Any ipad fans out there?

[terribilino]

I just bought my wife an ipad (which has, of course, become the family's ipad), and I'm looking for useful apps. Any recommendations? I'm hunting for a decent metronome, and if there's anything out there that will help me read music or understand musical theory it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Lady Kayri]

I use iRealb an awful lot.

 

[bassgrooves2]

wow there are really lots of apps that attempt to yeah music theory. musicopolis(i think) is one decent one. also Tenuto, Music Tutor, Music Theory and Practice, MPV's Music Theory Videos, iReal b, and of course there are many many more.

For me though, I have tried many and have fallen back to book study, Largely with Ed Firedland's works, but I do use my iPad with Music Tutor app often because it is sort of like flashcards.

I havent experimented with any strictly metronome apps,as there seems to be a metronome built into almost every music making app.
Slow Down Music trainer is helpful as well. Sort of like the old tascam bass trainers/ guitar trainers.

 

[klejst]

No. :scowl:






But seriously I am not a big tablet guy

 

[Joe Smithberger]

Panotuner, Decibel Ultra, Tempo (Frozen Ape)

 

[DRafalske]

I bought an iPad a few months ago, and it quickly became my Wife's iPad. So I bought her her own.
I don't use it much for music, but there is an app called ForScore that I like. You can store your sheet music in there and link each song to the music player. There's a built in metronome. Works pretty well, only drawback is the scores have to be in .pdf format. I think the app was $5. Worth it, IMO.

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[Gaius46]

Let's see......

Talkbass iPad app

Symphony Pro for writing SN. Not as fully featured as Finale but good, and inexpensive nonetheless.

iRealB - changes to many jazz standards. Has a play along mode that's really useful for solo practicing.

forScore - stores and displays sheet music, lead sheets, charts, pretty much anything that's a pdf.

Set List Maker - Makes set lists, allows you call up charts from set list entries, can email html versions of set lists to bandmates

Virtuoso - a keyboard app

Metronomics - essentially a simple drum machine

Scale Master - A drone. Very useful for intonation exercises

That's it on the iPad. I have a bunch of tuning apps on the iPhone - it's a better platform for a tuner than the iPad because of it's smaller size imo. On there I have the Petersen tuner app and a tuning fork app that generates a 440Hz reference tone.

 

[Byron92]

I find tablets and iPads a bit awkward, i think its great to watch movies as an alternative, but besides apps, I leave that to my iPod who has been very faithful.

 

[terribilino]

Let's see......

Talkbass iPad app

Symphony Pro for writing SN. Not as fully featured as Finale but good, and inexpensive nonetheless.

iRealB - changes to many jazz standards. Has a play along mode that's really useful for solo practicing.

forScore - stores and displays sheet music, lead sheets, charts, pretty much anything that's a pdf.

Set List Maker - Makes set lists, allows you call up charts from set list entries, can email html versions of set lists to bandmates

Virtuoso - a keyboard app

Metronomics - essentially a simple drum machine

Scale Master - A drone. Very useful for intonation exercises

That's it on the iPad. I have a bunch of tuning apps on the iPhone - it's a better platform for a tuner than the iPad because of it's smaller size imo. On there I have the Petersen tuner app and a tuning fork app that generates a 440Hz reference tone.

Cool list! The scale master might be good, but Irealb looks VERY interesting.

Thanks!

 

[terribilino]

wow there are really lots of apps that attempt to yeah music theory. musicopolis(i think) is one decent one. also Tenuto, Music Tutor, Music Theory and Practice, MPV's Music Theory Videos, iReal b, and of course there are many many more.

For me though, I have tried many and have fallen back to book study, Largely with Ed Firedland's works, but I do use my iPad with Music Tutor app often because it is sort of like flashcards.

I havent experimented with any strictly metronome apps,as there seems to be a metronome built into almost every music making app.
Slow Down Music trainer is helpful as well. Sort of like the old tascam bass trainers/ guitar trainers.

I've got Ed's books as well, but I thought it might be neat to try something interactive. Thanks for the tips. That iRealb has me interested...

 

[difint]

I hope this does not come off as too commercial. But I play acoustic bass as well as guitar, and I could not find any suitable apps that let me explore chords and scales with specific alternative tunings. Like dropping to D, Db, and C or really exotic stuff. So I wrote my app Link Removed. You can use it to create a custom-tuned bass from 3 to 12 strings on iPad (up to 6 strings on iPhone) and tune each string to whichever note and octave you like. Then with the built-in chords and scales it will show you note positions and you can even play them back.

Here are some free download codes to check it out:
T467PWMP6XHN
AE3XLTRMEFTW

 

[DONZI97]

GarageBand, Tempo metronome, and a couple of amp sims you can play through with various adapters, with GK being my fave.

 

[SteveC]

wow there are really lots of apps that attempt to yeah music theory. musicopolis(i think) is one decent one. also Tenuto, Music Tutor, Music Theory and Practice, MPV's Music Theory Videos, iReal b, and of course there are many many more.

I also use GoodReader for all the music I have as pdf's. It's really nice. I only use an iPad any more. I have about 6 "real books" in there, all my church stuff, etc. I use iReal b to practice. It's a great tool. We use the PreSonus LIve board at church so my iPhone is my monitor mix controller and my iPad has my music. Pretty slick.

 

[Joe Smithberger]

GuitarTapp is pretty great for cover tune chord charts. It lets you access the online databases for chord charts and tabs. Save the songs that you want in favorites (on board the iPad) and do set lists.

 

[Joe Smithberger]

GuitarTapp is pretty great for cover tune chord charts. It lets you access the online databases for chord charts and tabs. Save the songs that you want in favorites (on board the iPad) and do set lists.

It also transposes!

 

[ggunn]

I just bought my wife an ipad (which has, of course, become the family's ipad), and I'm looking for useful apps.

Just so you know, that's probably not going to work out for you. You are going to have to get your own in order to save your marriage.

I use ReaddleDocs for jam sessions. Our keyboard player has DropBox loaded up with pdf charts for some 300 songs, and I got one of those iPad holders that clips to a mic stand. It's great.

Also, I got a Bluetooth keyboard folio for mine and took it on vacation instead of my laptop; it did everything I used to use my laptop for (email, photo transfer, forums, etc.) but was much easier to carry through airports.

Best of all, our keyboardist is an early adopter, so when the iPad3 came out, he sold me his old one for $100. My wife won hers as a door prize at a fund raiser.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

I bought one to keep my kids away from my laptop, but I still use it slot myself. Except for TB, my music related aps like my Cleartone tuner and Circle Theory are on my IPhone.

 

[CrashClint]

I bought my wife a new iPad 3 and took her old 64GB iPad 1 and loaded OnSong on it for keeping up with music charts and key changes and I must say I love my iPad!

 

[Joe Smithberger]

I bought my wife a new iPad 3 and took her old 64GB iPad 1 and loaded OnSong on it for keeping up with music charts and key changes and I must say I love my iPad!

OnSong is amazing. I posted earlier about GuitarTapp and have found it unreliable on my IPad. Now I am using OnSong for my cover band stuff and Forscore for my sheet music for church.

 

[Biggbass]

Other than a tuner app the only music related app I use is Deepdish GigBook. I load my music scores into it and it features a metronome for each score.