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Question Of The Week: What Are The Best Apps For Making Music?

The answer to this week’s question depends on how much you know about playing music and what you want to make or record. With some apps you don’t need to know a single thing about reading music notation or playing an instrument. Other apps have a learning curve beyond comprehension.

All Songs Considered co-host Bob Boilen and I, who both make music in addition to listening to it, have taken a lot of these music-making apps out for test drives and have narrowed our favorites down to the three we think best capture the best of all worlds.

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Further reading: http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2013/08/12/210155701/question-of-the-week-what-are-the-best-apps-for-making-music