Saturday, January 23, 2016

Apple launches New Music Memos App for musicians, updates GarageBand too




Apple has unveiled a new app called Music Memos for iPhones, iPads and iPod touch. Its a free app available for devices running on iOS 9.1 and above. The app aims to make it easier for musicians to record their ideas and inspirations.

Music Memos is a development of Voice Memos, the app that already allows people to record short audio messages on their iPhone. The new app adds features like higher quality recordings, the ability to tag information and a feature that can analyse the recordings and instantly add drums and other instruments.

Those smart tools are the headline feature of the app, and Apple claims that it will allow people to quickly develop music from ideas into songs. The app is also able to analyse the chords that are being played and show them in notation, for instance.

The new version of GarageBand brings a new interface that arranges songs into collections of cells, triggering loops and samples in a similar way to DJ hardware. It also adds the drummer feature that is available on the desktop, which can intelligently add drum tracks to songs by analysing what is being played.

Sometimes ideas come faster than I can get them into my notebook so I've used Voice Memos and Notes to quickly capture songs before they're lost. Music Memos is like if those two apps came together to form some kind of superpower for songs, said Ryan Adams. 

It quite literally blew my mind how Music Memos could transform a single guitar idea into a whole composition with a virtual drummer loose enough that it felt like you were having your mind read by some A.I. musician and a choice of stand-up or electric bass accompaniments.

These music memos will also be synched across Apple devices through iCloud and can be opened using more complex composition programs such as GarageBand and Logic Pro X. Tracks can also be shared to Apple Music Connect, Sound Cloud and YouTube directly from the app.



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