»Better Ears« is an educational Music Theory and Ear Training app, which helps you grow your musical skills and enhance your hearing capabilities. There are 13 different exercises included, starting from interval recognition all the way down to chord progressions - perfect for beginners and music-masters alike! YOU DECIDE HOW TO TRAIN! With »Better Ears« you can decide for yourself what your training routine should look like. There are no rules you have to follow, you decide when to start and how often to practice. 13 DIFFERENT EXERCISES INCLUDED »Better Ears« includes 13 different exercises: • Interval recognition • Scale recognition • Chord recognition • Chord progressions • Pitch recognition • Melodic dictation • Tempo recognition • Key Signature recognition • Music reading • Interval music reading • Scale music reading • Chord music reading • Melody music reading CUSTOM CHORDS, SCALES AND CHORD PROGRESSIONS The new editor for Chords, Scales and Chord Progressions allows you to add your own items. 6 DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS Choose your training sound out of six different instruments. Better Ears comes with Acoustic Grand piano, Bright Acoustic Piano, Electric Grand Piano, Drawbar Organ, Nylon Acoustic Guitar and Steel Acoustic Guitar. CUSTOM SOUNDS WITH SOUNDFONTS With the help of SoundFonts (.sf2) you have the possibility to extend Better Ears with your own sounds. KEYBOARD AND FRETBOARD »Better Ears« comes with a virtual keyboard and virtual guitar fretboard. You can key notes on either. ANSWER WITH YOUR VOCALS OR WITH A REAL INSTRUMENT The integrated pitch detection allows you to answer the questions with your voice or a real instrument (e.g. piano or guitar). Simply play the individual tones on your instrument or sing them when the microphone button lights red. FOUR PRESET LEVELS »Better Ears« ships with four preset levels: • Beginner • Easy • Normal • Professional UNLIMITED CUSTOM LEVELS Additionally you can create your own levels, letting you train to your own specific needs. Put yourself in "Training Camp" to learn church modes, or concentrate on those two pesky intervals that constantly cause you problems. SYNC ALL OF YOUR DEVICES With »Better Ears« you can keep your Mac and your iOS devices in sync. You can choose what to sync: Your own levels, your statistics, your settings or all of this. MIDI SUPPORT »Better Ears« supports routing sound through an external MIDI device, allowing you to use your existing MIDI master keyboard or sound module. You can even control »Better Ears« using a connected keyboard. STATISTICS For every exercise »Better Ears« knows all your current stats, including how often you have answered each question correctly or incorrectly. WIKIPEDIA INTEGRATION »Better Ears« shows the relevant Wikipedia article for the current exercise. If a relevant article is not available online, another topically-appropriate article will be shown instead.
crashes on launch
crashes on launch due to 'com.apple.coreaudio.avfaudio', reason: 'required condition is false most likely the app doesn't like my machine using audio interfaces ..... exremely lame and should be production stop issue...how this made it out to the public is concerning...
Bug
There is a problem editing levels. you cant see the notes or progressions or anything in the editing window because the letters seem to be white as the backgroud. I really love the app but this is really annoying me
Problem Fixed!!!
when I found out about better ears I was very happy to find an amazing tool for aural studying. But then it kept crashing all the time. I emailed support and they were very attentive. It was just a minor correction that I had to do. Either way, it's is the best tool for musicians out there!!! tks
Stopped working!
I paid for the full version a couple of years ago. I did like the app for the most part (past tense being key to this review). Some of the chord sounds were a bit thin, but overall this app was satisfactory to me. Then… I upgraded my Mac OS (a year later) and the app didn’t work as well. Hard to explain here, but some of the windows that show what chord is being played after you make a guess wouldn’t display the text, thus making it difficult to see if I guessed correctly. Another year goes by and another couple of OS updates and the app completely stops working! It won’t even open anymore! Frustrating! I paid about $20 for the app, not expecting a whole lot, but I would hope that the Better Ears folk would make updates to support the OS platform updates on Mac (not sure how it runs on Windows). I will go back to using Teoria online for my ear training as I have no faith in these folk who create these apps that charge $.
Great fun!!!
This app is so fantastic I can't belive it! I had so much fun identifying scales and cords that I almost missed an appointment. Think about it, this is not even a game. The app is real easy-to-use and doesn't patronize you. Nonetheless I am confident that it will improve my hearing and you can even learn a lot about music theory. A must-have app for everybody trying to master an instrument.
Very promising!
Wow, this is a really great App for ear training. Until now I haven´t found anything better for Mac. Works with my midi keyboard like a charm. I wish there would be an iOS version being available too!
- Optimized for Apple Silicon - Minor bugfixes
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