A Look at Band for the iPhone

[MacRumors]

Arstechnica posts an in-depth look at the $9.99 iPhone App, Band [App Store], by Moo Cow Music.

The app was amongst the featured applications demoed at this year's WWDC. A Youtube Video provided by the developer shows its capabilities.

Ars put the app through its paces and was impressed by the built in functionality beyond basic instrument play:

While the ability to play these instruments would be impressive enough for an application running on a phone, the application also comes with some pretty impressive DAW functionality. You can record, overdub, solo a track, mute tracks, and make basic edits, all on a handheld device. You also have the ability to work on multiple songs, save them independently, erase the last note recorded, erase the last overdub, and erase the entire current instrument track. You can overdub as many times as you want, with the only limitation being the iPhone's processor.

Still despite all this, they note that you are unable to export your creations outside of the iPhone short of connecting to the headphone jack.

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[xamkil83]

This app is a great one but I would love to have the ability to export my creations to Garage Band of even save them as a Ringtone on the iPhone. Mabie these features will come in an update to the app.

[nickspohn]

It makes me sad that he's charging $10 for this...

[hexonxonx]

Originally Posted by nickspohn

It makes me sad that he's charging $10 for this...

why? Deveoper should be able to earn some money.

[xamkil83]

Originally Posted by hexonxonx

why? Deveoper should be able to earn some money.

I completely agree with you. He worked hard, and created a really cool app. 10$ is a fair price in my opinion.

[sunfast]

It's a shame you can't export your tracks though, considering all that power the app has.

[futherout]

Originally Posted by xamkil83

I completely agree with you. He worked hard, and created a really cool app. 10$ is a fair price in my opinion.

yea, it is. But it has been free for jailbreakers. (and still is)

[starcrossed]

Originally Posted by nickspohn

It makes me sad that he's charging $10 for this...

Remember technically the developer is only charging $6.99. When people complain about the price of the app they have to make sure and remember the 30% Apple keeps all for themselves to do what they need to run the store.

[motulist]

The youtube video is gone. Anyone got a mirror?

EDIT: it seems to be back now.

[twoodcc]

if only you could export what you make into garageband

[sanford]

is there anything, even one of the voice memo recorders, that will make a high-quality recording (relatively speaking; I mean good enough) from the headphone mic using a mono or stereo 3.5mm line-in (result being mono, which is fine, and of course that's all the iPhone mic in supports, I think) and then export that as a .mov or .aif file, or even a high bit-rate MP3 or AAC, rather than having to just line-out into a FireWire audio interface on a Mac? what i really need is less a "portable GarageBand" and more a portable recorder for something like my Korg KAOSSILATOR, which stores loops, but has no USB audio out, or any sort of removable memory card, and the contents of a KAOSSILATOR's memory does not survive across power cycle. Meaning if you're out somewhere with the Korg, you have to leave it on, make sure it stays on, and hope the batteries last, until you can get home to the Mac, the FW audio interface and the DAW (or plain, old QuickTime Pro, for that matter).

I can buy a decent field recorder, but then again I wouldn't mind saving $300, either. I can get a Sony, or whatever brand, device with decent quality, memory card support, etc., intended mostly for voice memos, dictation, recording meetings, but will support line-in. But for decent quality that's still $80 - 100 when an app for the iPhone may be just be $10 or less.

[dwman]

Just downloaded this for the sale price. What a great app and a steal at $2. I personally wouldn't have purchased at $10, but if you give it long enough, these apps will come down in price. Cro-Mag Rally is a perfect example. Started out at $9.99, came down to $5.99, now sells for $1.99.