![]() ![]() Edit existing songs or create your own with the Editor.1000s of songs can be downloaded from the forums in a few simple steps.Play, edit, and download any songs you want Record yourself playing or singing along with the accompaniment.Personalize each style with a variety of sounds including piano, Fender Rhodes, acoustic and electric guitars, acoustic and electric basses, drums, vibraphone, organ, and more.Choose from the included 51 different accompaniment styles (Swing, Ballad, Gypsy Jazz, Bluegrass, Country, Rock, Funk, Reggae, Bossa Nova, Latin.) and even more styles are available as in-app purchases.Have a virtual band accompany you as you practice Practice with a realistic sounding piano (or guitar), bass and drum accompaniments for any downloaded or user-created chord chart. Now every aspiring musician has a backup band in their pocket.” – Tim Westergren, Pandora FounderĬreate, edit, print, share and collect chord charts of your favorite songs for reference while practicing or performing. “It’s the perfect technology for a practicing musician: high-quality digital audio, mixable, transposable into any key and completely mobile. Used by thousands of music students, teachers and some of the world’s top music schools such as Berklee College of Music and Musicians Institute. ~One of Time Magazine's 50 Best Inventions of 2010~ The app also lets you create and collect chord charts of your favorite songs for reference. It simulates a real-sounding band that can accompany you as you practice. iReal Pro offers an easy-to-use tool to help musicians of all levels master their art. ![]() For the price you could probably only get a second-hand copy of a chord book, while here you have access to a boatload of material, plus some killer interactive features.Practice makes perfect. If you haven’t already, we definitely recommend getting iReal Pro. The app also lets you create playlists, to easily manage your charts. Want more? One the app’s best features is its very active community, where you can enjoy other users’ uploads (and/or contribute yourself), for endless hours of learning and fun. The app comes with a good amount of charts/exercises (blues, jazz, bossa, etc.) and it’s possible to buy more via in-app purchases (jazz, latin and pop styles, between 3 and 6 $/Euro each). Maybe one day we’ll get there, but for now this is more than satisfying. Needless to say, iReal Pro is not meant to be a VST audio-quality kind of tool. Bass, piano and jazz drums sound quite realistic, guitars sound a bit cheap, but they all do their job (we’re talking of a 43 Mb app, after all). The audio quality of the featured instruments? Solid. The new player looks nice, even though I would add the possibility to rewind/fast forward and the possibility of changing the tempo in real time, without having to stop/restart the song every time. Everything is very intuitive – this is the kind of app where you don’t really need a manual. A redesigned interface, polished and easy to use (with lots of features under the hood). So, what’s new in the current version of iReal Pro for iPad? The app, an overhaul and update of iReal b, is more mature and more functional than ever. It’s like the perfect mix between an educational and a fun tool (more than 30 different accompaniment styles), but at the same time it can also be a very effective creative assistant (have a song in mind but your band mates are away? Just start a new chart and insert your song’s chords, you’ll have a backing band ready in minutes!). I would have loved to have this app when I started playing music, (too) many years ago. It simulates a real-sounding band that can accompany a musician as he or she practices, lets musicians collect chord charts from their favorite songs for reference and edit/create new charts. Fast-forward: November 2013, is the new iReal Pro ($6.99 – 7.99 Euro) one of the best apps of the year? Let’s find out…įor those who still don’t know this precious musician’s swiss army knife, iReal Pro is (quoting his creator’s words) “a backup band, it’s a chord book – and it goes with you everywhere, from your home to the band stand to the classroom”. Let’s go back a few years: Time Magazine lists iReal b as “One of the 50 Best Apps of 2010″.
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