I use a lot (actually way too many) music creation apps. This looks really nice, but there are a few things that made me turn away after only a minute:<p>1) In order to use any instruments other than piano I need to like or share. I haven't even had a chance to build a song. As a user, I'm not comfortable enough to recommend your app to friends or endorse it.<p>2) There doesn't seem to be much available in terms of drums / bass. I might be missing something.<p>3) This is more of a nice to have, but customizing sounds through effects or parameters would be amazing and add to the diversity of sounds.<p>I really do love the interface. I think with a few changes you could be on to something great!
The 'music' category is one of the very few places left in the app store where you can actually charge a reasonable price for your work and still get traction. It's a shame to see something like this show up as a free app, especially with such granular IAPs as separate 'synth pads' and 'synth leads'. It smells a bit of the worst parts of free-to-play.<p>Also, you're risking a future rejection by requiring the camera when the app doesn't use it. Apple has a long history of pulling apps which request specific features that they don't use.<p>The interface is nice, an appealing take on the piano roll.
No offense. This looks nice for casual user and whatnot..<p>But I was expecting something actually <i>interesting</i> like being able to draw waveforms like oramics.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oramics" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oramics</a>
Nice app. I find the overall color of UI elements to be a little too dark. Right now with a little room light reflections on my iPad I find it hard to see some parts of the UI.<p>The biggest issue I have is, unless it supports CoreMIDI that leaves anything I create trapped in the app and makes it much less interesting and useful to me as a music creation tool. It also rules out using it in conjunction with all the other music apps out there. I would really encourage looking into this and it is something I would probably pay for to enable.<p>Also I don't (and won't) use Facebook so that rules out any sharing, etc... for me. I'm not opposed to sharing features at all, I just won't use Facebook to do so.<p>edit: a word
Had fun playing with it. Trying to play <a href="http://i.imgur.com/ArXK5rW.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/ArXK5rW.png</a> didn't go so well, it exited after one or two notes.
I haven't tried your app, but from the video it seems you have those discrete notes. Have you though about having a sort of continuous time/frequency domain? I guess you could do that with an Inverse Wavelet transform or Inverse Short Time FT with logarithmic frequency scaling. I'm assuming your sounds are synthesized, not recorded.<p>Another idea - how about making a part of the app sort of "real time" (or short delay), like an instrument? Seems it would take the intuitiveness and freshness of gesturing to a whole new level.
Reminds me of SoundBow [0].<p>0: <a href="http://www.binaura.net/stc/wrx/soundbow/" rel="nofollow">http://www.binaura.net/stc/wrx/soundbow/</a>
Just downloaded it - beautiful app! I also love the intro video - slick and professional, but gets straight to the point and gives an excellent overview of how the app works.
Looks quite good.<p>Can you tell us how long it took to develop and challenges or technologies used.<p>(I know this sounds like a job interview question but I'm actually quite curious :-)
It looks awesome, however I'm very hesitant to download free apps at this point. I would rather buy something for $5 or $10, because then I have more confidence I'm not going to have popups or have to endorse or recommend it for rewards or something.<p>I still don't mind in-app-purchases. Free always sets off warning bells though.
I've recently started to compose music, and nothing beats the simple notation software like TuxGuitar. I don't even attempt to use any other complicated software. Note I'm only talking about composing, not effects and mixing.<p>But a very impressive looking software and very cool introduction video. And a good composition too!
Looks really cool. Too bad SoundBrush is already the name of Roland's app for their 'GS' MIDI extension. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_GS" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_GS</a><p>(Not that most people would notice.)
This looks promising. It would be nice if you could constrain single strokes to only play single notes simultaneously — as it is you often get very discordant hits when a line gets steep.<p>I also wish you could draw strokes when zoomed out.<p>My daughter loves playing with the app.
Ok so its a piano roll sequencer with nice chrome and a locked set of mildly acceptable instruments. Sorry but this just isn't overly exciting to me in its current state.<p>Unlock all the instruments, add MIDI and charge for it. Then we're talking
Lovely execution. This is the type of app that I feel Bret Victor is talking about, allowing you to explorer and create in new ways with immediate feedback.<p>The disappointing part is seeing that this is an iPad only app.
Impressive interface!<p>What I would love: When tapping a note for the second time would make it disappear. Currently, when Im trying stuff, I constantly switch between the piano set and the eraser. Thats pretty tiresome.
Unfortunately you need a fairly new Android phone to be able to pull something like this off. I wish Android didn't take so long to fix the audio latency issue.