- iStrobeSoft - A fantastic tuner that I've even been able to use effectively in live situations.
- TapThat - It's so basic, but so stupidly easy. Just tap the screen and you can find your tempo. I use this on musical theater gigs all the time to figure out how fast we're playing certain things so I can go home and rehearse at proper tempos.
- Tempo - A "Dr. Beat" in iPhone form. Absolutely essential for practicing.
- FunkBox - Fun to use in place of Tempo when the click-click-click-click starts to drive you batty.
- Soundrop - Serving no practical use whatsoever other than I find this app to be really, really, really fun to play with. I go back to it way more often than I thought I would.
- iReal Book - While not a music-making app per se, I've used it about a dozen times on various gigs. The ability to change charts to any key is mind-blowing, and has caused a few other musicians I know to purchase iPod Touches JUST for this app.
- Virtuoso - A dead-simple piano app for picking out melodies. I've used this a number of times when flipping through scores, just to hear how some bass parts go while away from my instrument.
- Nanoloop - I've used this a lot in my downtime and I feel like I've only barely scratched the surface of what it can do.
- NanoStudio - King of kings, unquestionably.
- iDrum Hip Hop - When Tempo and FunkBox can't quite give me the groove I need to practice a particular lick, this is where I turn. I just make up a little pattern in a matter of seconds that matches the part I'm working on. Fantastic app.
Thanks for your list Paul, if you want to share your top 10 just drop me an email.
2 comments:
Thanks for this list ... its nice to have some from a composition/songwriting perspective.... I just wish that kink of king app had audio record so I could multitrack vocals over the other stuff. Maybe soon...
Good things will come to NanoStudio I think.
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