Chordbot
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | $4.99 | Contrasonic AB | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Use it for songwriting experiments, to create backing tracks for practicing solos, or just for fun. Easily create arrangements and mixes by selecting from hundreds of piano, guitar, synth, bass and drum tracks.
This is the full version of Chordbot with all features enabled. There is also a free evaluation version (Chordbot Lite) with disabled save/export features that you could/should try before buying the paid version.
Features:
* 60+ chord types
Including classics like AugAdd2 and Min7(#11), in all inversions.
* 70+ comping style presets
Simple but usable arrangements that won't get in your way.
* 400+ instrument tracks
Individually mixable dynamic instrument tracks that can be combined to form unique comping styles.
* Inversion control / slash chords
Manually select chord inversions, or let Chordbot select the smoothest inversion automatically.
* Song sections
Songs can be structured into repeatable sections (verse, chorus, etc). Each section can have its own comping style/arrangement.
* MIDI/WAV export and background playback
Refine your compositions in a DAW/MIDI sequencer or play along with a virtual instrument
* Song-O-Matic
Automatic song generator with pop, jazz and experimental profiles.
See chordbot.com for more information and audio demos.
Please report all bugs to:
[email protected]
Reviews
Like lego for song structures
preemption
It is deceptively simple, but like lego, you can build so much. Contrary to other apps, this one focuses on getting a big picture, from chord progression to overall mood. Like lego, you are limited by the lego pieces, but they are so you can build anything with it. The nice part is it’s very to hear how the pieces work, even if one doesn’t understand everything, they kind of connect anyway. This is why it’s great for sketching, or even stumbling upon ideas. I imagine someone with a lot of familiarity with music theory can be a lot more intentfull, where as someone with no idea whatsoever can build things by trial and error, just like you’d build a car in lego, will be easier than handled steel and rubber.
Still Snowballing I See ?
ColLeeN.M.BerrY
This app used to be incredible. I’ve been using the pro version for a couple years across different devices. It’s still great, actually...until you’ve spent precious hours (that you simply can’t be wasting), on a piece you needed; and it suddenly reverts all the way back to that godawful tealbossa or whatever that seizure-inducing song is. And that’s it. It’s gone. People waiting, you’ve neglected important things to get this song started and have nothing to show for it. Reverting to the song that comes with the app is new. Last time the app would just crash and I’d find out that even tho I had saved it, the song was gone anyway. Really frustrated. I just paid for the pro version (for the 4th time because it wouldn’t restore my purchases) in order to simply save it. What a ripoff! Please tell me I’ll be refunded??
Great useful app, but bugs
wedexl
It’s a great app, useful for quick putting together a song, for practicing or jamming. But an annoying bug in latest IOS (pretty sure this worked in the past): I can no longer Rename a project, which means every new project that I create overwrites the previous one that was created with the same default name. Can this please be fixed?
Great Song Start
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I’ve been using this app to create chord progressions for my latest songs and it’s incredible. It makes the process so much easier. It includes all the instruments and rhythms you need to help bring your ideas to life very quickly. Just think it up, lay it out in Chordbot and then export to your DAW (as an audio or midi file) to start creating your song.
Very groovy
optahealth
Great app for creating chord progressions and boosting music theory knowledge. Would love to see a tuning option for A=444. That would make it 5 stars for sure. Also if you could export a pdf chord sheet = bonus stars.
One of the best song writing/producing apps
Yaya23456
I use Chordbot for a while now and it’s awfully useful for setting up an entire song quickly. Once the basic arrangement is complete , I just export the midi to a DAW and build on the arrangement in the DAW. I often end up using the piano parts in my produced songs. I would love to see an audio recording feature so I can lay down vocals when inspiration hits or when I don’t have access to my computer. I hope the developer will take time to update this great app with features like intros and fills and much more styles and patterns. I’d gladly pay extra for the update. One thing I noticed is that the app seems to crash more often on the iPad than the iPhone. But those are rare occurrences though. Overall, an incredible tool!
Prone to crash
slimyslug
I had put together several chords, while attempting to change one of them the screen froze & the app became unresponsive. After it recovered, it had deleted all of my chords.
No portrait mode!!
Xextriz
I loved this application and used to use it in portrait mode (The lite version) For whatever reason, they changed to only landscape. I will give it 5 stars if they enable portrait mode again.
Fantastic app
CraigHubbs
This app allows you to quickly create chord progressions as well as compose great sounding songs. It has some minor bugs such as resetting some of the previously entered chords while making edits to a track. The interface provides quick navigation to all the features, but you need to read the documentation to understand all the sections that the program offers. The ability to export both a MIDI file as well as a WAV file is very nice. I would easily pay 5 times the cost of this program.
Doesn't work on iPad
funkinbassman
This app hasn't worked on the iPad (I'm using 3rd gen) since the update at the beginning of last November! It's now mid March and it's still not fixed?!! I want my 5 bucks back!
