Ear Drone vs Orchestra Audition Prep

Master your musical ear with the ultimate ear training app! Elevate your musical skills with our powerful and intuitive ear trainer application, designed to help musicians of all levels improve their ear training through immersive, interactive exercises and reference drones. Whether you're learning scales, modes, triads, or solfege hand signs (also known as Kodály or Curwen hand signs), this app has everything you need to master your musical ear with precision. Three Interactive Modes: Input mode: Dive deep into ear training with full user interaction. Listen to intervals, chords, and scales, then test yourself by inputting your answers. Listen mode: Improve your ear training without lifting a finger! Simply listen to the exercises and absorb the musical information hands-free. Great for passive learning, this mode is ideal for training your ear while you're on the go or in situations where interaction isn’t possible. Free play mode: Unleash your creativity with Free Play Mode! Choose your preferred instrument and explore its range of sounds in the app’s instrument views. Experiment with melodies, harmonies, and scales, using this mode for both practice and inspiration. Key Features: Background Reference Drones: Develop pitch accuracy and tonal memory using customizable reference drones. These steady tones provide a constant pitch foundation, improving your ability to match and recognize notes across exercises. Multiple Instrument Sounds: Train your ear in a wide range of musical environments by choosing from different instrument sounds, including keyed, stringed, wind, and synth instruments. MIDI Instrument Support: Expand your learning experience by integrating external MIDI instruments. Whether you prefer a digital keyboard or a MIDI controller, this feature allows you to practice ear training with the tactile feedback of your instrument of choice. Customizable Ear Training Exercises: Design your own ear training sessions to focus on specific intervals, scales, modes, or triads. The app supports a wide range of musical scales, from basic major and minor scales to more advanced scales such as Lydian, Phrygian, and Mixolydian. Build exercises that cater to your unique needs and push your ear training to the next level. Learn Solfege Hand Signs (Kodály/Curwen): Perfect your ability to visualize and sing pitches using solfege hand signs, an excellent method for enhancing sight-singing, pitch recognition, and tonal awareness. Who is This App For? - Musicians and music students who want to sharpen their ear for intervals, chords, scales, and modes. - Teachers looking for a comprehensive tool to assist students in learning music theory and solfege. - Instrumentalists who wish to improve their pitch recognition and tone matching skills. - Singers who want to master solfege hand signs and enhance their sight-singing abilities. - Producers and composers aiming to sharpen their tonal awareness across different instrument sounds, from piano and guitar to synths and wind instruments. Keywords: ear trainer, ear training, music practice, drones, instrument, piano, guitar, synth, MIDI, triads, scales, modes, solfege Hand Signs, Kodály, Curwen, hand signs, musical ear development. Download the app today and start your journey toward mastering your musical ear. Whether you're practicing with hands-on exercises, passively listening, or engaging in free play, you'll have all the tools you need to become a well-rounded musician!

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.