DaCapo Studio vs Deconpose

DaCapo Studio is an integrated music practice environment for musicians who learn by listening and playing. Start with a song, break it down, understand what you hear, isolate the part you want to learn, and practise it at your own pace. Search Apple Music, import your own tracks, or use Shazam® to identify music around you. DaCapo Studio turns your music into practice projects where sections, loops, analysis, notes, recordings and practice tools stay together. Organise projects into groups for setlists, lessons, workshops or your own music collections. Separate instruments and build your own practice mix. Isolate a part to hear it clearly, reduce or mute it to play the part yourself, then combine your mix with looping, pitch-stable slowdown, metronome and Practice Assistant. Focus on the difficult parts. Create named song sections and practise them with A-B repeat, slowdown, loop playback and fast navigation. Practice Assistant can guide you through sequences with changing tempo, loops, metronome settings, layouts and instrument mixes. Built for playing, not just tapping. Performance Mode provides larger controls and quick actions for easy access while you play. On iPhone, a dedicated landscape Performance View offers an even more focused, customisable control surface. See what’s happening in the music. Analyse tempo, key, chords, beats and musical structure. Melody / Beat Track visualises melodic and polyphonic information, chords, beats and drum events. Separated instrument tracks can also be analysed individually. Practice tools within reach. Use synced lyrics and notes, multiple metronome modes, tuner, SPL meter and recorder. Review recorded practice sessions and keep projects and recordings available across devices with iCloud. Designed for teachers too. Share individual projects or complete project groups with students, receive recorded practice sessions through AirDrop®, iMessage, email or NFC touch, and return ratings, remarks and notes that appear during project playback. Imported projects can be merged with existing work, making it easy to exchange exercises and practice recordings. And when you just want to listen, JukeBox creates Dynamic Playlists for a personalised, ad-free listening experience. Optional hourly news streams can keep you informed without interrupting the music. Whether you’re learning a riff, studying a drum groove, preparing a setlist, removing your own instrument to play along, teaching a student or working through a complete song… DaCapo Studio keeps listening, analysis and practice together in one place. Listen. See. Practice. Play. DaCapo Studio offers optional in-app purchases to unlock Premium features. Premium is available as a monthly subscription, yearly subscription or Lifetime Premium purchase. In the USA, yearly subscriptions are available with annual upfront payment only. Outside the USA, yearly subscriptions require a 12-month commitment and may be available with annual upfront payment or monthly instalments, depending on the App Store offering. The Apple Standard Terms of Use (EULA) are available at: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Deconpose splits any song into individual instrument tracks — vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano — directly on your device. No uploads, no account, and the separation needs no internet. PRACTICE ANY INSTRUMENT - Mute the guitar and play along with the real band - Remove vocals for karaoke or vocal practice - Isolate drums to learn complex rhythms - One-tap presets: Guitar Practice, Drumless, Karaoke & more LEARN AT YOUR PACE - Slow down to 0.5x without changing pitch - Shift pitch up or down 12 semitones - Loop any section with draggable A-B markers - Hold a finger on the waveform to zoom in and place loop points precisely - Skip forward and back 10 seconds - Open any song with Siri or from Spotlight: "Open ‹song› in Deconpose" TEMPO, KEY AND BARS (iOS 27) - Tempo and key detected automatically after separation - Both are shown where you are in the song: when the tempo or the key changes, the display follows — and the key follows the pitch control - The metronome clicks on the song's real beats, loops snap to the bar, and the count-in lands on the one - The song's sections appear under the waveform: tap one and exactly that part loops - On iOS 26: tap the tempo yourself POWERED BY AI - State-of-the-art neural network running on your device - 6-stem separation: vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, and other - Keeps separating while your iPhone is locked, with progress on the Lock Screen - All processing happens on your iPhone or iPad — your music never leaves your device PRIVACY FIRST - Separation works 100% offline; the internet is only used for the optional song search and for purchases, both with Apple - No account, no sign-up, no tracking - Your music stays on your device FREE TO START - Your first song is completely free — split it and practice with no time limit - On that song: every tool included — solo, mute, slow down, pitch shift, loop - One-time purchase to split unlimited songs and export stems — no subscription WORKS WITH MUSIC YOU OWN - Import audio files from Files, share them to Deconpose from any app, or pick DRM-free downloads from your Music library - Find songs to buy in the iTunes Store (optional search) - Deconpose works with music you own as audio files. Songs streamed from Apple Music or Spotify are copy-protected and can't be imported by any app SUPPORTED FORMATS MP3, WAV, M4A, AIFF, FLAC, CAF