BUT WHAT I REALLY WANNA KNOW IS, WHEN WILL THEY INVENT AN IPHONE APP THAT WILL GO DOWN ON ME?
Thursday, August 6th, 2009 at 3:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
Dan Rodriguez at Metal Insider reports that Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess has released a $9.99 iPhone app with his sequencer, the JR Hexatone Pro. I’m gonna re-print the press release verbatim after the jump, ’cause to paraphrase Tracey Morgan on 30 Rock, I don’t understand about half the words they just said.
JR Hexatone Pro is a next-generation 6-directional loop generation tool that uses artificial intelligence and advanced randomization algorithms to produce constantly changing sonic structures. The app is capable of creating many type of drum loops, melodic sequences or rhythm patterns, thanks to its ability to load custom user samples and modify them in realtime. Users can also engage built-in Stutter or Chorus effects and control them with the iPhone’s accelerometer.
JR Hexatone Pro is a great addition to the modern musician’s rig. The application comes with a massive library of 400 original factory samples and 40 factory loop presets. After creating and recording the loops, users can export them to .WAV files (via the original ioLibrary technology) and use them on a desktop computer or directly in Intua Beatmaker.
Okay. That sounds pretty cool – ten bucks is kinda pricey for an iPhone app, and as Mr. Rodriguez points out, Brian Eno’s Bloom is easier to use and less than half the price (four bucks). And since I am, as Dan hypothesizes, a stoner who just wants “something to dick around with” when I’m stoned, I don’t really need a 6-direction loop generation tool with AI and algorithms and sonic structures and ZZZZZzzzzzz…
Still, if anyone did pony up for this and has something intelligent (or at least semi-intelligent) to say about it, I’d be more than curious to hear all about this little toy. Because I do find it fucking amazing what they can do on the lil’ bitty computers we all seem to be carrying around these days. As Vince keeps saying to me, the iPhone has instantly improved the quality of my life.
It’s also made me that much more ADD, but whatever. It’s the future, dudes! It’s full of stars!!!
-AR
P.S. If anyone invents an app like the one I describe in the headline, please let me know. I will happily pay ten bucks for that app.
I think you’d need a dongle to go with that app. Ba-zing!
Forget the rest of it: Who has the answer to the subject line???
They can do that with the processor in an Iphone? Thats incredible.
all i have to say on the subject is that i was at prog nation last night in CT and rudess used the iphone app to end off his keyboard solos in A Rite of Passage and Beyond this Life and it was fucking awesome. A FUCKING IPOD SOLO??? idk what theyre gonna come up with next, but if u hav skills like JR, then sure, drop 10 bucks on it and rock out
They DID invent an app for that. I watched American Pie…
The Adult Swim Vending Machine Champ looks pretty cool.
What we have learned from this is that if something makes noise Rudess can play the shit out of it. The dude solos on a fucking iPhone. It’s equal parts awesome, hilarious and retarded. But since it’s JR you can’t really knock it.
yeah dude, Jordan had a big keyboard solo that led into Erotomania at the show i was at in Asheville. towards the end he started using the iPhone and it was fucking amazing; sounded a lot like a Kaoss pad. he also had a big tv behind him with a cartoon version of himself that mimicked what he was playing on the keys, and it even started dualing him with prerecorded samples. needless to say, that show fucking slayed
DEICIDE-Legion.