iPad.... fiannly some cool apps

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Hi all,

I'm pretty sure this topic does not belong here exactly but Kevin will move it if needed.

Point is: I have an iPad for quite some time now (yeah, yeah, the OLD iPad, not the very cool and slick iPad2) and wanted to share some words on a few nice music-apps I have on it. Most of them you'll have to pay for, but never more han a few $ so nothing really if you comapre it to the massive cost of Finale or Sibelius.

1- Symphony Pro (not free): notation software that does a decent job for jotting down ideas putting them into pdf or midi. I'd say something like Notepad from Finale but for iPad.

2- Guitar Chords Lite (free): nice and easy overview of guitar chords that you can hear as well. Good if you don't know much about guitars and chords but looking for a particular sound in your song (trial and error method I use)

3- Progression Free (by Notion): handy app if you ant to write guitar music; it has a fretboard from which you input notes or chords which tranlate into tab. notation. As I'm ignorant on guitars this one fills the knowledge gap for me.

4- Garageband for iPad: just got it yesterday, but by the looks of it a very cool and handy app. ...like it's big brother: handy, intuitive, good sound!

5- Pianist Pro: this one can be connected to my Finale on the iMac so I can us the iPad as midi controller. Very handy!

Anyone else has experiences / recommendation for iPad apps?

Peter

[steve]

Hmmmmm, might be time to buy an iPad :-) Symphony Pro and GarageBand for the iPad sound great. Now if only Sibelius would come out with an app... Then I'd be sold.

[Kevin]

Well Sib 7 has to come at some time Steve!

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There is an opportunity for Sib. To beat Finale here because all I hear from Finale is the question "what would you want in an app?" and I, as many other did too, explained them a notepad for iPad would be FAB. Maybe the Sib. Developers will hear that message..... So far Symphony Pro is the only decent notation software....