With GarageBand, Apple made music production accessible to even the greenest of beginners. With its launch, it wasn’t long before everyone and their dog was making beats and publishing online. With the included samples and loops, anyone could combine them in their own unique ways, and create their own beats. Fun! Revontulet Soft Inc’s Perfect Piano has been described as an “intelligent piano simulator” for Android phones and tablets.

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The advantages of a MIDI keyboard are that they are generally cheaper, more portable, and give you the flexibility of composing, songwriting, sequencing, and making beats anywhere, assuming you have your laptop with you (with DAW software installed). Demo videos of Perfect Piano show a user using the app on multiple phones, with the keyboard set to different octaves on each device. You could certainly have a lot of fun doing something like that! If you’re going to be playing around with your MIDI keyboard anyway, it’s nice to be able to work with high quality sounds, and LABS puts a ton at your fingertips.Atmos Piano is simplistic. It only features a few controls. But again, for soft piano sounds, it’s quite reliable, and fun to play with. A great practice and recording tool overall. Of course, it works great for general usage too – songwriting, jamming, sequencing, composing, scoring, and even practice. So far as free “soft piano” sounds are concerned, yeah, LABS – Soft Piano might do a better job, but Atmos Piano is still quite solid for evocative, atmospheric, ambient piano sounds. Throw on a little reverb or delay and play around with it. I’m sure you’ll get some pleasing, usable sounds for projects requiring toned-down piano sounds.

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Though simple and easy to use, MiniSpillage is also powerful. You might just be amazed at how many sounds you can create using this seemingly streamlined drum synth. A MIDI keyboard is most useful when connected to a computer (and DAW) because it gives you the ability to transmit code to your DAW to produce recording information. I suppose it could be argued that the best keyboard is one with multiple connectivity options, with internal sounds, the ability to send code to software recording, and the ability to plug it into an amplifier or speaker. As already noted, such options do exist, and they can be a little more expensive. MidiEditor is a simple, attractive, no-nonsense graphical interface (featuring a design circa mid-2000s) you can use to edit, play, and record MIDI data. That’s kind of what makes it a hard product to review, honestly, because you can do just about anything with it sound wise, though a lot of the sounds seem primitive, or video game inspired.This is a powerful, sophisticated, feature-rich DAW designed specifically with beat making and compact MIDI keyboards/controllers in mind. The latest version of MuseScore is a free, open-source application, and the most significant change they’ve made is with the appearance of the sheet music itself, which is more professional than ever.