Pocket Jam 4+
Change pitch & tempo of songs
Jacob Parker
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- $4.99
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Description
Pocket Jam is for musicians wanting to practice and play along with their favourite songs. Loop specific sections of songs, or change the pitch or tempo in real time.
If you don't have a capo to hand — or worse, the song is in a lower tuning than you, Pocket Jam has you covered. You can change the pitch up and down — in real time — to any amount of semitones up to an octave.
Looping lets you pick specific parts of the song you want to practise. Once enabled, drag the left and right handles on the play bar to set the start and end of the loop, and it'll loop between them.
And when looping isn't enough, you can use the speed trainer. With a loop set up up, you can have it start each loop playing slowly, and gradually get faster after each loop. You can customise how slow it starts, and how many loops it takes to reach the full tempo.
Mark specific times in a song with section markers. It'll let you jump to parts or set up loops quicker.
You can add songs from your your files on device, and play them back in real time, or export them.
What’s New
Version 4.4.1
Added translations for French, German; and added the ability to change the volume separately to the system volume
Ratings and Reviews
Doesn’t work
I am getting “playback error” nearly every time I try to play a song from my Apple Music library. Would love to talk with the developer about how to fix this.
Developer Response ,
Were you the one who emailed? Hopefully it’s all working now ☺️
Perfect!
Ignore the reviews below. I took a chance on this app after reading the reviews and it's perfect! To add songs simply select "add song" and point the program at your itunes directory. Plays both MP3's and songs purchased on the iTunes store (M4a). What I did notice is that the "add song" icon seems unusable (goes grey) after adding your first batch. Stays grey unless you clear your songs queued. It's likely user error. A simple work-around to this is to simply drop and drag songs you want to add from iTunes to the app window. Other than that this app seems to do exactly what I want (slows songs down while keeping pitch, and changes pitch while keeping tempo). 5 stars!
Developer Response ,
❤️ thanks for the review! I’m not sure why the import song button greys out for you - I don’t disable it anywhere in the code. It might just be a visual issue and still be clickable
Instructions would be nice
This app is great for practicing tap dance, but I’m having trouble figuring out how to use the speed trainer. As far as I can tell it does not increase speed within the set number of loops (I set it for 5 and at 10 I’m still going the same tempo) and after the latest update I have no idea what NaN means. Some basic explanatory notes would be very helpful! Also on the speed scrubber down there it would be nice to see what percent you’re starting at so I can match with the speed I set at the top of the screen instead of guessing roughly where 86% might be.
Seems like with the update we also lost the ability to set the start location of the loop. Now I always have to start at the beginning, but it would be nice to isolate a section mid-song.
Developer Response ,
Sorry about this — looks like there’s a bug. I’ll fix it ASAP! I’m the mean time, it looks like you can work around it by clearing your playlist an re-adding your songs
Edit: this is now fixed. You can update by going to the App Store and clicking your avatar in the top right corner. Thanks for the bug report!
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Information
- Seller
- Jacob Parker
- Size
- 1.5 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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French, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2019 Jacob Does Code LTD
- Price
- $4.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.