Monk is a brilliant music app for Windows Phone, and on discount this week

Monk

Monk is a new musical app for Windows Telephone that lets you easily understand the inner workings of music. It has a huge library with lots of scales and chords for you to explore, and the interesting user interface allows you lot to rapidly become an idea of how notes are related inside whatever calibration or chord.

The app allows yous to transpose, change the scales, play with chord inversions, and have a await at the staff, all in the same screen. Y'all will be able to select a specific accuracy to filter the search results and even select which notation is the root of the scale or chord you're searching. Once found, play the scale or chord and heed to it. Monk lets you play all the notes on its polyphonic and multi-touch piano.

Monk

If you are a music enthusiast, and would similar to understand the specifics, information technology's a great app to have. It is a lilliputian crowded on a smaller screen specially when you have big fingers, and works meliorate on my Nokia Lumia 1520. Monk is too in the works for Windows 8 and I expect forrad to an app like that on my Surface with all that real estate.

The app comes in 2 versions – Monk and Monk Light. You can download Monk Lite for costless from the Windows Phone Shop. The Lite version has the post-obit limitations:

Only seven scales in the library
Inverse Calibration Search - Express to ii notes
Inverse Chord Search - Limited to 2 notes
No support for Modes
No support for Chord Piano Inversions
No support for alterations ambiguity resolution
No Treble/Bass Clef Staff

The total version of Monk unremarkably goes for $1.45 (correct QR code), but y'all tin grab information technology on a discount for $0.99 through this week from the Windows Phone Shop. You can as well trial the total version for 24 hours.

QR: Monk Lite

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