MusicRadar.com 12 of the best iPad/iPhone iOS DAWs and workspaces

Apple GarageBand, £2.99/$4.99

Compatibility: iPhone (3GS or later,) iPod touch (3rd gen or later) iPad (requires iOS 5.1 or later)

There’s no doubt that iOS music making has come on leaps and bounds in the past year or so.

While, given their nature, Apple’s mobile devices still can’t compete directly with Macs and PCs in music making terms, they’ve certainly become viable platforms for producers and musicians to work with. Especially since arrived – allowing compatible apps to be routed into and through one another – the iPad in particular has become a viable tool for sketching ideas, making basic recordings and working on tracks.

But just as with any production platform, if you want to piece a track together, you’re going to need a DAW-like application to act as your ‘hub’. Here are some of our favourite options – listed in no particular order – starting with the big one…

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GarageBand for iOS may look and feel very similar to its Mac counterpart, but the mobile version of Apple’s entry-level DAW is really its own entity. The app combines simple but effective Touch and Smart instruments, guitar amps and effects and an eight-track sequencer.

Since its launch, the addition of MIDI editing, Jam Session sync and, more recently, Audiobus support has made GarageBand even better. Now the app can act as a hub for an iOS music setup encompassing various different instruments, effects and even multiple iDevices.

At less than £3 (or $5) it’s a bit of a no-brainer.

Spotify Music

Spotify is now free on mobile and tablet. Listen to the right music, wherever you are.

With Spotify, you have access to a world of music. You can listen to artists and albums, or create your own playlist of your favorite songs. Want to discover new music? Choose a ready-made playlist that suits your mood or get personalized recommendations.

Listen for free on mobile
• Play any artist, album, or playlist on shuffle mode

Listen for free on tablet
• Play any song, any time

Spotify Premium features
• Play any song, any time on any device–mobile, tablet, or your computer
• Download music for offline listening.
• Enjoy amazing sound quality.
• No ads – just uninterrupted music.
• No commitment – cancel any time you like.

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Milk Music™

***Available in the US only***

Milk Music™ is a free radio service with no ads.* With Milk, powered by Slacker, instantly hear music you love – and what you didn’t even realize you’re into – with the turn of a dial.

No charge. No fuss. No ads. All music.

INSTANT AND EFFORTLESS MUSIC LISTENING
• Stumble across new hits and old favorites with a turn of the dial.
• Music plays instantly, as you scan through stations.
• No registration or set-up required.

CREATE YOUR SIGNATURE SOUND
• Customize the dial to show only genres and stations you like.
• “My Stations” collects all the stations you love and those you create into a single station that’s easily accessible on the dial.
• Fine-tune stations based on popularity, novelty and song favorites.

MORE OF WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR
• Listen to over 200 genre stations, curated from a music library of over 13 million songs.
• “Spotlight” offers a curated selection handpicked by music tastemakers and influencers.

NOW AVAILABLE ON SELECT GALAXY TABLETS
• Tab S
• Tab Pro
• Note Pro 12.2"
• Note 10.1" (2014 Edition)

Milk Music, a Samsung service powered by Slacker, is exclusively for Samsung Galaxy owners.

* for a limited time
Milk Music is a trademark and Samsung is a registered trademark of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.

SoundHound

SoundHound recognizes music playing around you. Tap the SoundHound button to instantly identify songs and see lyrics, share, buy or explore more from artists you know and love or have just discovered.

You can even search for by singing or humming into SoundHound. SoundHound is the only App in the world that can give you results through singing and humming search!

Other Amazing Features:
◦ Blazing fast music recognition
◦ The world’s only singing and humming recognition
◦ LiveLyrics: see lyrics move in time with the music
◦ SoundHound Headlines: brings you free song streams, new artists, and more
◦ Beautifully optimized for tablets
◦ Real-time Facebook and Twitter updates from your favorite artists
◦ Facebook and Twitter sharing, listen-on-startup, and geotagging
◦ Buy links, YouTube videos, artist biographies, and much more

✧ Thank you to our 200 million+ fans and loyal users for making SoundHound a must-have App! ✧

★ Reviews and Honors for SoundHound ★
◦ Top 10 Must-Have Android Apps – Bob Tedeschi, NY Times
◦ Best Music Engagement App – BILLBOARD Music App Awards
◦ Your top 10 Android Apps – "I love this app… unique in its class." – Jessica Dolcourt, CNET
◦ The Best Android Apps – "There’s no limit." – John Herrman, Gizmodo
◦ "Genius, isn’t it?" – B.B.C. World Radio
◦ "This is amazing… insane, right?" – David Pogue of the NY Times

Note: Location is used to store where songs were discovered. It can be disabled from the Options menu.

Explanation of requested permissions:
RECORD AUDIO
Used to record audio for both music and voice search.

CHANGE YOUR AUDIO SETTINGS
Used to ensure optimal audio recording settings.

FINE (GPS) LOCATION
COARSE (NETWORK-BASED) LOCATION
Used to enhance search results and remember where a search took place, which is displayed through History. This can be disabled in app settings.

FULL INTERNET ACCESS
Used to communicate with servers for search results and other content.

READ PHONE STATE AND IDENTITY
Used to mute SoundHound audio when receiving phone calls.

MODIFY/DELETE USB STORAGE CONTENTS MODIFY/DELETE SD CARD CONTENTS
Used to cache data.

CONTROL VIBRATOR
Used to notify when search results are ready.

VIEW WI-FI STATE
Used to allow usage through WI-FI.

VIEW NETWORK STATE
Used to detect when internet access is available.

READ GOOGLE SERVICES
Used for displaying searches on a map

Tags: Sound Hound Music Sing Song ID Tag

Perfect Music Downloader

Perfect music downloader is the best tool of Music Download in google play. It provides:

✓ Powerful Search engine which searches copyleft and creative commons license Music over internet
✓ Option to play Music before downloading
✓ Option to manage your music through playlists, artists, genre and much more

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Music Player

*** This is a must have app. ***

One of the most beautiful and powerful music player for Android!

You can manage your musics easily, Music Player will guide you easily to find all the music in your phone.
This music player is not only based on artists or albums, but also based on the folder structure. And more than 3 desktop widgets make your music play never been so easy.
Over 20 background skins to make your music player look more outstanding, and these also make your music player get the next level experience.
The unique equalizer make your music sounds like you’ve never had before.

Support formats:
MP3, MP2, MP1, OGG, WAV, AIFF, MIDI, AAC, AAC , 3GP, XM, IT, S3M, MOD, MTM, UMX, MO3, MP4, M4A, OTA

Key Features:
* Browse and play your music by albums, artists, genres, songs, playlists, folders, and album artists.
* Lyric support. Automatic scanning all the lyric files , and matching the most appropriate lyrics file for your songs.
* 3 simple home screen WIDGETS (4×1,2×2,4×1).
* Notification STATUS support: display album artwork, title and artist, play/pause, skip forward and stop CONTROLS in notification status.
* Five band equalizer.
* 8 types of pre-set music tone for your choice, or you can manually adjust the equalizer. (Normal, Classic, Dance, Folk, Heavy, Hip hop, Jazz, Pop, Rock)
* SHAKE IT feature: give your phone a shake to play next/previous song
* Gorgeous background skins, 20 Gorgeous background images for your choice
* Edit the song details, now you don’t worry about the song without album name or artist name.
* Headset support. Support one button and multiple buttons headsets. Leave your device in the pocket!
* Music Library wide SEARCH. Find all your music never been so easy.
* Online music search and preview. All free in Music player now.
* Headset/Bluetooth Controls

To learn more about the advanced settings, please feel free to down and have a try.

We have always believed that music player experience can be something more. This is exactly why we have created this Ultra Music player.

Thank Jamendo support for online music(http://www.jamendo.com/)
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KKBOX

KKBOX is Asia’s top music streaming service provider. With the newly launched “Music Discovery” feature, you can easily find and enjoy over 10 million music tracks on your PCs, cell phones or tablets, anytime, anywhere.

The KKBOX App’s attractive features include:

Newly launched “Discovery Mode”: Starting with any artist, song or album, hit the "discovery" button and KKBOX will launch you into auto-pilot mode to explore similar-taste music.

Newly revamped “Explore Zone”: Check out the daily new song releases, exclusive artist interviews, videos, celebrity playlists and various hit charts.

Unique social media function "Listen with": This lets you listen to music with your favorite idols, artists and friends, chatting about your favorite songs and sharing music at the same time.

Rolling Lyrics: KKBOX offers lyrics that scroll according to the rhythm and tempo of the music for the ultimate karaoke experience. Just switch on the rolling lyrics mode and turn your device into a karaoke jukebox!

High sound quality: KKBOX offers streaming music at 320kbps with AAC format, you will hear top audio quality music with solid bass and beautiful treble without sound distortion.

Rich music collection: The KKBOX library features a diverse mix of over 10 million songs. New music is added every day, so there’s always something to discover- all the music you want, all in one place!

KKBOX is a music subscription service; you can enjoy 10M+ songs and all the cool stuff with a single monthly fee. Download the app now and connect Facebook to start 7 days of our premium service for free!

VLC for Android Beta

VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as discs, devices, and network streaming protocols.

This is a BETA version of the port of VLC media player to the Android™ platform. It plays both audio and video.

It is intended for everyone, but this version is not perfectly stable.
It is still a beta, so it might kill your kitten or destroy your house, but it should be mostly fine now.
Use it at your own risk. Have fun! 🙂

NOTA BENE
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This version is for devices with an ARMv7 CPU or a x86 CPU. ARMv6 devices will be supported in a future release.

Features
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VLC for Android™ plays most local video and audio files, as well as network streams (including adaptive streaming), DVD ISOs, like the desktop version of VLC.
VLC for Android has a media library for audio and video files, and allows to browse folders directly.

VLC has support for multi-track audio and subtitles. It supports auto-rotation, aspect-ratio adjustments and gestures to control volume and brightness.
It also includes a widget for audio control, supports audio headsets control, cover art and a complete audio media library.

Missing Features
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As this is an early BETA version, a lot of things are not finished, but will change for the final release:
• Hardware decoding works only with a limited set of hardware;
• Other unknown issues.

Permissions
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• It needs hardware control, in order to change audio volume;
• It needs vibration control, in order to provide UI feedback when seeking in the audio player.
• It needs phone call control, in order to pause music during incoming calls;
• It needs full Internet access to open network streams.
• It needs to be able to read logs, during the beta, to help understand crashes and issues.
• It needs access to the SD card storage, in order to allow deletion of files.
• It needs access to the settings, in order to allow you to change your audio ringtone.

MusicRadar.com The 30 best VST plug-in effects in the world today

The countdown

Most of us now have plug-in folders that are bursting with effects, but in our more honest moments, we might be willing to admit that some of them aren’t quite as important to us as others.

Or to put it another way, we all have our favourite effects: the go-to processors that we turn to again and again.

It’s these must-have tools that we asked you to nominate as we sought to create as definitive a list as possible of the greatest and AU effects plug-ins in the world today. Then, true to form, we presented you with said list and asked you to vote for a winner.

The results of this vote are shown in reverse order in the gallery you’re about to enter. We can’t honestly say that we’ve got every great effect here – the market is now so vast that some great plug-ins were bound to miss the cut – but what we do have is a collection of processors that any producer would love to have installed on their PC or Mac.

Rhapsody – unRadio & Premier

With 30+ million songs and albums from your favorite artists spanning the decades, Rhapsody is more than just internet radio. This is the power to play exactly what you want, anytime, anywhere.

NOW AVAILABLE – Rhapsody unRadio!* – Radio Reborn

With infinite skips and no ads, Rhapsody unRadio is radio reborn. Freedom to listen to and save any song or artist, it’s the first online radio experience that truly sets music free.

– No ads
– Infinite skips
– Save Your Favorites
– Live Worldwide Radio
* Special pricing for T-Mobile Customers

With Rhapsody unRadio you’re in control. What will you play?

Rhapsody Premier– Unlimited music, always ad-free

– Full Rhapsody unRadio
– No ads. Ever. Seriously
– Download any song, album, or playlist
– Instant access to over 30 million songs
– Create and share your own playlists
– Hundreds of editorially programmed playlists and stations
– Thousands of live radio stations from all over the world
– Blazing fast playback
– Artist and genre radio stations that can be saved

Try a free trial today for both Rhapsody unRadio and Rhapsody Premier – no commitment, and cancel anytime.

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