Your kids might not be ready for that lesson in advanced modular synthesis or a crash course in Beatmaker 2, but there are some fantastic apps out there designed to educate and entertain kids, whilst teaching them a little something about music production.
Here’s our list of the Best Music Apps for Kids:
“A super hilarious synthesizer and drum machine featuring the same pugs from Pugs Luv Beats. You dress them up in hats and costumes to change the sounds. And it’s free!”
A bit of fun that will teach principles of rythm and melody to young kids… And it has pugs.
2. Scribble Synth – Joseph Brady
Scribble on your ipad whilst learning about sound design and synthesis.
This waveform synthesizer is controlled by scribbling and converts your child’s drawn line to a synth line in real-time.
A basic synthesizer, designed for kids but featuring some interesting features such as:
- Polyphonic engine (up to 12 notes can be played at the same time)
- Reverb sound effect
- Delay (echo) sound effect
- 9 multilayered samples included in this free version
- 21 additional multilayered samples available as inapp purchase upgrade
- Two opposite keyboards to let you play with your child or let 2 kids play together
- Each keyboard has its individual settings (selected sample, effects level, etc)
4. Dropophone – Hayashi Yosuke
A fun generative music environment that’s easy to understand and experiment with.
Based on Lullatone’s album “Little Songs About Raindrops,” this app allows you to make songs that sound like drips and drops falling on a tiny orchestra of instruments.
Pressing the multi-colored raindrops triggers notes that loop every six seconds.
5. Isle of Tune Mobile – Happylander Ltd
A fun game that lets you create a tempo synced, living island that changes it’s sounds based on the objects you add.
Create your own unique musical journeys from street layouts. Roadside elements are your instruments and cars are the players!
A generative music environment, suibtable for older children as it’s interface is quite complicated.
Musyc is a fun and innovative music application where touch turns into music.
No use of piano keyboard or partitions, draw shapes and listen to your piece of music while viewing sounds bouncing on the screen.
The basic version is free and if you like it you can upgrade to the paid version with more instruments and objects to play with.
7. Sketch-a-Song Kids – 09 Line Development Co.
Learn the principles of sequencing, editing and music theory whilse skecthing crayon-like colors on a piece of paper. Great fun.
8. Artikulator – P.W. Worm & Co. & Sons
A ver simplistic multitouch finger-painting synthesizer that lets anyone draw sound with shapes and color.
9.StarComposer – P4S Publishing Ltd.
A great first introduction to sequencing / DAW operation!
- No Musical Experience Required
- Record your own voice using the built-in microphone
- Create your own Music Video and share it to YouTube and Facebook
- Simple and intuitive design
- 120 different Music Loops to choose from
- 10 different Music Styles
- Great for both kids and adults
- Save your songs to iCloud and access them across all your iOS devices
- Learn about music composition with beat and bar displays
- Full Retina display support
10. Little Fox Music Box – Kids songs – Sing along – Fox & Sheep
An educational and playful musical environment for kids.
Play your own music and record your songs with the little fox in his tree house sound studio. Explore more than 100 interactive elements and sounds.
That’s our list of the best music apps for kids! Have we missed any great ones?
Let us know in the comments area below.
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