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Here are a few of my most used/favorite iphone apps:

Accordio
Living Transient Ltd.
Category: Music
Price: $3.99

Application description
Play fast! Learn fast. Accordio is designed to be responsive and enjoyable. Low latency playback easily keeps up with a professional musician. It’s got to be seen to be believed. Check out the short videos on our web site or YouTube.

It’s surprisingly easy to learn how to play. Thanks to the symmetrical button layout, when you learn to play a C major chord, you can play all other major chords. Just move your hand around. Key names are displayed over the buttons to get you started.

Accordio implements the melody side of a 5-row chromatic button accordion and supports common layouts (B,C,G). You can play along to songs from your music library. Remember to turn off the silent switch.
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FiRe – Field Recorder
Audiofile Engineering
Category: Music
Price: $5.99

Features:
- Record in mono and stereo
- Live waveform view
- Scroll waveform with touch
- Navigate waveform via double-tap with configurable behavior
- Moveable Playback Head
- Tap Playback Head handle to add markers
- Editable Markers list
- Preference to add markers at time intervals
- Overdub mode
- Beautiful and accurate VU Input Meters
- VU meters change to output in playback
- Configurable time units display
- Tag Recordings with location data
- Pause gracefully when interrupted by phone call
- Countdown with gorgeous graphics
- Record for… settings
- Record until… settings
- Record over threshold… settings
- Quality settings: Low (11.025 kHz), Medium (22.050 kHz) and High (44.1 kHz)
- Preference to automatically move to end and/or add marker when recording starts
- Preference to limit recordings to 2GB
- Screen rotates 180 degrees for better control of the iPhone’s internal mic
- Broadcast WAVE metadata
- Preference for amount of info displayed in Recordings List
- Ability to lock recordings
- File export via local web server and FTP
- Choice of export file formats via web server and FTP: WAVE, AIFF, CAF (Core Audio Format)
- SoundCloud integration (http://soundcloud.com)
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GuitarToolkit
Agile Partners
Category: Music
Price: $9.99

FEATURES
- Chromatic tuner using the iPhone microphone
- Tune to any musical note or choose from 40+ tunings (Standard, Open G, Drop D, etc.)
- Chord library with over 260 chord maps and 1600 variations for quick and easy reference
- Adjustable metronome with visible flash option and multiple sound effects
- Audible tones for tuning by ear
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