App of the Week – Live Chopz

Are you a musician who is familiar with the frustration of performing to a fixed soundtrack? If you are, then you’ll be glad you’re here reading this! Few days ago, our team reviewed a music app called Live Chopz but because it left us so impressed, we decided to give it another mention, as we make it our choice for an app of the week.

What is Live Chopz?

It is a reliable, friendly and dynamic song section player developed especially for live performances and arrangements. This iOS app can be used for music gigs, shows events, rehearsals, dance practices and other live performances, requires iOS 9.0 or later and works for both iPhone and iPad. Let’s checkout its features!

Standout Features

If you’re a touring musician, singer, performing artist, or choir director who wants to stop performing to a fixed soundtrack, Live Chopz can help you chop up and label your own imported audio tracks into sections (such as Verse, Chorus, Bridge, etc.), snap song sections to the nearest quantized beat for perfect synchronization with beat and tempo, start and stop audio playback with zero latency enhancing real-time user experience, and much more. It supports mp3, wav, aiff, m4a and mp4 audio files which can be imported from any source (iTunes, Dropbox , email,etc.).

Experience a better life performance by downloading the Live Chopz app from the App Store’s link below.

App Store Download Link: Live Chopz

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Virtous App Digest – Live Chopz

App Name: Live Chopz

Category: Music

Platform: iOS

Price: $14.99

Who is it for?

• For musicians that perform live and want to forget the frustrations of performing to a fixed backing track arrangement.
• For live performers that want to enhance the quality of their music gigs, shows events, rehearsals, dance practices, etc.

Standout features:

• Import your own stereo audio from any source.(iTunes, Dropbox , email,etc) .
• Audio support for mp3, wav, aiff, m4a, mp4 files.
• Adjust Key (12 Half steps up and down).
• Adjust Tempo (~1/2 X , 2X BPM up and down).
• Auto detect audio bpm.
• Tap tempo
• Start/stop audio playback with zero latency enhancing real-time user experience.
• Chop audio easily into sections (Eg. Verse, Chorus, Bridge, etc.) with pre-defined song section part labels readily available to use .
• Snap song sections to the nearest quantized beat for perfect synchronization with beat & tempo
• Beat synchronized dynamic jump from section to section while audio is playing in real-time.(Dynamic jump options include: end of section and end of bar)
• Perfect for live arrangements/performances* No need to adhere to a fixed audio backing track arrangements
• Create and Save chopped sections arrangements of a track into a Setlist.
• Reorder tracks in Setlist.
• Auto-Advance to next song in SetList.
• Share chopped song sections arrangement files via Email, Whatsup, AirDrop. Etc.
• Import chopped song sections arrangement files.
• Export individual sections/segments as an audio m4a file
•  Includes an Auto-catch-up feature to enable you skip ahead to the next measure within a section. (Useful for correcting performance arrangement missed beginnings)
• Includes a Safety feature to set the player to “Safety" Loop mode (very usefull when the lead singer/ band goes off track/arrangement. Just loop to safety & catch up later).

Developer: MAK APPS

App Store Download Link: Live Chopz

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