I’m no musician, not by any stretch – but Tonara really looks like quite a groundbreaking app to me and certainly looks very impressive in the demo video above.
It’s touted as the world’s first interactive sheet music app …
which follows along as you play, shows your exact position on the score, and turns the score pages automatically, just in time. Tonara is smart enough to ignore misplayed notes, background noise and other interference and can adjust to variations in tempo or repetitions in the score.
Tonara’s co-founder and CEO, Yair Lavi, has lofty ambitions for the app and the impact it can have:
Our dream is to redefine the way people read sheet music … The idea is so simple and accessible – we show it to musicians and they are immediately hooked. The ‘old way’ of reading music involves so much disconnection and there is a lot going on that distracts you from the music. That’s why we’re thrilled to let people focus on just the main objective. We believe that the interactive features enabled by our technology will transition the sheet music market from the era of print and static PDFs to fully digital, interactive and downloadable scores, and we are proud to be at the forefront of this transition.
It’s a free app (for a limited time) that comes with six built-in scores. Additional scores are available via In-App purchase at $0.99 to $3.99 each.
On the Music Path is a brand new iPad app that just hit the App Store today. It offers lessons on guitar and other instruments from a cast of well-known musicians including Jackson Browne, Scott Tennant, and Ravi Shankar.
The app itself is free, while the lessons cost between $2.99 – 19.99. Lesson previews and sample chapters can be downloaded for free to help decide if you want to purchase them.
My daughter got a guitar recently and is keen to learn it, so I downloaded On the Music Path this morning and spent some time with it. I have to say it looks superb so far and I’m excited to show it to my daughter.
OMGuitar is the best mobile guitar emulation ever created. It is a synthesizer with unique interface and new-generation sound hybrid engine that allows anyone to produce realistic guitar sounds.
Good ad. The song sounds good and the app looks quite impressive.
When you launch Aweditorium – the superb new music discovery app for the iPad – the initial splash screen for it uses a tagline of ‘Aural Happiness’ underneath the app’s name. They could easily drop ‘aural’, just use ‘Happiness’, and be well within the bounds of accurate descriptions of what the app delivers.
If you want the short version of my review on the app, it is: awesome – a must for all iPad owners who like to discover new music. For lots of lovely screencaps and reasons why this app is so superb, hit the jump …
Magic Fiddle for iPad is the latest brilliant-looking music app from Smule – the creators of acclaimed music apps for iOS including Ocarina, Magic Piano, and I Am T-Pain. Magic Fiddle is designed exclusively for the the iPad and looks and sounds like another instant hit for Smule. Here’s a little more on the app, from its App Store description:
Hello. I am your fiddle. I am programmed to make you a musical prodigy. Your untrained fingers will play beautiful music in a matter of minutes. My fiddlery magic will help you earn high scores, gold medals and fun badges. You and I will be unstoppable on the global leaderboard, competing with fellow fiddlers. Seriously, in the amount of time it took you to read this you could have learned ‘Ave Maria’. I kid you not (fiddles never joke).
You, my friend, are not just someone with an iPad. You are a virtuoso.
My colleague Thomas over at our lovely sister site tipped me off on this one. The app is called SoundPrism and it’s an ultra impressive looking way to create music on the iPad. I’m about as non-musical a person as you could hope to come across (a great listener though) and I still feel psyched [...]
Tune Frame for iPad is an app that’s intended to help you show off your album art on the gorgeous iPad screen, as well as create playlists on the fly. I’ve spent some time with the app this week and I like the concept of it – but I wish there was a little more [...]
