Apps for musicians

[Vingdoloras]

I'm not a real musician, but I love playing around with music apps...

I own FingerBeat, JR Hexatone, Dopplerpad, Noise.io and Xewton Music Studio.

Fingerbeat is the easiest to use, you can create smaller loops pretty easily, but you won't get far with it.
Noise.io was very overwhelming at the beginning, but you can create some pretty nice patterns with it.
Dopplerpad has a huge potential, too. It makes a lot of fun to mess with it and try to nake some nice sounds
Hexatone is in my opinion a nice App for creating drum patterns. It will give you a totally new perspective on making sound loops.
Xewton Music Studio is the most impressive, yet hardest to use, music app. For real musicians it is a must-have in my opinion.

[marlenedegrood]

Originally Posted by Vingdoloras

I'm not a real musician, but I love playing around with music apps

Then you might want to try ThumbJam. It has the most realistic sounding instruments you will find on the iPhone and for a non-musician that enjoys music, it's gratifying just to play, without knowing how to play. It is $5.99 but well worth it! For the best mind blowing sound ... use your headphones!

[Bdragonst]

i own Xewton Music Studio and it's one of the best app i own.. it just need more percussion instruments and perhaps.... i forgot lol

[Vingdoloras]

Originally Posted by marlenedegrood

Then you might want to try ThumbJam. It has the most realistic sounding instruments you will find on the iPhone and for a non-musician that enjoys music, it's gratifying just to play, without knowing how to play. It is $5.99 but well worth it! For the best mind blowing sound ... use your headphones!

Thumbjam looks interesting... but something keeps me from buying it... I dont know what... the screenshots look weird.

[jxjja]

If you want to learn tabs the best app is TabToolkit, is like guitar pro in your pocket

[microDOT]

Originally Posted by Vingdoloras

Thumbjam looks interesting... but something keeps me from buying it... I dont know what... the screenshots look weird.

ThumbJam is amazing.. I love the looping features, direct import and export of samples, recording of your own samples.. not to mention, the best sounding instruments I think I have ever heard in synthesis.. Even professional musicians can respect what this device does.. if nothing else, lets you get your ideas out quickly and produce something to email off to yourself / splice up and throw into your own DAW... endless.. it really is my favorite app so far..

[Vingdoloras]

I thought about ThumbJam again, and I finally bought it... let's see if a non musician can do anything with it

[yeah yeah]

seems like the best overall studio type apps are Beatmaker and Xewton. think i'll wait for Xewton to implement their sampling features before i make my purchase. i'm a hiphop beat maker, and wouldnt mind messing around on the go to get some ideas together.

anything you can recommend?

and on a fun tip, what are some good DJ / mixing / scratching apps that you can recommend? some for fun, and some for actual work / brainstorming?

[Negamaki]

Originally Posted by yeah yeah

seems like the best overall studio type apps are Beatmaker and Xewton. think i'll wait for Xewton to implement their sampling features before i make my purchase. i'm a hiphop beat maker, and wouldnt mind messing around on the go to get some ideas together.

anything you can recommend?

and on a fun tip, what are some good DJ / mixing / scratching apps that you can recommend? some for fun, and some for actual work / brainstorming?

Flare and Touch DJ.. Flare offers that vinyl scratching sound and it's pretty fun. Touch DJ is a more professional app for aspiring DJs. It's fantastic - best of its kind hands down.

[Vingdoloras]

I'm impressed. If you aren't scared by the UI (It looks unfriendly at the beginning ) and try to work yourself through the menus, you can easily create some pretty nice sounds.

I needed a few minutes to find out how the recording thing works, but all in all the App is very polished!

I found a "Collaborate" option somewhere... is it possible to work on one Recording with two devices? It sounds awesome to me