Android music making app round-up Mikrosonic SPC Music Sketchpad, £3.50 MusicRadar.com. Android arrivals We’re not going to try and tell you that the Android platform now has enough great music making apps to be considered a serious rival to Apple’s iOS, but decent software is starting to come through. Hence this round-up of some of the new Android titles that have caught our eye over the past couple of months. Also make sure you check out our guide to the best Android music making apps in the world today. If you've got a new Android app, make sure you let us know about it by emailing musicradar.pressreleases@futurenet.com with all the details.
NEXT: Single Cell Software Caustic Music Rack Single Cell Software Caustic Music Rack, Free Inspired by Propellerhead’s Reason, this is a significant soft studio release for Android that contains virtual analogue, PCM and bassline synths, a sampling drum machine, a mixer with delay/reverb and six insert effects and a 1-song sequencer. Download now from Android Market Mikrosonic SPC Music Sketchpad, £3.50 Buy now from Android Market. Audiotool Sketch. Best Music making apps for iOS and Android. Mobile apps have changed the way we experience music on the move, offering up new ways to discover sounds and explore new music, but for some, simply listening to music isn't enough. Here we're showing you some of the best music making apps for iOS and Android, that budding musicians can use to download, experiment with and hopefully create something really exciting. Have you tried any of these apps? Which do you like? Got any funky musical creations of your own produced on these music making apps?
1. SunVox (Android, Meego, iOS) £3.10/Free/£2.99 SunVox is a lightweight sequencer app that offers a vast array of tools to create some truly impressive synth-based music. 2. (Android) Free Soundbits has designed a cloud-based music creation tool with a focus on sharing. 3. (Android) £2.49 Solo steps away from the multilayered synthetic side of music, focusing on the more traditional sounds of the good old fashioned guitar. 4.
(iOS) £2.99 5. (iOS) £2.99. Music Composer (Lite) Happy Notes Music Composer provides a fun and inventive way to create music! This is a simple MIDI music creation app that lets you play improvisational piano and compose a music composition simply by sliding around the screen of your device. Touch and glide with one or two fingers to play and create a melody with an accompanying harmony for your original musical composition. Your composed music automatically writes to a two track MIDI file (Full Version Only) for easy music notation editing and mixing. This music making app is certainly useful for serious musicians and composers who may need a bit of musical inspiration... But it is also a fun and intriguing way to experiment with and create music that has the potential to impress friends and family!
It will also impress babies who enjoy touching objects that light up and play music! Check out the Youtube link below for a demo of this music generator application. The Ultimate Android App Guide for Musicians Android.AppStorm. With the “smartphone era” came a great thing for musicians: the mobile tools for composing and playing music on a pocket size instrument with the practicality of touch interfaces. We hear so much about apps for iOS around music composition, notation, and live playing, made by the biggest and famous musical software and hardware companies — but what about Android? Though many of them didn’t look at us, some developers did, and have made powerful and useful weapons that every musician with an Android phone should have, covering everything from simple on-the-go notations to a full sequencer in your hands.
Join in me in this Roundup with the most awesome tools for musical notation, composition and learning, for Android. Learning Chord! Chord! Chord! Price: €1.99 but has a free version. MusicTutor SightRead MusicTutor SightRead This app is probably the best one for beginners; it teaches you the basics of notation through a very intuitive interface. Price: €1.80 but has a free version. Composition. Top 10 Music-Making Apps for Android | Beckett Guide to Phone Apps. By Simon Hill These apps won’t turn you into Lady Gaga or Eric Clapton, but they can help you become a better, more creative musician than you already are. MicDroid Price: Free; intervigil Rating: 4 out of 5 If you love to sing but you have trouble staying in tune, then this app is for you.
Mobile Metronome Price: Free; Gabriel Simoes Rating: 5 out of 5 This is an excellent free metronome for musicians of all levels. Chordbot Pro Price: $4.78; Lars Careliusson This clever app helps songwriters create and try out chord progressions. Robotic Guitarist Price: $1.36; Pedro J. This guitar app is packed with features and well worth the modest fee. Party Mixer Price: Free; Pun Software Rating: 3 out of 5 Be the life of the party when you hook up your Android phone to a sound system and play your party mix.
DaTuner Chromatic Tuner Price: Free; Applaud Apps Rating 4 out of 5 Whatever instrument you play, having a tuner tool on your Android phone can be very useful. xPiano Price: Free; cyandroid My Piano Assistant. Weird and Wonderful Music-Making Apps and Toys PCWorld. Tablets and smartphones are making music more fun for musicians and nonmusicians alike. These devices--mainly iPhones and iPads at the moment--have brought about a wave of innovation in tuneful apps. Here are some of the coolest ones out there. GyroSynth The iPhone 4 contains a very good gyroscope, which senses the exact position you're holding the phone in. GyroSynth is a tone generator that alters its tone as the user moves the phone around--a little like the way a classic theremin works.
And the app creates a unique sound, not one that mimics an already existing synth sound. I could easily see someone playing one of these things in a live setting. iShred, Guitar, Pocket StompBox, Homegrown Apps Speaking of shredding, the man in the video below has cobbled together the ultimate DIY digital guitar. Akai SynthStation Some of the best synth apps for phones and tablets come from the companies that have made synths for years. Seline HD Rock Band 3 Fender Squier Strat Pro Guitar and Controller.