iPhone Apps?
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MaheshS
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- Joined: 02 Feb 2010, 22:36
I don't have a iPhone, but found this from a friend.
http://appleoverload.com/appshopper/upd ... ite-music/
http://appleoverload.com/appshopper/upd ... ite-music/
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vasanthakokilam
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- Joined: 03 Feb 2010, 00:01
I checked out the iraagam tool. It is pretty good. Even the 'lite' version provides good functionality including playing the aro/ava of each of the ragas. I think it lays the foundation for some great enhancements like playing characteristic phrases when one touches that phrase. Preferably pre-recorded with gamakas. Then it is worth paying some good money for it.
1) I use a free app called iTick which is full featured metronome.
2) Karajan music ear trainer is great for learning to identity swara intervals.
3) One of the built in apps Clocks->Stopwatch is a nice way to get a good idea on the average beat length of a song. You keep touching Lap button for each beat and it gives you a nice record of each beat length.
If any of you have good ideas for a CM/IM oriented app, please share. There may be some iPhone developers here who can implement it for us.
Here are the various things one can put to use.
1. Touch interface ( Can we code gamakams or kAlapramANam with some gestures? It supports multi touch. Pinch and expand are typical gestures used for magnification of images. We have to find equivalent meaning for CM. Only our imagination is the limit )
2. Accelerometer. If you shake the device, the program can detect it and act on it. Typically, it is used for undoing what you did but there can be a meaning for Music. For example, in the metronome, it is hard to synchronize it to the beat of a song you are hearing. It will be great if I can shake the device to the beat of the song and the metronome program learns the beat interval based on the shake interval.
3. Compass: It will tell you which direction you are facing. Not sure how to map it to music. Just throwing it out there. May be play the arohanam when facing north, play the avarohanam when facing south. What to do about east and west? May be my old 4 quadrant system can be resurrected.
4. Location. It knows your longitude and lattitude. Again, not sure how useful it is for a music program.
5. Date and Time. This can be useful to select songs based on time of day, day of week etc. Angarakan song on Tuesdays and Bowli in the mornings!
1) I use a free app called iTick which is full featured metronome.
2) Karajan music ear trainer is great for learning to identity swara intervals.
3) One of the built in apps Clocks->Stopwatch is a nice way to get a good idea on the average beat length of a song. You keep touching Lap button for each beat and it gives you a nice record of each beat length.
If any of you have good ideas for a CM/IM oriented app, please share. There may be some iPhone developers here who can implement it for us.
Here are the various things one can put to use.
1. Touch interface ( Can we code gamakams or kAlapramANam with some gestures? It supports multi touch. Pinch and expand are typical gestures used for magnification of images. We have to find equivalent meaning for CM. Only our imagination is the limit )
2. Accelerometer. If you shake the device, the program can detect it and act on it. Typically, it is used for undoing what you did but there can be a meaning for Music. For example, in the metronome, it is hard to synchronize it to the beat of a song you are hearing. It will be great if I can shake the device to the beat of the song and the metronome program learns the beat interval based on the shake interval.
3. Compass: It will tell you which direction you are facing. Not sure how to map it to music. Just throwing it out there. May be play the arohanam when facing north, play the avarohanam when facing south. What to do about east and west? May be my old 4 quadrant system can be resurrected.
4. Location. It knows your longitude and lattitude. Again, not sure how useful it is for a music program.
5. Date and Time. This can be useful to select songs based on time of day, day of week etc. Angarakan song on Tuesdays and Bowli in the mornings!