2013
03/30
Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro
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Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro has been envisioned as auxiliary material in the study of Tonal Harmony. The main objective of this app is to provide the student, teachers, composers and/or songwriters with a tool that will aid them in hearing, analyzing, foreseeing and composing harmonic progressions without struggle, in all keys alike.

The map has seven levels of complexity, from the basic diatonic neighborhood advanced secondary functions in major and minor modes and is viewable in all 12 keys and enharmonic spellings, plus a functional view (relative to the tonic). Each level is also accompanied by its respective workbook available at mDecks.com for further study and research.

What’s New in Version 5.0
Many new features in this version!

MIDI EXPORT – export progressions as MIDI files in any key

PRINT WORKSHEETS – print progressions as worksheets with functional analysis (or chord progression in any key)

SHOW/HIDE UNUSED CHORDS – the map now has the option to filter out all functions not used in the current progression

AUDIO HARMONIC MARKERS – audio tracks now show functional markers on a timeline to analyze and understand the harmonic rhythm in the current piece.

AUDIO ONION SKIN MARKERS – you can now select a section of the audio track you want to view, listen and analyze.

HARMONIC PATHS ON AUDIO TRACKS – harmonic paths are now available on audio tracks (also reflecting the audio onion markers)

NEW AUDIO TRACKS AVAILABLE.

minor bug fixed (user songs were not saving to storage)

Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro

Features
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Mode Selector:
Browse Mode – Tap the chords on the map, listen and view the respective function, most-often-used mode/scale.
Play Mode – Select, load and listen to standard progressions & cadences while viewing them play in the map
Rec Mode – Create your own progressions and save them for future study or reference.
Audio Mode Demo – Load and listen to pieces in the public domain while viewing them in the map.
Help Mode – An interactive help mode on how to use the app.

Map Levels:
1) Basic Diatonic functions
2) IIIm and Deceptive Cadences
3) SubV7 and Neapolitan sixth (N6)
4) Secondary Dominants
5) Blues and other modes
6) Advanced Secondary Dominants
7) Complete Map with all functions

Chord Info Panel:
Tap on the chords in the map and view info about their function, mode scale, etc.

Cadences and Alternative Cadences Paths:
Activate the cadences paths to make most common paths between functions.

Enharmonics and Keyboard:
Modulate to any key and view the progressions in the selected key or functionally. Select enharmonic spellings using sharps or flats. Transpose any progression to any key by tapping on the keyboard.

Staff Panel:
View the current progression in the staff panel in standard chord notation instantaneously transposed to the selected key or functionally. In play mode you can tap on the chords in the staff to play it and find it on the map. In rec mode double tap to delete the chord or tap an empty spot to insert a chord by tapping them on the map.

Show paths icon.
Make paths in the current progression visible to view the entire harmonic progression.

Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro is available for $7.99

2013
03/25
Live Guitar For iPad
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Live Guitar For iPad

Live Guitar is designed to support playing complex chords, arpeggios, and finger-style guitar lines on your iOS device. Because the iPhone and iPad are not shaped like the neck of a guitar, the app provides an innovative way of selecting chords, while also leaving enough room to play individual strings accurately and expressively.

What’s New in Version 1.3
Introducing Audiobus support, improved support for virtual and core MIDI, and the import/export of chord progressions through Twitter.

Chords are organized in sets, which you can customize and change on a song-by-song basis. A single touch on the fretboard selects the first chord of a set; two touches selects the second, and so on. It’s possible to move quickly and accurately between sixteen different chords without needing to look at the screen; the chords available are taken directly from tablature that can be imported to the app. When playing guitar, switching between chords smoothly is critical; the app has been designed so that you can play music, not just notes.

Single string notes and strums can be played with touches or swipes; the organic sonic texture that comes from varying note intensity is obtained by adjusting where on a string you touch. The interface orientation on the iPhone gives more space between the strings, allowing you to play individual strings more accurately.

Live Guitar supports Chordpro formatted transcriptions; transcriptions to thousands of songs, with both the lyrics and chords, are available on the internet. Chordpro formatted transcriptions can be imported through the internal web browser, or with iTunes file sharing. Chord progressions can be imported from Twitter. You can also edit and create transcriptions in the app, and share transcriptions and chords easily.

MIDI connects your playing to laptop or desktop recording tools like GarageBand, Logic, Reaper, or ProTools. CoreMIDI, Virtual MIDI, and DSMIDI are all supported; you can choose the interface that gives you the best performance on your system. Live Guitar can send MIDI to the GarageBand app, as well as most other synthesizer apps. At present, SampleTank is not compatible.

For those learning to play, Live Guitar gives a gentle introduction to the fretboard and forming chords, and makes playing a song easy. Pros will appreciate the support for tablature and MIDI connectivity. For everyone, the app is a way to get a little “guitar playing fix” when the real thing isn’t available.

There are a number of guitar apps available. What makes Live Guitar different is the integration of song lyrics and chords, and the novel way in which chords are selected. It’s not just a portable guitar, it’s a portable guitar with access to tens of thousands of song transcriptions.

The app should work on all iPhones, iPads, and the iPod Touch, but is best suited for the iPhone 3Gs and newer, the 4th generation iPod Touch, and any iPad. Audiobus works best on newer iPads and iPhones.

Live Guitar is available for $3.99

2013
03/24
UPDATE: CrossDj 1 1 0 Features Keylock
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CrossDj For iPad

CrossDJ delivers a unique iPad DJing experience with a user friendly yet professional and feature rich layout. This application allows all DJs to enjoy the pleasure of performing quality sounding mixes on an iPad.

What’s New in Version 1.1.0
Keylock
Additional bug fixes and improvements

FEATURES

• 2 vinyl decks with realistic scratch
• Ultra-accurate synchronization and ultra-fast beat matching
• Parallel waveforms and track overview display
• Audio via Bluetooth
• Multi-audio for USB compliant multichannel soundcard
• External mixer audio routing mode (channel A and B are routed to different outputs)
• Direct access to your iPad iTunes library
• Sort tracks by BPM, title, artist, album or genre
• 14 Audio FX: Low-Pass, Hi-Pass, Echo, Delay, Phaser, X-Phaser, Flanger, Jet, Chopper, Crush, Brake, Roll, Cut, Bliss
• X/Y control pad for FX
• Live Beat grid edit
• Auto loops (1/8 to 16 beats)
• Slip mode loops
• 6 hot cues per track
• Split output function for headphones monitoring*
• Pitch fader and pitch bend
• Pitch range from 4% to 100%
• Complete DJ Mixer with 3-band EQ, volume faders, cross-fader and level meters
• Compatibility with most Bluetooth receivers for cable-free mixing
• Audio via Bluetooth
• Multi-audio for USB compliant multichannel soundcard

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2013
03/23
Connect Audio Apps For Free
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Jack Audio Connect Audio Apps For Free

Looking for a FREE alternative to AudioBus? Try Jack. JACK is more than just one app. It is a system that connects the music and audio world on your iOS device. JACK allows audio channels and MIDI ports of your audio & music apps to be connected with each other. It does not force a predefined schema in which way apps shall be connected with each other. You can freely connect them in any way you want, intuitively like drawing on a paper. Besides audio & MIDI interconnection, JACK provides other very useful mechanisms to let your audio apps work together like never before. For example record/playback synchronization between DAWs and sequencer apps. Arbitrary data sharing among apps and much more. Even though JACK is quite new on iOS, it already came a long way. Providing you the most professional and powerful environment for your audio apps, highly optimized with explicit multi core support, low latency and maturity which it gained over many years of usage and development on other operating systems already. JACK is an open standard, which can freely be supported by anybody.

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Current Features:
– Audio connections between apps and external devices¹.
– MIDI connections between apps and external devices¹.
– Record/Playback synchronization between apps.
– Multi Core CPU support for high performance (parallelized internal audio graph).
– Low Latency Performance (configurable, i.e. 2ms buffer sizes).
– Arbitrary, custom data sharing among apps (allows easy extensions of the system).
– Arbitrary amount of audio & MIDI ports per app, changeable at runtime.
– Intuitive user interface that allows you to easily manage all audio and MIDI connections, environment settings, monitor current overall CPU usage and more …

Your favorite audio app does not support JACK yet? Ask the app vendor to add support for it! Any developer can add JACK support to his app in less than an hour. SDK, example apps with full source code and complete documentation available on our website now!

Jack is available for FREE

2013
03/23
Garageband iOS Supports AudioBus
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Garageband iPad

What’s New in Version 1.4
• Play and record music apps supported by Audiobus directly into GarageBand*
• Turn off grid snapping to get finer control over region and note editing
• Fixes an issue that resulted in feedback while connecting 3rd-party audio accessories into the headphone/microphone jack

* Requires iPhone 4S, iPod touch (5th generation), iPad 2 or later. Audiobus requires a separate purchase.

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