Moises

Moises is this year’s iPad App of the Year, and it’s an app all about giving musicians more control over their creations. Moises uses AI to separate vocals and instruments from any song, detect chords, change pitch, generate a metronome, and much more.

One of the most fascinating things the team behind Moises shared with me was how Slipknot drummer Elo Casagrande uses the app. Moises cofounder and COO Eddie Hsu told me:

“Elo Casagrande won best metal drummer for 2024, and we bumped into him in the studio once and he said, ‘Hey, the reason I’m in Slipknot now is because of you guys.’

He said that one of his videos that he posted on YouTube making a Slipknot cover got the attention from the band. And they ended up inviting him to participate in the auditioning processes that the band was conducting. Elo ended up having to rehearse 32 songs and he put all of them in Moises.

He shared with us that he isolated the drums to understand the specific parts and the nuances of each drum part.

And then he slowed down the song to practice more slowly and then really get confident to go to the auditions and perform with the band. So the band ended up hiring him and it’s a beautiful story.”

In our conversation, the Moises team also highlighted how the app’s initial version focused on the iPhone. Thanks to Apple’s support and developer tools, however, they were able to easily bring the app to iPad:

“We have a really good relationship with the people at Apple, and they’ve been providing feedback since the very beginning, not only about the features to adopt but also overall user experience,” Moises co-founder and CEO Geraldo Ramos told me.

Jardson Almeida, cofounder and chief experience officer, continued:

“In addition to gathering feedback from our users and musicians, we also participated in Apple workshops to understand the human interface guidelines, learning how to really port this experience to the iPad to become more native and more user-friendly.”

“Apple will go hands-on with us, even on the design side of things, going into specific graphics and how to build certain user experiences and so on. This partnership has been very hands-on,” Hsu concluded.

You can download Moises on the App Store today.