Strum Machine - Backing Tracks 4+

This is a must for rehearsal or jamming, real acoustic instruments with a variety of alternative styles and time signatures.
I am even making my own tracks in minutes with intro and ending or sets of 3 or 4 jigs or reels. My plan is to save the downloaded tunes into audacity and convert to wav to end up in my boss RC3
For a nights worth of material. The quality is sharp and clear and distinct, in fact a better balanced sound than any 3 piece would achieve.
It’s me and my guitar and a fiddle player playing live,
plus the accompaniment of 3 or more instruments from strum machine.
This is perfect when you need to keep personell costs to a minimum and venues a only have set budgets, so better save on the bass, guitar and mandolin, they’re here.
There is a massive included database and as I said, you can alter every aspect of those tracks and add your own.
Luke, the developer is very helpful and he will reply quickly to sort out any problems. He is also constantly adding new features and more flexibility to the program too and emails updates regularly.
I have the program on tho other devices on different platforms with no conflict or problems and your material is always saved.

What a brilliant app! I have been hoping for something like this to come asking for a while now, and I’m very impressed with how easy this is to use. It is well suited to folk music, with a system for creating backings that is clearly built by someone who understands how traditional fiddle tunes are structured. For future updates I’d love to see more time signatures- for example 3/2 timing for old English and Scottish music, more instruments including more drone type sounds, ability to share backings.

No way to subscribe in the usual way via Apple. No PayPal option, and Strum Machine "sypport" offered no meaningful help in this regard.

Although they were quick to reply, they implied you could just purchase a supscription through the Apple Store, but thats not the case.

As things stand I cannot recommend this app. And as a partner in a music school, recommending useful apps to students via our teaching staff is a thing I do daily...

So for the time being, we continue to recommend iReal Pro as the recommended powerful, versatile and affordable tool to support their lessons.

I hope Strum Machine get this resolved because it has potential.