Accordo

This is an otherwise lovely app that is missing a key function: a hold, or “organ” mode for chords. Implementing that would make the difference between this being a gimmick and an actually useable instrument. Right now it’s the former, unfortunately.

Drums sound like your playing your great-grandmother’s 1980’s home organ (my experience being a Lowrey M-375 Parade organ). Separate reverb mix knobs for chord section and drums gives that Beach House feel. The underlying tones are pretty similar to the basic saw/square wave tones of Reverb Machine’s RM-20 (or better yet, the original Yamaha PS-20 (or PS-30)). Plenty of tone-shaping capabilities to change the chord section and the solo sections. And YES you can smoothly go between a major chord and a minor chord (and a metric crap-ton of other chords) ...it’s all in how you “press” and choose to “release” your fingers from the chording buttons. I really like that the solo key-buttons change notes to the chords that are being played (allows you to hit more correct notes more often than not). But if you want wrong notes just record the chords and then record your solo part on another track in the DAW or whatever you use.

This doesn't work at all as you'd expect. There's no smooth way to do chord changes if you have to push a key and then a chord button while each makes a noise, so it's essentially useless. Also no hold function. Looks nice though.

The reason there isn't a trial is because you wouldn't buy it. No locking function, can't smoothly transition from major/minor chords, drums are crap. You won't be playing any songs on this : (

For a product that cost 5 dollars. I honestly expected more. No midi connectivity. This would have been acceptable in the early days of iOS. So I say it is a certainly a waste of money folks. There are so many other great apps worth your time by big names too. Unfair review because this is purely based on price. I will rate this again if they make it free or they completely update the features but for now. Trash.

I love this app! It's really fun and easy to play. I don't know how to play a keyboard irl but with this I can make music that actually sounds good right away. It's cool for jamming with friends too because they can tell me which chords are in a song and I can play along improvisationally. It's pretty similar to the omnichord if you've seen that.