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The quality of the graphics is not in question. I have a bit of an issue with what I call "audio skeuomorphism " where developers spend too much time trying to replicate analog instruments instead of focusing on what touch devices can do. I don't hold my phone or tablet like a guitar and I never will as it is a completely different shape. I don't think of guitarism as a "guitar app", to me it is an instrument with a unique sound and playing style. For me it does not replace guitar in recordings, it augments it. Your app and the iFretless apps in my opinion are going in the right direction. As for the six chord limitation - I think of the the additional chords offered by tilt on the phone and the tilt bar on the iPad as modifiers for the current chord, not as additional chords. So 6 chords with 2 variations. Perhaps thats because I learned Guitarism on the iPhone first. It is an additional step when playing to use the modifiers, so it is a hindrance when playing patterns with more than 6 chords. I've come across this limitation several times. Try to play the following pattern in 12 bar blues format quickly: Em-G-A ; Am-C-D ; Bm-D-E. Making the number of chord buttons user-configurable (i.e. 6,9,12) would probably make a lot of users happy. I know this probably totally complicates your chord pattern storage, but if it is as you say "the single most common request" - well it might be worth it for sales. I'd pay for it as an IAP. "More Chords©!"
@Bob_Bobaluba The secondary chords are definitely designed for variations more than anything else. Lol at "More Chords"
I designed guitarism as a live performance app above all else, with a principle that it should be playable without looking at the screen. The 6 chord thing is based on that. More than 6 significantly increases user error when playing without looking at the screen.
I do have some thoughts and plans for more primary chords without breaking this principle. Still in early stages.
I just purchased the triple play and was trying it out with I grand and I can't seem to get the chords to play very loudly. Can you put Igrand in all three slots or no? It plays great on the notes and bass notes just not chords. Also when I tried it with Sampletank and strings it sustained forever. Thanks in advance.
You may have to turn up the volume in IGrand. Yes, you can put IGrand in all three slots. If I'm not mistaken I think the sustaining issue may be solved by the fret muting setting.
Thanks mgmg4871! I figured out the chord volume, it was the velocity settings. So that's all good. Fret muting didn't seem to do it on the sustaining issue though. Sampletank is pretty much unusable with this situation.
Revise! The fret muting does work! Just have to have it on follow fret muting on the chords tab also. Yea! Works beautifully now. Thanks again.
@Bootsy Great to hear it worked out! Note btw that when sending guitar and chords to the same output it'd be better to use different channels and configure your receiver (such as iGrand) to receive on both those channels or "Omni". This is because guitar and chords use the same exact notes, so the MIDI receiver may end up confusing the two (some receivers handle this properly, others don't).
@Rhism. Thanks, all I can say is Wow! This app is so awesome! Do you mean when playing the onboard guitar sounds while controlling other midi instruments at the same time?
I had Igrand on chords and notes and a cello from Sampletank on a different channel on the bass. It sounded amazing! Thanks again.
@Bootsy Glad to hear! The onboard guitar sounds won't interfere with anything else, but sending chords and notes to the same midi receiver on the same channel may cause problems with some receivers as there are duplicate notes. Some apps do know how to handle duplicate notes properly - looks like iGrand is one of them. Great!
Oh I see what your saying. I also ran 3 different inst on 3 channels in sampletank in the 3 slots simultaneously, and that worked really well too! Really cool!
You can also layer sounds by setting them on the same channel.
@mgmg4871 so then one could have all 4 inst in sampletank going on 1 ch and still have 2 other spots for other apps. Thats insane!
Yes you can. It is insane. Not sure if your device could handle it though.
I've got the ipad 4. 128g. It's pretty sweet so far. Will see how many it can handle!
@Rhism StepPolyArp works great in the bass note slot. I set Sampletank in midi out. In midi in I set Guitarism and StepPolyArp virtual midi. Great combination. Oh, and don't forget to set StepPolyArp to same key in Guitarism and set desired tempo in SPA.Maybe you can talk Ryan or Doug into doing a video tutorial of this. There's also preset bass arps. Playing with the octave setting in SPA can make for some interesting sounds. The normal is 2 octaves for bass. I guess you know I'm using the bass sounds from ST. There is so much potential here using the automation and ability to change patterns in SPA.
Mmany thanks @PaulB and @Rhism
It expanded to a Video background music nearly no midi, everything live played on iPad using Audiobus, Guitarism, Impaktor, Alchemy, iFretless Bass, Beatmaker, Mastering (a little too much highs) in Auria and one last db in Mastering App:
Good job. Well done.
3P open another world for me,I love it but it would be nice if we can quickly toggle on off for Guitar note ,Bass note ,Chord note and Mute Guitarism while we play for live performance.
That is a great idea @tanjaree
@mgmg4871 Sounds exciting, would love to hear a recording. BTW in StepPolyArp you only need to set midi in to Guitarism (and set Guitarism's output to "guitarism midi out") or "StepPolyArp Virtual MIDI" (and set Guitarism's output to "StepPolyArp"). I recommend the latter.
@Ungifted pretty cool!
@tanjaree Thanks for the kind words! Live toggles for guitar/bass/chord/mute sounds interesting, though definitely tricky for iPhone. Can you elaborate on how you would use these if they were there - e.g. in what order would you turn them on / off? I have some thoughts on which of these 4 would be most useful, but want to confirm by getting your input.
Wow just ran into crazy surprising stats... less than 1% of guitarism sessions are running inside of audiobus. The remaining >99% are running standalone.
Do you guys often run guitarism outside of AB? Or is this group truly the 1% ?
Interesting stat, but not too surprising, really. I imagine most people treat their music apps like they treat their other apps: as a fun diversion for a few minutes here and there.
Audiobus does take a tiny bit of focus and mental energy to get it going, but once guitarism, JamUp, Animoog, Magellan, DM1 are all up and running to Loopy HD I can get lost for hours
I always use Audiobus with guitarism, just for Jamup if nothing else, even if I'm not recording. And then, might as well add a drum loop... And it goes on from there.
I have to wonder how the 99% responded to triple play, which takes a bit of digging into MIDI settings of synth apps...
I use it with AB about 80% of the time....mostly to add effects and/or record.
@Rhism Do you think that stat may be a result of updates to Guitarism? I try to familiarize myself with apps before adding AB to the mix. It eliminates the frustration of trying to troubleshoot 2 or 3 apps at once. I think when theres more familiarity with Guitarism and AB, and most kinks are worked out, that stat may change
How do you get a stat like that - does your app "report back"? I use Guitarism on the iPhone for a quick play or to work something out while I'm out and about, and that would be no AB, but usually would use it with AB when on my iPad.
Most of us have iPads??
Guitarism was primarily and iPod/iPhone app?
And has been on that platform longer?
Most users are not looking to multitrack/record?
Just jam?
But may gravitate to a DAW at some point?
Those that are considering it will have garageband with its
Inbuilt guitars?
And yes,I often strum outside of AB.
@Hmtx The 99% don't seem to care about 3P - it got an initial spike for a few days (probably mostly the folks around here - thank you all!) and then died down to very low levels.
@PhilW Yeah it does some light analytics - no personal info of course, but it tells me which iOS version / devices people are using. Helps to know whether I need to keep supporting the iPhone 3GS (yes), iOS 5 (yes) etc. I was talking with a guitar fx app developer a while back about potential collab opportunities and he mentioned that most of their users are not using AB, which I found strange so decided to start tracking that for myself too.
@funjunkie @mgmg4871 @commonstookie I was kinda expecting that non-AB would outnumber AB maybe 80% or 90%, just didn't expect it to be 99.3%
If not for recording I'd expect people to use it for effects. But yeah agreed that it's too much effort for some quick strumming, or perhaps many just don't even have AB at all.
User reviews like this make it all worthwhile
@Rhism That is pretty awesome :-)) There have been a lot of great reviews lately but this one might just take the cake. :-))
Amazing