Two years ago, Nick den Engelsman started a band with a couple of friends. As they worked on recording songs, life got in the way, what with getting jobs, getting married, having babies, and the like.
The group decided it would be really nice to have an app that let them record parts of their songs individually, and then combine all the tracks into one song. They couldn’t find one.
Most multi-track recording apps like GarageBand will let you share files across services like Dropbox, but a simple “record and share” app wasn’t available.
This is how Composr was born. Here’s how it works.
“Person 1 starts a new song and records, for example, some guitar,” den Engelsman told Cult of Mac in an email. “Person 2 finds this song on the explore page or by following Person 1 and decides to record some vocals for the song.”
Person 1 then gets a push notification to review the new recording, and can then accept or decline the new recording. Person 1 can also comment on the recording.
It’s very simple and intuitive, and enables both friends and strangers to work together. Everyone just records using their own device’s microphone – there’s no need to connect anything up to your iPhone. You can even collaborate with yourself, adding new recordings to your song over time.
Development of Composr took about six months, with a couple of years spent before that just thinking it through. den Engelsman is the only developer, working out of his home in The Hague.
If you want to get creative with real-world friends and internet buddies, no matter where you or they live, Composr will let you do so with ease and simplicity, and all for free.
Source: App Store
