Firo4 CE - Classroom Edition 4.0.5

Firo4 CE is an educational version of the cutting-edge musical tool Firo4, tailored towards student use. This instrument combines features such as a musical instrument, drum kit, chord builder, and multi-channel looper with a seamless design that enhances playability. It encourages users to unleash their creativity and transform their musical ideas into reality, either at school or any other setting.

The classroom edition of Firo4 presents itself as a standalone instrument with a strong focus on providing a dedicated playing and learning experience. Noteworthy is the absence of advertisements or in-app purchases within the Firo4 CE, ensuring students can concentrate on exploring and creating music without distractions. In a bid to cater to the needs of young users, MIDI, Audiobus, and Inter-App Audio integrations are intentionally excluded from the Firo4 CE version, with these advanced features preserved for the standard Firo4 app.

• Music first: The instrument is meticulously crafted to keep you immersed in your creative process. The redesigned piano layout maximizes expressive capabilities. It supports 10-finger multitouch for seamless operation, allowing you to keep playing while adjusting parameters.
• Play your heart out: The selection of 12 instruments ensures high-quality playback, while four drum modes feature analog and electronic samples. Further shaping your sound is made possible through the addition of filter and reverb effects.
• Informed by theory: Empowering you with musical knowledge, Firo4 CE allows you to choose any key in 7 diatonic modes and 7 secondary scales (like Pentatonic, Blues, Whole-tone) to aid in creating stylistic riffs and melodies. It intuitively guides you in understanding relationships between notes and chords through active play.
• Chords with context: Crafting intricate harmonies is simplified with one touch; predefined chord types expand to include triads, 6th, 7th, 9th, sus2, sus4, and modulation chords while also providing information on chorded zither/autoharp.
• Intuitive looping: An integrated feature offers five auto-expanding and synchronized loopers that enable layering, contextual sizing, replay functions, as well as straightforward undo/redo actions via press-and-hold. Tempo control and beat quantization tools facilitate real-time alignment of looped sequences.
• See what you sing: Real-time visual pitch detection allows you to vocalize your thoughts and observe corresponding notes light up on the keyboard interface.
• Record your session: Capture up to 90 minutes of live session audio seamlessly while playing. Following the recording session, produce output in the form of both a stereo M4A file (featuring clean output and vocal/mic input) and a multi-channel MIDI file.
• Share with the world: Effortlessly transfer your audio recordings to other iOS applications for further enhancements or conveniently save files when syncing your device with a computer.

Firo4 represents the latest iteration of Fiddlewax Pro, known as Firo when it was initially introduced in 2014. Over time, this software has garnered hundreds of thousands of downloads. We encourage you to explore Firo4 CE and offer feedback on your experience with this versatile educational musical tool.