Not being able to play or sing is no barrier to make music for pleasure. Fortunately, there are generations of tablet and smartphone apps aimed in unlocking the creativity of the musical novices. They are not about making you a star, yet instead about opening up your tribal instincts to make music instead of listening to it. Below are some of the apps if you like to see what songs lurk inside your brain waiting to get out:

Figure

It’s the work of one of most reliable music or tech companies known as Propellerhead Software, whose tools are utilized by a host of professional musicians. Figure is for everybody though, which is a tactile treat of apps to make electronic loops using bass, drums, and lead melodies without prior knowledge needed. You may also remix and check out some people’s loops.

Ninja Jamm

It was launched by pioneering label called Ninja Tune as a way for the fans to begin making music with the samples from the artists including Mr. Scruff, Amon Tobin, and Coldcut, label founders. You may purchase packs of the sounds from various artists, then create r remix new tunes as you want. It is also easy to use, yet with lots of depth to explore as you become more confident.

Sing! Karaoke

Smule, an American developer, is at the drive’s forefront to get more persons sharing the music-making process with each other. This is the app for the home-karaoke singers and you ay wail along to the big catalogue of the tracks and duet with some users.

GarageBand

In the desktop incarnation, GarageBand is the tool for every level of working musician, yet its iOS version is also a good musical play-toy for the novices. Stringing together bass, drums, piano, and guitar to make your own track is easy, particularly with its smart instruments, yet with the difficult curve into doing more unique stuff and interesting is well-judged.

Magic Piano

It likes you to play along with the different classical and pop songs on the virtual piano including broadcasting your effort to some people across the world. Even if you don’t have ambitions to learn to play the piano, it is a good stress-reliever.

Music Maker Jam

Magix Music Maker series basically has a long history before the tablets and smartphone era, yet it has made the leaps well. This app will see you arranging samples and loops into songs. There is a catalogue of the samples to choose from with available in-app purchases from the chiptune to metal.

JoyTunes’ Simply Piano

It is more like a traditional tool that will help you learn how to play, concentrating on piano. This will get you prop your mobile smartphone up near your keyboard or piano, and work your way through different lessons. The app is using the iPhone’s microphone to listen to what you are playing and rate your skills. It isn’t the first app with this kind of idea, yet it is one of the most fun and accessible.

Home Studio Mixing

 

A home studio can be of great benefit to any musician, no matter what their music genre or style might be. But as expected, when you don’t go with proper planning, a home studio can end up being a time consuming, stressful, and costly experience. If you dream of recording tracks from your own home, you have to ensure that your home music recording studio is setup properly and you have all the quality equipment needed. You can find a lot of information on the internet as to the type of equipment that you should get for your home studio.

There are actually several ways on how you can set up your very own home music recording studio. One is that you can use the basic standalone multi-track recorder. This comes in handy for recording and mixing. Depending on the recorder’s model, the tracks that you create can be saved on the flash card or you can burn them onto a CD. After that, you can transfer these to a computer.

Music Mixing Tech Issues

With today’s latest models, you can even use a USB for transferring to the hard drive or the FireWire connection. The second option only becomes a necessity if you will use real instruments for laying down the tracks. Another good option is that you can also do the recording directly on your laptop or computer. Through this method, you will have to purchase and install on your computer a reliable recording software program which comes with a good audio interface. Obviously, this kind of program can also be used with real instruments inside your studio. On the other hand, you can also use this for uploading pre-recorded music then mixing this with the beats you create online.

Just like everything else, all of these options have their own set of pros and cons. The right one for you is going to depend on your knowledge, your skills, your budget, and what you would like to create. But you can be sure that both are going to work great for a startup home music recording.

Recording Considerations!

There are also several things that you have to consider when you plan to setup a music recording studio in your home. Are you going to use some acoustic instruments inside the studio? If yes, the options available for you range from the relatively affordable to the extremely costly.

Will your neighbors complain? What time of the day will you be recording? How about the microphones, sound cards, audio interfaces, monitors, computers, mixers, furniture, and others? If you are merely starting out, it will be a wise idea to just start with a basic set up then just add to it once it becomes necessary. By doing this, you will be able to avoid expensive overhead and spending for unnecessary equipment.

Also!

You also need to be wary of the technology you use because having more means more problems as well. If you are a first time in home music recording, start slow then grow. The good news is that with all the available software right now, it is all too easy to get high quality results whatever your budget might be.