Fortamento is an iPhone app that’s designed to be used as a mobile ‘musical idea generator’.

Fortamento is tailored to creating 4-bar musical phrases, with chords and a melody. The phrases can be edited within the app and then exported to a MIDI file for use in a DAW.

Features:

• MIDI file export
• Tempo / key control
• Manual editing
• Save tunes
• Various instrument sounds
• MIDI output (beta)

Here’s a video intro:

The developers also shared this look at a workflow generating a musical idea in Fortamento an then building on it in Cubase:

Pricing and Availability

Fortamento is available now for US $5.00.