The mobile app built by Rocket Farm Studios currently offers unlimited access to over 1.1 million arrangements for every instrument, genre & musician skill level!
When the world's largest print music publisher Sheet Music Direct, (founded by Hal Leonard) approached us with an idea that would change the alter experience for musicians forever, we knew this would be huge!
Rocket Farm built the original app for Sheet Music Direct in 2014, and when they came back to us 3 years later we made major upgrades to incorporate SMD’s new branding and styling.
Keeping things simple and easy to use was always in the back of our minds as we knew the app was very feature-packed.
From the design of the user library to the music viewer, the designers and developers took every detail into consideration in order to provide the best UX and UI for PlayAlong users.
Rocket Farm worked closely with Sheet Music Direct’s designers to create many of the visuals. We developed an interface that functions as a mobile recording studio that’s intuitive, engaging, and enjoyable to musicians everywhere.
If you’re a musician then you know that timing is everything. Rocket Farm solved many engineering challenges while rendering and creating an immersive playback experience.
At its core, the app uses audio signal processing pitch changes, which speed up or slow the score down. Rocket Farm kept the graphics on-screen synced precisely with the audio playback as musicians play along.
The tools surrounding the app needed to be perfect. Anything a musician would need or want as they learned and perfected their music was created within the application.
The app also provides an awesome e-commerce experience using apple in-app purchase mechanism.
We wanted a customizable platform. The app had to interact with an established back-end, and I was impressed with how Rocket Farm worked with the back-end developers to get it done. "
- Chris Koszuta, General Manager of Sheet Music Direct
