Music Memos

Description

Music Memos is the easiest way for songwriters to capture and organize new musical ideas. Use your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to record acoustic guitar, piano, voice, or any musical instrument as high-quality, uncompressed audio. Then name, tag and rate your ideas to start building a library of all your favorite new song parts and riffs. Music Memos automatically detects your tempo, rhythmic feel and chords and lets you instantly hear your musical idea accompanied by a rhythm section with realistic drums and bass. View the chords you’ve played, add comments and lyrics, or share your recordings with friends or directly to Apple Music Connect*. And it’s easy to take your favorite ideas into GarageBand to add more instruments and continue building your song. Quickly capture musical ideas • Easily record any musical idea using a simple interface • Instantly listen to your recorded song ideas with a virtual drummer and bass player, who follow along like a live band in the room • Adjust the groove and sound of the drum or bass using simple and intuitive controls to hear your song idea in different ways • Tune your guitar with a built-in instrument tuner Build a library of song ideas • Name any song idea, or delete unwanted recordings • Tag your song ideas to help you find them later using keywords like verse, chorus, mellow, energetic, or add your own custom tags • Rate your song idea 1-5 stars to help you identify your favorites • Supports iCloud Drive so your library of song ideas are always safe and available across all your iOS devices View, edit and document your song ideas • Automatically analyzes the music you played and displays musical measures and suggested chord names • Rename or provide further detail for any chord names throughout your song • The drum and bass performances adapt immediately to match any chord and rhythm edits • Trim away any unwanted parts from the beginning and end of your recording • Keep track of comments, lyric ideas, alternate guitar tunings or capo position Share your new song • Use iCloud Drive to make your song ideas available across all your iOS devices • Email any song idea to a friend to share your music, or to collaborate with other musicians • Quickly open your idea in GarageBand for iOS to add more instruments and keep building your song • Export a song idea to the Mac so you can work in GarageBand or Logic Pro X as a full multi-track production • Share to SoundCloud, YouTube and Apple Music Connect* * Requires Apple Music Connect account

Reviews

Abandoned legacy code

Would be great if it was still maintained. It can’t handle many files or long recordings. Lots of bugs and no updates for years.

By Bish3al

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Love

I love this app. Sometimes a tune hits. Gotta get it down. I want this for Apple Watch. Come on Apple!!!

By Obbie's Mom!

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gz:poor

I have 70 tune fragments which I can't access!

By gz:_/

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Great - wish it had a multi track function

Super great. Wish it had a multi track function, a tap tempo and metronome. Export whole session or all tracks separately. This would really take production to the next level and get ideas down super quick.

By Phillip Lanos

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It’s been abandoned. Look elsewhere.

This app was REALLY helpful when it first came out, but it has gotten much glitchier with time, and it doesn’t seem that Apple wants to continue supporting it. It freezes consistently, and is incredibly slow to start up, which has definitely proven to be a thorn in my side at points. Did it ruin my career? Nah, I’m still bad at music, but this app is arguably worse at recording ideas than I am at having them.

By ih8pnkrok

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Apple-Develop it or release the code

You have the money. You have the brilliant programmers. What’s the hold up? You’ve dangled the carrot and had lots of bites. Now give this app the attention and development that it deserves. As is, it’s an invaluable tool for mapping spontaneous musical ideas. With some fine tuning and enhancement it would be indispensable. It’s brilliant beginning is dwarfed only by its unrealized potential. PS I have no idea whether ratings affect app development , but if YOU are a MUSIC MEMO FAN who gave it a one star review because of frustration or disappointment, by all means voice your concerns and grievances, but perhaps consider changing your rating to 5 stars. Who knows? Maybe at Apples next in house developers meeting someone will notice a spike in 5 star reviews and this app will finally get the attention it deserves .

By WEKIV

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Apple please fix

Glitches. It sometimes plays only 2 second section over and over on some of these clips and if I try to move to a different section it flips back and just loops the 2 seconds. I have to force quit and reopen but then sometimes it happens again. Also when I click to record I have to press the button multiple times for it to record

By Thom Yorke's Lazy Eye

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Can’t export, can’t upload to iCloud. Nothing!!!

Recorded perfect tracks on this dream app, which gives u bass and drums,... now I can’t upload to iCloud nor email nor anything to put it on my iPad .... help!,,

By hafagbaann

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You Have Now Been Warned!

This app will erase it’s data. Don’t do it! There is NO way to quantify the loss and anger you WILL feel and experience WHEN this app deletes all the ideas you were saving. Keep looking. Don’t download this app. This app WILL delete your files without your knowledge. I just lost two years of song beginnings, chord progressions, guitar licks, piano items I was working on, and more. GONE. And there is NO WAY to restore those items. You’re better off buying an old tape recorder. To the “people” responsible for making and updating this app, isn’t it time to do the responsible thing and remove this junk from the App Store?

By CJFlu

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Useful but can use some improvement

The app is very simple to use and the ability to add drums and bass automatically is good. The problems come when you write things in weird time signatures. You can set the time signature to 3/4, 4/4, or 6/8. This is pretty basic and more time signatures need to be added. Bugs are frequent and the app may refuse to play a recording unless you restart the app. In summary, I still use because it’s from Apple and not some developer I don’t trust, but it can use some improvement.

By Lucius N.

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