Soundcool OSC vs Orchestra Audition Prep

Soundcool is a collaborative system for musical, sound, and audiovisual creation using mobile devices, tablets, and computers (Mac or PC). The audiovisual component is developed with the Soundcool software for computers, available for download from the developer’s website. This software includes modules such as audio and video players, effects, mixers, and more. Each module can be remotely controlled via WiFi or the Internet using this Soundcool OSC app on your mobile device or tablet, which acts as a control surface.

Audition Prep by Pultfrei is a local-first preparation tool for classical musicians preparing orchestra auditions. When you prepare several auditions at once, things get messy fast: excerpt lists from job postings, set pieces, overlapping excerpts, sheet-music PDFs, reference recordings, your own takes and practice notes end up scattered everywhere. Audition Prep brings this preparation together in one clear workflow. You create your auditions, import or enter the excerpt list, and grade every excerpt A/B/C. The app recognizes identical or similar excerpts across auditions — so you instantly see which excerpts count more than once and where practice time has the biggest leverage. For every excerpt you can collect sheet music, PDFs, photos, tempo, reference links, notes, sessions and recordings. Build rounds and play them in audition mode. Especially on iPad, this mode is made to put the device on your music stand, start a round and move from excerpt to excerpt. Preparation is more than playing: a daily, evidence-based tip from practice and performance research, a guided mental training block — breathing reset, centering, visualization with your own excerpts — and a tension check-in that makes your progress measurable. Built-in tuner, metronome with per-excerpt tempo steps, and a recorder are one tap away. A daily practice plan adapts to how many days remain until your audition. Audition Prep is not a generic practice app, not a sheet-music app and not an audio-analysis app. The focus is audition preparation: structure your repertoire, see your priorities and practice in the right context. Key features - Prepare multiple auditions in parallel. - Import excerpt lists or enter them manually. - See overlapping excerpts across auditions at a glance. - A/B/C status, due dates and progress per excerpt. - Set pieces and concertos integrated into your preparation. - Store PDFs, photos and sheet music locally per excerpt. - Reference links to YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music or the web per excerpt. - Build rounds and practice them in audition order. - iPad audition mode focused on sheet music, advancing excerpt by excerpt. - Adaptive daily practice plan based on your audition countdown. - Guided mental training: breathing, centering, visualization with your own excerpts. - Daily evidence-based practice tip with sources. - Tuner (adjustable reference pitch, transposing display), metronome and recorder built in. - Daily practice reminders, scheduled locally on your device. - Local-first: no accounts, no tracking, no server-side storage by us. Privacy Audition Prep stores your content locally on your device. There are currently no user accounts, no external analytics, no tracking and no ads. Manual backups export metadata; local sheet music/PDFs/images/recordings stay on your device.