I noticed the other day that someone on twitter was asking if it was a really good thing to be able to make music this quickly and that made me think about Songineer and question it a little more. Having thought about it I've decided that on balance it does make sense to be able to make music this quickly. But what's important isn't how fast you can make music, but what you do with it after that.
Let's face it you can Write down an idea for almost anything in an instant and it could turn out to be a masterpiece or utter junk. I don't think that we should label a tool saying that it's of little value because it lets you do something quickly.
Ok rant over in terms of concepts. What's this app good at?
First off I liked the random beats feature. I think that often the most difficult point is starting that new track and a random feature for beats gives you a sort of kick start to that. From there the app is very straightforward but not cluttered though. You can play the I stringent files and overdub your idea to your hearts content. There are purchasable instrument packs in the in app store as you'd expect.
But the thing I liked the most was the midi export. I think that including that made a lot of sense and means that you can take your idea and move it to another app or the desktop or whatever.
So if you're looking for an app for quick ideas I think this is a good place to start.
6 comments:
Agreed!
And multi-track .wav export(yet to try!)
It works for me. Some people wrote this app off as a toy but I find it great for developing new ideas very quickly. Then I move things into a studio / DAW app and another classic is born :)
Songineer has some really good features and sounds. I was pleasantly surprised.
The sketchbook idea is great, and several apps (once one learns the ropes on 'em) work well as sketchbooks, including Nanostudio, BM2, FL Mobile, Xewton, even Sunvox (one can get wicked fast on that one, truly)
My favorite sketchbook, aside from these heavier hitters, is Energyxt, which is much deeper than songineer and really quick to compose on. The songineer thing I'm wrestling with currently is the degree to which the app puts the wind at your back with pentatonic scales and other composing decisions simplified or made for you...true one can custom write ones scales....and then here's the limitations on length, I want to sketch whole songs so....
i've been impressed with Songineer also
Almost every app we know and love has some sort of "scale" feature- animoog,thumbjam,GarageBand,ims-20,addictive synth,plus many more those are just some of the top names.
I think it's a pretty good app for what it offers and it really could get better with more features like iPad size and full songs,more instruments. Amidio has the library of sounds on hand from all their past apps. I wouldn't count these guys out just because the apps are bright and shiny.
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