BEST ACCESSIBLE SOFTWARE FOR MUSIC PLAYING , IMPROVISING, COMPOSING AND PRODUCING TILL 2020
THE NEW APPLICATIONS FOR DIGITAL MUSIC IN THE IPAD OR IN THE DESKTOP VERY OFTEN EXHIBIT A HIGHER SPIRITUAL FUNCTION AND A BETTER MUSICAL ONTOLOGY ORGANISATION AND COMPARED TO TRADITIONAL HARDWARE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
THE ALSO HAVE A UNIQUE UNIFYING POWER FOR MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND TYPES OF MUSIC THAT IS VERY USEFUL FOR TALENDET MUSICIANS THAT ARE MULTI INTRSUMENT PLAYERS AND WANT TO COMPOSE MUSIC.
THIS NEW GENERATION OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS SHIFT THE MUSICIAN FROM AN INSTRUMENT PLAYER TO A MUSICAL COMPOSER.
THEY SHOULD BE COMBINED WITH TRADITIONAL HARFWARE ANALOGUE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS TO GIVE THEIR FULLEST VALUE.
THE ALSO HAVE A UNIQUE UNIFYING POWER FOR MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND TYPES OF MUSIC THAT IS VERY USEFUL FOR TALENDET MUSICIANS THAT ARE MULTI INTRSUMENT PLAYERS AND WANT TO COMPOSE MUSIC.
THIS NEW GENERATION OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS SHIFT THE MUSICIAN FROM AN INSTRUMENT PLAYER TO A MUSICAL COMPOSER.
THEY SHOULD BE COMBINED WITH TRADITIONAL HARFWARE ANALOGUE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS TO GIVE THEIR FULLEST VALUE.
1) LINEAR (DIATONIC) PADS (E.G. USER MODE OF LAUNCHPAD) OF
ANY SCALE AND INSTRUMENT REALIZATION
One of the most important and interesting
features of the digital touchscreen new musical instruments is the linear
diatonic arrangement of the notes (like in harp, or panflute) under any
possible scale, and sound-timbre (sounfond) which allows for very easy and efficient
melodic improvisations.
2) INTECATIVE LOOPS AT ANY
ORGANIZATION LAYER OVER 2-DIMENSIONAL PAD-LATTICES (E.G. SESSION MODE OF LAUNCHPAD)
The next significant feature
are the 2-dimensional pad-lattices of notes , chords , and parts of the musical
composition, so that by taping at will and interactively on them we improvise
by non-automated loops on the created music.
Other innovative features are:
3) HALF-AUTOMATED
HALF-INTERCATIVE ARPEGGIATORS
The arpeggiators of any type
and any range of octaves , which is a magical mesmerizing feeling of musical
result.
4) HALF-AUTOMATED HALF-INTERACTIVE LOOPS AT ANY ORGANIZATION LAYER
The multiple in time automatic Loops or sequencers either of notes, chords or parts of the musical piece that interactively with the intervention of the user allow for variations of them.
5) METAMORPHOSIS OF MUSICAL SOUND IN REAL TIME (E.G. MIDI GUITAR 2 AND MIXER MODE OF LAUNCHPAD).
The ability to transform in
real time without audible latency any type of input musical sound-timbre to any
other type of output sound-timbre.
6) PLAYING THE COLOR OF THE MUSICAL NOTE BESIDES ITS PITCH AND DURATION (E.G. MIXER MODE OF LAUNCHPAD):
So far music was 2-dimensinal in the sense that witha musical instrument the musician was playing with pitch ofthe note and its duration. Now a 3rd dimension is added as the musician plays with the timbre or color ofthe musical note also in real time.
So far music was 2-dimensinal in the sense that witha musical instrument the musician was playing with pitch ofthe note and its duration. Now a 3rd dimension is added as the musician plays with the timbre or color ofthe musical note also in real time.
The midi guitar 2. It is a marvelous software that takes as input the signal from an electric or acoustic guitar with electric system, and converts it to the sound of any kind of instrument. In other words it makes your physical guitar a midi controller!
The Navichord (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRdH_6cxLRg) is a wonderful application that sets the notes in 2-dimensional hexagonic arrangment as in the Serpstra keyboard. The major and minor chords are triangles of notes in it, and are played by pushing in the cenrer of the triangle. The 3 local relations ofthe chords (chromatic=no common notes, melodic=2 common notes and harmonic=1 common note) are immeditely seen. The chord scales and chord progressions for composition are realized by the chord sequencer . The Navichord except of rectangular and hexagonal lattice of chords has also a linear piano keyboard forthe melodies and so one plays chords with the one hamd as if a separate instrument and melodies in the other hand as aseparte instrument which is easier than the piano playing (much like an accordion left and right hand).
I CONSIDER THE IDEA OF A 2-DIMENSIONAL RECTANGULAR OR HAXEGONAL LATTICE (THE LATTER IS MORE DENSE) AS KEYBOARD CONFIGIRATION OF NOTES AS BEST OPPORTUNITY OF TOUCHSCREEN SOFTWARE AND BEST WAY OF ARRANGING NOTES FOR PLAYING MUSIC ,IMPROVISING AND COMPOSING.
THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT WAYS THAT THE NOTES CAN CORRESPOND TO THE VERTICES OF A HEXAGONAL LATTICE.
FOR CHORDS THE BEST WAY SEEMS TO BE THAT OF NAVICHORD,, IN OTHER WORDS ONE AXIS BY FITHS AND IN ANOTHER AXIS BY 3RDS. FOR MELODIC IMPROVISATIONS ITIS INONE AXIS BY 5THS AND IN ANOTHER AXIS BY 2NDS.
While the Navichord application is utilizing the 5ths/3rds harmonic hexagonal lattice arrangment of notes which is best for the chord-improvisations the Geoshred application is utlizing the 5ths/2nds melodic arrangment in rectangular lattice which best for melodic improvisations. It is customizable also to any note arrangment on the rectangular lattice
The application Musix Pro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDXclijHuyE) allows the reader to assign notes to any hexagonal or rectangular arrangment (lattice) of buttons (pads) and play music as a touchscreen keybard with it.
WE may set simply a rectangular lattice of pads-notes that horizontally it is by 2nds in a scale
and vertically by alternating major and minor 3rds. THIS WILL BE AS USEFUL AS THE LATTICE ARRANGMENT FOR CHORDS IN NAVICHORD,BECAUSE IT WIL ALLOW MELODIC THEMES TOBE TRANSPOSED BY MIOR/MAJOR 3RDS AND 5THS WITH ISPROBABLY THE BEST SYSTEM OF VARIATIONAL TRANSLATIONS OF A MELODIC THEME.
and vertically by alternating major and minor 3rds. THIS WILL BE AS USEFUL AS THE LATTICE ARRANGMENT FOR CHORDS IN NAVICHORD,BECAUSE IT WIL ALLOW MELODIC THEMES TOBE TRANSPOSED BY MIOR/MAJOR 3RDS AND 5THS WITH ISPROBABLY THE BEST SYSTEM OF VARIATIONAL TRANSLATIONS OF A MELODIC THEME.
See also posts 94, 99.
Another brillian such application is the ChordMaps2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnF5VCpZuAA
Still another software for chords triggered by a single note is the Quantichord (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBA5AqaUUiw)
Also the ChordBot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSvVjx-OpeY)
The ChordPadX (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpwO2hEceiA )is also a simple simpler software to create pads of chords and play and record them (Chord sequencer).
ChordPolyPad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoWuKcoJayA)plays chords on a hexagonic pad, but also arpeggios and melodies in serial keyboard.
ChordTap is a fixed pad of all possibke chords from where one can play them by one button.
RealGuitar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5JM5QFG_5s) is a nice simple application with which you can play strumming and arpeggios of chords with the sound ofa guitar. It can load more chords compared to the corresponding feature of garageband.
RealGuitar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5JM5QFG_5s) is a nice simple application with which you can play strumming and arpeggios of chords with the sound ofa guitar. It can load more chords compared to the corresponding feature of garageband.
The GarangeBand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFlcLTqzIR8&t=64s) is a nice classical software that turns your touchscreen into a midi controller for various instruments, like guitar, keyboard, strings, drums etc with many soundfonds (sounds) of real instruments or sytnthesizers and also includes chords-pad , arpeggiator, and recording of composed music .
The Music Studio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWWC8nq_Nmk) is a rich in soundfonds application which also includes chord-pads feature and can record and compose music.
Similar to this is the FLstudio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_1JJzCYMkU)
Also the Nano Studio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdRoDCp1_4)
The Arpeggionome (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Filtp9jKg) is an astonishing software and also touchscreen musical instrument (midicontroller) that expores the possibilities of classical and nono-classical arpeggios as half-automated and half-interactive mode with the user
Another application for arpeggios is the Arpeggist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U776YRfaP4I)
The Fugue machine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rww2sYw38c8) which is melodic sequencer re-imagined as in multi-time scale fugues of Bach.
Thumpjam (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YODMoMaasVk) is a remarkable and excellent application with improvisation onthe touchscreen customizamle as an harp-lyra (chromatic or diatonic) and recording of it with plenty of sounfonds. It is the main sound types machine that I use for other applications as well as for string-like or wind-like midi controllers
ReasonCompact (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2HoXF-JKuk) is very rich in sounds with arpeggiator and monotone mode for simplicial submelodies and bass lines.
Moodscaper: Is one of the first touch-screen pad new musical instruments that the musician is also playing with the timbre or color of the musical note with his touchscreem pad-buttons besides the pitch and duration. It is using mainly pentatonic 5-notes scales, and chords of the diatonic 7-notes scale with roots on these pentatonic scales.
https://www.moodscaper.com/
From the same developer there is also the TOUCHSCAPER https://www.touchscaper.com/ which is a marvelous and very customizable musical instrument in the ipad. It supperts easily chord progressions and arpeggios either strict or randmized that are alo not only on pitch and timr but also one sound-color ranging between two sounds or instruments. It supports also drum patterns that may change with the chords and sessions organization whichcombines both automated playing and interactuve playing. It can also communicate well with other sound machines for other types of sounds and recording.
AN INTERCATIVE MODE OF VARYING MANUALLY ON THE TOUCHSCREEN THE ORDER SHAPE ("DOLPHON WORD" ) OF MELODIC THEMES IS VERY WELL REALIZED WITH THE APPLICATION OSCILAB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AiDOCG-Vdk
Applications like Sector (http://kymatica.com/apps/sector) and Necklace (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rhythm-necklace-geometric-sequencer/id954669874 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddWQU6Wo3v8 ) and Chroniumhttps://www.moodscaper.com/
From the same developer there is also the TOUCHSCAPER https://www.touchscaper.com/ which is a marvelous and very customizable musical instrument in the ipad. It supperts easily chord progressions and arpeggios either strict or randmized that are alo not only on pitch and timr but also one sound-color ranging between two sounds or instruments. It supports also drum patterns that may change with the chords and sessions organization whichcombines both automated playing and interactuve playing. It can also communicate well with other sound machines for other types of sounds and recording.
AN INTERCATIVE MODE OF VARYING MANUALLY ON THE TOUCHSCREEN THE ORDER SHAPE ("DOLPHON WORD" ) OF MELODIC THEMES IS VERY WELL REALIZED WITH THE APPLICATION OSCILAB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AiDOCG-Vdk
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYbi4rbMK88)
give in an intearctive way the remarkable ability to the user to variate the rhyhmic pattern executed by a loop , in other words creating a continously changing or variating polyrythm. The chronium also allows changingthe pitch and color of the beet as well
But probably an easier to appreciate application for rhythms is the
Patterning 2 https://www.olympianoiseco.com/apps/patterning-2/
Chordion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCNRPzhM0gU) plays chords on a hexagonic pad, but also arpeggios and melodies in serial keyboard.
https://www.olympianoiseco.com/apps/chordion/
Dolphin words(=abstract order patterns of melodic themes) are beatifully composed with the arpeggiator Dot Melody of https://www.olympianoiseco.com/
https://www.olympianoiseco.com/apps/dot-melody/
Chordspolypad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoWuKcoJayA&t=215s)
TOP 10 supersimple APPS FOR SONG WRITING
According to this video the 1- such appls are the next
10. Pro Chords
9. Songwriter's Pad
8. Nano Studio
7. Evernote / Evernote Scannable
6. Medly
5. Metronome
4. Four Track
1. Hum
3. Garageband
2. Music Memos
In order to create musical scales on a 2-dimensional pad which have frequencies outside the frequencies and intervals of the Western Back 12-notes scale, like of Ancient Greece, Byzantine, and Arabian scales , one can use the Annoydio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzuQhLxMxeM) , that controls inthe user interface the frequency of the sound of each pad.
Mogees (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq7h811wEJM&t=164s) Mogees is rastonishing as it turns any set of objects and sounds on them to a midi controller. Combined with arpeggiators and drumpads it creates music.
For finding chords, arpeggios , scales on the fretboard
More general for other instruments too
For finding the chords of a scale
For writing music on a piano Roll
Also
(PianoRollComposer)
A more professional but also commercial is the FL Studio here
Auto-arrangement and composition software Ludwig (it finds also the chords of a melody which is imported by a midi file)
A free software to create melodies
The palette
For converting midi files to mp3
For rhythm analysis
and Hydrogen advanced drum machine
For finding the chords of a song
By using the audacity or sonic visualizer and the chordino add in
By using the chordify and the video of the song
By using the software Ludwig which finds also the chords of a melody which is imported by a midi file
By using the harmonic navigator with midi file input of the melody
By using already found chords of the song in sites e.g.
By singing the song and using the software Songsmith
10 interesting applications in android for the guitarist
Chord-bibles for fretted instruments
Muse-score for writing and playing scores
and especially for guitar fretboard
https://www.hooktheory.com/hookpad/new
Lights on the fretboard guiding and teaching the player!!!
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