iRig VocaLive Coming to Mac App Store

1 CommentTuesday • January 11, 2011 • by Imei

Continuing on in my love of all things iPhone, iPad, and performance art technology, Starr Ackerman of IK Multimedia passed this information to me about the new iRig Mic with VocaLive, an app designed for mobile recording and processing with the vocalist and speaker in mind.

iRig Mic from IK Multimedia

The iRig allows you to plug in a guitar or a mic into Amplitube 2 (for iPhone4 and iPad), allowing you to access effects processors similar to your mixer and stomp pedal effects board, only now you can do the same for your voice with minimal set up and minimum cost. You just download the app, plug in the iRig and iRig Mic, and dial up what features you want off the touchscreen. If you already have an iPhone or iPad, adding on these features in the IK Multimedia family will cost under $200 total. That’s an inexpensive mobile sound system! #WANT!

For a look at what iRig VocaLive can do, watch this Youtube video:

The iRig can be ordered for $39.99, and the iRig VocaLIve can be pre-ordered for $59.99 on the IK Multimedia website. My review of the iRig and Amplitube 2 will be coming shortly, so I’ll let you know when and where you can view it.

Of course, the iRig mic and VocaLive app will be mine. It has always been my prediction that a good hunk of the best of new applications for the Mac App Store would turn up in music and entertainment, and CES 2011 has been pretty good proof of that. People need to get past the idea that all apps worth anything are going to be sold for 99 cents or free. These are applications that are going to give back to you as an artist, and as time goes on, they will have additional features that will only make mobile performance, practice, and processing nearly identical and easy to use as expensive sound processing set ups, only much more fun, portable, and downright sexy.

BTW, the hardware holding up the iPad in the video is called the iKlip, at a price point of $39.99. The iKlip would be handy for reading lyrics, music, and set lists in live performance. No more set lists taped to the floor to read with bad lighting.

This is creativity without limits. Are you ready?