r/ipadmusic

I built a free Apple Music companion app/site called MatchBeats and I’d love some honest feedback from fellow Apple Music users.

https://matchbeats.com

The idea started because I was frustrated that music discovery is mostly algorithm-driven. Apple Music and other services can recommend songs, but they can’t really tell you:

“Who has music taste similar to mine?”

MatchBeats analyzes your Apple Music listening history and:

• Finds people with similar music taste
• Shows why you match (artists, tracks, genres, and recent listening)
• Helps you discover artists and songs your matches love that you haven’t heard yet
• Lets you discuss artists and tracks with other fans

My biggest question:

Would you personally use something like this, or is music discovery already solved for you by Apple Music recommendations?

I’d genuinely appreciate the feedback.

I can usually find my way around simple music by ear, but with more complex tracks I often get lost. Sometimes I can guess the scale, sometimes I miss, and sometimes I just fall back to pentatonic and hope for the best.

So I tried making a different kind of tuner. Instead of showing one note at a time, it listens for a while and tries to figure out what notes seem to fit the music that is playing. Then it shows that scale or mode on keys, guitar, and bass, so you can quickly see where it is probably safe to play.

It’s not trying to generate tabs or transcribe the melody. More like a compass. It points you in a useful direction, and you still have to play and listen.

It is very much a weekend prototype. It sometimes gets the tonic wrong, and it can be confused by voice or messy audio, but with YouTube tracks it often gives me something useful after 5–10 seconds.

No release yet, just a video for now. I’m curious if this kind of thing would actually be useful to anyone else, especially beginners or people who jam by ear.

UPD: TestFlight beta is now available: https://testflight.apple.com/join/1Xy3dEev

Hi!(やぁ！)

A little self-promo since I’d love for you to check out my music, but I’m also curious about how other people make music on the iPad.

I create every sound from my own voice, then freely transform it into what I think of as living electronic sounds. I call this approach VocaMorph.

I honestly think the iPad is one of the best tools for experimentation. The speed at which you can capture an idea and start creating is incredible.

Sometimes a single sound ends up shaping the entire track, and only afterward do the title and concept naturally emerge.

That’s how I usually make music.

Does anyone else work this way?

Or do you have your own unique creative process on the iPad? I’d love to hear how you approach making music.

I’m a keyboard player, music tech geek and one of the developers of the 'Sessions Pro' plug-in host app which might be of interest to you all here.

Sessions Pro has been built for live players and producers who create music ’in the moment’.

Key features include:

• High performance, low latency, multithreaded audio engine made exclusively for iPad and Mac.
• Live mixer with audio and MIDI channel strips, sends, auxes and side chains.
• Hosts Instrument, Audio FX and MIDI FX AUv3s.
• Flexible MIDI routing between channels strips.
• MIDI layers and splits for keyboard players.
• Twelve independent Scenes with seamless transitions.
• Plug-in Widgets simplify access to plug-in parameters.
• Single-knob, multi-parameter Macros for flexible control.
• Use external MIDI controllers and pedals to switch Scenes, adjust Macros and more.
• Play backing tracks, stems and loops.
• Always-on recorder with continuous, automatic background recording so you can review and save the last 15 minutes of creative genius at any time.

No one likes subscriptions so we’ve gone with an ‘old-fashioned’ upfront, one-time payment that gives you both the Mac and iPad apps.

A free trial and lots of tutorial videos are available on the website:

https://www.openplanetsoftware.com/sessions/

Enjoy! And please ask me any questions or give feedback.

Great to see the progress around NAM A2. A huge thank you to Steven and Tone3000 for pushing the technology forward and making it accessible at a scale that enables developers like us to build new products and experiences. I’m excited to share that Neural Space will soon bring NAM-powered guitar processing to iPhone and iPad, along with capability that allows players to record video while their entire guitar rig is processed in real time.

The app will feature:

- Drives, compressors, noise gates, amplifiers, modulation effects, delays and reverbs.
- Amps placed on an interactive map by tonal similarity. Explore nearby sounds or move further away to discover something new.
- 1650 curated stock amp profiles.
- A digital audio workstation from a guitar players perspective. Record audio, capture video and play alongside backing tracks.
- Play your amp captures, the app will support NAM A1 and A2 profiles. Gravity parameter lets you alter your NAM profile for an enhanced experience.
- Tonematch EQ will match your sound to any desired tone.
- Perform live with Midi support over bluetooth or cable.

The app is currently under development. Follow us on @neural_space page for further updates.

Right before summer travels I have my compact studio for me.

Because many have asked, the full setup is:
iPad, OP-1, Ugreen USB-C hub, Ugreen audio adapter connected to the hub, USB-C cable connection to powerbank or power adapter.
Fits into a neat small bag.

App is GCS model 8.

I really feel like the roli seaboard block is such an underrated iPad keyboard. Here it is pictured with an 11 inch iPad and it fits really well. It has 5d touch technology so it recognises how hard you push down and you can do some funky things with slides too.

Only issue is it's probably a bit hard to play actual songs on it 😂 until you get more familiar. I like the arturia minilab 3 too bit it's a bit hard and you need a wire to connect it.

(product in development, final features and design may not match the released product)

hey yall

weve been cooking up something for a while at fourtrack.fm HQ called BRAINDANCE.

its a:
- audio effect AUv3 and standalone (maybe VST/CLAP at some point?)
- lets you make wild glitch/stutter fx on audio input
- also has significant performance possibilities on iOS glitch phrase launch, x/y control, and ratchet strip
- ideal for resampling in your workflow

its existed in some very primitive form on our free web DAW for a year or so, but ive been toying with the idea of it for iOS / auv3 for the past couple months

i know that historically glitch editing UIs have been kinda painful but ive tried to solve some of the issues i came across in the various VSTs

would love to hear your thoughts / questions, this should probably ready for an introductory offer within a couple weeks

if you want to get on a TestFlight feel free to DM me an email and I'll try to push something up to TestFlight ASAP.

I'm super happy to announce that I've released a new update for Polaris (available on iOS and Android). This update adds keyboard and scale features for pitch editing as well as stems export.

To get started with the keyboard:
- On the sequence page click the "mod" button under "pitch"
- Click on the keyboard icon in the bottom right to activate keyboard view
- Click on a keyboard note to select it
- Then click on steps to activate them and assign them that pitch

About the scale feature:
- From the keyboard view, click on "scale"
- Select a scale by dragging up or down. All new notes will be constrained to the scale you select
- If any existing notes are outside of the scale, the magnet button will be lit up. You can then press this button to snap existing notes to the scale
- You can also drag activated steps up or down to quickly create a new melody, constrained to that scale

If you have any question let me know. Otherwise I hope you enjoy the new features.

More info here: http://meteaure.com

BEAT MAKING WALKTHROUGHS https://youtu.be/K4qOxxsScYE

I've been looking for a really good piano app for my iPad. I mostly play live using a MIDI keyboard that has a built-in audio interface using the iPad with the Numa Player.

I just saw that Pianoteq is running a 20% off promotion right now. Even with the discount it's an investment, so I wanted to ask people here: is it really that much better than Ravenscroft 275 or Pure Piano for live playing?

I've watched the reviews but I'd love to hear from people actually using it on stage before I pull the trigger.

Link I found for the promotion: https://www.modartt.com/?ae=73&promo=SUMMER2026_ES73