Drum machines have always been a staple in many home recording and professional recording studios. When MIDI came out and became more affordable those same studios began investing in the technology to create multiple instruments from one keyboard such as the piano, strings and horns, today even smaller devices such as the iPhone and iPad are making piano’s closer then ever with inexpensive apps that emulate a piano right at your finger tips.

This post will share the top 3 piano apps for Iphone OS devices that will turn your small pocket iPod or Phone into a full fledged keyboard to play, practice or even write music on.

Pianist

This is by far the best piano app I’ve seen. Someone actually used this application on an ipad to play a live piano solo on the tonight show. With Pianist you can view an entire keyboard or zoom in to just 2 octaves of keys.

The sample sound quality is top notch and there is even a built in drum machine you can create beats on to play along with.

Magic Piano

While Pianist is more of a serious app for piano players and musicians, Magic Piano is more of a game or entertainment app that happens to use the piano. While it does provide you with 2 octaves worth of keys to play on you can see the focus of the application is more of a game and entertainment rather then music creation. Fun features like a spiral piano make this application great for youngsters as well.

Virtuoso Piano

This piano app is similar to Pianist that it gives you an actual piano to play with. There is a free and pro paid version of this app available so you can easily download the free version and test it out before you have to spend a dime.

These three applications and literally hundreds of others are making music creation and play easy on mobile devices. Where will the piano app market go from here? Hard to say. In order to make the most of these apps you of course still need to be able to play the piano, but maybe in the future you’ll be able to do that on these devices as well.

What if you’re still a piano newbie, but you want to learn to play? Why not try a piano lessons dvd? DVD piano lessons such asLearn & Mater Piano are quickly becoming the method of choice for adults to learn the instrument on their own terms and for less money then private lessons.

 

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