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Hi, I just got an iPad and was wondering how my foro friends were using it (or iPhone) for music/flamenco purposes. I use an app from Canal Sur radio and like it a lot. What other apps do you like and/or find helpful? Thanks, Dennis
RE: Apps related to flamenco (in reply to Don Dionisio)
Graf-Martinez' metronome is also out on iOS now but no idea how it compares. I suspect it will lack the "improvisation" functionality of Dr Compas. I wish Dr Compas had some higher quality sounds though.
It's also possible to get the Graf-Martinez loops for the iOS version of Garageband, then you pretty much have the functionality of that weird guitar with the built-in recording computer...
RE: Apps related to flamenco (in reply to Don Dionisio)
I used to have every POSSIBLE flamenco app on my ipod touch and I realized that most of them were a waste of time and money because they are crappy. the only 2 good ones I strongly recommend is Doctor Compas and Canal Sur. I have the other apps but I dont use them at all
RE: Apps related to flamenco (in reply to Don Dionisio)
There is a Flamencoradio called MásFlamenco its free and very nice. Canal Sur is often too much rumba, that i don't like that much. And yeah dr. compás is the best flamenco app which is available. Don't buy BeatVibe, that the most worst metronome i know.
RE: Apps related to flamenco (in reply to Don Dionisio)
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RE: Apps related to flamenco (in reply to athrane77)
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There is a Flamencoradio called MásFlamenco its free and very nice. Canal Sur is often too much rumba, that i don't like that much. And yeah dr. compás is the best flamenco app which is available. Don't buy BeatVibe, that the most worst metronome i know.
MásFlamenco never seems to connect for me for some reason CanalSur- I listen to it everyday (right now too) for 7hrs a day and its not true that they have too much rumba, they have everything equally, just perfect. I was listening to tientos right now
RE: Apps related to flamenco (in reply to Ricardo)
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ORIGINAL: Ricardo
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I wish Dr Compas had some higher quality sounds though.
Really? I plugged it into my PA and played with it live, sounded bad ass.
Maybe you need new speakers?
Admittedly possible. But I think it's just the nature of the samples which sound a bit too "drum machine" like, maybe too processed or compressed? I dunno...maybe it's just me..but I think it would be great to combine the rhythm engine of Dr Compas with some really, really high quality, multi-layered samples like you have in the professional software instrument world.
Though I guess at that point we might be putting real palmeros out of business.
I dunno...maybe it's just me..but I think it would be great to combine the rhythm engine of Dr Compas with some really, really high quality, multi-layered samples like you have in the professional software instrument world.
It's not just you, but we might need to calibrate our expectations. Those uber-high-quality multi-layered samples you're talking about are created by major instrument companies for use in high-dollar instruments with broad market appeal. Until someone with the R&D capacity of Korg, Kurtzweil, Yamaha, Nord, Roland, Kawai, etc. decides to build a flamenco iPod app (and sell it for a few bucks a pop, at most), Dr. Compas is probably as good as it gets.
RE: Apps related to flamenco (in reply to Don Dionisio)
Does that Dr compas work on windows7?
Or on a mac?
Or just ipads and iphones??
The "requirements" are not really understandable...
Its really important.. for 20$ I wanna be sure that it runs on my system..
EDIT: Oh I just see after clickeing some links there is written:
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The Free Beta Testing Phase for Doctor Compás™ has ended. PC and Mac versions will be released very soon. Visit us on Facebook and click “Like” to recieve info on updates and new releases.
I wonder who did the "free" beta testing since I always asked for that... tststs
Don´t know. I remember that Ricardo promoted it.. I thought for a while he gets %..haha Well, but I didnt pay attention since all flamenco metronomes out there are just expensive, useless toys.
If I wouldnt have seen Ricardo using and talking about it.. I still wouldnt wanna check it out...
Well,.. after all...it seems to be fun and actually quite good. And the pricing also reasonable..
So.. now I want to check it.. and there is no win adn mac version... Thats..funny..:D
RE: Apps related to flamenco (in reply to Don Dionisio)
I hesitated for a little time before buying Doctor Compás. But now I'm glad I bought it, because it's good for my website uploads but it's also helping me tighten up some of my playing.
RE: Apps related to flamenco (in reply to El_Tortuga)
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I hesitated for a little time before buying Doctor Compás
me too, especially since I didnt have ipod/iphone. i ended up buying ipod just for this app, and when i had the ipod a whole new world opened up that i didnt know about. thanks to Doctor Compas my compas is much better than before, one thing lead to another ..
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as a matter of fact, i hate creating the itunes account in my apple store and i ask customers to come back when i'm off 
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