Playing and Making Music on Android, Iphone and Ipad
Best apps for Android and iPhone for mixing, making and creating music and for playing virtual instruments, for beginners and professionals.
Playing with a smartphone or tablet may seem impossible, except that some applications have come out, for iPhone and iPad and for Android, really powerful that allow anyone to make and create music in a simple way and to those who are more experienced to have a professional quality mixer and instrument arrangement. In this article we see the best applications for Android, iPhone and iPad to play with your fingers on the touchscreen, trying to give priority to the free ones, without giving up on mentioning the best paid ones. As apps for making music there are music generators, mixers and sampling and synthesizer apps while for playing there areapps that function as virtual musical instruments.
As you will notice, there are certainly more musical instruments for iPhone and iPad, although many of them are also available on Android.
Best Apps to Generate or Manipulate and Mix Music
1) Splash – Music & Beat Maker was a fantastic application completely free. Through a tiled sound sequencer that you just need to touch, you can play and create music of all kinds and record it directly from the app. Not only that, it is also possible to play live to be heard by other users of the application and enter a community in a mod or to compete with other musicians in a rating of appreciation. You can use it as a Beat Maker for fun or even in a serious way, with infinite composition possibilities, without needing to be an expert or have studied the musical notes.
2) Auxy is the best music production app on the iOS platform for iPhone and iPad. Auxy tries to simplify the music composition process with a keyboard for writing looping melodies, bass lines and complex drum patterns that can be set up using automatic instruments. Auxy is free to download, with a $ 5 monthly subscription to unlock additional instruments, thousands of samples, and the ability to import your own sounds.
3) Bandlab for Android and for iPhone is among the best applications to record music. BandLab is a digital audio workstation that offers the ability to record up to twelve different tracks, with a hundred virtual instruments and a huge library of rhythms and loops to compose songs. In addition, you can record instruments and your own voice using the phone’s microphone. The app is similar to Garageband, simple and easy to use.
4) Humon, free for Android is an app for people with zero musical knowledge who can use it to compose songs. The app transforms any vocally hummed song into music and is capable of analyzing melodies and providing musical notation and chords based solely on vocal pitch.
5) Remixlive (Android and iPhone) is a very innovative sampling tool for playing loops and tracks to be mixed with recordings as well. RemixLive is an amazingly capable app for mixing loops and effects into original compositions. The user interface is intelligently structured, giving users access to a variety of tools without confusion. The free version of the app gives you access to fifty free sample packs, while additional samples can be purchased.
6) As a free DJ Mixer, which shows the two turntables on the screen and allows you to mix music by switching from one song to another using a mixer, you can install Edjing console on Android and on iPhone and iPad. The application is simple to use and allows you to mix thousands of songs thanks to the integration of the Deezer and Soundcloud online services.
7) The DJ Studio 5 Android app is another turntable mixer, very similar to Edjing, which allows you to DJ using your smartphone or tablet. Its ease of use makes it a good choice for beginners in music but can also be appreciated by more experienced DJs.
8) Figure for iPhone and iPad creates music automatically and allows you to create bass lines by playing with time and sounds. There are predefined sounds and paid expansions to expand the samples you can use to create the melody.
9) Music Maker Jam by Magix for Android and iPhone / iPad is a free app to create music from scratch by combining various sounds of musical instruments and mixing them together. With a multitrack interface you can layer and combine different loops and chords so you can create a whole new and original music, to record or share.
10) Drummer for iPhone and DrumPads 24 for Android are two similar applications for creating bass turns and rhythms using a grid of buttons to tap and play. In a very simple way, you can create a base to play on or a rhythm to dance to.
11) Caustic 3 for Android is a free app that works like a real professional synthesizer, full of knobs for playing with sounds and music. It is a very complete and powerful program on which you can also load your own wav files. Caustic is also available for iPhone and iPad but it costs 11 Euros.
Caustic 3, on the other hand, is a true digital audio workstation geared for musicians looking to compose synth-based tracks. Caustic features fourteen different machines, including multiple synthesizers, drum machines and vocoders, multiple effects and samplers, parametric equalizer, and a sequencer. Mon is definitely a beginner’s program.
12) SoundPrism, iPhone only, is an app to create music through a fill-in control interface, perfect for creating melodies and ringtones.
13) Songify and AutoRap are applications already described in the past, for Android and iPhone / iPad, to transform words into music or a Rap.
14) FL Studio Mobile, for Android and iOS is a relatively expensive application, 15 Euros, which works as an almost professional recording studio to create music with multi-track. Ideally, it would be integrated with the FL Studio program for Windows PC, the most popular commercial music production software, also used by famous artists.
15) The Drum Machine apps to play drums on Android and iPhone, in another article.
16) Ninja Jam, for Android and iPhone is a bit more complex app to learn, but it still turns anyone into a musician. The application is based on pre-recorded samples (many of which have to be paid for) and once uploaded they can be manipulated.
17) SunVox, for Android and iPhone is a professional app, a completely pattern-based sequencer not suitable for beginners. The app includes numerous modular synthesizers and effects processors, including an analog generator, a drum synthesizer with 120 built-in sounds, echo, distortion, reverb, vocal filter, and a module for creating synths and effects.
18) KORG Kaossilator is an app that costs 20 Euros for iPhone and Android.
It is a real musical instrument, which uses a touchpad to manipulate the built-in sounds and create weird and wonderful pieces of music. It provides five audio channels that you can activate at will, to create remixes and control loops in real time.
19) Loopy for iPhone and iPad only is a brilliant and simple app for making music and recording audio. Loopy offers six, nine or twelve blank loops on which you can record and overlay sounds that can come from the iPhone microphone or from other apps that use AudioCopy and AudioBus or even from instrument recording. You can then manipulate and modify the sounds, change the tempo, merge the tracks together and overdub the recordings onto others. There is MIDI control for using Loopy with a pedal, making it an ideal instrument for live musicians and street performers.
20) GarageBand for iPhone and iPad is free, very powerful as a mixer and synthesizer, by Apple. It is a recording studio with piano, organ, guitar and drums to be played by touching the screen. You can also connect your iPhone to a real guitar to record chords. The app is full of almost professional effects and tools.