3 vs HandCompose

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HandCompose is a multitrack composing app you play with your fingers. Arrange clips, draw notes in the piano roll, and hear them right away with 128 instruments and 9 drum kits. ■ Start composing right away • A demo song with drums, bass, piano and keys is ready on first launch, so you hear music immediately • Tap an empty cell to add a clip; tap a clip to select it and tap again to open the piano roll • Long-press to move clips and notes, drag a handle to change their length • Zoom horizontally and vertically with two fingers ■ Auto compose • Pick a genre (pop, rock, jazz, ballad, EDM, funk, lo-fi, bossa nova, R&B, waltz), tempo, length and key, and get a whole song with drums, bass, chords, pad and melody • Songs are built from intro, verse, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge and outro, one clip per section, ready to edit • Don't like a part? Regenerate it from the track settings, and undo brings your previous song back ■ Piano roll and drum editor • Change note length and snap with a 1/1 to 1/16 grid • Shape dynamics in the velocity lane • Drum tracks use named drum lanes, and rhythm patterns (8-beat, rock, house, hip-hop, waltz and more) load in one tap • Turn on "Hear other tracks" to edit along with the whole arrangement ■ 128 instruments, up to 16 tracks • Every General MIDI instrument plus 9 GS drum kits (GeneralUser GS SoundFont) • Volume, pan and reverb per track, mute and solo • Tempo (40–300 BPM), time signature (2/4–12/4), loop region, count-in metronome ■ Import and export • Import MIDI files as new tracks • Import audio files such as MP3, M4A and WAV as audio tracks and compose over a backing track • Export a MIDI file or audio (M4A) and save it to Files, AirDrop it or open it in another app from the share sheet ■ MIDI keyboards • Connect a USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard and play the track you are editing ■ Autosave and 5 slots • Your work saves automatically, with 5 slots for separate songs • Undo and redo ■ Privacy • Collects no data and makes no network connections