Music Maker JAM Reviews

by Mr. Glock8

I have been using MusicMakerJAM for years and have loved it! It was one of the best in my book.
You only had to pay for sound packs and there were no issues with sharing due to royalties. The sound packs were amazing and mixed very well together. I was able to be very diverse with my creativity and loved the end results. Then recently I lost my phone and all my creations! I was heart broken and gave up on making music for quite some time. Then I got over it and decided to start being creative again. It’s therapeutic for me.
When I re-downloaded MusicMakerJAM for some reason with my asking to join the monthly plan, I was automatically signed up. Also, most of the sound packs that I used to use and love were gone. Replaced by more expensive ones that lacked the same quality and quantity of past packs. Needless to say I was very disappointed. Plus, there is now a royalty issue which only lets you share on their app. After several attempts trying to contact them, And never getting the generic, standard email saying that someone would get back to me, I gave up and had to contact my credit card company in order to stop being billed.
I would suggest that you do not get suckered into their new billing scheme and look to other apps that are free and better. I will no longer be using MusicMakerJAM. Be warned and beware.

by Dante2090

There is a valid reason I’ve put 3 instead of my original 4 star rating. I’ve been with MMJ since 2015 and I’ve had great experiences. Met a lot of people and listened to a lot of other people’s views and tastes in music. In core, making your very own music. Being able to share your music with others like you is wonderful. MusicMakerJAM is cool. However. There are a lot of issues. For instance literally five minutes ago I try and like and comment on someone’s track but I can’t...and the like goes away and so does the comment....then I get an connection to the internet error, when keep in mind, I’m four bars in WiFi 🤔🤦🏾‍♂️...anywho. The trending area is a little weird seeings how if you are a nobody and your not in some type of “crew” your less likely to get your music at the top of the charts. Although listening and giving feedback on others music is KEY‼️ Let’s people know you actually took time to listen to and actually give constructive criticism back. All in all good app but still has a lot of connection issues which I don’t wanna get into details about.

by The Compser

This is one of the greatest music making apps out there. But it could be better. For example, the notes that we can choose to create songs. They have some notes, and I may sound picky, but as a young musician I believe all notes should be on MusicMakerJAM . Including f sharp, C sharp, e flat and sharps, etc. I have a feeling more good songs could be produced, and the artists will like that. Secondly, me, and probably many other artists wish we could get beat coins much easier. Packs could get bought easier like that, and all of the packs that you keep making can get used. Some people don’t have the time or the money to buy a certain amount of beat coins. I say for example, a certain amount of beat coins should be given if you get a certain amount of likes or listens. This would make songs more interesting. Other than these minor irritations, I believe MusicMakerJAM is great. If you want to contact me, please don’t use my email. You can contact me in the Music Maker Jam community, my name is M I C A H. Thankyou. I hope you will change things.

by Vęrn

Okay, so MusicMakerJAM is not bad at all. I don’t use it as much as I used to when I was younger - but I do get on it on rare occasions. The annoying part about this is that when I save things - it loads forever - than crashes. I than lose everything that I worked on and it infuriates me.

I don’t know what the problem is and it’s not my connection. I’ve dealt with this ever since I got MusicMakerJAM in 2017 or 2016 - one of those. I don’t know if anyone else has this problem, but it gets on my nerves when I make something I’m proud of - then wait. MusicMakerJAM crashes and I lose it all.

I never write reviews - this is my first one actually. I just want to put it out there that you need to be careful about crashes... That’s all I have to say - besides that, MusicMakerJAM is fine. I got MusicMakerJAM when it was once free and not like this, but it’s still good with their default stuff they provide I suppose. 🤷🏽‍♀️🤧

by ..Yellow Rose..

If you ask me, there’s nothing really BAD about MusicMakerJAM, but there’s really nothing that cool about it. My only suggestion would be maybe you could pick as many genres as you want so if you only wanted pop, you only had to select pop. Or if you wanted pop, hip hop, and rock then you could pick all 3. I also wish when you could record you voice, you can choose how long you want to record for, instead of doing a bunch of clips and playing them one by one if you want it to be longer. But MusicMakerJAM definitely has good qualities, such as, I like how you can check out other peoples work and when you record music using hip hop, you can choose one of the raps that is already put together. I also like how on most apps now, you have to be a member for nearly everything. But on MusicMakerJAM you can make music freely. So l give MusicMakerJAM a three out of 5 and a 5 or six out of ten.

by Lttlrdhd

Hey, I really love MusicMakerJAM and everything, but for the time I’ve used MusicMakerJAM , there are two main glitches. The first, which is way more important than the other and more affecting, is when (this already happened to me two times and I don’t have an old phone) I am recording a song that I am making while doing everything and then the sound suddenly becomes really shaky and stops. The whole screen freezes and I have to exit MusicMakerJAM and take it out of the background for it to work again. Problem with that is, it pauses me in the middle of recording and I can’t finish. It’s a waste. The other which bugs me but isn’t the worst, is when I tap on the place where you change loops. It comes out stuck with nothing in the spot under the pack I’m using.

by TweakItPlease

Its a great app and its really one of the best Music Makers i have ever used. It gives you options on the music you wanna make, and it has all the hottest tracks and beats you need. However its kinda buggy, downloading MixerKits is very difficult because sometimes it can bug-out and just do the endless loading loop. MusicMakerJAM crashes ALOT so I've lost at-least 3 Mixes i worked pretty hard on. If you don't use Loudly with MusicMakerJAM then your gonna most likely just make tracks that no will see, so if you don't use Loudly, good luck getting any acknowledgement. For any of your tracks. I honestly just think MusicMakerJAM needs some tweaking. You can also experience a bug were a weird cutting noise will bug your track, pretty much ruining it.

Other than any of those things MusicMakerJAM is great and i love it, but like i said it needs some SERIOUS tweaking and debugging.

by BurgundyKilauea

I started using this several months ago just to play around maybe make some demos. I got hooked on it but there are a few things that brought my rating down 2 stars. One is that you purhase genre-based packages but MusicMakerJAM reserves all rights to the intellectual property which means that you don't actually own the purchases you make, except for personal use. This could never suffice for an underground artist like myself. The 2nd thing is that MusicMakerJAM has completely stopped responding, just won't log it and suggests that I have a connection problem which I don't. Because of the latter issue, I feel gyped for my purchases in that I not only cannot market my concoctions but now I cannot access my purchases at all. I've tried monthly to redownload and try again but it seems my money is rotting away on this one.

by DiamondQueen1011

Overall, MusicMakerJAM is amazing. I think that it suits beginners well, but my one suggestion that makes this drop to 4/5 is that there should be a way to make it more advanced. I like that this is beginner-friendly, but having a way to add more advanced controls seems like an idea that would help. Some people might grow accustomed to the usual loops and controls, etc., but after that comes the point where some might get bored. A solution to this could be 1.) adding a more advanced option in settings or before the song creation or 2.) a completely new app specifically for more advanced musicians. This is the one suggestion I might give, so thank you for reading this and I hope there is a solution to this soon.

by Have A Good Day Bro :)

I really do like MusicMakerJAM, it was so fun for me and my sister to play on and let me release my creativity, I recently re- downloaded it intending to make some well- music. My only problem is that I use Bluetooth a LOT. Every time I open MusicMakerJAM it automatically disconnect’s. I don’t know what is going on, I have tried everything but based on my lack of results I suspect it to be an Objective-C issue (Assuming that’s what you use). It may just be things running in MusicMakerJAM background causing interference but Idk just spitballin’ here. That’s really been my only problem with MusicMakerJAM otherwise. If you could add a free to play income of beatcoins every so often tho that would be nice, but I assume it may be a main income for MusicMakerJAM , so…

Anyways just wanted to address that issue! If that could be fixed in the near future that would be greatly appreciated! Thank you and have a wonderful day whoever you may be!

by Almightyjx

MusicMakerJAM is great for those that aren’t even technically trained but still want to put things together in the musical sense. However, the “beatcoins” are an addition but the only way to get them is through the tutorial once and the rest is to pay out of pocket. There should be an alternative way to earn beatcoins because people like me enjoy MusicMakerJAM for free and don’t want to be forced into paying for new content. MMJ does give free packs with the JAM x Artist branch but those are very limited in key changes, etc. Start achievements or something to earn beatcoins!

Also, I can see activity on my community page, specifically when people leave comments under my songs but I can not read them for the life of me. Even on Loudly, where it says I have a comment, I click the icon and the message says “It’s so quiet... leave a comment!” like???? somebody already did??? So please fix that.

I’ve been off and on with MusicMakerJAM since they let you pick any four packs for free with a fresh install, so seeing beatcoins and the small amount you earn from the tutorial versus how much the packs are worth are really immeasurable. I understand that you must make revenue but also be mindful of those that recreationally use this, who don’t spend money to do something they enjoy.

Thank you for MusicMakerJAM and thank you for listening,

user StillSe7en

by R.COM1

You recently changed something I can’t find or have access to the chords to change them to make the tunes I’m working on. If a chord (b changes to an(c or an(A# by accident or even if I want extend them I just go into chords but have missed something is it still there the 7 chord system ok but it’s not enough if problems and changes come up I can’t pinpoint the location to fix it. Your latest update has a few cool things but I hope didn’t sacrifice the old chord system it wasn’t perfect but it worked.
ps. I really love your app it got me through some rough times with heavy lost of family member a year ago, when I’m down MusicMakerJAM helped a lot I just make a few tunes and it would lift my spirits although the tunes are not perfect but to the spirit it’s the best sounds ever. Thank you MM. BILLY W.

by ⭐️👶

I'm a harsh critic when it comes to music software, but that is because I judge it as if I were looking to add it to a professional workflow. If you are doing it just for fun or just because then you might not agree with my review and that's okay, too.

I like the interface, however, there are certain sections that will pop up and are in different languages that I do not understand. That takes down one whole start for me because it adds stress to a process that should be stress free.

The iPhone app feels like a toy, but is not far off from where the desktop versions are so there is some consistency, which is a good thing. I have both the desktop and mobile versions of this software and I don't approach either of them when wanting to create serious music. Sometimes I just like them to jam with the loops or chord progressions and find inspiration that way, then fire up the DAW and my library hard drive to begin a piece.

I believe this will meet the needs of most users, which will probably be mostly beginners since pro's will likely see this as a toy. It has the portability down, and when I am traveling, out and about, or winding down away from keys, I find it to be a neat resource for sketching musical ideas out.

Thanks for this!

by Arktikfoxx

Definitely a fun little app! Could definitely help with ideas and song layouts or just jams. I have a few suggestions to improve. First would be being able to import files/previous recordings from phone. This could be a way more users who want to use free only could use. I’m not sure if there is a way to do this but I couldnt figure it out if so. I have previous vocals I’d like to use instead of always recording new. Another which is tricky possibly is the Bluetooth - you aren’t able to record with Bluetooth headphones. I understand that may cause complications with the mic. With basically everything going fascist w Bluetooth these days that is a minor annoyance. Or maybe it’s a latency thing. Other than that MusicMakerJAM is great and fun to jam!

by CLS XD

So I’ve been using MusicMakerJAM for a few months now, and had no problems with it. This morning I opened it up and it was fine,then a few hours later it wouldn’t load my account. I am extremely frustrated and this needs to be fixed. And yes I’ve tried turning off my device,putting it in airplane mode and even turning my internet off. It’s not a problem with my connection it’s a problem with MusicMakerJAM . I don’t want to delete my account because I’m afraid it’ll do the same and then I’ll be completely blacked out. Please fix this ASAP so we don’t have this problem with other users.:/

by Brsdhyyuuhy7(*&

(Read title first). Is bug fixes just a mandatory thing to say because if anything it got worse The litterAl new project button does not even work and it is so annoying there is nothing other than that because years ago when the fricking button still works this was MVP above all other apps and that saddens me that one of my favorite apps “fixed a bug” and made me give this story app a two when I have it a five years ago and no matter what I try MusicMakerJAM refuses to work why have a make new project button up f it freaking doesn’t do what it literally says it does I am so close to deleting MusicMakerJAM for good because for an app I use for 6 years in total including other devices please fix this soon and sorry if that was rude but I am extremely angry at this

by World's Number One

Since the last update, the 8 tracks are not working properly, starting from the left to the right facing the system, the volume keeps dropping, when I try and record I can’t hear the music. I noticed that apple too had an update and downloaded that too. I restated the system and it still has a glitch. The sound drops, I have to touch the track button to hear it. Anyways it’s a little crazy. I hope you can take a look and see what the problem may be. Thanks. All the best. BTW I love the system, I purchase a lot of credits for sounds. I think it’s THE BEST App for projects.

by ZAMBIA777

You can literally make tracks that sound like they're made by a music artist. It could be even better if MusicMakerJAM had an option to make an album so you can make a limit of 10-20 songs and kind of do a thing where you can add your song to a group of songs you want to make a album playlist and I think it would be a lot easier for your fans who listen to your music can find that album or song they like and MusicMakerJAM should have a thing call “Make an announcement” where you send can send out a “Coming soon” and being able to choose when it will be released and on the release date it will release automatically.

by Dafox295

I just got MusicMakerJAM yesterday and I already love it. I just released my first song today so please check it out. If you get MusicMakerJAM (Or already have MusicMakerJAM ),all you have to do is go to explore in the community category, then press search, then select search by artist. And once you’ve done that search Stormstruck, the song is called $TORMBREAKER , if you enjoy like it please and comment. Anyway this is a good app and I think everybody should have it, this is a chance to go big and have people like you and listen to music hat you made. Developers, you all are geniuses, you have created an app that could jumpstart so many peoples careers in music, thank you thank you thank you for creating MusicMakerJAM, and I hope whoever is reading this thinks about becoming a JAMMER.

by MINDFUL BEATS

Hello jammers. I’ve bn apart of this industry for about two years now. I’ve at least spent more then a couple hundreds dollars for the jam packs , and its worth every penny. They say time is money, if that is the case then I spent countless hours producing. I guess you can say in return MMJ paid me with something that is more valuable then money. In a way MusicMakerJAM is something I believe in , something like a religion. Now I don’t do it for the likes , fans , or fam. 100% is for me . No matter what situation am in I can run to MusicMakerJAM and produce my feelings in a heart beat. No matter the problem , I can always find a solution when am jamming my life away. At times I just sit back and reminisce on the good and bad times. MMJ is thee realist entity I have ever crossed . I thank you founders of this app.

by H11709

I haven’t done much music production in the past. Some programs were too complicated while others lacked the simple and easy workflow. I think MusicMakerJAM falls in a good middle ground. It’s not too overwhelming in the interface and it’s not too plain in the design. And it has a desktop version. I think the only things missing are audio and sound mixer toggles, like if you want to make a set voice higher, lower, or auto-tuned with being able to put sound wobbles in between. Kinda like how FL Studio has all the separate sound adjusters. And I know this is a tiny interface to set all of that in, even on the iPad. But overall I love MusicMakerJAM. It’ll be useful when I can get back into animating again.