I am a graphic designer with ZERO musical experience. Currently, I am playing around with various FREE music apps that I find. Listening to music is awesome, so I wanted to unlock some of that creative energy for myself in a fun way. These apps provide a great creative outlet to play around with sounds and music ideas. Below are my novice reviews:

 

Who uses Music Apps?
 

• Content Creators (most of these apps are ROYALTY FREE Music you can use on video content, animation, soundcloud, etc- PLEASE DOUBLE-CHECK WITH SPECIFIC APP TERMS OF AGREEMENT)
   

• Musicians (beginners/ rappers/ etc likely to benefit most)
   

• Anyone who loves music and creating stuff

These are quick, honest UNPAID reviews. I hope you can enjoy these apps as much as I do. I will post more detailed reviews w/ screenshots, but these 2 are the first I am using:

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Please note: I am using these in free unpaid mode. All apps have more robust paid features, but for now I am focusing on the free parts you can use:

 

 

Groovepad

https://groovepadios.easybrain.com/ 

 

PROS:

• UI looks good

• easy & FUN to use- buttons are big and colorful

• timing is easy to sync up

• A lot of FREE music styles to unlock

• lots of cool rap/trap/pop beats to play around with

 

CONS:

• ads to unlock sounds, features (turn off wifi and Data and these go away easily :)

• Not a lot of vocals to use (on the themes I used so far)

Groovepad examples:
 

Trap song:

https://soundcloud.com/tzonez/wyld2?si=8e89c784a30344e285c6e2809d376bad

 

Metal Song:
https://soundcloud.com/tzonez/return-of-the-dragonz?si=0b8c28c70980401eae9218371885e85f

 

 

Music Maker Jams
https://www.loudly.com/musicmakerjam

PROS:

• Easy to use

• HAS multi-track RECORDING Feature (good for real musicians :)

• easy to save & share to platforms

• Dedicated MMJ Online community inside app that uploads frequently- check out the cool stuff on there!

• Cool FX that are easy to use and sound great

CONS:

• only 2 free music style packs at first so music gets redundant after a few tries

• Seems better to use for recording and layering longer songs

• a bit more complicated than groovepad at first

MMJ examples: 

 

hip-hop
https://soundcloud.com/tzonez/advice?si=3a0a26fdead541e38ce765ec2193fb35

 

Metal/thrash/grunge sounds:
https://soundcloud.com/tzonez/metalhed?si=79e30244de7d4c819bfeef6b69e0e223

 

that's it for now. I'll continue posting as time permits.

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-T.Zone
https://soundcloud.com/tzonez