Recently, more and more musicians have been using smartphone apps to help them write, edit, and create their music. So here is a list of some of our recommendations! Both beginner and professional musicians can use these apps to enhance the quality of their music. These apps are all available on the iOS Appstore.
CHORD!
Chord! Is great for guitar players, as it allows you to pick chords to create progressions for your songs. It also allows you to export your lyrics and chords onto a PDF file.
Suggester
Suggester helps you with creating chord progressions. It can have really creative scales, chords, and progressions to help you figure out the harmonies and melodies of your songs.
Simple Songwriter
This app is similar to the Suggester app, but is more simple and user friendly. You can use this app to create chord progressions, and can change the tempo and key as well!
Amadeus Code
This app helps generate melodies based on your style and preference. You can change the filters and make adjustments according to how you want your melodies to sound! This app sells for free on the iOS app store as well.
Garageband
This is a famously free and simple iOS app for creating music. It’s fully equipped with different instruments, sounds, and settings, and is great for beginners to learn to create their own music.
Hum
This app organizes all of your different song ideas and creations into different categories such as moods, keys, topics, or tunings. You can also use it to record your own audio!
Song.writer lyrics Pro.
This app generates lyrics based on the emotions of your song. You can also upload and record your own audio with it as well!
Songwriter Pad
Similar to Song.writer lyrics Pro, this app also generates lyrics based on the emotions you put in keywords. It also helps with different rhymes and phrases that you might be stuck on while writing.
OnSong
OnSong is useful for bands, and allows you to manage large collections of chord charts and lyrics. You can also use it to transpose and highlight your chords, and create set lists for performances.
Ultimate Circle of Fifths
This app is useful for creating harmonies for your songs, as it focuses on chords and scales around the circle of fifths.
Compoze Leadsheets
This app is great for writing sheet music simply and close up. It allows you to record your ideas directly on the app, and allows playback so you can hear your ideas back immediately.
FourTrack
This app is a four-track recorder and is helpful for creating and recording demo songs. It also has some simple mixing plugins too!
Conclusion
All of these apps will surely help you create the best music possible, whether you’re a beginner or a more seasoned musician. You can try using multiple apps at once to see which ones suit your needs the best as well!
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Have you used any of these apps before!? Let us know your favourite one!
- By Julianna Martinek
