ZAP Guitar – No Strings Attached

ZAP Guitar - No Strings Attached free virtual-instrument | education by instruMagic

ZAP Guitar – No Strings Attached is a free virtual instruments and education plugin developed by instruMagic. Compatible OS(s): iOS.

ZAP Guitar is a unique digital guitar, that sound a bit like Eddie Van Halen’s guitar, and that lets you perform your songs on the iPad.

Type (or paste) lyrics and chords into the built-in guitar and take your songs with you everywhere you go.

Once the song is entered, anyone can play it, even if they don’t play guitar.

http://instru-magic.com

Vibrafun

Vibrafun free education by Apploudable

Vibrafun is a free education plugin developed by Apploudable. Compatible OS(s): Android.

The Vibrafun app shows you how to play several popular songs on the vibraphone, marimba or xylophone. Featured songs includes Ode To Joy, My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean, Greensleeves, Oh Susanna, Wheels On The Bus and Danny Boy, among others.

Upgrade to full version to get a children’s xylophone and a marimba instrument in addition to the vibraphone already included. The upgrade also removes the in-app advertisement.

Key sizes are flexible, so you can increase or decrease them to fit best possible to your screen and device. In addition it is possible to record, save and load recordings. It also has vibrato feedback on the keys for more realistic feeling.

Vibrafun is playable with DIY mallets which you can easily make yourself. See video for a demonstration:

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http://apploudable.com/

UkeLib – Ukulele Chords

UkeLib - Ukulele Chords free chorder | education by JSplash Apps

UkeLib – Ukulele Chords is a free chorder and education plugin developed by JSplash Apps. Compatible OS(s): iOS, Android.

UkeLib – Ukulele Chords is a comprehensive library of ukulele chords with suggested finger positions for every chord. Get ukulele chord charts containing all the possible positions of any chord throughout the fretboard along with its suggested finger positions and realistic audio demonstration of every chord. UkeLib includes a built-in search that you can use to quickly find any ukulele chord that you are looking for. UkeLib is an invaluable tool in the pocket of any Ukulelist.

Key features of UkeLib – Ukulele Chords:

• Vast and comprehensive chord library for ukulele.
• Includes suggested fingering for every chord.
• Includes realistic audio preview of every chord.
• Search and quickly find any chord in any key.
• Get all the possible positions for every chord.
• Browse all the chords for every key.
• Change the key with simple taps.

Additional features available on the iOS version:

• Search any chord directly using spotlight.
• Export any chord as PNG image or MIDI file.

MIDI file of any chord at any position can be generated, and the generated MIDI file can be dragged and dropped on to any DAW – an excellent feature for music producers.

Available on the App Store as UkeLib Chords.
Available on Google Play as UkeLib – Ukulele Chords.

Learn more about UkeLib at https://ukelib.com.

http://www.jsplash.com

The Orb – Ear Trainer

The Orb - Ear Trainer free education by Purple Magic

The Orb – Ear Trainer is a free education plugin developed by Purple Magic. Compatible OS(s): iOS.

The Orb – Ear Trainer has been designed to streamline cumbersome and cluttered interfaces of existing ear training software to bring forth an app that not only takes the best out of what exists today but goes way beyond. It includes a pioneering interactive voice pitch recognition system that takes ear training process to the next level. The purpose of the app is to remove any distraction and mental effort and concentrate solely on hearing different intervals, and eventually singing them in as well.

On top of that, a multifunctional ear training assistant has been provided to help instantly transcribe your favourite melodies and much more.

Three Game Modes:

Touch Mode:

  • interval test interface where the user taps on the correct answer.
  • ascending, descending, simultaneous, and mixed modes.

Sing Mode:

  • interval test interface where the user Sings the correct answer.
  • ascending, descending ad mixed modes.
  • user friendly pitch detection algorithm.

Link Mode:

  • links Sing Mode and Touch Mode.

wo Ear Training Assistant Modes:

Pitch Recognition Live:

  • feedback of current note/interval on mic input.
  • set key.
  • select between interval and note display.

Customisable Ear Training Treadmill:

  • select intervals you would like to practice.
  • no time constraints.

Other features:

  • HD graphics.
  • particle animations, explosions and more.
  • user friendly level structure to incrementally increase your ability.
  • configurable pitch range settings.
  • two configurable difficulty settings.

http://theorbeartrainer.com/

SoundGym

SoundGym free education by SoundGym

SoundGym is a free education plugin developed by SoundGym. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

SoundGym is an online audio ear training platform for music producers and sound engineers.

It will train you to detect subtle sound nuances, enhance listening resolution, and help you get better sounding mixes and music productions.

While playing fun sound games, you will enhance crucial listening skills: frequency detection, compression, coloration, gain difference detection, spatial impression and much more.

Each game is focused on improving a specific skill, delivering a comprehensive and effective learning experience with results that you can measure.

SoundGym provides a personalized training experience that fits your current abilities, designed to help you achieve your goals.

Take a daily audio workout, track stats and progress, follow friends, compare scores with others, achieve goals, win awards and get special prizes.

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https://www.soundgym.co

Mr. Soundman

Mr. Soundman free education by V-Plugs

Mr. Soundman is a free education plugin developed by V-Plugs. Compatible OS(s): Windows .

Mr. Soundman is a challenging free ear training game for music producers and sound engineers. Mr. Soundman is a powerful tool for assessing and improving frequency detection, a critical skill for mixing, recording and producing music. It also enables users to win excellence awards and prizes, and to participate in Mr. Soundman special competitions.

The Game
Mr. Soundman behaves a bit like an arcade game with an intuitive GUI, and rapidly increasing difficulty. The basic concept is simple: Mr. Soundman plays an audio source with a noticeable boost somewhere across the frequency range. The mission is to identify the boosted frequency.

The closer the answer is to the boosted frequency the more points the user gains. As the game progresses the ‘right answer range’ becomes narrower, so users have to provide more precise answers. The game starts with a wide ‘right answer range’ of 3 octaves, but only the best will get to the ¼ octave zone.

Prizes, Awards and Competitions
Depending on their score, users can win three excellence awards: the Bronze Ear, the Silver Ear and the Golden Ear award. Each of these awards grants a special prize. The ambitious user can also participate in Mr. Soundman’s special competitions that will be announced from time to time, and compete with colleagues and friends around the globe.

Mr. Soundman Premium
The premium version of Mr. Soundman gives an advanced ear training solution for those who want to take audio ear training a step forward. It offers more sound sources (and sound categories), focused training sessions, and even a hearing test. It also enable the user to load his own sounds, to build and manage his personal practice folder, and to work on and improve certain aspects of his listening skills.

Made with SynthMaker

http://www.v-plugs.com/

MiSUCO – Microtonal Touch Controller

MiSUCO - Microtonal Touch Controller free software-synthesizer | midi-controller | education by misuco.org

MiSUCO – Microtonal Touch Controller is a free software synthesizer and midi controller developed by misuco.org. Available format(s): for iOS.

osc (Open Sound Control) /MIDI controller with musical scale generator and simple synthesizer.

Experience microtonal tuning in a way that was never available before.

Explore the universe of musical scales and microtonal tunings on the built in synth or on any external synth that you can connect trough wlan and a computer. The MISUCO app has interfaces to common music software such as Max/MSP, Reaktor, puredata, supercollider. You can also control a conventional MIDI keyboard, if you have a computer with a MIDI interface. MISUCO is able to translate arbitrary frequencies into MIDI note number and pitch values.

The MISUCO software can also be used as a versatile touchscreen keyboard and controller and enables a maximum of the available screen for your performance.

What is microtonality?

In music normally we divide one octave in seven to twelve steps. You can see this on a piano, which has a repeating pattern of seven white and five black keys. One form of microtonal tuning divides one octave in 1200 steps called cents. This system is used to explain fine tunings of instruments. Another form is to pull the strings of an instrument. Then the note is detuned to some frequency between the scale. This form of playing is essential in classical Indian music but also widely found in many other music playing styles.

How can you experience microtonality with MISUCO?

With the MISUCO software you can play with and experience these ways of microtonality. You can translate microtonality to regular MIDI instruments, using the free software puredata on your WLAN equipped computer: MISUCO has a microtonal scale tuner, which lets you tune each note on an octave in cent steps. Then it has a microtonal mode (mm) that blurs the frequency space between the scale and you can play the frequencies between, like pulling a string of an instrument. If you do not like to use any external equipment and software, MISUCO has a simple but powerful built in synthesizer.

Last but not least MISUCO is a browser to the newly founded scales.misuco.org online scales archive. With one click on the ?-key you get directed to the page related to the current scale on your MISUCO where you can discuss, share and read about that scale.

Be aware that this app is mainly designed for tablets and running it on a device with smaller screen than 10″ requires good eyes and tiny fingers.

FAQ: I hear no sound:

  • Make sure your phone is not muted and the volume is up.
  • Press long, some sound have require some attack time.
  • Make sure you have at least version 1.01 installed.

I wish you much inspiration, creativity, self development, fun and inner peace with MISUCO.

If you like the project, please support further developments through our website misuco.org

http://misuco.org

GtrLib Chords

GtrLib Chords free chorder | education by JSplash Apps

GtrLib Chords is a free chorder and education plugin developed by JSplash Apps. Compatible OS(s): iOS, Android.

GtrLib Chords is a comprehensive library of guitar chords with suggested finger positions for every chord. Get guitar chord charts containing all the possible positions of any chord throughout the fretboard along with its suggested finger positions and realistic audio demonstration of every chord. Use the built-in search to quickly find any guitar chord that you are looking for. GtrLib Chords is an invaluable tool in the pocket of any guitarist.

Key features of GtrLib Chords:

• Vast and comprehensive chord library for guitar.
• Includes suggested fingering for every chord.
• Includes realistic audio preview of every chord.
• Search and quickly find any chord in any key.
• Get all the possible positions for every chord.
• Browse all the chords for every key.
• Change the key with simple taps.

Additional features available on the iOS version:

• Search any chord directly using spotlight.
• Export any chord as PNG image or MIDI file.

MIDI file of any chord at any position can be generated, and the generated MIDI file can be dragged and dropped on to any DAW – an excellent feature for music producers.

Available on the App Store as GtrLib Chords.
Available on Google Play as Guitar Chords.

http://www.jsplash.com

Free Audio School

Free Audio School free education by SoundGym

Free Audio School is a free education plugin developed by SoundGym. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

SoundGym ‘Free Audio School‘ presents a technological, personalized and free audio learning environment.

Combining curated learning programs, practical audio ear training, and a supportive community, SoundGym now offers a comprehensive solution for anyone who wants to learn music production and improve audio skills.

Free curated learning programs:
SoundGym presents complete programs curated from the best free online audio content. 5 free learning programs were assembled by sound experts and educators: “Recording & Audio Engineering”, “Electronic Music Production”, “Mix & Mastering”, “Synthesis & Sound Design” and “Live Sound”.

Practical audio ear training:
SoundGym accompanies learning with practical audio ear training. Using various audio games, members learn to detect subtle sound nuances, enhance listening resolution, and improve crucial listening skills such as frequency detection and compression.

Meet classmates:
SoundGym introduces an audio social network and a supportive community. Learners can ask for advice and get feedback from classmates, producers, and engineers.

https://www.soundgym.co

EffortlessPiano

ZynAddSubFX free software-synthesizer by paulnasca 2

EffortlessPiano is a free education plugin developed by EffortlessPiano. Compatible OS(s): Windows .

EffortlessPiano because making music should be for everyone.

Load a MIDI file and EffortlessPiano will make sure you play the right notes. You can enjoy the freedom to give your own personal musical interpretation. Input via a MIDI keyboard OR computer keyboard. You control when the notes are played-how quickly or slowly and how loud or soft they are – these are the elements that make any performance unique. EffortlessPiano looks after playing the right notes.

A video is worth a thousand words – head over to http://effortlesspiano.com.

Programmers can you help?

This little program demonstrates my idea. If you want to be involved in making music more easily available to everyone please get in touch.

Mark Smith.

http://effortlesspiano.com