Piano Motifs 4+

A Generative Music App

Fernando Morales

Designed for iPad

    • £3.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

• Let the musical muses of Piano Motifs inspire your device to generate some original and beautiful motifs (short melodies).

• Selected as the Favorite MIDI Generator App two years in a row by the iOS Music Production community!

• Check out the music that Piano Motifs can generate at: https://soundcloud.com/azul-3d

• For Piano Motifs demos and tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/@azul3dapps

• Create original, catchy and inspiring MIDI loops at the touch of a button.

• No musical knowledge or skill is necessary to create completely new and original music. Piano Motifs is the simplest way to generate your own music.

• There are no preset melodies. Melodies are generated algorithmically. The melodic possibilities are endless.

• Set the music tempo or select the key, scale, time signature, octave range, number of bars, melody constraints, melody note frequency and accompaniment style for your motif.

• Option to generate Swing rhythm for the melody, either Shuffle or Hard Swing.

• Program your own chord progressions and let Piano Motifs generate an accompaniment and melody for them.

• Generation of a 3rd track with the option of it being a sustained chord per bar, sustained chord per multiple bars or a drone tone. Ideal for strings, choirs or pads.

• Arrange your motifs to create longer musical pieces.

• Choose from 24 different kinds of accompaniment styles.

• Define your arpeggio accompaniments.

• Choose from 13 different kinds of melody constraints.

• Major, Minor, Lydian, Mixolydian, Dorian, Phrygian, Harmonic Minor and Phrygian Dominant scales supported.

• Loop your motifs

• Save your motifs as MIDI files so you can edit them or add more instrumentation to them on your favorite Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).

• Many options when exporting a MIDI file or one MIDI file per track. When exporting a MIDI file, export with a third MIDI track with a sustained chord per bar, sustained chord per multiple bars or a drone tone (Ideal for synth pads, strings or chorus).

• Share audio or MIDI through iMessages, e-mail, Whatsapp or AirDrop. Save audio, MIDI or .motif file to your device's file system.

• AUv3 MIDI Plug-In In-App Purchase:
Incorporate Piano Motifs seemlessly in your workflow by instantiating it once or multiple times in an app that can host AUv3 MIDI Plug-Ins, for example: AUM, AudioBus 3, ApeMatrix, Drambo or EG Nodes. Please note that Piano Motifs as an AUv3 MIDI Plug-In will not play any sound by itself, it generates MIDI that can be routed to other apps and effects instantiated in a host. IMPORTANT: GarageBand does not support MIDI only Plug-ins, so the AUv3 will not work in GarageBand.

• AUv3 MIDI Plug-In features include:
- Ability to play Piano Motifs in sync and out of sync with the host.
- State saving functionality.
- Independent programmable MIDI channels for melody, accompaniment, optional third track, and optional melody harmony track.
- Interactive octave shifting for melody and accompaniment.
- Controllable Melody and Accompaniment Velocity parameters.
- Start Delay and BPM multiple with respect to the Host in Sync mode.

• MIDI Out In-App Purchase: 
Play the music generated by Piano Motifs on your favorite synthesizer, DAW, a connect/route/mix app like AUM, or any app that has Virtual MIDI Destination (MIDI In) capabilities. IMPORTANT: Before purchasing please be aware that Piano Motifs DOES NOT OFFER Ableton Link functionality.

• MIDI Out In-App Purchase features include: 
- Programmable delay for the start of a motif
- Independent programmable MIDI channels for melody, accompaniment and an optional third track
- MIDI Out settings are saved between Piano Motifs sessions

• Piano Motifs chooses a music key from many different scales and an accompaniment from a varied set of accompaniments. Piano Motifs then uses its musical theory algorithms to overlay a melody in the chosen key and accompaniment. Piano Motifs are short, they go from around 16 seconds to around 30 seconds.

What’s New

Version 4.65

• Added Experimental Accomp Style. When you choose this accompaniment a popup screen will be displayed where you can select the notes of the scale to be played (1-7), how often they will be played (Every) and with what initial delay they will be played (Delay). You can also select if you want the notes to be part of the Tonic Scale or the notes be part of the Chord that is being played on a certain bar. There is also a randomize button (dice) where the app will randomize all the Settings.
• Fixed MIDI Out Screen UI for small iPhone devices (Compact Width - Compact Height).

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
44 Ratings

44 Ratings

TheWightGuy ,

Elton John, minus the tantrums.

Piano Motifs receives consistent development, evolving in creative ways that are well considered and useful. Intuitive, fun and with just a little input from the user able to originate quality output. Put in a bit more work, and you can get hauntingly beautiful memorable motifs, ready for use with their own accompaniment. It is a near perfect aid to creativity. Tickling virtual ivories, like Elton John but without the tantrums. As an AU3 it can play any other instrument capable of receiving Midi and a recent update added guitar voicing which pairs beautifully with apps such as Strummer FX from 4Pockets. So if you haven’t bought it already, what are you waiting for?

Svetlovska ,

A bargain ideas machine

This app lets you export it’s always-interesting and musical AI ‘motif’s as both audio, using its pretty decent on board piano, and midi. Now following the Sept 2022 update, it has IAP to allow it to operate as an AU inside the likes of AUM - an instabuy for me. Now it’s perfect as an ideas starter for longer pieces, or a source to drive interesting arrangements of other apps. Better still, the dev is very responsive, has already added some quality of life updates to the initial release, and is open to developing this app a lot further. It’s definitely worth getting :)

Developer Response ,

Hi Svetlovska, thanks so much for your your review!

JK@UK ,

Just keeps getting better

Over the last couple of years this app has developed into an amazingly creative tool.
This is due to the hard work and dedication of the developer who is constantly adding new features an improvements.
They actively respond to questions and queries over on the audiobus forum and have a genuine interest in making this app as good as it can be. I think it represents excellent value for money and look forward to seeing where the developer takes this next, well done! 😃

App Privacy

The developer, Fernando Morales, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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