Apps for musicians

[Finchypoo]

a bit of a followup to my previous post

After seeing so much mention of Noise.io on here I bought it too. wow, minisynth is a fun toy but Noise.io is awesome.

Admittedly It took me minutes to play with every aspect of miniSynth and it will be weeks before I consider myself proficient with Noise.io (I'm no musician and I never use hardware or software synths) but its going to be a lot of fun trying.

[kholinar]

Originally Posted by Finchypoo

a bit of a followup to my previous post

After seeing so much mention of Noise.io on here I bought it too. wow, minisynth is a fun toy but Noise.io is awesome.

Admittedly It took me minutes to play with every aspect of miniSynth and it will be weeks before I consider myself proficient with Noise.io (I'm no musician and I never use hardware or software synths) but its going to be a lot of fun trying.

Noise.io sounds really interesting... I thought about downloading it recently but held off... all the reviews are pushing me over the edge.

The neatest instrument app I've seen is Ocarina. It really feels like an analog instrument... of course, they don't use samples... you blow into the mic and that, along with fingering generates the tone...

Fun video of it here: Ocarina Demo

[mckevittster]

Guitar Toolkit was one of the first Apps I bought for the iPhone and is still one I use most often. Over the years, I've spent a lot of money on metronomes and tuners, but still never seemed to have them with me when I wanted them! I play a lot of guitar and I use guitar toolkit almost every day and it's always been solid and reliable for me.

[icepulse]

I jumped on BeatMaker right away, and I'm very impressed with its scope, but I really enjoy using iDrum more. My review is on the top of the "Most Helpful" list, so its easy to locate. Read it for a full explanation as to why I like it better.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=287410761&mt=8

Anyway, all songs at this address:

http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/7652/music.php

As Follows:

A)Deep Ghost House
B)Cyber Tots
C)Strong To The Finnich
D)Traxx O'Plankton

...were created (almost) exclusively w/ gaming device software. There are a few exceptions w/ certain tracks. On each song's "info" link, you can see what's what.

Please comment on the songs page, if you like.

[NotYou]

There's a new update for Synthpond. It seems to revamp the whole program. Even the graphics and notes are updated.

Now you can assign whole sequences to one node. This is actually shaping up to be a pretty useful app.

[tosui]

Originally Posted by NotYou

There's a new update for Synthpond. It seems to revamp the whole program. Even the graphics and notes are updates.

Now you can assign whole sequences to one node. This is actually shaping up to be a pretty useful app.

Thanks for the heads up! I'm soo looking forward to the new features!

(more soon, after I play/not sleep...)

Edit: Ok, I've played (not slept) and it's freakin' AWESOME! Zach added some amazing features in the update, like orbiting, note sequences (ask NotYou), and the ability to change bpm, decay, etc.

This is now my favourite music app, because you can make pretty straight-forward melodies *and* really great, random, generative music (which makes my knees weak. Really).

[your personal robot]

Originally Posted by NotYou

There's a new update for Synthpond. It seems to revamp the whole program. Even the graphics and notes are updated.

Now you can assign whole sequences to one node. This is actually shaping up to be a pretty useful app.

Love the update. It really adds much value to this great app.

[rc90]

Guitar (or bass) players should have a look at Guitar Toolkit. I think it's a very useful app, especially if you're learning chords and scales.

[McChikun]

Hey rc90,
I'm a self-taught guitarist considering getting the Guitar Toolkit. My fundamentals could use some work, so I was thinking this application could help me learn new chords and scales. Could you specify (the website and application description don't really help that much) how this application would help me go about this?

[teagan1000000]

I am a guitarist and I use: school of rock is very good for memorizing chords and notes, I also use guitar 4 you it's a very crude app but it has all chords and scale patterns.