Jam with Jordan

What it does

A touch based idea app built around chord, lead, bass and drum parts that play themselves. Pads along the bottom hold rhythm and melody patterns, the upper half plays notes in a chosen key and scale, and a wizard button recasts the whole arrangement. Sounds include kits modelled on a 707, an 808 and a 909. It is standalone, with no AUv3 and no external MIDI input.

In the demo

Jade opens it cold, with no preparation, and jams before looking at a single menu. She then walks the instrument lists, the chord play modes, the delay and reverb sends, the scale picker, and the record button that passes a take to AudioShare. She also runs the same app on her Mac.

Worth knowing

Presets are shared as exported text files and the sound set is fixed. Anyone wanting to route parts into a DAW or play it from a keyboard will be working against the design.