February 2015
Beginner to intermediate
408 pages
10h 17m
English
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Chapter 22
Ten Music Apps You Can’t Live Without
We looked at quite a number of apps in this book already (enough to put a significant dent in your wallet, perhaps), and it’s safe to assume that those apps wouldn’t appear in these pages if they didn’t provide a great deal of value for what you pay for them. After all, if these apps were duds, why talk about them? That said, the previously mentioned apps don’t represent the totality of what’s available. In this chapter, we take a look at ten of the most intriguing and useful apps you can put on your iPhone or iPad.
Korg Gadget
The cost of this app goes beyond the common one-to-five-dollar range — but look at all you get for that price: Korg Gadget combines over 15 different music-making devices (including drums, synthesizers, and other . . . well, gadgets) in a remarkably full-featured music creation program. Excellent MIDI control and export options (including interfacing with popular computer-based DAW Ableton) round out this excellent app.
Notion
The iPad offers many options for reading charts and sheet music. Notion, however, gives you the ability to actually write and edit sheet music directly from your iPad. And after you write out your music, you can play it back using samples recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra in the Abbey Road studio facility. Not a bad way to hear your works come to life.
Thor
Originally a component of the popular Propellerhead computer-based DAW Reason, Thor lives the solo life on the ...
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