iPad DJ
Instead of two turntables and a microphone, DJ Rana Sobhany makes music with two iPads and a handful of apps. Sobhany’s inspiration for her strange DJ rig came as she waited in line outside an Apple Store in New York City on the day the iPad was released.
Now Sobhany, an application brand marketer and author of Mobilize! Selling Mobile Content in an iPhone and iPad Era, has released Destroy the Silence: Volume One, a 13-minute set of music made using iPad apps.
“Lots of great bands and artists have come from the ‘GarageBand generation’ of production, as I like to call it,” she said. “With iPad, I think that a lot of people will start downloading music apps and learning to play instruments from them.”
“The iPad will quickly evolve into the ideal device for music creation and DJing,” she said. “Loop libraries will get better. Hardware will get better. More hardware and software companies will build mobile apps and the users will become more savvy about what they want from the iPad. There will be peripherals that support inputs like USB and FireWire. Video remixing will be possible.”
