Review of RealBeat, an App for iPad by Joerg Piringer
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Review of RealBeat, an App for iPad by Joerg Piringer
App: RealBeat
Available: para iPhone, iPod touch & iPad
Price: 2,39€
Developer: Joerg Piringer born in 1974. currently living in vienna/austria. member of the institute for transacoustic research. member of the vegetable orchestra (das erste wiener gemüseorchester). student at the schule für dichtung in wien (curd duca, sainkho namtchylak, etc). master degree in computer science. sound poet.
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Recently, we published a post titled “Using new technologies in poetry publishing” where we spoke about polypoetry. We also embeded a video of Joerg Piringer at Propost Festival in Barcelona. Joerg Piringer is also a developer of Apps for iPad, iPhome, iPod touch & Mac. We’ve bought an App developed by him: Realbeat. We’ve been playing with it and we’ve really enjoyed it. This is the App which has entertained us the most and the more creative and inspiring that we’ve downloaded.
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First impression
When we first execute the App we could feel a little overwhelmed by the quantity of options this App has. After playing with it for 3 minutes, we’re able to understand how it works. So there’s no need for a “how to” in this App - it is really intuitive and easy to use.
Record sounds and then create songs with them
This App lets you record sounds of your environment (yourself, your dog, your fridge, your neighbour) and then lets you play with these sounds. You can modify them, experiment with them,… Add text (then a computer voice reads it), etc.
Infinite possibilities
What surprises us the most of this App is that it brings us infinite possibilities. We can record as many sounds as we want, we can modify them as we want,… Then we can save the projects and load them whenever we want. We also can export the projects or record in .wav format what we’re doing. We understand this App as a tool to create music: songs, polypoetry, sound poems… [hr_invisible]
Examples
We’ve recorded some experimental ‘songs’.
This one has been created with a project which already comes with RealBeat App:
This one has been created from scratch:
100% Recommended
We recommend 100% this App for iPad!
