8Bitone – a “Retro 8-bit Synthesizer + Sequencer” – has been announced to be released for iPhone and iPod Touch in June. It is being developed by the Japanese company Yudo, which have also released a vocoder and audio recorder for the same platform.

The software is said to “faithfully simulate SSG and PSG instruments”. It will feature:

• Piano roll style sequencer
• Up to 128 monophonic voices per song
• 1 oscillator or LowBitNoise (I assume per channel. Not yet clear what types of waveforms.)
• LFO
• Envelope
• Hi-Speed Arpeggiator
• .WAV export

Will be available on the iPhone App Store in June. The price has not been confirmed yet, but their previous iPhone apps costs about $17.