Decent Sampler vs Stagehand

Did you ever wish you could use professional quality sample libraries on your mobile device? Now you can! The Decent Samples plugin is a sample player that allows you to use your favorite Decent Samples sample libraries on the go (as well as SF2s, SFZs, and EXS files). Many of the most popular Decent Samples releases are available through the app with more being added every week. Because it's also an AUv3 plugin, you can use it from within GarageBand or with AUM.

Stagehand is a ChordPro chart reader for iPhone and iPad. Charts live on your device. There is no account and no cloud we run. Transpose and capo are stored separately and combined only when the chart is drawn, so sounding G with capo 3 still fingers E. Import ChordPro, text and PDF, organize libraries and sets; and send a slide to an external display when you need it. Stagehand can play a backing pad in the key you are singing, and a practice track you attach to a song. Pads follow the chart or stay on a key you pick. Tracks are tagged by key and start only when you tap play. Your files stay on the iPad. The app does not include any audio of its own. Play a multitrack under the chart: import a zip of stems, mix them, follow the song's key (click, guide, drums and percussion keep their pitch) and change tempo without changing pitch. Your files stay on the iPad. Nothing is downloaded or bought in the app. Add songs from Files, Dropbox, Google Drive, a web link, a folder you fill from a computer, or a photo of a printed chart. The editor has a chord bar above the keyboard in the song's key and a Rewrite into key tool. Stagehand reads Arabic and other right-to-left charts: each line is drawn in the direction it is written, so one chart can mix English and Arabic, and chords sit over the letters they belong to. Stagehand can show the song you have open on other iPads and iPhones nearby that are running Stagehand. You start it, you allow each device, and nothing is copied unless someone saves it. Modules in Utilities let you hide the parts of the app you do not use, such as the projector, pads, multitracks, sharing or the web console.