Although the iPad wasn’t to launch until April, music-making app developers started previewing their forthcoming wares way before that. White Noise Audio was the first cab off the rank with a preview of an iPad-shaped version of bleep!BOX, with developer David Wallin commenting that "The bigger interface will allow for a better 'heads up' display of the full tune you are working on, as well as global access to things like the mute buttons". As the year progressed, dedicated iPad versions of many other apps were to follow, while the recent launch of a bleep!BOX PC/Mac VST plug-in means that the software is now truly cross-platform.

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