DroneTone Concertmaster 4+
High quality reference pitches
James Roberts
Designed for iPad
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- $4.99
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Description
New version! Completely rebuilt from the ground up to include highly requested features such as volume control, chords, and pitch adjustment.
Drone Tone Tool is an app created by professional musicians and music educators providing high quality reference pitches with the rich overtones of real cellos. We encourage musicians of all abilities to experience the benefits of reference tone practice!
Why real cello drones?
There are many electronic tone generators, and while they are better than nothing, they lack complexity of overtones and can be painful to listen to. Our cello drones are pleasing to the ear, rich in overtones and contain layered octaves to facilitate practice in all registers.
Purpose and benefit of reference/drone tones:
A reference (or drone) tone provides a center of harmonic stability. Our ears are able to discern the way that multiple pitches interact while strengthening our internal sense of pitch. By playing with a movable pitch (instrument or voice) relative to a fixed pitch (drone tone) we can start to perceive truly consonant perfect intervals, and 'shades' or 'colors' within Major/Minor intervals. This heightened awareness of relative pitch leads to artistry through intonation.
What’s New
Version 2.2.1
Resolved an issue where the app would not produce sound while the silent switch was on. Tones will now play even when the silent switch is on!
Ratings and Reviews
Will change once updated
Love the idea. However the app is non functional on the latest iOS. (I’m running 17.6.1). Please fix!
Developer Response ,
Sorry! We have just released a new version which resolves an issue where playback was not working with the silent switch set to "on". Should be fixed now!
Helps with scale practice
Works great. I bought it to practice three octave scales on my Violin. Helps me hear my intonation better. Sometimes practicing alone I feel “lost in the wilderness” up in the high registers; there is nothing to compare to. If I’m sharp on one note, and then equally sharp on the successive notes, it still “sounds like a scale” but is wrong. This really helps with that.
Ideal 🎶
Perfect way to practice intonation—I play pedal steel guitar—and rhythm at the same time. Not intended for songwriting or making soundtracks, though you can work on modes, etc. It’s nice that you can balance click & tone volumes.
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Information
- Seller
- James Roberts
- Size
- 90.3 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 James Roberts
- Price
- $4.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.