Here’s a little video of me making a little tune in ~6 minutes. Gets better towards the end

bleep!BOX iPhone Performance from David Wallin on Vimeo.

Here’s what people are saying about bleep!BOX:

Kurt: This app is amazing. Great, intuitive UI, Super tweak-able sounds, and a performance mode that lets you do some amazing looping/stutter effects. I’ve only had it for one day but I can see that this app is deep. I will be able to go back to it over and over and get a different sounding result every time.

DJ_BrettG : @PalmSounds have you tried bleep!box out yet? pretty cool sounds in it!

ronji: Whoa, almost went over on my lunch break playig with bleep!BOX. so fun.

shawnroos: bleep!BOX: The best iPhone Music Making App Since Intua Beatmaker is Live.

jzellis: If you’re a music nerd, check out bleep!BOX for iPhone. Coolest 808/909 type sequencer I’ve seen in a long time.

greenzxr: bleep!BOX is turning in2 another excellent tool 4 mobile music composition 2 add 2 my collection along w/ Beatmaker, Hexatone, noise.io etc

neilkod: This bleep!BOX is app really, really good -I just blew 20 minutes just tweaking the darn snares! well done @bleepboxapp

EricDrain: got the bleep!BOX App last night. Kept me up past my bed time. This is serious!

Metaphormidable: bleep!BOX is one of my very favorite music apps and I have a LOT of them

Onezero: Thanks for developing bleep!BOX–I’m finding that it really opens up composition on the go, and I like how you’ve made the most use of the iPhone screen space. Great stuff, and I’ve given you a 5-star review on the app store.

cycle60: a beatbox/synth app for the iphone that’s actually useful? bleepbox could be it.

Philip: I wanted to say you’ve got a fantastic app on your hands- I’ve owned dozens of drum machines and groove boxes and  bleep box is easily more fun and tweakable than any.

jdenkmire: Holy crap, I hope the outlet is near because i’m going to run out of iphone juice in a hurry, thanks to bleep!box.

I’ve been working on features for the first update of bleep!BOX. The first enables patch sharing and file io over Wifi. I also implemented .WAV recording. You can export .wav files over wifi as well.  Once nice thing about the .wav recording is that it includes slice points, which should make it easy to get these files up and running in your sequencer/sampler of choice.

The next feature I’ll be working on is Song Mode.

Some stuff that I am currently working on:

We’re giving away 5 free copies of bleep!BOX over at the NUI Group forums. Post a message there or tweet ‘@bleepboxapp rocks!’. NUI Group is devoted to new forms of human-computer interaction, especially multitouch. For those wondering why – I helped develop touchlib, one of the first solutions for rolling your own multitouch table. Note: you’ll need a US iTunes account to redeem the code.

Again, big thanks to everyone who has purchased bleep!BOX. We will continue to work hard to make sure you make sure you are satisfied with your purchase. Currently we are working on new features for the first update.

I’d like to get some more reviews in the app store, so I’m offering a free copy of my Zero Vector VST plugin to anyone who writes a review (150$ value). It doesn’t have to be a good review. Owning the app is also a requirement. Drop me a mail if you decide to do this.

It seems your email has been hijacked by spammers.. or maybe you are a spammer. But probably the first one. Email me from another account if you still need help.

First, thanks to everyone who has purchased the app so far! And especially thanks to the people who have been kind enough to write reviews. It’s really important to get a good buzz going – for all the really good iPhone music apps, like Beat Maker, JR Hexatone, Noise.io, Technobox and Jasuto there are about 50 lame ‘iPhone Drumz’ apps. And those apps that might have taken a day or a week at most to do, get the same placement in the app store that the quality apps that might have taken 3 months to do. So please tell your friends, tweet, post stuff online, etc!

Now, a few people have been asking me about features that may be coming down the pipe. I have a few things that I’ve been planning on doing since day one that just didn’t make it into the first release. Here’s a list:

• - Http Server for file I/O. Jasuto has a built in http server for uploading and downloading patches from the iPhone over Wifi. I would like to do a similar solution for bleep!BOX. Aside from patches, I want to enable people to export WAV/AIFF files. It would be pretty cool if you could export a .WAV of your beat, with slice points already there

• - Online Patch Sharing community. Some of you have already noticed the ‘Submit’ button on the save page. I want to expand this funcionality so that you can download other people’s submissions directly, rate them, comment, etc.. Having a bleep!BOX community would be rad.

• - DSMI midi support. The DSMI library allows iPhone and Nintendo DS apps to send midi messages over Wifi using a computer to act as a server. The server software is cross platform (Mac, PC, Linux) and well supported. I would *like* to add DSMI for MIDI sync and maybe MIDI IO. There may be some challenges with this one, but you’ll definately see DSMI in some form make it in.

• - Master volume control – the output of bleep!BOX is a bit low. Being able to control the overall volume would help.

• - Some kind of LFO modulation

UPDATE: Forgot an important one! Song Mode – I want to add a song page that will allow you to string together patterns into a song.

That’s a few of my ideas that should definately see the light of day. I can’t promise that they will all be in the next release, but atleast 1-2 of them should be. If you have suggestions, please click the contact button or post them!

contact@bleepboxapp.com
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White Noise Audio Software Releases iPhone App bleepBOX!, an Analogue Synthesizer / Drum Machine Combo that Fits in Your Pocket

KENNETT SQUARE, PA – August 17, 2009 – The beat box just got pocket sized. bleep!BOX, an analog syth/drum machine debuted in Apple’s iPhone App Store on Saturday, August 15, 2009. bleep!BOX allows users to arrange synthesizer melodies, program drum beats and edit dozens of parameters in real time. Unlike other music apps, bleep!BOX does not limit users with fixed sample sets or pre-made loops. It does not use any samples, only tweakable, analog-style sounds.

Developer Dave Wallin, owner of White Noise Audio Software created bleep!BOX after becoming frustrated with music apps available for the iPhone. “Only two types of music apps were available: simple music toys and music makers. The simple music toys become boring fast and had limited usefulness and the music makers didn’t offer enough options to make a song interesting. bleepBOX! strikes that balance between simplicity and creative potential.”

Similar to the controls on a vintage analog synthesizer, bleep!BOX gives users creative license over waveforms, filters, effects and modulation. It features 50+ parameters and can play up to 10 instruments simultaneously.

“There are a lot of musicians who don’t like using already-made loops,” said Wallin. With bleep!BOX you can program all of your own sounds and make the melodies you want instead of using canned loops or samples. Now users can produce real music on their iPhones.”

bleepBOX!, sold solely in Apple’s app store, costs $9.99 USD and requires iTunes. Click here for the iTunes store link for bleep!BOX.

White Noise Audio Software produces innovative computer based instrument plugins. Founded in 2003, the company is best known for 3 products: Additive, an additive synthesizer, Doppelmangler, a spectral resynthesizer and Zero Vector, a virtual analog synthesizer. bleep!BOX is the company’s first iPhone app. Dave Wallin is the founder and sole proprietor of White Noise Audio Software. www.whitenoiseaudio.com

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I’m happy to announce that bleep!BOX, the awesomest drum machine / goove box on the iPhone, was approved and is now available in the app store! Get it here.

If bleep!BOX does well, there are a lot of features I’d love to add to it. Please tell your friends!