battery.

Funky Drummer

Funky Drummer, is a trigger loops, can not think of a better way of saying, when you tap on the pads, we hear different drum patterns.

Grand Piano

Grand Piano is a piano, we can tap into the two keyboards at once, to play like chords.

Bassist

Bassist is an electric bass, when you tap on the strings, depending on which fret touch, sounds a note or another.

12 Bar Blues

12 Bar Blues is an instrument with blues guitar phrases. has a pentatonic scale so we can play a solo, and the typical patterns for the first, fourth and fifth grades, in the typical 12-bar blues.

Audience

Finally, Audience, by touching the screen of this instrument, we can hear the cries of the public.

These are the instruments, and the problem they have is the latency. Since touch screen similar to the note, spend a few milliseconds, although it is apparently a very short time if you get to play is hard to keep up, you always a bit stuck.

The instruments on the other hand are not very useful. It is very difficult to play a piano with four fingers on the two keyboards, drum patterns are the same, the battery is complicated by the latency to touch, and with the guitar you can only get to do a typical bluesy progression, nothing more.

Some options

By contrast, the bass is more appropriate since it is common touch bassist Just a note each time. We have some songs, and we managed to play bass while the song without any problems. Moreover, its sound is more than acceptable, too bad that the notes are too short.

Well, what do we do with our incredible compositions? Then we can record them for clues, no less. We can play a rhythm on drums, and record a low top. Of course very rudimentary, thousands of light years from what is really a sequencer. But power can be.

Tools

Band is a first approach to an exciting world, the multitrack recording and composition of pocket. Many years ago there specific products on the market that attempt to answer this need, I remember the series of Yamaha QY sequencers. A friend of mine was in the habit of composing with pots of those, like 15 years ago, and I had to use.

With the power of the iPhone, and its control interface, we do not doubt that in future there will be some more at the level sequencer, but until then, Band is only a small approximation, and to be just that, it seems rather expensive, truth.