Walk Band - Mobile app for musicians

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Thirty years ago, an ordinary telephone talk in any convenient place was something supernatural. But in our time, mobile phones have become not just a communication tool. Now in our pocket a universal tool that will measure the distance and record best moments of your life on video. But now you can not only play piano, but you can also have a full-fledged studio in your pocket. One such software is called Walk Band.

There are basic instruments - guitar, bass, drums and synthesizer. Synthesizer can emulate a variety instruments: piano, grand piano, Hammond's organ, music box, violin, koto, ect. Interface is similar to a real sequencer. Instrumental parts is edited exactly the same. You can also import midi files and audio files. You can connect MIDI keyboard.

Advantages:

• Compactness.

Disadvantages:

• Quality of the library is low. Application size is 35 megabytes. Good libraries for one instrument have a size of 4 gigabytes.
• No alternative plugins.
• Guitar and bass have only a standard tuning without opportunity to change it. When trying to write parts with a wider range, the application uses an transposition.
• Forget about fine settings when forming a timbre.
• Editing the parts takes longer than in a regular sequencer.

Conclusion: this is an ordinary children's toy, which is suitable for beginners. For professional tasks it's better to use a sequencer on computer with VST plugins