The Apple of my iPhone is changing the way the world does music. Without a doubt, Apple’s iPhone is revolutionizing the way the world operates. On many levels, it is a catalyst for social change and innovation. Not the least of which is the many ways it is reshaping the world of music. Let’s take a look at the top five best musical apps for this amazing piece of social hardware in order to get a glimpse of what’s going on.

lPandora for iPhone

Coming in at number one has to be the Pandora app. If you like Pandora on the web, you’re going to love it on your iPhone. Tom Conrad, Pandora’s chief technology officer, loves the iPhone’s big screen and keyboard. The fact that the application is available free also makes him happy.

The user interface for this app is very intuitive, reminiscent of the iPod application, with similar features. Of course, the large screen and keyboard add to the ease of use for Pandora.

As always, there are social implications here in your ability to rate a song thumb’s up or thumb’s down, add your favorites to your profile, and you can even custom your own radio stations within Pandora.

There is a 500,000 song catalog available via the web, so your selections are all but unlimited. Little doubt that this will become one of the most popular music applications available for the iPhone.

lBeatmaker

This app turns your iPhone into a music production studio that fits in your pocket. For composers, musicians, and serious hobbyist, this is a powerful application that will make life much easier for you musical types.

For starters, you will find that for many open mike gigs, you won’t have to lug all your equipment around with you. Yep, it’s that powerful. It’ll give you that extra needed soundtrack and let you create beats on the fly. That’s just way cool…

And you can save your compositions, export them as audio files, or even share them over Wi-Fi.

To have this kind of sustainable power in the palm of your hand is absolutely beyond comparison. And it’s all made possible by, what else, the iPhone.

For professional and amateur alike, this is unprecedented power in the palm of your hand.

lSo You want to be a Rock Star

Somehow, singing along with your favorite song on the radio is a deeply spiritual experience. Like everything else, the iPhone 3GS is letting developers take it to the next level. The now iconic SXSW (South by Southwest) has developed an app for just such metaphysical bliss.

LaDiDa is a sort of “reverse karaoke’” application in that it allows you to sing along with full instrumentation of your audio track, and you don’t even have to be able to carry a tune! That’s because the app corrects your tone and pitch, just like the pros do it. You can even sing your own creation, if you like. How? Because your song is matched with a variety of styles that you can preview until you find just the right one…

After it does its technical wizardry of creating harmonic and rhythmic components to match your song, it even lets you post it to Facebook and Twitter. You too can be the next Justin Beiber!

Seriously, the possibilities are endless. There is no limit to what you and your iPhone can accomplish together.

lFuture Audio WorkShop’s Remixer

Granted, even the musical application category will naturally have sub-categories of its own, with that said; the most socially advanced iPhone app for music distribution to come down the pike so far is the 10-track iPhone app from electronic artist Deadmau5. It lets you mix and remix any track on the album. There are plans in the works to let you do the same thing with other similar albums.

This iPhone app works very much like professional DJ software, but simple enough for the average person. You can mix up the beats-per-minute, control as many as four effects at the same time, cross-fade within or between tracks, it is just that powerful. Considering the ability to take a album and remix it to infinity, giving you a different sound every time you play it, it is a pretty cool deal. And it’s so easy to use, anyone can plug an iPhone into their sound deck and go at it DJ dance party style.

For sure, this remix concept works best with electronic music, Even so, regardless of what type of music you prefer, the iPhone format is the future of portable music formats.

lWhat’s Next?

The sheer raw creativity unleashed through the developer community by this pocket-sized version of social dynamo is simply awe-inspiring. As the weeks and months unfold, the upgrades and improvements of these social applications are sure to inspire the imaginations of mankind like never before. If you don’t already have your Apple iPhone, get one. Position yourself for the next wave, and climb aboard the current swell. Don’t be satisfied with what is, reach for what is possible. Nothing is impossible for the one with the vision to act instead of simply watching from the sidelines.

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