![]() However, the ability to change the tempo of any of the tens of millions of songs available in Apple Music is a substantial advantage over similar apps and makes Perfect Tempo an excellent new tool for musicians and dancers who are looking to learn new songs. Perfect Tempo doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of an app like Capo Touch, which can help you pick out chords from a guitar solo, for example. Once enabled, swiping on a song’s artwork in the full-screen player allows its pitch to be shifted. To access the feature, you need to turn on the Show Transposition Controls toggle in the app’s entry of Apple’s Settings app. The one difference between owned and streamed music in Perfect Tempo is that the pitch of owned and downloaded music can be adjusted too. Playback can also be sent to AirPlay speakers and TVs. To choose a part of a song to loop, drag the playhead to the start position and tap ‘Set Start’ then drag it to the end and tap ‘Set End.’ Without a waveform to view the music visually or real-time playback of the song as you move the playhead, correctly picking the start and end positions requires some trial and error, but in practice, I found setting up looping sections easier than I expected. You can play a track once, loop it in its entirety, or select a section to loop over and over. Songs can be played once, or the entire song or a section can be looped continuously.įrom the full-screen player, you can increase or decrease the playback speed of a track in 1% increments up to 50% faster or slower. You could still buy songs you wanted to use with those apps in iTunes and download them locally, but for Apple Music subscribers, the need to purchase and download songs they already had access to in Apple Music added friction and cost to the learning process. Tracks served by Spotify and Apple Music reintroduced DRM protection that didn’t work with existing music tempo apps. Those apps became less useful as the music world moved to streaming. One of my favorite examples on iOS is Capo Touch. Those apps enabled musicians to methodically practice and perfect parts of a song by playing along slowly until they could match a song played at normal speed. When iTunes moved away from DRM-protected tracks in 2009, a whole category of utilities became possible that allowed users to slow down and loop the music they purchased without changing the pitch of the track. Other apps have similar functionality that I’ve covered before, but what makes Perfect Tempo unique is that it can slow down and speed up streamed Apple Music tracks, which other apps can’t do. The app is a simple utility designed for musicians and dancers who want to slow down or speed up music without affecting its pitch and loop it as they learn a song. ![]() Nearly 11 years into the App Store, it isn’t often that an app surfaces that does something unexpected which no one else seems to be doing, but Perfect Tempo by developer Open Planet does precisely that.
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