Great app
I concur with all the positive reviews here. This app is a super useful tool. BUT it is full of itritating bugs. This don’t mean it isn’t fundamentally all sorts of great, as the positive reviews assert. It’s just that it a much less smooth experience than it need be - especially when using it day in day out as the centrepiece of a practice routine.
It’s particularly the playlist feature that irritates me. It often crashes when making a change and it doesn’t always remember the key/tempo etc. from the last session as it claims to do.
After such bugs are (hopefully) fixed, I’d love to see a cloud-based sync feature added so that state you build up (e.g. playlist stuff) on, say, your iPad is automatically transferred over to your phone. The iReal Pro does this and I love that about it.
But, zooming out again, and putting quibbles aside, I really do appreciate this app - if you’e interesting in improving your jazz playing you should just get it!
It’s particularly the playlist feature that irritates me. It often crashes when making a change and it doesn’t always remember the key/tempo etc. from the last session as it claims to do.
After such bugs are (hopefully) fixed, I’d love to see a cloud-based sync feature added so that state you build up (e.g. playlist stuff) on, say, your iPad is automatically transferred over to your phone. The iReal Pro does this and I love that about it.
But, zooming out again, and putting quibbles aside, I really do appreciate this app - if you’e interesting in improving your jazz playing you should just get it!
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Needs an update
Great sound generated by the app and would benefit from an update.
1. Please stop the set list from just playing the next track
2. I still get clicks when using iPad OS 17.6.1
3. iCloud sync would be great too
Thanks :)
1. Please stop the set list from just playing the next track
2. I still get clicks when using iPad OS 17.6.1
3. iCloud sync would be great too
Thanks :)
Shocked
Holy wow, what a game changer. Have been using Ireal pro for the past 12 years and was getting very frustrated with what has become a zero feel it I will still keep using it but here we go, Quartet has just stolen the show, when my guys aren’t around I ain’t going to get lonely playing with Quartet. I recommend this app it’s a massive step forward at any level towards your playing
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Rockin! (In rhythm)
Having just returned to playing trumpet, after some time, and having found a local jam playing swing tunes this app is bang on what I need! The quality of the backings is awesome. One hopefully small wish to ask - as a Bb player a global default for chord transpose would save a load of repetitive tweaking.
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Epic
Epic
Great app, gorgeous grooves and accurate chords
This is a joy to practice with, sonically gorgeous, great grooves and interactive rhythm section. Chords are accurate and beautifully voiced. Much less expensive than IRealPro but with a little less functionality and global transposition (I’m on tenor sax when playing jazz so all tunes up a tone - this can only be done one a tune by tune basis)
Every jazz musician should have this app.
No question.
Every jazz musician should have this app.
No question.
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One serious problem
This would be a five star APP were it not for one issue-the turnarounds in some tunes. Listen to All The Things You are for example. Between looped choruses, the piano player fails to play either a 5 chord or a 2 5 that brings you to the next chorus. This is an unfortunate defect that occurs on the number of tunes. This is a truly unfortunate and ruins would be would be always perfect rhythm section performances. What would also be nice would be the ability to control the volume of each instrument. But I imagine through the garage band app that that is ultimately achievable.
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Missing some important features
The app is a nice alternative to IRealPro, and certainly provides superior playback quality because of the samples. But, it’s missing several important iRealPro features so I don’t consider it a full replacement.
Examples:
The tunes are not editable at the bar level. This is really irritating because the tunes use RealBook changes, many of which are Just Wrong. Bar 8 of I’ll Remember April, for example — the app has it set at Gmaj7; most players treat that bar as a G7 or split Dm7-G7, which provides a dominant kick to shift to the Cm at the bridge.
You can’t create new tunes within the app — you are limited to the tunes that ship with it.
No mixer for the playback - you can chose from preset mixes but you can’t adjust individual instrument volumes.
Examples:
The tunes are not editable at the bar level. This is really irritating because the tunes use RealBook changes, many of which are Just Wrong. Bar 8 of I’ll Remember April, for example — the app has it set at Gmaj7; most players treat that bar as a G7 or split Dm7-G7, which provides a dominant kick to shift to the Cm at the bridge.
You can’t create new tunes within the app — you are limited to the tunes that ship with it.
No mixer for the playback - you can chose from preset mixes but you can’t adjust individual instrument volumes.
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Superb
I’m really pleased with this app. The backings are of the highest quality and the app is so simple, yet flexible, to use. I play sax and particularly like to set extended choruses where I trade 4’s/8’s/choruses with the pre-recorded sax solos. Highly recommended.
Brilliant
A great way to practice with the best jazz musicians around Highly recommend it
