Ancora: Sing and Hear Back

Two things happen in every practice session: you find a note, and you wonder how that sounded. Ancora is both, on one screen, so you can stop juggling a piano app and a voice recorder full of untitled clips. LISTENING MODE Ancora hears the whole session. When something goes right — or goes wrong — tap Hear it again and it plays back the phrase you just finished. Breaths inside the phrase are kept. The pause before it is not. You never have to remember to press record. RECORD MODE Prefer to decide for yourself? Tap Record, sing, tap Stop, and it is ready to play. IT KNOWS SINGING FROM TALKING A conversation in the room is not a phrase, and Ancora will not offer it to you as one. It reads how the sound itself is moving, not just how loud it is. A PIANO THAT STAYS OUT OF THE WAY A full keyboard along the bottom, scrolling under your finger. Play a key to find your starting note: those…