Specdrums Edu
Music fundamentals with color
Free
7.0for iPhone, iPad and more
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About Specdrums Edu
Specdrums Edu is the official platform for customizing Specdrums rings--app-enabled rings that play music. All skill levels, from beginners to seasoned musicians, can create their own masterpieces with hundreds of instruments, drum kits, and other sounds. Educators across a wide range of subjects, such as art, language, social studies, science, and math can make their lessons more engaging by choosing or recording their own sound effects and triggering them with Specdrums. Express your creativity and play music and sounds in a whole new, open-ended way with Specdrums.
Specdrums are app-enabled rings that make the world your instrument by turning colors into sounds. These simple, versatile musical instruments are designed for use in school, at home, or on the go. Connect to the Specdrums Edu app and tap on anything–drawings, print-outs, or the included Play Pad–to play any combination of notes, chords, and samples. Learn music fundamentals through color association or use Specdrums to trigger custom sounds for a wide variety of subjects.
Specdrums Edu Features:
• Choose from over 50 different types of instruments, including keys, synths, strings, horns, and drum kits, plus other sound packs, like animals and sound effects.
• Record your own sound packs from real instruments, the world around you, or spoken words.
• Assign notes, chords, and samples to any color.
• Use markers, stickers, colored paper, physical objects, or anything else with color to create your own kits and keyboards to play on.
• Save your combinations of colors and sounds as your own project to load up later or share as a QR code.
• Scan QR codes from Specdrums Activity Cards or codes shared by others to load custom projects.
• Combine multiple notes and samples to a single color to create custom chords and sounds.
• Sustain notes by holding your ring down on the color.
• Connect multiple rings.
• Quickly assign common scales to your colors.
Make the world your instrument. Order Specdrums at Sphero.com now.
*This app requires Specdrums App-Enabled Musical Rings
Specdrums are app-enabled rings that make the world your instrument by turning colors into sounds. These simple, versatile musical instruments are designed for use in school, at home, or on the go. Connect to the Specdrums Edu app and tap on anything–drawings, print-outs, or the included Play Pad–to play any combination of notes, chords, and samples. Learn music fundamentals through color association or use Specdrums to trigger custom sounds for a wide variety of subjects.
Specdrums Edu Features:
• Choose from over 50 different types of instruments, including keys, synths, strings, horns, and drum kits, plus other sound packs, like animals and sound effects.
• Record your own sound packs from real instruments, the world around you, or spoken words.
• Assign notes, chords, and samples to any color.
• Use markers, stickers, colored paper, physical objects, or anything else with color to create your own kits and keyboards to play on.
• Save your combinations of colors and sounds as your own project to load up later or share as a QR code.
• Scan QR codes from Specdrums Activity Cards or codes shared by others to load custom projects.
• Combine multiple notes and samples to a single color to create custom chords and sounds.
• Sustain notes by holding your ring down on the color.
• Connect multiple rings.
• Quickly assign common scales to your colors.
Make the world your instrument. Order Specdrums at Sphero.com now.
*This app requires Specdrums App-Enabled Musical Rings
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What's New in the Latest Version 7.0
Last updated on Sep 16, 2019
Old Versions
New design to simplify connecting, setting up, and playing your Specdrums rings.
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Version History
7.0
Sep 16, 2019
New design to simplify connecting, setting up, and playing your Specdrums rings.
6.1
Feb 21, 2019
• Various Bug Fixes
• Improved iPhone X support
• Improved iPhone X support
6.0
Jan 15, 2019
Sphero Specdrums rings are now supported
5.17
Oct 23, 2018
1) Save loops within the Specdrums app so that they can be retrieved and edited in the future.
2) No longer scan for rings in the background to save battery life.
3) Optimizations for iPhone X.
4) Bug fixes
2) No longer scan for rings in the background to save battery life.
3) Optimizations for iPhone X.
4) Bug fixes
5.15
Oct 4, 2018
1) Save loops within the Specdrums app so that they can be retrieved and edited in the future.
2) No longer scan for rings in the background to save battery life.
3) Optimizations for iPhone X.
4) Bug fixes.
2) No longer scan for rings in the background to save battery life.
3) Optimizations for iPhone X.
4) Bug fixes.
5.12
Apr 28, 2018
1) New background mode, so you can play Specdrums while recording a video or using another app.
2) New Sphero integration! Set the color LED of a Sphero robot to the colors you tap by first connecting to a Sphero under Specdrums in-app settings.
3) Bug fixes.
2) New Sphero integration! Set the color LED of a Sphero robot to the colors you tap by first connecting to a Sphero under Specdrums in-app settings.
3) Bug fixes.
5.10
Apr 9, 2018
Improvements to QR code scanner
5.9
Mar 30, 2018
Bug fixes, new sound packs (which will also be updated regularly).
5.8
Mar 8, 2018
This is the second generation of the Specdrums app! New features include:
1) The Ring Manager, allowing you to connect groups of rings that can each play different colors and sounds at once.
2) The Sound Pack Generator, allowing you to record sounds into your own sound packs to share with others.
3) The Virtual Kit exporter, allowing you to export combinations of colors and sounds (a "Color Kit") into a QR code, which others can then scan within the app to retrieve your kit.
4) Featured Sound Packs, which will be updated regularly to provide you with new sounds.
5) A Circle of Fifths scales chooser for easily setting up different types of scales.
6) An alternate bubbles display for showing your sounds in chromatic order.
7) A more advanced looper, with features such as quantization and selection of measures.
8) Improved MIDI functionality (e.g., allowing you to set up chords of up to four different MIDI notes).
To have access to all of these features, you must create an account using an email address.
1) The Ring Manager, allowing you to connect groups of rings that can each play different colors and sounds at once.
2) The Sound Pack Generator, allowing you to record sounds into your own sound packs to share with others.
3) The Virtual Kit exporter, allowing you to export combinations of colors and sounds (a "Color Kit") into a QR code, which others can then scan within the app to retrieve your kit.
4) Featured Sound Packs, which will be updated regularly to provide you with new sounds.
5) A Circle of Fifths scales chooser for easily setting up different types of scales.
6) An alternate bubbles display for showing your sounds in chromatic order.
7) A more advanced looper, with features such as quantization and selection of measures.
8) Improved MIDI functionality (e.g., allowing you to set up chords of up to four different MIDI notes).
To have access to all of these features, you must create an account using an email address.
5.7
Mar 7, 2018
This is the second generation of the Specdrums app! New features include:
1) The Ring Manager, allowing you to connect groups of rings that can each play different colors and sounds at once.
2) The Sound Pack Generator, allowing you to record sounds into your own sound packs to share with others.
3) The Virtual Kit exporter, allowing you to export combinations of colors and sounds (a "Color Kit") into a QR code, which others can then scan within the app to retrieve your kit.
4) Featured Sound Packs, which will be updated regularly to provide you with new sounds.
5) A Circle of Fifths scales chooser for easily setting up different types of scales.
6) An alternate bubbles display for showing your sounds in chromatic order.
7) A more advanced looper, with features such as quantization and selection of measures.
8) Improved MIDI functionality (e.g., allowing you to set up chords of up to four different MIDI notes).
To have access to all of these features, you must create an account using an email address.
1) The Ring Manager, allowing you to connect groups of rings that can each play different colors and sounds at once.
2) The Sound Pack Generator, allowing you to record sounds into your own sound packs to share with others.
3) The Virtual Kit exporter, allowing you to export combinations of colors and sounds (a "Color Kit") into a QR code, which others can then scan within the app to retrieve your kit.
4) Featured Sound Packs, which will be updated regularly to provide you with new sounds.
5) A Circle of Fifths scales chooser for easily setting up different types of scales.
6) An alternate bubbles display for showing your sounds in chromatic order.
7) A more advanced looper, with features such as quantization and selection of measures.
8) Improved MIDI functionality (e.g., allowing you to set up chords of up to four different MIDI notes).
To have access to all of these features, you must create an account using an email address.
5.6
Feb 22, 2018
This is the second generation of the Specdrums app! New features include:
1) The Ring Manager, allowing you to connect groups of rings that can each play different colors and sounds at once.
2) The Sound Pack Generator, allowing you to record sounds into your own sound packs to share with others.
3) The Virtual Kit exporter, allowing you to export combinations of colors and sounds (a "Color Kit") into a QR code, which others can then scan within the app to retrieve your kit.
4) Featured Sound Packs, which will be updated regularly to provide you with new sounds.
5) A Circle of Fifths scales chooser for easily setting up different types of scales.
6) An alternate bubbles display for showing your sounds in chromatic order.
7) A more advanced looper, with features such as quantization and selection of measures.
8) Improved MIDI functionality (e.g., allowing you to set up chords of up to four different MIDI notes).
To have access to all of these features, you must create an account using an email address.
1) The Ring Manager, allowing you to connect groups of rings that can each play different colors and sounds at once.
2) The Sound Pack Generator, allowing you to record sounds into your own sound packs to share with others.
3) The Virtual Kit exporter, allowing you to export combinations of colors and sounds (a "Color Kit") into a QR code, which others can then scan within the app to retrieve your kit.
4) Featured Sound Packs, which will be updated regularly to provide you with new sounds.
5) A Circle of Fifths scales chooser for easily setting up different types of scales.
6) An alternate bubbles display for showing your sounds in chromatic order.
7) A more advanced looper, with features such as quantization and selection of measures.
8) Improved MIDI functionality (e.g., allowing you to set up chords of up to four different MIDI notes).
To have access to all of these features, you must create an account using an email address.
5.5
Feb 11, 2018
This is the second generation of the Specdrums app! New features include:
1) The Ring Manager, allowing you to connect groups of rings that can each play different colors and sounds at once.
2) The Sound Pack Generator, allowing you to record sounds into your own sound packs to share with others.
3) The Virtual Kit exporter, allowing you to export combinations of colors and sounds (a "Color Kit") into a QR code, which others can then scan within the app to retrieve your kit.
4) Featured Sound Packs, which will be updated regularly to provide you with new sounds.
5) A Circle of Fifths scales chooser for easily setting up different types of scales.
6) An alternate bubbles display for showing your sounds in chromatic order.
7) A more advanced looper, with features such as quantization and selection of measures.
8) Improved MIDI functionality (e.g., allowing you to set up chords of up to four different MIDI notes).
To have access to all of these features, you must create an account using an email address.
1) The Ring Manager, allowing you to connect groups of rings that can each play different colors and sounds at once.
2) The Sound Pack Generator, allowing you to record sounds into your own sound packs to share with others.
3) The Virtual Kit exporter, allowing you to export combinations of colors and sounds (a "Color Kit") into a QR code, which others can then scan within the app to retrieve your kit.
4) Featured Sound Packs, which will be updated regularly to provide you with new sounds.
5) A Circle of Fifths scales chooser for easily setting up different types of scales.
6) An alternate bubbles display for showing your sounds in chromatic order.
7) A more advanced looper, with features such as quantization and selection of measures.
8) Improved MIDI functionality (e.g., allowing you to set up chords of up to four different MIDI notes).
To have access to all of these features, you must create an account using an email address.
4.8
Dec 1, 2017
- Added Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
- Fixed microphone recording for custom sound samples
- Fixed microphone recording for custom sound samples
4.7
Nov 14, 2017
Updated for KS Limited Edition rings.
4.4
Jun 26, 2017
More sounds (such as animal noises) and bug fixes.
4.3
May 2, 2017
More instruments, additional "Song" features, and ring sensitivity control.
4.1
Feb 10, 2017
Settings view shows firmware version of your connected ring(s).
4.0
Feb 8, 2017
Specdrums Edu FAQ
Click here to learn how to download Specdrums Edu in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Specdrums Edu.
iPhone
Requires iOS 11.1 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 11.1 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 11.1 or later.
Specdrums Edu supports English
