“Back in the day, those who dreamed of playing Carnegie Hall or going on international stadium tours had to start their quest by buying time at expensive recording studios to make demos. There were home-recording setups, but if you wanted something that sounded professional, you had to pay the price,” Mike Murphy writes for Quartz. “Then came desktop software like ProTools that let anyone make decent recordings at home. After that, Apple launched GarageBand, a free program that shipped on every Mac, opening up music making to anyone who could afford a laptop. Now, Apple appears to be upending the recording industry again with Music Memos, a new app that lets anyone with an iPhone easily record songs wherever they are.”
“Music Memos can be set to listen and automatically start recording when it hears someone making music, and stop when they stop,” Murphy writes. “The app can also listen to what you’ve recorded, figure out the arrangement of the music, and automatically add in bass lines and drums to fill out the song.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Music Memos is a fun app and, in the hands of real musicians, a valuable one, too!
Of course, Music Memos also works with iPad 2 and later.
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Apple releases new music apps that transform iOS devices into handheld studios for songwriters and beatmakers – January 20, 2016
Where is this app?
Wondering the same thing…
Oddly enough a search for it on the App Store turns up nothing. But as you would expect the app is highlighted. Right now it’s available under “Best New Apps” (or something like that), as the first row of recommended apps.
This app is VERY COOL! I’ve recorded the same song 18 times in all sorts of different styles, which were suggested to me by… the computer! That’s right. Listening to the app’s bass and drum made me think about the song in a direction I’d never taken it before.
Thanks Apple.
So glad Apple is spending time on the important things instead of wasting their time fixing Mac apps that people rely on such as Pages, Mail, iTunes and Photos.
If Mr. Cook thinks the world could use more non-musicians making music who are we to argue? I mean, who’s going to replace Miley Bieber?
One star this if you agree.
That damn thing is a bunch of fun. Sorry you don’t appreciate it. Sounds like you could stand a little more fun in your life.
I’m pretty sure this app is a product of a lone developer in the Logic business division, the one responsible for the Logic suite and GarageBand.
Much like the new iMovie was a result of Randy Ubillos’s weekend tinkering, which Steve loved at first sight and put it in iLife, making it the most widely used video editing app in education today.
Sorry, one star, we actually didn’t get trapped by the brilliance of your magic incantation, “One star this if you agree”. It doesn’t change anything. They are one stars.
As I recall, there were also a lot of short sited people who said something similar when Apple first introduced iTunes.
Apple’s iTunes link is broken. This is the main page for the app: https://www.apple.com/music-memos/
In the App Store, search for GarageBand, then go down to developer apps, where it will be prominently displayed, for download.
I am wondering what this will do for YouTube videos.
This will not make you sound like a rock star. You will sound like you always did. Only now, you will own this app.
Come on MDN, no more clickbate.
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Pah this isn’t a patch on SongSmith by Microsoft…
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