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IK Multimedia has announced that Emmy winning film and television composer, Russ Landau, has been using IK Multimedia’s GrooveMaker app for iPhone/iPod Touch to score a US national Fox network TV show called “Seducing Cindy” currently in production for January broadcast.
For those of you that don’t remember (check out my thoughts here), GrooveMaker is a professional music application that can be used to produce high quality music soundtracks, by anyone in any place, with superb quality audio – high enough for network TV scores and beyond!
Here’s some info from the man himself on how he composed the soundtrack for the Fox TV show “Seducing Cindy” with GrooveMaker from his iPhone, while on an airplane:
“I needed to write a couple more music cues for ‘Seducing Cindy’ and decided to have a little fun experimenting with IK Multimedia’s new GrooveMaker iPhone app while on a flight back to my summer place in CT. So at 30,000 ft and about an hour into my flight, I plugged in my headphones to my iPhone 3GS (switched to airplane mode) and opened GrooveMaker for the first time. After watching a bit of the included tutorial (help menu), I got busy checking out the included loops and sequences and chose an appropriate palette of sounds and building blocks for the sultry strutting cue I had in mind to create for the show. 20 minutes later, I had my first of several pieces assembled and mixed. Once I was back on the ground and at my cottage on the lake, I pressed the export button, which then brought up a link I was easily able to grab from my laptop. I downloaded my song mixes, and dropped them onto my FTP site for the show’s editors to grab. Just like that!”
“It’s always good to find new ways to be productive, especially in situations where you might not ordinarily be able. Instead of sitting through a movie I’ve already seen, I got work done and had fun doing it.”
“All of the GrooveMaker app selections have varied loops to choose from. I chose ‘House’ and ‘Drum ‘N Bass’ to start out with. It’s true that I tried the original GrooveMaker for Mac nearly a decade ago and did make some cues for the first seasons of ‘Survivor’ and ‘Fear Factor’. Again, it was matter of having a large body of cues to write in a short amount of time and it was a fun way to contribute to the coffers.”
There are 4 GrooveMaker applications already available on the iTunes store: FREE, House, Hip-Hop and Club, and 4 more to come soon for every dance music style, including a fully functional FREE version that you can download to start making music right away! This App rocks!
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Ben Robinson
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.
