Best Apps, Hardware & Resources for Musicians

Posted on September 17th, 2012. Written by Dan Comerchero

There is no doubt that the explosive success of the iPhone and iPad, combined with the maturation of iOS, has provided a whole new level of convenience, potential, and utility for musicians and audio engineers.

Whether it’s recording on a whim, musical calculations, or training your ears — it’s hard not to get swept up by the mobile music revolution.

Here is a list of some great iOS apps, hardware, and resources:

Apps:

FiRe 2 – Field Recorder: Professional audio field recorder
Quiztones: Frequency ear training for audio engineers, producers, and musicians
Figure: A fun music-making app for instant inspiration
NodeBeat: An intuitive and fun visual music app for all ages
Tabletop: A modular audio environment for iPad
Backline Calc: A full-featured musical calculator
Tone Target: An intervactive music game
Shazaam: Quickly identify and tag any song you hear
Songkick: Track concerts and get instant tour dates from your music library
AudioBus: Live, app-to-app audio streaming for iOS (coming soon)

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What are your favorite iOS apps and hardware?

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Dan Comerchero

I'm Dan, a drummer and a digital dreamer. I'm founder of The Pro Audio Files and Quiztones ear training apps. I studied Music Production at McNally Smith College of Music and freelance for Audiofile Engineering. Connect with me on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.

http://www.unreelsound.com Rob Lemieux

Tabletop looks pretty sick. I might have to give that a download this evening. From the screenshots in iTunes it looks like there is a recorder connected to a track on the mixing board. Do you know if the recorder is limited to a single track? It would be great if there were some multi-track capabilities for audio in addition to the MIDI multi-tracking. Sometimes when I’m on the go and I get a theme in mind, I’ll hum it into my phone recorder and then compose it later on my Mac. Being able to create multi-track scratch tracks and demos on-the-fly anywhere, even just by beat-boxing and making silly mock-instrument sounds with my voice, would be awesome. I guess the GarageBand mobile app has multi-track audio, but I’m not a huge fan of the desktop version and Tabletop looks way cooler.
http://www.dahtrump.com DAH Trump

Do you know any great music apps for mac? Good info here, though.