Futulele - Digital Ukulele with FX and chords Reviews – Page 3
4/5 rating based on 50 reviews. Read all reviews for Futulele - Digital Ukulele with FX and chords for iPhone.
Futulele - Digital Ukulele with FX and chords is paid iOS app published by zCage.com Apps LLC
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eisforerika
Wonderful app; however the makers should include the flat chords, as well (e.g. Bb, Ab, etc.)
Heckuvaotta Fun
CyberHez
My mom had a ukulele and I loved to play it as a kid. This takes me back to those days. Still haven't figured it all out yet, but who cares I'm having a blast with it anyway. Anyone know how to play Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head? :-)
Works great, sounds great
Lego Damashii
This is a great companion app to OMGuitar. Looks and sounds like a uke', and has lots of strum patterns.
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NIghtStar44
Looks nice but I could not figure it out. Songs won't play, nothing seems to work except plunking the 4 string either singly or together. I rarely meet an app I can't figure out ...but this one defeated me.
Good sound, buggy app
Andy Baird
Let me get the bad news out of the way first: when run on the iPhone, this app is fatally buggy. It uses a clever chord-sequencing scheme--just strum and periodically hit the down arrow to go to the next chord--but programming in the chords is impossible. Among other problems, chords dragged to the timeline pile up on top of each other so you can't even read their labels, or they don't "stick" when dragged there, and before long the app simply freezes and must be force-quit. If you're thinking of running this on your iPhone, forget it. It's unusable. (Tested on iPhone 5/64 GB.) The rest of this review applies to the iPad version, which is marginally usable. I've tried several ukulele apps on my iPad and so far, Futulele is the best of the lot. That's not saying much, though, because the others I've seen are pretty lame. The pros: Futulele has an attractive main screen and produces good sound. It's able to record your performance and export both .wav (digitized audio) and .mid (MIDI) files, which can be imported into GarageBand and combined with other tracks to produce professional-sounding songs. The cons: once you get beyond the main screen into settings, chords and so on, things get ugly fast. The controls are overlaid on the main screen in a semi-translucent fashion, making for a visually distracting mess. The font used is hard to read, and--a particularly serious flaw in a musical instrument--"C" is almost indistinguishable from "G". The recording function works for two takes and then fails--after that, the "Record" button cannot even be actuated. The only cure is to force-quit and relaunch the app. The exported .wav files are fine, but the .mid files, at least in GarageBand, don't sound remotely like what you played, no matter what instrument you assign them to. And as others have pointed out, buttons on the main screen get "stuck" and in some cases replaced by white squares. Futulele is an ambitious effort, and I give the developers credit for what they've accomplished. Unfortunately, they failed to finish the job. This app needs some serious debugging effort, as well as a redesign of the various settings screens. Until then, I can only categorize it as "the best of a bad lot"--still worth buying if you care about the ukulele, but frustrating in use. (Tested on iPad 3/64 GB and iPad Mini/32 GB.)