Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch have had more than their fair share of cool audio apps (including the unfinished but amazing Jasuto) and there are more on the way including FiRe from Audio Engineering, the brains behind Wave Editor. This hard disk recording app includes accurate real-time waveform information and the ability to upload audio to SoundCloud automatically.


Not to be out done, legendary trance-meister Paul van Dyk is going to release his own app which acts as a frequency analyser, level meter and a glowstick amongst other functions. Check out the evidence in this incredible video....





Astonishing! But what music-related celebrity apps would you like to see?

If you like your world music ROMplers with an Eastern flavour, check out new sound designers MystSonic, who specialise in Chinese and Asian instruments in Kontakt format.


The site includes audio demos of the wares, and currently MystSonic are offering a 15% discount for purchases of more than two instruments.

The Akai MPC remains a popular tool, but chopping up beats on those tiny screens simply isn't as easy as it is on a computer with dedicated beat-slicing software such as Propellerhead's ReCycle.


Thanks to developer SteamSHIFT, however, Mac users can now convert their ReCycle rcy, rex or rx2 filter to work with their MPC 1000 or 2500. The handy app only costs £11 to register, and you can download a demo here.

Modern audio software makes it easier than ever to create beautiful music, but art-monger Pixelh8 took computer music in a different direction altogether last weekend with a performance called Obsolete? at the National Museum of Computing last weekend.


The various pieces performed included contributions from ancient computers such as the IBM 29, Colossus Mk 2 and Sumlock Adding Machine. You can read more about the performance and check out a video of Pixelh8 in action here.