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Apple's new Music Memos app lets musicians record musical ideas, with a few special features.
Apple refreshed its music software today, in the form of an updated GarageBand and a new app called "Music Notes."
The new Music Notes app is basically a retooled Voice Notes, but with a bunch of great features for musicians. (Don't worry, Voice Notes is still available, too.) The Music Notes app is geared towards recording little musical ideas; a guitarist can quickly record a riff for later, and then rate and tag it for archiving.
The app also syncs with Garageband, so your sounds can be folded into later compositions (if they make the cut). It's a mobile portal to Apple's main Garageband offering, giving the ability to quickly record tracks or ideas for later. Music Notes doesn't replace anything existing, but formalizes the use of the Voice Notes app for music, and integrates it into Apple's main GarageBand app.
Music Notes has two killer features: it recognizes the pitch of the notes it records, and it can synthesize other instruments to match with your playing.
The pitch feature is fairly accurate, testing it against online guitar tuners. I "played" an E, and it picked up an E. It got confused when I played a bunch of notes at once, but for most musicians even having the first note is a great help to remembering how to play the riff.
Virtual backing players, a bassist and a drummer, can also be added to recorded files. Music Notes analyses the tempo of your riff, and then adds an appropriately vague drum or bass line.
Music Notes is available for free on iOS today.
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