Almost Awesome

This app is a super cool concept and almost a good execution. You definitely can’t skip the tutorial to figure it out and you may have to do it a couple more times until you get it (still not entirely sure I know what all you can do on the thing). I do have some COMPLAINTS/ SUGGESTIONS that i think would improve the app though.
1. Bar Count Selector/Metronome/Count In: As is, the app is great for creating weird voice recordings and laying vocals, however, it is not that great for layering instruments because you have to use your hands to start/stop recording. When you have to hit record on the phone, then play guitar, then stop playing to hit the stop recording button, it creates a pretty ugly silent period in the song and does not loop well. One way to fix this would be to be able to have a countdown at the beginning and a way to cut the silent part of the loop off at the end of the recording once you finish recording. A BETTER way to fix it though (which I think would make the app waaaaaay more desirable/be taken more seriously by serious musicians) would be to have a built in metronome that you can hear but that does not get recorded, a way to choose your tempo, and a way to choose the number of bars (1,2,3,4s) that you would want in each “orb” (similar to the “2x” button….If you had this OPTION, you would be able to fool around and have fun on the app with vocals and all like you can now OR you could try to make a more serious recording. It would also be HUGE for songwriter to be able to play their chord progressions, put them loop, and then fool around on the guitar to find a good picking pattern that goes with the chord progression. It would help solo artist be able to kind of have a one man band.
2. Play Multiple Orbs at Once: After going through the tutorial, i think that there is a way to listen to one recording and record on another orb without recording them on the same track. That being said, it seems like, in order to listen to them both at once, you have to combine them eventually (?). It seems very complicated. I wish that for each orb, you could either record or just play it and that they could stay separate. Seems like that would be an easy thing add.
3. More Sonic Effects: ones for voice, guitar, etc.
4. Simplified Interface: more elegant, less distracting background, easier to see buttons, easier to understand what you are doing, label the orbs
5. Better Undo Button: Be able to see a list of like the past few things you did and then select which one you want to undo
6. Drum Pad: this one is a long shot, but a built in drum pad would take this thing to next level (especially if you had the option to record your own sounds)
7. Collaborate with Garageband: don’t know if this would be possible, but if this app on iPhone and garageband on MacBook could kind of be one with each other and you recorded using both, that would be pretty cool.

With some work I really think that this app could be one of the best to record music with on the whole App Store. While Garageband for iPhone does have a lot of features and does more than VoiceJam will probably ever do, I personally feel that there are too many features for such a small device and think that, with some changes, VoiceJam would be a more fun, more creative, and easier way to record music. And honestly, it could maybe even rival some of the expensive equipment that many artist’s use for performances that feature looping. This app is so close to being so so awesome. Thanks for making it!

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