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The app for music educators to improve their students' musicianship and level up their ensemble.

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Cyborg Llama brings the rehearsal to your students, so they can keep practicing with their ensemble, even at home.

   
✅  Use it with your students, with friends, or just yourself.
✅  Make a virtual ensemble up to 200 people without any editing.
✅  Customize a click-track with tempo changes and ritards and accelerandos.
Slow down and drill tricky passages in your ensemble music.
Play along with professional pianists from our audio repertoire library.
Option to export videos individually (pre-synced) for further polishing in an external video editor.

What People are Saying

Cyborg Llama is easy, efficient, fun, and rewarding:

I think it's really fun to get to be in an orchestra[...]and be able to use an app like this to make it easier! I also love playing my viola with other people

-CK, student

Cyborg Llama is an intuitive learning tool which my 12 year old finds easy to use. The practice mode allows her to keep trying until she perfects the piece. The individual mode gives her the opportunity to record and playback the music and evaluate how it blends with the other pre-recorded work. Overall an excellent tool for all musicians.

-SV, parent

I think Cyborg Llama is super easy to use. You can listen back to yourself in Practice Mode and easily correct your mistakes.  It sounds awesome when everything is put together and it's super fun

-SK, student

The app was thoughtfully designed with ensemble musicians in mind, but can easily be used for individual projects and as a practice tool.

-Google Workspace Marketplace Reviewer

This app makes remote collaboration easy and accessible. It also works seamlessly with external microphones so that you can easily use the app for casual and professional projects alike.

-Gavon Peck, freelance violist

Cyborg Llama is awesome! It's super easy to use and my kid really likes being able to play along with the teacher track. When it's time for him to make his own recording, he can have as many tries as he likes. As a parent, I love that I don't have to be involved in his practice/recording--he's 8 and can do it 100% on his own. Yay!

-Google Workspace Marketplace Reviewer

Recording and remote collaborating is quick and easy!

-Mark Janello, faculty Peabody Conservatory

Joelle Arnhold, co-creator of Cyborg Llama, smiles for a headshot

Hi.

We want to help young musicians excel.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the USA in March 2020, Joelle needed to find a way to move her youth orchestras online.  She was surprised to find no app to rehearse online.  She complained to her brother, Garrett.

Garrett made Cyborg Llama.

Since then, Cyborg Llama has become a tool not only for online learning, but a powerful supplemental resource for young musicians to prepare for their in-person rehearsals by first rehearsing at home. 

We are very happy that Cyborg Llama has helped a capella groups, string quintets, high school orchestras, Suzuki group classes, guitar ensembles, all make music (from 29 different countries)!

Joelle is a violist and teacher who lives with a hermit crab in Maryland.  Garrett is a developer and lives in Washington with two cats.

Garrett Arnhold, developer and co-creator of Cyborg Llama, posing for headshot with an octopus tentacle coming out of his pocket
A music teacher and student play a duet together virtually on Cyborg Llama

How does it work?

Cyborg Llama is a web-app.  It doesn't need to be installed, and you don't need to sign up.

We're available on the The Chrome iconChrome and Firefox browser iconFirefox web browser for anyone with a Google Account.

Icon for WiFi Compatible with any internet-connected device (except for iOS products);
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Google icon Available on the Google Workspace Marketplace;
free version is free icon Free to use the Free version.

 

Tell me more!

See us in action in this short demo video over here ➡️

Or else check out cool virtual ensembles from our users down there👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿👇

An excerpt from an Ode to Joy arrangement, featuring Cyborg Llama users from Maryland, California, Washington, D.C., New York, North Carolina, and Montana.

Schubert Cello Quintet, mvt 2, by members of the National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellowship Program.

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