iPhone Giveaway of the Day - YouCompose

YouCompose is a compositional tool that all iPad and iPhone musicians should have. With it you can accomplish complex compositional tasks with ease. It's also great fun to just play with this App.

YouCompose comes with a powerful built-in assistant composer. She can help you compose your music in many ways.

The basic idea is that you enter a melody, or several melodies and your assistant composer then finishes your composition, doing all the hard work that normally takes hours, but now is done in seconds.

Apart from being a great compositional tool, YouCompose is of great educational value as well. We are certain that YouCompose can be an asset to harmony, composition and orchestration classes.

Built-in instruments:

* Over 75 instruments are included with high quality sounds. You'll find all regular orchestral instruments, keyboards, organs, guitars, basses, chorus, percussion and more.
* With over 40 preset ensembles you can quickly setup YouCompose for ensembles like a saxophone quartet, string quartet or orchestra, woodwinds or brass sections and much more.

Creating and editing:

* You create melodies using the built-in virtual keyboard or a MIDI keyboard, by entering single notes in a grid editor, by importing a melody from a MIDI file or by asking your assistant to make one for you. Your assistant composer will then harmonize these melodies in a classical 4 part harmony style using the rules from the ‘common practice period’ and will take into account the instruments you selected.
* A composition can be edited in many ways. YouCompose allows you to copy, paste, move, repeat and discard movements, segments and individual notes.
* You can ask your assistant to compose a complete 3 or 4 movement symphony for your ensemble all by herself, or let her add a new movement to an existing one.
* You can control the way she harmonizes your melodies, by setting Harmonization Points and other options, or you can also leave that completely to her.
* Special tools allow you to enter lyrics, apply melodic transformations or create dynamic effects.

Sharing and saving:

* YouCompose is Inter-App Audio compatible and supports background audio. This means that you can record its audio in GarageBand or any other IAA host App.
* YouCompose is CoreMIDI compatible. This means that you can also utilize a MIDI keyboard, a MIDI sound module or synth apps running on your device together with YouCompose.
* You can export MIDI files directly to other Apps on your device.
* You can view your composition’s full score or the individual parts (transposed when applicable), print them directly from YouCompose to an AirPrint compatible printer or export them to any PDF viewer like iBooks.
* You can save compositions to your device and load them again later. Additionally, YouCompose allows you to send and receive them from other devices running YouCompose via email or an AirDrop connection.
* You can share your composition with others by sending an email containing a YouCompose data file, MIDI files and a PDF document with the full score and the individual (transposed) parts.

Several sample compositions containing well known melodies are also included in the package.

A complete user manual is included in the App and you can print it to an AirPrint compatible printer.