HyperTunes: a music arranging and asset management app for iPhone

[hypertunes]

Hi folks. I'd like to ask for your feedback on an upcoming iPhone music arranging app, called HyperTunes. I plan to release it in about a month. The best way to get a feel for it is from the demo videos. I'm embedding one here, and there are a few more on the product page - http://hypertunes.net, which also includes a detailed feature list - or at . I also try to explain the reasoning for the app at the bottom of this message.

Here's what I'm curious to know:

-- Are the video demos, and the explanation below, clear?
-- Do you think you would find this app useful?
-- Are there features missing that you would want?
-- Any other reactions?

Even though the app is pretty close to release, it can still be improved by your input, as can the documentation and promotional materials.

many thanks, jim

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INTRO VIDEO:



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HyperTunes: The mobile music arranging and asset management system

I designed HyperTunes from the ground up for arranging. It has two key features that other music making apps do not.

The first is, HyperTunes lets you manipulate the form of a song directly. You work on entire sections or parts at once, instead of note-by-note. The idea is, when you're recording or composing, you're dealing mostly with individual notes, but when you arrange you're putting bigger chunks together. In fact, in HyperTunes song forms can function much like presets, because you can pick one and use it to completely rearrange a song in one step. One-touch arranging, Baby!

The second unique feature is that HyperTunes keeps all your musical content at your fingertips all the time. Every melody, every bass line, every drum pattern, etc., that you've ever come up with, or found somewhere, can be just a few taps away. It's your personal content management system for all your musical assets. The bass part I need for the song I'm working on today may be something I wrote years ago - I need to be able to find it quickly and repurpose it easily.

I call HyperTunes an "arranging system" because it is focused on doing those two things well: manipulating song structure, and providing efficient access to a large workspace of musical content. But you do have to import that content from elsewhere. (Right now you can import Standard Midi Files. Soon Music XML will be supported as well.) There are many fine software instruments, synths, sequencers, and generative music apps that already enable you to create musical content, on both desktop and mobile devices. I think HyperTunes complements those tools well: it makes it really easy to explore different ways of assembling the musical elements you've created into complete arrangements.

[Gregjazz]

Here are the hyperlinks--now clickable!

Product page -- http://hypertunes.net
Intro video --
More videos, etc. --