'CineBeat' app by Smule makes music videos
Smule, a San Francisco maker of musical apps, has generated a virtual symphony over the past few years, turning mobile phones into pianos, drums, guitars, ocarinas and even T-Pain rap-style vocals.
Now Smule is joining one of the more crowded frays in the app world, taking its musical chops into the chase for the latest high-tech holy grail - something pundits have dubbed "Instagram for video."
Strum: create free, fun music videos with new app
Your trusty iPad delivers you the news, displays photos, plays music and lets you read e-books. And now it might be able to turn you into a viral video star.
A new app from Smule called "Strum" lets you record short video clips – using the tablet's front or rear camera – and then adds visual or audio effects before sharing it with the world.
Smule’s Strum: An ‘Instagram for Video’ That’s Set to Music
Strum filters generate music — which doesn’t sound exactly the same for any two clips — and retune any speech on the soundtrack, oftentimes leaving the speakers sounding like they’re singing or rapping.
It may be an Instagram for video, but it also deserves to be appreciated on its own quirky, inventive merits.
Smule Launches Strum, A Social Video App With Musical Filters
Video is a key part of that social effort (witness the YouTube videos that Smule’s fans have created), so the team explored adding video to each of Smule’s apps, then ultimately decided to launch a standalone video experience.
This App Turns Your Video Clips Into Instant Music Videos
Videos you shoot on your iPhone are about to get a lot cooler, with Strum, a new video app that instantly turns 15-second video clips into rock masterpieces.
Similar to how you might put a filter on a photo with Instagram, Strum offers a number of built-in filters for video that don’t just change the look of your video, they give it a soundtrack as well.
Smule's new social app Strum mixes video with visual and audio filters
The Strum app itself is a pleasure to use. It supports navigating pretty much any way you’d like, with videos going full-screen in landscape.
Strum app turns a status update into music video
What if you could turn a tweet or other status update into a video song?
That's what the folks at Smule, which makes popular music-oriented apps, have done this week with Strum.
Can Music Predict The Election?
This article introduces an innovative lens to look at the elections: through the study of voters' musical preferences and affinities.
A social music company called Smule ran an insightful experiment. They put the 900 million songs in their database through rigorous analysis, correlating the musical tastes of users with "red" and "blue" states. The results were illuminating.
"Our musical tastes are just as polarized as our country!" says Jeffrey C. Smith, Smule CEO and co-founder.
Co-Founder Ge Wang speaks to CNBC on how recent Apple announcements made at WWDC - including iOS 6 and the iPhone 5 - will affect app developers.
New Singing App Creates Karaoke Party with Lady Antebellum
The Grammy winners commented on their favorite performances of the song and lead singer Hillary Scott participated in a duet with a Smule singer.
This Guy Has the Coolest Job in Coding
Wang is the co-founder and chief creative officer of Smule, the app developer responsible for the Ocarina and iPad violin and other things that started out as “crazy-ass ideas.” To date, Smule has accumulated more than 65 million downloads.
Smule's new iPhone app would like to teach the world to Sing
With 15m active users, developer's mission to 'help the democratisation of music' is proceeding apace.
Music Startup Smule Promises To Get More Social, Starting With Its New Karaoke App Sing
Executives at Smule, the startup that turns mobile devices into musical instruments with apps like Ocarina and Magic Piano, say the company’s apps are about to get social in a big way.
‘Sing!’ Lets You Do Just That With Friends
Singing with a friend around the world has never been easier, thanks to a new app called Sing!
Smule’s AutoRap App Helps TC Spit Fire, Tops 2.5M Installs In A Few Days
Smule is on fire. Just take a look at the work these guys have done since their 2008 launch: $25.5 million in funding, more app releases than I can keep up with and a pretty sweet acquisition. And the latest app, AutoRap, is seeing some incredible early success.
