Nathan Michael, Jayanth Ramesh, Affan Rashid, Tayyab Siddiqui & Nicholas Veerapen

A Revolutionary new mobile app enabling you to create your own music wherever you are!

MyStudio is an amazing new music creation app on the market for people who want to make their own music without spending years and thousands of pounds on a composing course. It can be used literally anytime and anywhere. At night in bed, On the bus in the morning, really whenever and wherever you like.

For the many years since the smartphone came out, there has been no easy to use and affordable music creation app. When people are out and about they are unable to create their own tunes. We, as MyStudio, have set out to solve this problem.

There is one main question our group is trying to answer:

“Can I easily compose my own music tracks on the go?”

Sometimes, we have been searching for new music to get, and there was just nothing we could find that we liked at the time. We thought what if we could make our own music? There are no reasonably priced and easy to use music creation apps on the market, and so we decided with our app we would make it so that people need no experience composing to create decent music that they like.

We are Developing a mobile app to help music fanatics compose their own, personalised music in a creative new way without needing any previous composing experience and being able to act as if they are a professional conductor.

Collin is someone who has experienced the wireframe of our app. He always listens to music and was thinking about making his own music when we showed him the app. He took a look round the app and generally liked the idea. As he does not have much time to use apps everyday he likes the quick interface meaning he can get started straightaway when he opens the app. He also loves the ability to save your music as MP3 files.

There is only one app we have found on all app Markets that users can use to make their own music. That is Garageband and is only available on the IOS app store. Our app is easier to use than Garageband and will be much cheaper than Garageband’s extortionate price. Furthermore, our app will be the only of its kind on the app store.

One of the key features of our app is the ability for the user to move their finger on the screen to make lines and shapes which the app converts into musical notation.

When asked what they thought about the feature, a music enthusiast commented:

“I like the idea of being able to swipe my finger on the screen and have it become music. I would love to let my creative juices flow while using this app.”

We decided to make this the key feature of our app due to the positive feedback and the fact that nothing like this feature exists in any app in the market.

Someone who looked at the base wireframe of our app commented:

“You should include a wider range of genres to appeal to a large target audience. Also you need to put emphasis on the fact that your app doesn’t revolve around classic music.”

Therefore, we have chosen to change the genres of instruments available to appeal to a larger target audience.

Our app is designed to flow well from page to page. We will make the app have menus that rise up the page and screens that you can swipe back and forth from.

These are the front and main pages of our app. You slide the front page away to reveal the main page. The main page contains the ability to go to the rest of the features of the app.

These are the instrument pages. Here you chose the genre of instrument you want to use and then choose the exact instrument you want to use.

These are the recording page and top ten. On the recording page you swipe your finger to create the music and on the top ten you can see great music other people have made.

Our app seems fairly feasible. The most difficult feature to integrate would be the ability to swipe your finger and have it converted to music. With he help of shape recognition software we would be able to do this. The content of our app is purely dictated by the user and so would be perfect for each and every user. Once again, the ability to swipe your finger and turn it into music would be a difficulty when looking at technical feasibility, but it is possible.

Our App has been designed so that it would be free with possible banner adverts at the top or bottom of the screen for advertisement revenue. We would then offer the removal of adverts and the addition of extra instruments to the app for a small price per DLC (e.g. 99p for rock instruments pack). This way we would be able to bait a large range of customers with the fact that the app is free and have them pay to expand their ability to use the app.

Our main marketing tactic to reach our specific users is to discuss and promote the app on music forums and sites with the added bonus of things like promo codes for 50% off specific in-app purchases. Considering the wide scope of the internet this should largely increase our user base.

Our group has spent ours refining our Balsamiq mockup. We have tweaked the graphics and the colours to make it look as good as we could possible make it.

We have also met and presented our app idea to developers from Monitise Create, a highly renowned app development agency. They gave us tips and suggestions on how to improve our app and we have implemented that in our designs.

Finally, we researched how important first impressions are and we have decided to make the user’s first impression of the app the best it can possibly be.