The good news was that these apps are compatible with the current iPad as well. And Apple has made them available for download in App Store ahead of the iPad 2 launch date of tomorrow.

GarageBand and iMovie are available in the App Store for $4.99.

iMovie has been updated with new features for the iPhone as well

GarageBand App

GarageBand turns your iPad into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play pianos, organs, guitars, drums, and basses on your iPad. They sound and play like their counterparts, but let you do things you could never do on a real instrument. Enjoy a full range of Smart Instruments that make you sound like a pro — even if you’ve never played a note before. Plug an electric guitar into your iPad and play through classic amps and stompbox effects. Use the built-in microphone or a guitar to record, or capture any performance. Then mix up to eight tracks to create a song you can share.

Play your iPad like a musical instrument.
• Perform on dozens of musical instruments on the innovative Multi-Touch keyboard.
• Tap out beats from the seat of acoustic and electronic drum kits.
• Recreate legendary guitar rigs on your iPad with 9 amps and 10 stompbox effects.
• Record your voice using the built-in microphone, and apply fun sound effects.
• Use the Sampler to create an instrument from sounds you record, then play them on a keyboard.

Sound like a virtuoso with Smart Instruments.
• Tap chords to instantly create keyboard grooves with the Smart Keyboard.
• Strum chords on acoustic and electric Smart Guitars, or trigger fingerpicking patterns for popular chords.
• Groove with an onscreen electric or upright Smart Bass by tapping on chords.
• Drag drum instruments onto a grid to create your own beats with the Smart Drums.

Create a song anywhere you go.
• Arrange and mix your song with up to eight tracks using Touch Instruments, audio recordings, and loops.
• Trim and place musical regions exactly where you want them to play.
• Use the Mixer to fine-tune each track’s volume – solo or mute any track, or adjust pan, reverb, and echo.
• Use over 250 professionally prerecorded loops as a backing band to your song.

iMovie app update

• Multi-Touch Precision Editor (iPad only).
• Multitrack audio editing with 8 themed soundtracks and over 50 bundled sound effects.
• Audio recording directly into the timeline.
• Audio waveforms (iPad only).
• Three new themes — Neon, Simple, and CNN iReport.
• HD sharing directly to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and CNN iReport.
• AirPlay support for sharing to Apple TV (compatible only with second-generation Apple TV; requires iOS 4.3 or later).
• Project transfer to your computer and compatible iOS devices through iTunes.
• Ability to add titles on photos.
• Option to add fade-in from black and fade-out to black.
• Numerous enhancements, including trimming in Video Browser, in-use markers, video rotation, and more.

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Apple showed off the new GarageBand and iMovie iOS apps during the iPad 2 launch.

The good news was that these apps are compatible with the current iPad as well. And Apple has made them available for download in App Store ahead of the iPad 2 launch date of tomorrow.

GarageBand and iMovie are available in the App Store for $4.99.

iMovie has been updated with new features for the iPhone as well. If you already paid for iMovie for iPhone, you can download it for free on iPad 2.

Universal app designed for iPad 2, iPhone 4, and iPod touch (4th generation).

• Multi-Touch Precision Editor (iPad only).

• Multitrack audio editing with 8 themed soundtracks and over 50 bundled sound effects.

• Audio recording directly into the timeline.

• Audio waveforms (iPad only).

• Three new themes — Neon, Simple, and CNN iReport.

• HD sharing directly to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and CNN iReport.

• AirPlay support for sharing to Apple TV (compatible only with second-generation Apple TV; requires iOS 4.3 or later).

• Project transfer to your computer and compatible iOS devices through iTunes.

• Ability to add titles on photos.

• Option to add fade-in from black and fade-out to black.

• Numerous enhancements, including trimming in Video Browser, in-use markers, video rotation, and more.

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What if you still wanted to listen to that radio station? If the station had live streaming on the web, you could listen to it on your computer. But for the times when you are on the go, you can listen to those radio stations with radio iPhone apps.

iHeartRadio is one of our favorite radio streaming iPhone apps. It streams over 750 US radio stations right to your iPhone or iPod Touch.

The app has a simple and neat interface. You can browse through local stations in determines based on your location or you can search for a radio station by city or by genre.

It also has a section titled ‘Personalities’ where you can find stations such as ‘AT40 with Ryan Seaccrest’, ‘Radio Weezer’, ‘The Dave Ryan Show’ etc.

Are you a fan of talk shows? iHeartRadio has you covered there too. I see 4 premium stations including Dr. Laura, Hannity, Bob & Tom and Jim Rome.

If you find a station you like, you can save it to your favorites for easy access. You can also favorite a song you are hearing. In the favorites tab you can set a station to start by default when you launch the app.

If you are bored and just want to try your luck, you can use the ‘Shake it’ tab to find a random station. This is made interesting by letting you lock either a place or the genre and let it pick a random station.

All the stations are streamed in Apple’s high-quality AAC format so the audio quality is really good.

The app is iOS 4 compatible which means you can stream your favorite radio station while you are using other apps. It has also been updated with high res graphics for the iPhone 4 display.

Oh, did I mention iHeartRadio is FREE? Go ahead, give it a shot and let us know in the comments if you have found something better or comparable. I am sure there are quote a few out there.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Availability: App Store

Price: FREE

Reviewed at version: 2.3.1

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iHeartRadio – Get Your Favorite Radio Anywhere - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2010/08/06 (RSS)

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One of those apps is Midomi. (which was free at launch).

Apps such as Midomi can help you find a song that you hear on radio, or playing in a bar or if you know the tune and can hum it out.

SoundHound is the newest entry in this ‘What’s that song iPhone app’. SoundHound is available as free version as well as a premium version.

SoundHound’s music recognition is blazing fast! It can recoginize a song in just 4 seconds. It doesn’t matter if it is playing on the radio, or if you sing or hum it.

The free version gives you 5 free IDs per month. Your history and bookmarks stay with you. You can get additional IDs as in-app upgrades or get unlimited ID’s with the premium version.

Here are a few more features in the SoundHound app

• In-app lyrics
• Fantastic music discovery
• Artist top songs with visual popularity
• Instant sharing over email, Facebook or Twitter.
• Pandora station links
• One tap purchase with iTunes
• Playback of your iPod tracks & playlists – with SoundHound lyrics
• Music browsing with bios, in-app YouTube videos, discography and tour dates
• Instant voice search to take you straight into any song or arttist

SoundHound stands out from other ‘what’s the song’ apps in working as a iPod app replacement. SoundHound can play your iPod tracks and playlists while giving you the lyrics. This is absolutely great!

With the iPhone OS 4.0 giving more access to iPod app, I am looking forward to making SoundHound my default music player.

A must have in any music-lover’s iPhone.

SoundHound for iPad is also available.

Screenshots

Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 stars

Availability: App Store

Price: Free and $4.99

What’s That Song iPhone App – SoundHound Review - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2010/05/13 (RSS)

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AirBand is an iPhone app from the Music service provider – MP3Tunes.com.

Mp3Tunes provides everyone a free 2GB locker account (or an ad-free paid premium account) where you can store your music and video files and access them anywhere you have an Internet connection.

On the iPhone, you can access your Mp3Tunes Locker files with the free AirBand iPhone app.

You can upload files to your MP3Tunes locker account in one of many ways

• Use the web interface to upload files
• Use LockerSync software to mass upload files from your desktop (like Dropbox again). You can also schedule syncs to run on certain intervals. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
• If you install the browser plugins, you can easily add music to your locker right from the pages you are browsing.
• Mp3tunes comes with an open API which means other apps can di into your locker to play your files. For ex. Amarok, PS3MusicPlayer, WiiTunes can access your locker and play your files.

AirBand iPhone App

The app is pretty simple and functional to use. You login with your MP3Tunes.com account and you will be presented with a few tabs.

• Artists
• Albums
• Playlists
• Settings

It is pretty straightforward and the player screen looks pretty neat to. I am not sure I like the volume dial even though it looks cool.

You can also set the audio streaming quality depending on your connection.

I just briefly tried this app with one song and it performed well on 3G as well as EDGE connection.

With Apple purchasing Lala and the popular opinion that we will have our iTunes in the cloud, Airband could give that ability right now to take your music in the Cloud with you.

With the free 2GB Mp3Tunes account, you can free up your Dropbox account from music. I know I did!

Screenshots

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Availability: App Store [iTunes link]

Price: Free

Take Your Music Anywhere with AirBand iPhone App - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2010/05/05 (RSS)

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With Midomi iPhone App, you can sing, hum or whistle that tune and Midomi will search for that music and return all the information about that song! It is available as a free iPhone App in AppStore.

Midomi works by hosting a recording studio where anyone can contribute by singing and adding to their growing collection of music database. And the next time someone searches for a song you sang, your result might be the top one!

Midomi iPhone App lets you hum, sing or whistle a song to find it. Once it finds it, you can either listen to the song or buy it from iTunes or watch YouTube videos if it’s available. Also, if you are at work and rather type the name of the song or part of it, you could do that too.

You might wonder what if I wanted to find out that song that’s playing in the background in the movie? Just put Midomi in grab mode and just put your phone by the speaker, Midomi will find that too. It’s your personal music assistant.

The technology behind Midomi is truly amazing as it doesn’t even care about language or tempo of the song. It uses special signatures to identify music. We are just scratching the surface with it and having lots of fun discovering music and other Midomi users.

Have a go at this cool iPhone Music App and let us know how you like it.

Update: As a couple of our readers have noted in the comments, Midomi has since moved from free to $4.99 in the App Store we just didn’t realize it.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Availability: App Store

Price: $4.99

Midomi iPhone App – Sing, Hum or Whistle to Find Music - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2008/07/15 (RSS)

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