MooCowMusic: Band v1.0

Can’t decide whether your iPhone could use a virtual guitar, piano, or drum set? There’s an easy answer for that dilemma. Why not get them all with developer MooTheCow’s MooCowMusic: Band? This homebrew app will enable you to play a wide variety of musical instruments from the comfort of your iPhone.

Here’s a sample of some of the features that this application will carry:

• Play and record multiple instruments
• Drums, bass, guitars, keyboards can all be played and recorded into one song from the same application.
• There are no limits on the instrument interface, enabling not only standard instruments but also unusual, outlandish, or completely novel instruments to be created and played.
• MooCowMusic:Band can be expanded with future instrument packs and user-created instruments.
• Multitouch - press up to five keys at once for complex chords.
• Animation shows keys being pressed, strings being struck, etc.
• Advanced audio engine
• Mono or stereo samples. 14.1Khz 16Bit.
• Multisampled instruments, with each key triggering a separate sample.
• Samples stop when you lift your finger, allowing more expression.
• Configurable Attack stage of playback allows samples to fade in gradually.
• Configurable Release stage of playback allows samples to fade out when you release the note.
• Samples can be defined to loop for as long as the key is pressed.
• Each instrument can be indepenently panned and its volume set, to position it in the mix.
• Each instrument can be muted.
• Each instrument can be soloed (mute all other instruments and just allow this one to play).
• Play along to your MP3s.

Keep in mind that MooTheCow is also planning to update this app with more features in the near future. Those interested in picking up this homebrew for their iPhone will want to visit the developer’s site, via the source link below. Before you do set off, you may also want to take a look at this video demonstrating what the app can do. Happy viewing!