BT Creates The World's First Portable Remix Engine for Apple's New iPhone

Sonifi™ is the brainchild of technologist/composer Brian "BT" Transeau. Sonifi™ is the world's first portable remix engine for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. Utterly original, it is truly the first of its kind. The engine allows users to actually remix a song on a portable device, a first for any software application!

Sonifi is available worldwide at the Apple iTunes store. Click HERE to download.

Sonifi™ is the brainchild of technologist/composer Brian “BT” Transeau. Sonifi™ is the world’s first portable remix engine for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch.

The progenitive Transeau is known for such diverse accomplishments, as scoring “The Fast and the Furious” and Academy-Award-winning “Monster,” to creating the show “Sending Tommy Lee Back to College;” and even the creators of Facebook credit him with the spark to start the social media giant (they came up with it at one of his concerts). He has written, produced, and remixed critically acclaimed and award-winning songs for a multitude of artists, including Peter Gabriel, Madonna, Sting, NSYNC, Seal, and Blake Lewis.

In his fifteen years of surfing the bleeding edge of technology, BT is credited with creating and pioneering proprietary techniques such as “Stutter Editing,” and even entire genres of music, like Trance. The self-proclaimed ‘Geek’ and ‘Apple fanboy’ has had a life-long relationship with new technologies. During his last experimental album/film, BT began the realization of his dream of years of pushing the bleeding edge. He began his own software company, Sonik Architects.

Transeau says, “I had been creating instruments and techniques in code for years and finally decided to congeal down some of these modalities and techniques into a form that other people may find useable. On This Binary Universe, I wanted to create micro-rhythmic beats in surround sound and there were no currently available technologies to do this, so I literally had to invent one...that was the beginning of Break Tweaker. “ (due out with his next full length album)

During his years of experimentation, Transeau has created production techniques that have been used and copied by some of the world’s best producers, and in just about every idiom of music, BT has tried to push more than one idea. Often the secondary or tertiary ideas went unappreciated, or unnoticed.

One of these was a standardized remix file format and protocol. “I approached many companies and record labels trying to initiate a standardization to delivery requirements so a software remix engine could be created to accommodate those deliverables. For a long time, I have seen the value in a system that allowed the end user to remix a track to suit their own tastes. Finally after years of pounding on doors I got an IP attorney and some patents and started trying to make the thing myself!”.

This was the genesis for Sonifi™. Sonifi™ is a first-in-class audio/video remix engine for Apples iPhone. Utterly original, it is truly the first of its kind. The engine allows users to actually remix a song on a portable device, a first for any software application. With world-class effects, the ability to access and change beats, bass, harmonic or melodic figures in real time, Sonifi™ represents a new class of software--somewhere between game, and content creation tool. Using the iPhones accelerometers, the user can even recreate BT’s Stutter Edit technique, just by shaking the phone...all in real time.

Notably, the first release version of Sonifi™contains the ability to connect two iPhones or iPod Touch, over Bluetooth, enabling even strangers to become a remix team. This groundbreaking application contains visuals that react to both touch, and the music being created. After this seminal release, the boundaries between gaming and creating will blur forever.

Sonifi™ is available worldwide at the Apple iTunes store