Top 7 best apps for musicians

    If you're only as good as your tools... these should give you some potential! These tools will free up some brain power and time for you to focus more on the creative side of things. The tuner and metronome are essentials in my opinion, and the other apps are quite useful as well. Beef up your toolbox! Via appadvice.com Whether you’re a budding musician or a seasoned virtuoso, you need the right tools for your art. The iPhone and iPad are great for helping you make music, because they are so versatile and there are so many apps available to help musicians. Here are some of our favorite apps for the musician, whether you’re a novice, an expert, or somewhere in between. TonalEnergy Chromatic Tuner and Metronome When you’re playing an instrument, you need to tune it and a metronome is invaluable for all musicians to keep to the right tempo. While there are numerous apps out there that address one of these functions or another, TonalEnergy Chromatic Tuner and Metronome combines both tools into one gorgeous and highly useful program. TonalEnergy costs $3.99 on the App Store. Songsterr Tabs & Chords To learn a new song, you often want to have the chords and tablatures for it. Songsterr Tabs & Chords has a huge, but well-organized, library of songs that you can search through. Most songs feature the tabs for multiple instruments, not just guitar, and the app provides audio playback with a half-speed mode to help you learn difficult parts. Songsterr is free on the App Store, but requires a $4.9 monthly subscription to do more than just preview the songs. GarageBand If you want to get started quickly, GarageBand will definitely let you do that. It features a collection of touch and smart instruments, as well as the tools to turn your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch into a full-featured recording studio. You can record your voice with your iOS device’s built-in microphone and then apply effects to it, or plug in your guitar and play through classic amplifiers and stompbox effects. At $4.99 on the App Store, GarageBand is an essential part of many musicians’ toolkits. DM1 – The Drum Machine When you’re ready to ramp up your drumming, look no further than DM1 – The Drum Machine. This app includes 99 vintage and produced drum kits, mastered in-house at Fingerlab Sound Studios. You also get a step sequencer, mixer, FX trackpads, an automation panel, and more. DM1 can also import samples from various sources including Dropbox, AudioCopy, iTunes, and more. DM1 – The Drum Machine is $4.99 on the App Store for the iPad version, or $1.99 for the iPhone. Animoog If electronic music is your thing, the premiere synthesizer app for the iPad is almost certainly Animoog. Designed for the professional musician, beginners might have a hard time with this app. Still, it is packed with amazing features like a timbre page, anisotropic synthesizer engine, polyphonic modulation and pitch shifting, and much more. If you [...]

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