AudioScrub (PLAY Edition) App Reviews

Great app for the price. A really useful tool for practicing guitar riffs.

This app works very well, nice graphics, and a very intuitive interface. They have taken the best features of this and other apps in the ilift family to make a simple and powerful tool. Having used other ilift programs, I know how much they have done to improve and hone both the interface and the functioning of the app.

I bought this app so that I could play drum loops at Various tempos and practice with them. The app is very glitchy. It does not loop smoothly. I wish I could get my two dollars back.

Works perfectly on my iPhone 6s on iOS 9.2.1. I tried all the features and there have been no crashes are glitches so far. This is the app Ive been looking for to be able to learn music. I love hitting the rewind button and having to go back a few seconds. Its also easy to set a locate point hitting the different rewind button that goes back to that locate point. Its a very intuitive app. Extremely easy for me to figure out. Thank you for creating this app!

At first I found this app a little confusing but the more I used it the more I realized how well designed it was. The best thing about it is its well-designed A-B repeat feature. As a classical singer, I use it to repeatedly play small segments within a larger piece, and particularly small segments that are of greater than average difficulty. This helps me master them very quickly. You could not ask for a better tool for that. It is also very easy to change the A and B points as you go. It basically lets you select any of the songs already found in your devices music application, and then lets you modify their playback in accordance with your needs. While my primary need is an easy to use A-B repeat feature, it also allows you to speed up or slow down playback without changing the pitch. (I understand that a different version of this app also allows you to change the key in which a song plays back.) The only negatives are: (1) the lack of a good set of instructions built into the app, (2) if using it on an iPad, it only displays in landscape mode and (3) I would love it if the repeat feature would continue to work when you are in a different app reading the lyrics you are trying to memorize. These are not major drawbacks though. As to the lack of a good set of instructions, you can quickly learn what you need by trial and error. This has quickly become an indispensable app for me.

This is conceptually and visually a nice app, but suffers from bugs, such as freezes and crashes. Id look elsewhere.

Pro: Nice interface. Decent features although missing some that others have. One of my top three transcribing apps. Section process is good. Cons: No left/right panning in case a part you need to hear is on one side and not the other. Tempo algorithm could be better. Multiple bookmarks for creating a playlist. Testing option that allows user to determine a range and app slowly speeds up each pass. Forget tabs. Ok, learning to read music, even if its tabs is still learning and should be used. But, what many young musicians are missing out on these days is the incredible learning experience provided by listening and learning songs by ear. Learning a song by ear brings you much closer to the song and its elements. There is a phenomenon called the "Cocktail Party Effect", which is a form of sound localization in which a listener can, in a crowed room of people talking, zero in on one persons voice and pick out what they are saying. This app can train your ears to have that ability with music. And its benefits go far beyond just listening to a song. You will find yourself "listening" and responding in a band or group context in a much deeper way if you train your ear. Not only can you use this to learn parts but if youre studying orchestration or composition, then use this app to loop phrases, then listen very deeply and hear each instrument and listen for their place on the stage. This is also great for mixers. Before tabs this is how most guitarists and bassists learned songs. We used cassette tape, which was the best mechanically. But now we all have access to this type of app, which has been sorely missing for musicians. Some advice for young musicians: Challenge yourself. For a few weeks when learning songs, DONT USE TABS, or any kind of sheet music, unless its absolutely necessary, and use this app and your ear to pick out chords, melodies and solos on whatever instrument you play. Its perfect for guitar, piano, saxophone, and vocalists. It may take some time but once you get good youll be able to learn songs, chord professions and solos in real time. I do. Perhaps Ill make a video about it. Ill be recommending this to all of my students. If youre a serious music, this is a must have app!