February 2015
Beginner to intermediate
408 pages
10h 17m
English
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Chapter 23
Ten Great Free Music Apps
Not everything you put on your iPhone or iPad must cost you a ton of money. The App Store offers plenty of noisemakers for free. A good deal of them are introductions to other, more full-featured apps that are available at a higher cost, but some come to you out of the goodness of the developers’ hearts. Let’s take a look at what’s out there for the taking.
Novation Launchpad
This app gives you 16 virtual pads and some interesting effects that let you produce dance-based music almost immediately. Sure, Novation wants to sell you some additional sounds for a small fee, but the free samples that come with the app still handle themselves well.
Take
Propellerheads gives you a scratchpad that lets you loop up to four tracks of audio from your mic over some prerecorded beats. Just sing or hum along to capture your inspiration wherever you wish.
AmpliTube Free
AmpliTube Free starts you off with some basic guitar and bass sounds for you to play around. You can add some additional gear and recording capabilities if you wish. Still, nobody should turn up his or her nose at the free gear IK Multimedia offers with this app.
Keezy
You can think of Keezy as a lightweight sampler, or you can just play around with its included soundboards. Keezy makes music creation for all ages.
Modular Synthesizer
This free app gives you the feel of an old analog synthesizer (complete with cables and jacks!) paired with Audiobus compatibility and some amazing ...
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