Incredible app for practicing microtonal scales
This latest update is excellent. The app now remembers the last used scale, transposition, and sound. The new “Diatonic mode” is very helpful when using the app for icon.
If you are a Byzantine chanter wanting to improve your intervals, this app is incredibly helpful. It has all the scales including zygos, kliton, and spathe. You can adjust the intervals for each note as well. I like to set up the unused keys for attractions and pfthora modulations. The app also has a large number of other scales including Ancient Greek scales, and many Middle Eastern scales.
I use this app literally every day as part of my practice, both for interval practice and for holding ison while I chant at home. I am so grateful this app exists. Highly recommended.
If you are a Byzantine chanter wanting to improve your intervals, this app is incredibly helpful. It has all the scales including zygos, kliton, and spathe. You can adjust the intervals for each note as well. I like to set up the unused keys for attractions and pfthora modulations. The app also has a large number of other scales including Ancient Greek scales, and many Middle Eastern scales.
I use this app literally every day as part of my practice, both for interval practice and for holding ison while I chant at home. I am so grateful this app exists. Highly recommended.
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Eethios4
Great, but I’d like more GarageBand support.
This is absolutely the best app for this kind of thing with a vast array of scales and instruments, not to mention its customizability. But the only reason I don’t leave a full five stars is because you can’t use it as an Audio Unit Extension in GarageBand, only uneditable Inner-App Audio which is really Frustrating. I really hope they'll add this kind of compatibility in a future update.
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J3Jack 35535645
Amazing app it’s very helpful
I like it
Mmaxmajd
Excellent App - Best in it’s Class
This app is packed with features and is loaded with many helpful options and amazing settings. I am very pleased with this and it has come in handy for my purposes ever since I downloaded it.
Many thanks to Kelfar Technologies for all of the hard work, diligence, and expertise that goes into creating such a useful tool.
Many thanks to Kelfar Technologies for all of the hard work, diligence, and expertise that goes into creating such a useful tool.
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MMa83707
The best app of its kind
Kelfar Technologies has raised the bar to the highest level with this app. As a Master-Chanter (“Protopsaltis”) of Byzantine Music and instructor of the psaltic art, this tool has become invaluable to me in various aspects of my field. First and foremost, it is an excellent aid in teaching the various scales and modes of Eastern Orthodox hymnology. The app is able to faithfully replicate the intricate microtonal intervals of the Byzantine scales, allowing the student to hear how tetrachords are “built” within the octal diatonic, chromatic, and enharmonic scales. In this respect, as a teaching tool, it is second to none. Second, this app produces a true accompaniment of the ison drone that is characteristic of Byzantine chant. Developed and digitized with recordings of human voices, World Scales faithfully produces a more authentic audio result than other similar tools available. I stress that HUMAN VOICES were used as the basis of making the sound output, and not by some other artificial “electronic” means. When properly transmitted through a high-quality speaker, the audio output of this app is the closest sound to a group of human “drone-holders” (i.e. “isokrates”) that one will hear in an actual Byzantine Choir. And third, although I am very hesitant yet selectively cautious in using this app in an actual church setting (the tradition of Orthodox hymnology allows only ONE instrument to be used in worship, and that instrument is the human voice), I do support its use in audio recordings and concert settings to help actual assistants and choir members in faithfully rendering the ison notes, which are the “decoration” to the melodic executions of the hymns. I applaud Kelfar Technologies in the development of this tool, and in its constant efforts to modify, improve, and further develop this app to make it the best of its kind. Thank you, Karim! Much continued success!
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