prMac serves to enhance the visibility of press releases in the Mac world, offering Mac-centric news media distribution services as well as top-notch RSS feeds. © 2012 prMac http://prmac.com/ en-us http://prmac.com/release-id-42581.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-42581.htm Sat, 12 May 2012 07:00:00 CST Okeedoke Studios today introduces VCVCBC: The Ultimate Songwriting App 1.0, its new songwriting app developed exclusively for the iPad. VCVCBC starts from any type of song element and culminates in a chord chart to share with your band or take into the studio for production. The app provides over 20 sets of common chord progressions, and any chord can be easily selected and dragged into a song. A rhythm can be recorded by tapping on common surfaces, like tabletops, chairs and steering wheels. http://prmac.com/release-id-42400.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-42400.htm Tue, 08 May 2012 05:30:00 CST ipSoft today introduces Chord Dictionary 1.0 for OS X, their Music app that provides instant reverse chord lookup from a guitar fretboard. Unlike most chord dictionaries, which allow the user to select a chord and view the correct fingerings on the fretboard, the app allows users to create their own chord and then lookup its name. An ideal reference tool for musicians of any level of expertise, Chord Dictionary can figure out chord names just from notes and intervals and covers all 22 frets. http://prmac.com/release-id-39271.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-39271.htm Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:20:00 CST Pocket Guitar Songbook available free for iPad & iPhone with brand new update with lots of great new features. The App includes Lyrics & Chords for 20 songs including Sloop John B, Crossroads and The House Of The Rising Sun. Within the App is a library of thousands of songs which can be downloaded in an instant. Pocket Guitar Songbook is the first legal and licensed Lyrics & Chords App to hit the iTunes Store and has already been downloaded over 800,000 times. http://prmac.com/release-id-32157.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-32157.htm Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:00:00 CST StudioWolff and 3rd Cloud today introduce Chords + Lyrics 1.0, their new iPad app. Simple-to-use yet powerful, Chords + Lyrics allows amateur or semi-professional musicians alike to easily collect and manage their chords & lyrics, and to edit them with ease. It even can transpose your chords on the fly with a single tap. What distinguishes Chords + Lyrics from similar apps, is the ease of which you can import your lyrics from you favorite website. It is smart enough to detect the chords for you. http://prmac.com/release-id-27102.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-27102.htm Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:00:00 CST New York based RoGame Software announces ChordLab 2.0 for iOS. ChordLab is a multi-tool for students, seasoned musicians and song-writers aiding in many aspects of harmony, arrangement and composition. Chords are displayed in music notation with a choice of clefs including TAB and on the virtual guitar or piano interfaces. New version 2.0 features include updated instrument graphics, a greatly improved layout, additional voicing presets, chord rating and support for left-handed guitar players. http://prmac.com/release-id-26657.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-26657.htm Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:30:00 CST New York based RoGame Software announces ScaleMaster 2.0 for iOS featuring many new features including chord matching, scale rating and support for left-handed players. Designed for the beginning musician as well as the professional, ScaleMaster is an excellent tool towards advancement in theory and scales in particular, making it easy to look up a scale in seconds, getting a taste of the flavor of a particular scale by listening to it, or finding out how to play it on one's instrument. http://prmac.com/release-id-25483.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-25483.htm Fri, 13 May 2011 07:15:00 CST Leading technological solutions provider, UANGEL today introduces Touch Band 1.0, their new music performance app for iOS devices. The application replicates five major instruments namely, drums, piano, guitar, bongo drums and ocarina in its easy-to-use interface where users can beat, play and strum the active interface in order to create the musical notes just as they would on the real instruments. Why Wait When Music is at Your Fingertips? http://prmac.com/release-id-22751.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-22751.htm Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:10:00 CST Wallander Instruments today introduces WI Guitar 1.01, their new music app for iOS devices. Based on revolutionary patent-pending sample technology, WI Guitar is the first truly playable virtual acoustic guitar app offering the dynamics and expressiveness of a real steel-stringed guitar, in high-quality stereo. Strum chords or pluck notes just as softly or as hardly as you like, with high realism. Use headphones to play your favorite songs on the guitar, or write songs and more. http://prmac.com/release-id-21351.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-21351.htm Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:50:00 CST Dev4phone today releases Ear Trainer 1.6 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Ear Trainer is an app designed to help train your musical ear. It is aimed at musicians, music students and anyone interested in musical theory and improving their aural skills. Ear Trainer includes lessons and exercises for interval comparison, interval identification, chord identification, chord inversion, chord progressions, scales and relative pitch. http://prmac.com/release-id-20996.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-20996.htm Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:00:00 CST Portland based Bitnotic Mobile today announces Octavian 1.5.0, an update to their popular music theory app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Octavian is an essential musical reference tool for any musician, student, composer, songwriter, pianist, keyboard player, or hobbyist. It makes musical scales and chords instantly accessible to musicians of all skill levels. Version 1.5.0 improves every feature and adds significant new ones, including iPad support, over 500 new scales, and much more. http://prmac.com/release-id-19776.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-19776.htm Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:50:00 CST Daniel Farrelly releases Progressions 1.0 for iOS devices. Progressions allows anyone to store, organize and transpose simple chord charts, enabling a musician to use their device as a customised music display. Perfect for beginners and professional musicians alike, users only need a basic understanding of chords for this app to transform the way they store their written music. Charts are entered as completely free text, and can include song lyrics, notes about the song and much more. http://prmac.com/release-id-16912.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-16912.htm Wed, 06 Oct 2010 03:25:00 CST Houdah Software today announces Chord Board 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. The Chord Board is a slide rule that displays the notes necessary to from chords. More than a chord dictionary, Chord Board is a means of reference for musicians, singers, songwriters, choirs, composers and arrangers. It was designed and published in 1979 on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Martin Samuel and Houdah Software have now turned the acclaimed classic into an iPhone / iPod touch application. http://prmac.com/release-id-15103.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-15103.htm Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:50:00 CST SuperMegaUltraGroovy today announces Capo 2.0 for Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. Capo helps musicians learn to play the music in their iTunes collection using their ears, and now also their eyes. Capo includes the ability to detect chords, and quickly create tablature from the songs that users are learning. The core of the update centers around a highly detailed spectrogram visualization that relies on OpenCL to compute. This release marks a huge leap forward in self-directed musical study. http://prmac.com/release-id-8516.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-8516.htm Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:41:00 CST Bitnotic Mobile today announces Octavian 1.1.0, an update to their music theory app for iPhone and iPod touch. Octavian makes musical scales and chords instantly accessible to musicians of all skill levels. It is an essential musical reference tool for any musician, student, composer, songwriter, pianist, keyboard player, or hobbyist. Version 1.1.0 now features high-quality piano sound playback, so that users can listen to scales and chords as they explore them. http://prmac.com/release-id-7863.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-7863.htm Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:09:00 CST Oregon based Bitnotic today released Octavian 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch. Perfect for the studio, Octavian presents a slick interface for quickly exploring scales and chords on a piano keyboard. It is an essential musical reference tool for any musician, student, composer, songwriter, pianist, keyboard player, or hobbyist of all skill levels. Quickly find scales and chords and transpose them to any root note, view any mode of any scale, view chords in root position and first, and much more. http://prmac.com/release-id-4313.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-4313.htm Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:48:00 CST Frontier Design Group has introduced iShred, a complete electric guitar application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Based on the flexible and highly playable interface developed for Guitar, Frontier's advanced acoustic guitar app, iShred adds an amp simulator and eight exciting effects pedals that let users create their own custom electric guitar tones. Whether you want a clean trebly surf sound, a spacey rock lead, or an all-out metal assault, iShred delivers the goods. http://prmac.com/release-id-2817.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-2817.htm Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:03:00 CST Mekentosj BV has announced the availability of Pianochords, an application for iPhone and iPod touch that allows you to easily look up all those nasty keyboard and piano chords. Major, minor, sus, flat and sharp, they are all there. Just press a key on the keyboard to set the root of the chord and click the display to select the derived chord. The perfect companion for every piano and keyboard player.