Apple has
unveiled a new app called Music Memos for iPhones, iPads and iPod touch. It’s 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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