PA# Music Assistant Free

BluePike SW

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About this app

A music composition tool for everyone, from aspiring composers to professional musicians!

You can write complete songs including song sections and 4 instruments (drums, bass, guitar and piano). You can even change the sound of the samples by recording your own. When you're done you can save it to your library, export it to a MIDI file and read the sheet music back as PDF (only for KitKat devices and up) or as a PNG; to share with a printer, yourself or your friends!

Includes:
- A 5-octave keyboard
- A 6-string Guitar (right and left-handed)
- A 5-string Bass Guitar (right and left-handed)
- A Standard Drum Kit (right and left-handed)
- A comprehensive set of tools to transcribe drum, (bass-)guitar and keyboard loops:
* Free Play mode to record notes your playing on the on-screen instrument. Supports MIDI over USB.
* Write Notes mode to use the on-screen instrument to key in the notes. Supports MIDI over USB.
* Sheet Editor mode to visually edit your sheet music (piano and drums only)
- A comprehensive set of tools to transcribe keyboard and guitar rhythm sections:
* look up chords from a very comprehensive database by key
* detect chord by manually tapping or recording the notes.
- Playback Midi mode to play back your song as a midi or any other midi file from your SD card. If a MIDI device is connected over USB, it will also be played here.
- Track editing to change the structure of your song (verse, chorus, coda etc.), the time signature or key signature
- Custom samples recorder (you can record one per instrument via the built-in microphone and edit them in the Instruments tool)
- Basic sound synthesis (VCO, LFO, Low pass filter, high pass filter, attack)
- A library to save all your songs to
- support for MIDI devices over USB OTG (channels, programs and percussion)! You can use your MIDI instrument to enter notes and play it back! Note: On devices before Android Marshmallow, this is based on an open source library. Save your song often as some stability issues have been seen.

The paid version includes:
- No advertisements
- MIDI file import
- Detect played piano chords via the built-in microphone
- Share a .wav/.m4a recording of your song with the world
- Possibility to disable keys and frets that are not part of a selected scale

Ratings and reviews

Come back and update! It's been a whole since this app has updated but from what I remember it was easy to use and had a nice UX.

Rubbish hard to controll no clue what it was doing

For a mobile phone in amazed I can do all this in an app. There is piano roll and score, it's good for writing 2 note chords. We can't expect good editing of off this or can we? It's quite good at writing the notes I sing. I'm not sure how seriously I would use it for writing in the long run but so good for putting down ideas and entering rests, playback, note length. I had problems with file naming and sideways view, couldn't see controls.