Apple Releases Music Memos for iOS Devices

Apple on Wednesday unveiled Music Memos, the free iOS app that can help you create your own music. Music lovers and songwriters with an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch can now pick up the free iOS app from the Play Store and record acoustic guitar, piano, voice or any musical instrument as high-quality, uncompressed audio.

Users will then be able to name, tag and rate the creations and build a library of all your new song parts and riffs. Music Memos automatically detects your tempo, rhythmic feel and chords and lets you instantly hear your musical idea accompanied by a rhythm section with realistic drums and bass.

You can view the chords you’ve played, add comments and lyrics, or share the recordings with friends or with Apple Music Connect. Its also easy to take your ideas into GarageBand to add more instruments and continue building your song.

Features of Music Memo

Quickly capture musical ideas
Easily record any musical idea using a simple interface
Instantly listen to your recorded song ideas with a virtual drummer and bass player, who follow along like a live band in the room
Adjust the groove and sound of the drum or bass using simple and intuitive controls to hear your song idea in different ways
Tune your guitar with a built-in instrument tuner
Build a library of song ideas
Name any song idea, or delete unwanted recordings
Tag your song ideas to help you find them later using keywords like verse, chorus, mellow, energetic, or add your own custom tags
Rate your song idea 1–5 stars to help you identify your favorites
Supports iCloud Drive so your library of song ideas is always safe and available across all your iOS devices
View, edit and document your song ideas
Automatically analyses the music you played and displays musical measures and suggested chord names
Rename or provide further detail for any chord names throughout your song
The drum and bass performances adapt immediately to match any chord and rhythm edits
Trim away any unwanted parts from the beginning and end of your recording
Keep track of comments, lyric ideas, alternative guitar tunings or capo position
Share your new song
Use iCloud Drive to make your song ideas available across all your iOS devices
Email any song idea to a friend to share your music, or to collaborate with other musicians
Quickly open your idea in GarageBand for iOS to add more instruments and keep building your song
Export a song idea to the Mac so you can work in GarageBand or Logic Pro X as a full multi-track production
Share to SoundCloud, YouTube and Apple Music Connect*
*Requires Apple Music Connect account