Tool Review

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Description

iMashup allows you to mash and merge two different songs together. Songs can be overlapped, spliced, looped and have their sound level adjusted to create new mashups.

Access

This is an app available only on iPhones and iPads through the iTunes app store for $4.99.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imashup/id503804151?mt=8

http://imashup.com/

Sample Usage

Pretty Lights - ElectroCali vs. Diplo Feat. Afrojack - How I Like It (Main Mix)-3.m4a

Tips, tricks, and tutorials

First you add track from your iTunes library and then tap add another track and the app matches BPMs (beats per minute) and tells you what songs will match best with the first song you added. You can then select parts of each song to manipulate. Options are given to make parts of the song louder or softer, or adjust the vocals, hi-hats, and drum and bass parts of the track. There is also a tool to allow you to cut and splice parts of the track and if you don't like an adjustment you made there is an undo button.

By double tapping on a specific part of a track you can delete a segment, copy and paste a segment, or loop it. 

Tap the home button to share your mix, open an old creation, or create a new one. 

User your fingers to zoom into a song and make more precise cuts and adjustments. 

You can also manually adjust the BPMs to slow or speed the songs up. 

What the Tool Does Well

The tool does a good job of showing which songs pair together well and then slowing or speeding them up to match.

There are also many ways to edit the tracks by slicing segments, looping them and adjusting their volume. For someone who knows their music theory and has a good ear this is a good app to mix two songs together.

What it Does Poorly

The tool does not allow you to mix more than two songs together. Also, because it is an app it is sometimes hard to adjust all the setting with just your fingers. 

When manually adjusting the BMPs you can only do it for the two songs as a whole; when you adjust one it adjusts both.

What happens when you...

The app tells you what songs match with each other, but you can select songs that don't match at all and adjust their BPM's. There are many different ways to manipulate the songs by slowing them down as slow as they will go or speeding them up, and it creates very interesting sounding mashups.

Additional Resources

Here is a longer "How to" instruction page. 

http://imashup.com/HowTo