The United Academy of Music - iOS Development center is concentrated in developing apps for the iOS. As we are an institute of music, our apps are mainly in the music and education fields. If you have some ideas on a new kind of music app, you are welcome to message me. You can leave a message on the Support and Feedback page, or drop me an email.
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Symphony Guide

Version:1.0
Design for iPhone and iPad with iOS6
Price:US$2.99
View in iTune App Store

Description:
This app is a guide to Symphony and Symphonic Poem. It has a document to introduce the structure, form, origin and history of Symphony and Symphonic Poem and a chronology of Symphony.
It introduce 114 Famous Symphonies and Symphonic Poems of 45 great composers from 18th century to 21st century, from Haydn to Philip Glass. Each symphony has a introductory document, the image of the first page of the orchestral full score, a link to the Youtube and Wikipedia. Two well chosen Youtube videos plus more on the Youtube Website.
There is also an introduction to the composers of the symphony.
If you are a music student or teacher, this is a good teaching material for you. If you are a classical music lover, this is a companion to your symphony appreciation.
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Chinese Instruments (Chinese Version)

Version:1.3
Design for iPhone and iPad with iOS5
Price:US$2.99
View in iTune App Store

Description:
Chinese musical instruments are very interesting and have a very long history. This app try to present these Chinese instruments to non-Chinese player. There is a Chinese Version for the Chinese people.
Chinese Music has been made since the dawn of Chinese civilization with documents and artifacts providing evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the Zhou Dynasty (1122BC to 256 BC). Today, the music continues a rich traditional heritage in one aspect, while emerging into a more contemporary form at the same time.
Traditional music in China is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. The scale is pentatonic. Dizi and qin are among the oldest known musical instruments from China; instruments are traditionally divided into categories based on their material of composition: animal skins, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, earth/clay, metal, and stone. Chinese orchestras traditionally consist of bowed strings, woodwinds, plucked strings and percussion.
This app includes 24 Chinese instruments, which fall into four categories:
Wind instruments include dizi, xiao, sheng, suona, guan and xun etc.
Plucked instruments include pipa, zheng, ruan, liuqin, sanxian and qin etc.
Bowed instruments include erhu, gaohu, banhu, zhonghu, gehu and matouqin etc.
Percussion instruments include dagu, bangu, bo, lou, bianzhong and yangqin etc.
Each instrument has a high resolution picture, a description text file and a famous representative music. There are total 25 pieces of Chinese music, total time play exceed two hours.
There is also a Music Player to play the music, if you want to listen to the music only.
There are two versions of Chinese Instruments, Chinese and English version, The Chinese version is for Chinese users. The contents are almost the same.
The Chinese version includes a Wikipedia link to the relevant instruments. As the app has a link to the web, it must graded 17+.
The English version has no link to the Wikipedia, so it graded 4+.
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Chinese Instruments (English Version)

Version:1.1
Design for iPhone and iPad with iOS5
Price:US$2.99
View in iTune App Store

Description:
Chinese musical instruments are very interesting and have a very long history. This app try to present these Chinese instruments to non-Chinese player. There is a Chinese Version for the Chinese people.
Chinese Music has been made since the dawn of Chinese civilization with documents and artifacts providing evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the Zhou Dynasty (1122BC to 256 BC). Today, the music continues a rich traditional heritage in one aspect, while emerging into a more contemporary form at the same time.
Traditional music in China is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. The scale is pentatonic. Dizi and qin are among the oldest known musical instruments from China; instruments are traditionally divided into categories based on their material of composition: animal skins, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, earth/clay, metal, and stone. Chinese orchestras traditionally consist of bowed strings, woodwinds, plucked strings and percussion.
This app includes 24 Chinese instruments, which fall into four categories:
Wind instruments include dizi, xiao, sheng, suona, guan and xun etc.
Plucked instruments include pipa, zheng, ruan, liuqin, sanxian and qin etc.
Bowed instruments include erhu, gaohu, banhu, zhonghu, gehu and matouqin etc.
Percussion instruments include dagu, bangu, bo, lou, bianzhong and yangqin etc.
Each instrument has a high resolution picture, a description text file and a famous representative music. There are total 25 pieces of Chinese music, total time play exceed two hours.
There is also a Music Player to play the music, if you want to listen to the music only.
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Music Lexicon in 4 Languages

Version:1.1
Design for iPhone and iPad with iOS5
Price:US$1.99
View in iTune App Store

Description:
Four list of words and terms in four languages - English, French, Italian and German. You can search in each of the four languages, and it will bring you to the translation page with the equivalent words of the four language.
The lexicon includes over 1000 words of each language, give a total 4000 words and terms. The categories of terms including music expressions, interments of the orchestra, musical forms, dynamics, tonalities, notation and some professional career name.
A marvelous reference for professionals, students and teachers.
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Voice Metronome - Multi-Lingual Edition

Version:2.0
Design for iPhone and iPad with iOS5
Price:US$1.99
View in iTune App Store

Description:
Voice Metronome - Multi-Lingual Edition
Although there are many metronome apps in the Apps Store, but this one is quite unique, because this apps use a human voice to count the beat. There are total 17 spoken voices in 11 languages to chose from, including languages: English - both American and British, French, Italian, German, Chinese - Mandarin and Cantonese, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, and Korean. Some voices include male and female voices. Beside spoken voices, there is an option to switch to woodblock sound, if you prefer percussive sound.
The meter can be set from 2/4 to 9/4, with subdivision from 1 to 4.
The tempo can be set from 30 bpm to 240 bpm. However, if the tempo is too fast, the subdivision has no meaning. So if the tempo is faster than 120, the duplet option is disable, if the tempo is faster than 90, the triplets option is disable, if the tempo is faster than 60, the quadruplets option is disable.
There are separate volume controls for the first beat and other beats.
There are six different skin layouts, wooden board and metal plate etc.
There is a 440 Hz tuning wave sound for tuning instrument.
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The Great Violinist

Version:3.0 with YouTube
Design for iPhone and iPad with iOS5
Price:US$2.99
View in iTune App Store

Description:
The Great Violinist introduce 57 great violinists of the 20th and 21st century, from Heifetz to Hahn. Every violinist page contain a high resolution photo, a detailed biography and a represent music file of the performer. The total time play of the music files exceed three hours. All the music files are already downloaded, no need for internet connection.
Each violinist has two links to YouTube videos, which will need internet connection.
Through the detailed biography, you can learn how they succeed to be a great violinist, who are their teacher, what violin and bow they used, etc.
You can sweep through the violinist pages, or you can search through a table. There is a music player to play the music.
Whether you are just a music lover, violin lover or a violinist, this app is just for you. So, download and enjoy!
The violinists include (in alphabetical order):
Anne Akiko Meyers, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Arthur Grumiaux, Christian Ferras, David Oistrakh, Gil Shaham, Henryk Seryng, Hilary Hahn, Issac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Jascha Heifetz, Joshua Bell, Julia Fischer, Kyung-Wha Chung, Lara St. John, Leila Josefowicz, Leonid Kogan, Leonidas Kavakos, Maxim Vengerov, Michael Rabin, Midori Goto, Nathan Milstein, Pinchas Zukerman, Ruggiero Ricci, Salvatore Accardo, Sarah Chang, Shlomo Mintz, Viktoria Mullova, Yehudi Menuhin, Zino Francescatti, Gidon Kremer, Nigel Kennedy, Janine Jansen, Akiko Suwanai and Nicola Benedetti etc..
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Baton Metronome

Version:1.1
Design for iPhone and iPad with iOS5
Price:US0.99
View in iTune App Store

Description:
Baton Metronome is metronome using a conductor baton.
The animate baton shows the beats as a conductor does. You can turn the sound off, just looking at the baton. There are four kinds of beating sound for you to choose.
The iPhone version has a full screen mode. The full screen mode is in landscape format, so you can see clearly the beat.
The time can be set from 1/4 to 12/4, the subdivision of the beat can be set from 1 to 4.
The tempo value is from 40 to 208. The value is set like a traditional metronome. The tempo setting wheel is imitating the real traditional electronic metronome.
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The Great Pianists

Version:3.0 with YouTube
Design for iPhone and iPad with iOS5
Price:US$2.99
View in iTune App Store

Description:
The Great Pianists introduces 50 great pianists of the 20th and 21st century, from Horowitz to Yuja Wang. Every pianist page contain a high resolution photo, a detailed biography and a represent music file of the performer. The total time play of the music files exceed four hours. All the music files are already downloaded, no need for internet connection.
Each pianist has two links to YouTube videos, which will need internet connection.
Through the detailed biography, you can learn how they succeed to be a great pianist, who are their teacher, the awards they received, etc.
You can sweep through the pianist pages, or you can search through a table. There is a music player to play the music.
Whether you are just a music lover, piano lover or a pianist, this app is just for you. So, download and enjoy!
The pianists include (in alphabetical order of their names):
Alicia de Larrocha, Alfred Brendel, Alfred Cortot, András Schiff, Arthur Rubinstein, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Claudio Arrau, Daniel Barenboim, Emil Gilels, Evgeny Kissin, Friedrich Gulda, Glenn Gould, Jan Lisiecki, Jorge Bolet, Krystian Zimerman, Lang Lang, Leslie Howard, Marc-André Hamelin, Martha Argerich, Mikhail Pletnev, Mitsuko Uchida, Murray Perahia, Rudolf Serkin, Sviatoslav Richter, Valentina Lisitsa, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vladimir Horowitz, Wilhelm Kempff, Yuja Wang, Yundi Li etc..
If your favorite pianist is not included, and you want me to add him/her to this app, please contact me through the support web site.
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The Great Cellists

Version:1.1
Design for iPhone and iPad with iOS5
Price:US$2.99
View in iTune App Store

Description:
The Great Cellists introduces 30 great pianists of the 20th and 21st century, from Rostropovich to Jian Wang. Every cellist page contain a high resolution photo, a detailed biography and a represent music file of the performer. The total time play of the music files exceed three hours. All the music files are already downloaded, no need for internet connection.
Each cellist has two links to YouTube videos, which will need internet connection.
Through the detailed biography, you can learn how they succeed to be a great cellist, who are their teacher, the awards they received, etc.
You can sweep through the cellist pages, or you can search through a table. There is a music player to play the music.
Whether you are just a music lover, cello lover or a cellist, this app is just for you. So, download and enjoy!
The cellists include (in alphabetical order of their names):
Alban Gerhardt, Alisa Weilerstein, Amanda Forsyth, Anne Gastinel, Anner Bylsma, Antonio Janigro, Daniil Shafran, Denise Djokic, Emanuel Feuermann, Gregor Piatigorsky, Han-na Chang, Jacqueline du Pré, János Starker, Jian Wang, Leonard Rose, Matt Haimovitz, Mischa Maisky, Mstislav Rostropovich, Natalie Clein, Ofra Harnoy, Pablo Casals, Pierre Fournier, Ralph Kirshbaum, Raphael Wallfisch, Seeli Toivio, Sol Gabetta, Steven Isserlis, Tina Guo, Torleif Thedéen, Yo-Yo Ma.
If your favorite cellist is not included, and you want me to add him/her to this app, please contact me through the support web site.
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The Great Composers

Version:2.1

"the detailed guide to the lives and works of 208 composers from Medieval to the 21st Century. It's a must-have app for the music lovers. - Best10Apps.com " Design for iPhone and iPad with iOS5.1
Price:US$3.99
View in iTune App Store

Description
The App "The Great Composers" is detailed guide to the lives and works of 223 composers from Medieval to the 21st Century. So most of the main composers of the western music history are included.
Each composers has a high resolution picture and a detail biography, besides there are four music video links from YouTube. (YouTube videos need internet connection).
You can search the composers through a composers table, which can be in historical order or alphabetical order.
An outline of western music history is included.
This app is a great companion for music lover, musicians, music students and teachers.

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The Great Guitarists

Version:1.0
Design for iPhone and iPad with iOS5
Price:US$3.99
View in iTune App Store

Description
The Great Guitarists introduces 106 famous guitarists of the world. Including Classical Guitarists, Rock Guitarists, Flamenco Guitarists, Jazz and Blues Guitarists, and even some Folk and Country Style Guitarists.
All the guitarists contain photos and detailed biographies. Youtube music links are added to each of the guitars, so you can watch YouTube video of the guitarists. Youtube links need internet connections.
Besides informations about guitarists, there is also a detailed PDF describing everything about guitars, and also a detailed PDF about different guitar styles.
Whether you are a guitar fans, guitarist, or guitar music lover, this app is just for you.
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Musical Terms with Quiz

Version:1.0
Design for iPhone and iPad with iOS5
Price:US$3.99
View in iTune App Store

Description
Many music student find learning musical terms very boring, they often drop this part in the examination. With this app, learning musical terms will be fun. If you are a music lover, music student, musician or music teacher, this app is just for you.
Musical Terms with Quiz is a music dictionary with audio pronunciation. It contain over 1100 terms regarding music notation, musical forms, musical expressions and directions. All the foreign terms, Italian, French and German contain audio pronunciation. All the audio files are included in the app, no need for internet connection.
There are several pages for this dictionary, besides a dictionary with indexing, a search page, Italian terms page, French terms page and German terms page. You can mark each term with a favorite button, and they will appear in your favorite terms page, and you can manage these favorite terms with ordering, and deleting them as you wish.
Besides the dictionary, this app is also a game. It contains two quiz games.
The Music Quiz game - The given quiz is an explanation of a musical term, you have to select the answer to the quiz in the picker. You can choose the number of choices with the slider, fewer choices will be easier. If you want a harder game, you may want more choices. There is also a hint information button, it will telling you the answer's initial character.
The Audio Quiz game - The given audio is the pronunciation of foreign term. You have to recognize the term and choose it from the picker. There is also a hint with the description of the term, just tap the area, and the hint will appear.
Game Center - This game support game center, so you can check what your friends doing with this app in the leader board and achievements page. Every correct answer earn you 5 points, but if you tapped the hint, the points earned will be one less, and also every wrong answer will make the points earned less. There are 15 achievements for you to achieve.
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100 Greatest Singers

Version:1.0
Design for iPhone and iPad with iOS6
Price:US$4.99
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Description
100 Greatest Singers introduce 100 classical singers, including the legendary Caruso, Callas, Pavarotti etc. You can search the singer with A-Z indexing or in voice typed categories: Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Contralto, Tenor, Baritone and Bass.
The library includes 32 sopranos, 10 mezzo-sopranos, 8 contraltos, 30 tenors, 12 baritones and 8 basses.
Each singer has a photo, full biography and an mp3 song, so 100 singers gives you 100 songs, including "La donna mobile", "Ombra mai fu", Queen of the Night - "Der Hölle Rache", "Si mi chiamano Mimi" etc. The songs are already in the app, no need for internet connection. There is a songs list table for you to search through the 100 songs. Beside the songs, each singer has two YouTube video links, so you can watch the singer sings. (YouTube needs internet connection.)
There is also a file to introduce the voice type, and how you can determine the voice types.
If you like listen to art songs and operatic aria, this app is just for you!
*This app is optimized for iPhone 5 and iPod Touch 5!
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100+ Greatest Operas

Version:1.2
Design for iPhone and iPad with iOS6
Price:US$4.99
View in iTune App Store

Description
Welcome to the world of operas!
Great opera touches everyone's heart! If you are an opera lover, music student studying opera, or just a beginner try to understand opera, this app is just for you.
100+ Greatest Operas introduces 110 famous operas composed by 48 composers. Each opera has a stage photo, year of composition and premiere. A detail description of each opera from Wikipedia, a full opera video and two excerpt videos from youtube. Wikipedia and Youtube need internet connection, so the app is a 17+.
For your understanding, there is a synopsis of each opera telling the story. There is also a description of each composer, and details about what is opera.
Selection of operas from Baroque to 20th century.
Opera composers includes Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Donizetti and many more.
Opera includes La Traviata, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Turandot, Lucia di Lammermoor and many more.
Regular length of each is about two hours, 110 operas give you 220 hours of entertainment!
The opera video are sung by the world famous singers, such as Pavarotti, Domingo, Callas, Sutherland etc. And they are staged in the world famous opera house, such as Royal Opera House, Vienna States Opera House, Metropolitan Opera House etc.
You will love opera if you download this app.
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Il Maestro - The Great Conductors

Version:1.0
Design for iPhone and iPad with iOS6
Price:US$4.99
View in iTune App Store

Description
The soul of orchestral music and opera is the conductor. Do you know what the conductor is doing when he is conducting? What is the different between the style of each conductor? Who are the famous conductors of the past and present? Why some conductors are so charismatic and charming? This app will give you all the answers.
Il Maestro (plural form - i maestri) refer to the great master of conducting. This app introduce 94 famous conductor of the past and present. Including the legendary Toscanini, Ormandy, Stokowski, Karajan and Bernstein etc. In the past, almost all conductors are men, but recently more and more women joint this profession. So three women conductors are included.
This app will give you a full biography, a music mp3 of orchestral music and 2 youtube links to each conductor. (Youtube needs internet connection). There is also a detail guide to conducting. For relaxation, there are also some caricatures of Hoffnung depicting some funny expressions of conductor.
If you are a music lover, orchestral music and opera fans, or music student want to study more about conductors, this app is just for you.
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YouVimDaily - Browser for Youtube, Vimeo and DailyMotion for iPad

Version:1.0
Design for iPad with iOS6
Price:US$0.99
View in iTune App Store

Description
The default iPad Youtube app is gone in iOS 6, this app will give you a replacement for Youtube browser, beside you can also access other video-sharing website like Vimeo and DailyMotion. You can also enter the other URL to visit other website. The Vimeo and DailyMotion is the desktop version, which is better than the mobile simplified version.
Less is More! - This web browser has minimum control, so give you more space in the browser. All the controls are already in the web page. The show-hide handle can hide the toolbar, so you can enter full screen mode. The show-hide handle can be moved to the left, center or right side of the screen. You can also add bookmarks.
The UI is simple but full:
Hide-show handle - to hide and show toolbar.
From left to right:
YouTube link
Vimeo link
DailyMotion link
Enter URL
Add Bookmark
Bookmarks
Back page
Forward page
Refresh
Stop loading
Move the position of the hide-show button.
When video is playing, pinch out will enter full screen video, pinch in will return back to the origin size.
This full screen browser give you more space to browse, great for the new iPad mini!
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Free Apps


中國樂器（免費版）

Version:1.0
For iOS5
Free with iAd
View in iTune App Store

Description:
介紹二十四件古今的中國樂器,並分為四類:「吹、彈、拉、打」。
吹管樂器即是指靠演奏者氣息震動樂器管體內的空氣柱而發聲的樂器。
包括有笛子、簫、笙、嗩吶、管子及塤等。
彈撥樂器即是以手指彈撥,或以特製的樂器配件擊打弦線而發聲的樂器。
包括有琵琶、古箏、阮、柳琴、三弦及古琴等。
拉弦樂器即是靠琴弓和琴弦互相磨擦而及發聲的樂器。
包括有二胡、高胡、板胡、中胡及革胡等。
打擊樂器即是以手或硬物擊打樂器表面而發聲的樂器。
包括有大鼓、板鼓、鈸、鑼、揚琴及編鐘等。
每種樂器有圖片,介紹,樂曲欣賞及維基百科網頁作參考。
中國著名樂曲二十四首,總長度超過兩小時。
除了音樂，每類樂器都有兩個YouTube視頻給你欣賞。
中國樂器（免費版）與付款版只是多了廣告，其他功能一樣。
因為本App有網頁參考，所以評為17歲以上。
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Chinese Instruments Free

Version: 1.0
For iOS5
Free with iAd
View in iTune App Store

Description:
Chinese musical instruments are very interesting and have a very long history. This app try to present these Chinese instruments to non-Chinese player. There is a Chinese Version for the Chinese people.
Chinese Music has been made since the dawn of Chinese civilization with documents and artifacts providing evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the Zhou Dynasty (1122BC to 256 BC). Today, the music continues a rich traditional heritage in one aspect, while emerging into a more contemporary form at the same time.
Traditional music in China is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. The scale is pentatonic. Dizi and qin are among the oldest known musical instruments from China; instruments are traditionally divided into categories based on their material of composition: animal skins, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, earth/clay, metal, and stone. Chinese orchestras traditionally consist of bowed strings, woodwinds, plucked strings and percussion.
This app includes 24 Chinese instruments, which fall into four categories:
Wind instruments include dizi, xiao, sheng, suona, guan and xun etc.
Plucked instruments include pipa, zheng, ruan, liuqin, sanxian and qin etc.
Bowed instruments include erhu, gaohu, banhu, zhonghu, gehu and matouqin etc.
Percussion instruments include dagu, bangu, bo, lou, bianzhong and yangqin etc.
Each instrument has a high resolution picture, a description text file and a famous representative music. There are total 25 pieces of Chinese music, total time play exceed two hours.
There is also a Music Player to play the music, if you want to listen to the music only.
Beside music, there are two YouTube Video links to each instrument.
This free version is the same with the paid version, except iAd advertisements added.
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Musical Terms Free

Version: 1.0
For iOS
Free with iAd
View in iTune App Store

Description:
Musical Terms Free is a music dictionary of foreign music terms, includes 779 Germen, French and Italian terms. All of the term explanations come with spoken audio pronunciation. There are also a search page and a favorite page for your study.
If you like this app, you may be interested in our paid app - Musical Terms with Quiz.
The paid app includes two quiz game to practice your memories, one quiz game drill on the explanation of the term and the other quiz drill on the audio pronunciation.
Besides the quiz games, the paid app also includes English musical terms, total terms are over 1100.
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Music Lexicon in 4 Languages Free

Version: 1.0
For iOS
Free with iAd
View in iTune App Store

Description:
Four list of words and terms in four languages - English, French, Italian and German. You can search in each of the four languages, and it will bring you to the translation page with the equivalent words of the four language.
The lexicon includes over 1000 words of each language, give a total 4000 words and terms. The categories of terms including music expressions, interments of the orchestra, musical forms, dynamics, tonalities, notation and some professional career name.
A marvelous reference for professionals, students and teachers.
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Voice Metronome Free

Version: 1.0
For iOS
Free with iAd
View in iTune App Store

Description:
Voice Metronome Free is the free version of Voice Metronome - Multi-Lingual Edition
Although there are many metronome apps in the Apps Store, but this one is quite unique, because this apps use a human voice to count the beat. There are total 17 spoken voices in 11 languages to chose from, including languages: English - both American and British, French, Italian, German, Chinese - Mandarin and Cantonese, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, and Korean. Some voices include male and female voices. Beside spoken voices, there is an option to switch to woodblock sound, if you prefer percussive sound.
The meter can be set from 2/4 to 4/4, with subdivision from 1 and 2.
The tempo can be set from 30 bpm to 240 bpm. However, if the tempo is too fast, the subdivision has no meaning. So if the tempo is faster than 120, the duplet option is disable, if the tempo is faster than 90, the triplets option is disable, if the tempo is faster than 60, the quadruplets option is disable.
There are separate volume controls for the first beat and other beats.
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