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PianoAngel - an iOS piano app for everyone

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=== The best iOS App for live playing both melody & comping with ease ===

"Ever wished you could play the piano, but you quit lessons when you were young? PianoAngel could be the perfect app for you to try out." -- App-ly Speaking

App Download:

PianoAngel is an iOS Piano app which is designed mainly to enable everyone in this world to play piano along with simplified chord/melody lead sheet. It is not only for people who are already skilled in piano but also more for people who don't know how to play the piano or other instruments. Just follow the lead sheet and start playing!

Great for students & children too!

It's also a good tool for songwriting and jamming.

Our goal is to make this app for people to play the Piano professionally and beautifully but in simple way.
It can be used alone to perform music or accompany with other instruments or singing.

Major Features:
* Swipe on chords and tap melody to play beautiful piano chord & melody with ease.
* Editable Chord preset settings.
* Key and transpose can be adjusted for comping needs - as convenient as keyboards & guitars.
* Intensity controls furthermore vary your playing style.
* Use the notation style you are familiar with: Lettered / Solfege / Roman / Numbered.
* Auto chord playing mode with tempo modification & tap tempo.
* Song settings can be saved as presets.
* Intuitive help screen & settings window
* iPad is supported - Enjoy playing on larger screen! (main screen fonts is scaled - will be improved in next version)

Other new features in progress:
- Recording to Audio (and uploading to SoundCloud)
- CoreMIDI support !!!
- Chord sequence looping (in a simple way!)

iPad creenshots:

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Demo videos:

Demo 1 - Basic features

Demo 2 - Other features (Key, Transpose, Intensity, chord auto playing)

Join our facebook page & official twitter for fastest update!
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/PianoAngelApp
Twitter: http://twitter.com/bwinnovationtw

BW Innovation official site: http://bwinnovationtw.blogspot.com
 
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THANKFUL SALE --- LIMITED-TIME FREE AGAIN !! (ENDS ON April 4th)

Thanks for your great support and recognition for PianoAngel during time-limited free period on April 1st !! PianoAngel is downloaded tens of thousands of copy during the free period, which made the app gets on the top ranking in countless countries... Amazing!

For those who are not hurry enough to tell your friends about the April Fool sale, you'll have another chance again! Thanks for the kind request from Andrew Yeo, a great Christian Music Singer-songwriter and also one of the Pastors of The City Church in Singapore, for promoting PianoAngel on his website. How can we deny such a request to be generous from a Pastor? Surely we are happy to do it again. since we all received God's grace freely as well. Therefore we are calling this sale as a "Thankful Sale". Let's thank our lovely God and also thank Andrew. Spread out the sale to let PianoAngel be with more people! God bless the world!

Also visit Andrew Yeo's page and check out his awesome latest album: "All Things Beautiful": https://www.facebook.com/andrewyeoonline
 
PianoAngel 1.1 update is available now!

Please kindly be informed that the version 1.1 update of PianoAngel is
available now.

Here is the summary of v1.1 update:
* Record playing to M4A audio file which can be fetched via iTunes
file sharing or sent via email
* Upload recording to SoundCloud
* CoreMidi support for sending/receving MIDI notes (require iOS >= 4.2)
* Replaced "Overall Volume" setting by "Volume Boost" which default is
minimum and ineffective when headphone is plugged in (to avoid audio
distortion)
* Fixed pixelized text in main screen on iPad
* Improved piano samples again for a more smoothed sound.

Furthurmore, version 1.2 update will be submitted to App Store soon,
including the following updates:
- Recording your singing from microphone input along with piano!
- MIDI Receive Fix for occasional note loss
- Improved auto playing chord note sequence
- Support for earlier iOS models
(iPhone 3G/iPod Touch 2th Gen or earlier)
 
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