Best Music-Related Apps for iPhone

February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

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Using nothing but an iPhone, it’s possible to entertain friends with fresh music tracks you create yourself. That’s only one of the many activities you can complete with music-related iPhone apps that help you hone your love of music or even improve your own musical skills.

Create

Want to mix up your own beats, create your own tunes, and impress all your friends? There are a lot of apps for that.

  • Aurora Sound Studio allows you to create your own electronic music. The app is a full digital studio offering: drum beats, synthesizers, even a mixer with full effects. Use the multi-touch grid to create brand-new electronic songs.
  • Use the Music Studio app to copy and paste audio, record sounds on the iPhone using the mic, insert new instrumentation and drum pads to tunes, and even add effects to your music. The menu has a MIDI export/import function as well.
  • Get the PocketGuitar app to create sounds from a classical guitar, electric guitar, acoustic-electric guitar, muted guitar, bass guitar, and even a ukulele. You will literally have the option of playing your iPhone like a guitar — one of several, in fact.
  • Download Drum Kit Lite, a free iPhone app, to find out what it’s like to be a drummer. Made for both experienced and beginner drummers alike, Drum Kit Lite offers a full 6-piece digital drum kit with 4 times, a snare, a bass, hi-hat, crash, ride and splash. You’ll get visual feedback as you tap. Create your own beats or play along with existing music using the app.
  • The Ocarina app turns your iPhone into a flute. Use the touch screen to tap out the notes while blowing into your phone. It’s the next best thing to actually owning a flute, and way more affordable.
  • Get the Cleartune app to easily tune up any musical instrument. The chromatic tuner shows you a visual note wheel, and a fine-tuning meter, to help you find the correct pitch and tune for whatever instrument you’re working with at the time.

Using Music-Related Apps

Using music-related apps to create your own sounds may seem like a waste of time, but every famous musician started out small. Rapper J. Cole record hit songs in bedroom studios, according to his own lyrics. Both “Premeditated Murder” and “See It to Believe It” reference that he made music in the bedroom. Now, Cole is a Grammy-nominated recording artist. If J. Cole Recorded Hit Songs in Bedroom studios, why can’t you start out with cool music-related iPhone apps? Maybe one day, you’ll be the one getting the awards.

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Technology Helps Educate

February 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Technology is a major part of the world today. It is thought that if some forms of technology were lost it would cause havoc. This has been shown when electricity goes out. Technology in education is important because it is what students are use to having in many forms of technology around daily.

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has developed standards for technology in education. The guidelines are developed to help teachers educate students efficiently and allow students to stay up to date with the highly used digital world. Students need involvement with technology today because it is everywhere and a majority of jobs use some sort of technology. Students with technology literacy have a better chance of obtaining good jobs and advancing in their chosen field.

Now that there is a global economy, in part due to the internet, education has to work with it and evolve. There are many things changing today and education needs to be part of this change. Starting change at the foundation of a person’s education is a way to be prepared for technology in everyday life.

What has technology in education done for educator requirements? They need to incorporate various items including:

*Education that involves the world outside the classroom

*Working with a student’s life today as well as what will be in their future

*Continue to refresh and evolve curriculum to move with the world’s technology changes.

The ISTE continues to assist educators with their ever changing curriculum due to constant technology changes. Guidelines and standards continue to evolve along with technology. ISTE strives to keep students and educators well educated with the effectiveness of technology in education by searching for the latest innovations.

Working together gives students advantages they may never have had before. This means they not only benefit from technology in education, but have a team working to keep them as leading in the digital age regarding their education as possible.

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