Blackcap: Songwriting Studio

Blackcap is the easiest way to actually make your own song. Start from a melody you hummed, a few chords, or a line of lyrics, and Blackcap walks you the rest of the way: a beat, chords that fit, real instruments, your own voice, and a finished song to share. No experience needed, just an idea. START FROM YOUR IDEA • Quick Song asks one question at a time: hum a tune, type some words, or pick a few chords, and you hear your song right away. • Start from one of 27 songs in different styles, or play a song you love and get an original backing track with the same feel. • Catch ideas in seconds with Siri, the Action button or Control Center, and keep them until they're ready to become songs. BUILD IT PIECE BY PIECE • See your whole song as lanes: chords, beat, every melody and bass line, every recording. Each piece is a bar with its wave or notes drawn in it. • Pick a part, like the chorus, and record a piece right into it. A count-in gets you ready, and you watch your take grow where it lands. • Put it in every chorus with one tap, or drag it onto another part. Pinch to see the whole song at once. WRITE THE SONG • Chords and lyrics lined up word by word, part by part: verse, chorus, bridge. • Chords as names or numbers (Am F C G, or vi IV I V), in any key. Transpose in one tap. • Sing your lyrics and Blackcap writes the words down. • Hear it with a band while you write, in 85 styles. REAL INSTRUMENTS • Play on screen or with a MIDI keyboard: a recorded grand and upright piano, electric pianos, organs, acoustic and nylon guitars, electric and upright bass, strings, cello, harp, mallets, and synths you can shape. • Hum a melody or a bass line and it becomes notes, in your key and on the beat. • Draw notes on a piano roll, or write a bass line from your chords in one tap. • Load your own Audio Unit instruments and effects too. BEATS • 108 ready-made beats in 23 styles, each with a bigger chorus version, to use as they are or make your own. • Tap in a beat on a grid or on pads, add swing, or beatbox it into the mic. • Ten kits, recorded and drum machine. RECORD ANYTHING • Vocals, with your words and chords following along as you sing. • Guitar and bass through built-in amps and cabinets, in stereo from an audio interface, with very low delay when you hear yourself. • A sampler: record any sound, chop it across 16 pads, play it on a keyboard. • Keep, redo or tune each take, add a harmony, or clean up your voice. • Up to 32 recordings in every song. FINISH IT AND SHARE IT • Mix It for Me, effects on any part, and a mastering style for the finishing touch. • Finish your song and the finished mix is kept as a version that stays as it is. Change the song any time and finish it again for version 2. • Keep songs in folders: an album, an EP, songs for the band. Save a copy to Files. • Share a song, a lossless WAV ready for streaming, a video, or every part as its own file plus MIDI for another music app. • Your songs sync through your own iCloud across iPhone, iPad and Mac. WORKS WITH YOUR GEAR • MIDI keyboards, pads and controllers over USB or Bluetooth. Play other gear from your song, and keep time over MIDI clock. MADE FOR EVERYONE • Beginner, Intermediate or Pro: the app shows as much as you want, and every control is a tap away when you're ready. • VoiceOver on every screen, larger text, Increase Contrast and Reduce Motion are all respected. • A built-in tuner, and a music theory and songwriting guide. YOURS One purchase. No subscription, no ads, no account. Blackcap collects no data, and everything works offline.