Android has been way too slow to process audio in real-time, crippling many karaoke and singing apps. That's about to change with the next major update.…
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Smule users record one billion songs, generate $12.6 M in revenue in 2012
iOS app maker Smule has been autotuning and auto-rapping the music app genre all the way to a sweet $12.6 milion in revenue.…
Read MoreSmule’s AutoRap app turns words into hip hop magic
Smule, the music app maker behind I am T-Pain, Songify, Glee and LaDiDa, is now venturing into rapping with the release of AutoRap. The app, launching on both iOS and Android, takes spoken words and turns into a polished rap with cool hooks and effects.…
Read MoreOcarina 2 app teaches people to play songs for a price
Smule, whose Ocarina app turned the iPhone into a digital flute, is following up its Hall of Fame app with Ocarina 2, which is designed to teach people to play songs for a price. Users can prompted like Guitar Hero to press buttons that create music.…
Read MoreMusic app maker Smule finally gives Android some love
Music app maker Smule has been one of the longest Android hold-outs, often citing the way Android devices handle audio as a reason it hasn't embraced the mobile platform. But the company is finally showing Android some love with the release of Songify.…
Read MoreSmule builds social music app empire by buying Khush
Smule, the successful iOS music app start-up behind Ocarina, Magic Piano and I am T-Pain, is buying fellow social music start-up Khush, of Songify fame, in a bid to take command of what it believes will be a fast-growing mobile musical expression market.…
Read MoreSmule Adds $8 Million Second Round From Shasta Ventures
Sell two of the top 10 iPhone apps for the entire year (iTunes link) and what do you get? $8 million. At least, that's what Smule (aka Sonic……
Read MoreSmule and T-Pain Bring Auto-Tune to Your iPhone
What happens when a bunch of really smart and musically inclined PhDs who make iPhone apps team up with a popular hip-hop…
Read MoreApp Review: Leaf Trombone: World Stage — Like American Idol But With Leaves
[appreview] title=Leaf Trombone image=https://gigaom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/2009/04/leaf_trombone_icon.png price=$0.99 url=http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=309080428&mt=8 rating=gold [/appreview] Learn to play the leaf trombone, perform your repertoire before a global audience, and…
Read MoreFive Developers React to iPhone 3.0
With all the big announcements from Apple’s (s aapl) iPhone briefing yesterday, the web has been abuzz with talk about the impact…
Read MoreSmule Raises a $3.9M Round of Funding
We here at TheAppleBlog have posted a fair bit about Smule and their iPhone/iPod touch applications. Their apps are a bit off…
Read MoreiPhone Developer Smule Raises $3.9 Million First Round
Sonic Media's SonicMule (aka Smule), which develops applications for the iPhone, has raised $3.9 million in its first round of funding. The……
Read MoreZephyr: Throw Your Creativity to the Wind
As seems to be the trend with Smule’s iPhone applications, their point may not be immediately clear. With many App Store offerings,…
Read MoreOcarina Turns the iPhone Into a Real Musical Instrument
There’s no shortage of applications from the App Store that allow iPhone users to let their inner musician come out and play.…
Read MoreSmule iPhone Apps: Just The Tip of The Iceberg
Had you noticed that Sonic Lighter (by Smule) was recently updated to be relevant to the pending presidential election? That’s right —…
Read MoreExclusive: Sonic Vox From Smule – Unleash the Voices in Your iPhone
New this very day, Smule releases their latest audio based iPhone application, Sonic Vox. With Sonic Vox, simply slide your finger across…
Read MoreSonic Boom Makes a Firecracker Out of Your iPhone
Smule — of Sonic Lighter fame — launched their second app over the weekend, Sonic Boom. As you can probably imagine, it…
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