Music Apps
GarageBand turns your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. You can use Multi-Touch gestures to play a piano, organ, guitar, and drums and do eight-track recording and mixing. The app has more than 250 loops to play with and you can export AAC files of your projects through e-mail or add them to iTunes.
If you play guitar, bass, drums, or keyboards, TabToolkit is a good way to learn and jam along with your favorite songs. TabToolkit allows you to get music by purchasing instantly in the Tab Store, uploading from your computer, or searching online. The app gives you speed control, A/B looping, full-score music notation with all instruments, and real-time instrument guides. You can easily select the part you want to learn, slow it down, and loop it with full control of each track's audio.
ImproVox is a vocal instrument for iPhone. Real-time pitch correction and harmonization enable you to create harmonies as you sing - and always sound in tune! You can add textures with effects like reverb and echo, then record your performance and share it with friends.
Real Piano is an app that produces grand piano sound as well as guitar, bass, harp, marimba, and music box. You can play the 88-key keyboard with touch-to-slide and pinch-to-stretch functionality. The app lets you customize your key labels, record and share music with friends, and tune and transpose your piano with ease.
forScore is an app that helps you to organize sheet music and turn practice into performance. Use the app to create links to handle repeats with a single tap, play along to an audio track, and use half-page turns to see the bottom half of the current page and the top half of the next one at the same time, removing jarring transitions once and for all. Music files and annotations can be share via email, Bluetooth, AirDrop, or printed with AirPrint. You can also create, share, and play through setlists for a fully manual approach to grouping and arranging your files.
Ear Trainer is an educational tool designed for musicians, music students and anyone interested in improving ones musical ear. It is filled with over 230 individual exercises covering intervals, chords, scales, relative pitch and melody. It has a playable keyboard with studio sound quality and a note view for superior visualization.