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We talk a fair bit about the tablet wars and for me a lot of people are hoping that Android or Chrome or Meego beat the crap out of Apple.

What we are seeing currently are more functional tablet delivered from Apple and likely most notable Windows 7 based tablets.

The SDK provided by both Android and Apple allows you to format it easily for tablets.

But we are not seeing a lot of Android software developers do that.

Take a look at iElectribe which enables the users to synthesize music on the iPad

Korg is known for many things in the music industry, not the least of which is the company’s synth tech. Korg recently decided to dive into the Apple app store with iElectribe, a digital version of the company’s Electribe series of rhythm synthesizer. Does it stack up? If our experience is anything to go by, then you bet it does.

iElectribe offers up 64 pre-set patterns ranging in genre from House to Hardcore, which allow the user to get up and going without having to create anything from scratch. The application also has 32 templates in a similarly large range of genres; this gives a basic framework which, with a little work, can turn into some pretty elaborate beats. For those who want total control, iElectribe has 64 user banks that have nothing more than a single synth trigger on the downbeat of each measure. You can load or write to any of these files using the browser functionality located underneath the application’s faux LCD.

Korg gives you eight basic sounds to work with, including a handful of synths, an open and closed hi-hat, a cymbal, and a clap/snare that can be toggled by changing the waveform. Eight sounds might not seem like much, but with the software’s ability to manipulate sounds at the most basic of levels, the number of sounds that can be created is almost limitless.

We need more apps like this on the Android and Meego