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With new Music Memos app, Apple just made it easy for anyone with an iPhone to sound like a rockstar

“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.”

Apple’s all-new Music Memos app for iOS
“Apple has had a version of GarageBand available for the iPhone for a while, but it was pretty fiddly to use on such a small screen,” Murphy writes. “Music Memos aims to simplify the music-making process on the iPhone: You press a button to start recording, and press it again to stop. You can export your files to GarageBand to edit them more fully, or send them right to SoundCloud or YouTube if you think they’re ready for the world to hear.”

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.”

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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

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