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What has happened to all the Guitar Apps.
Some of the first music apps I ever downloaded on my iPod during the early days of iOS were a group of dedicated guitar apps “Pocket Guitar, Guitar Studio, iShred that allowed me to strum chords out and play melodies. Later on Guitarism, Steel Guitar, OMGuitar appeared amongst others.
However there doesn’t appear to be any new apps that I’m aware of that are based around Guitar play recreation with quality guitar sounds. I know some DAWs and Sampletank can provide the sounds but are not dedicated to guitar only.
I would love to see a AU app with a selection of classical and modern guitars that could be hand played have midi in etc. We see a lot of synth classics recreated how about a Guitar app with some modern AU takes. Maybe Lumbeat can give us a classical guitar app masterpiece as love his drum apps.
Have these dedicated apps now gone out fashion?
Discuss.
Comments
I'd love it if Guitarism was made AU. It was neat for writing guitar arp parts.
I think it must be hard to compete with Garagebands touch instruments. especially as they’re part of a DAW so you can record and edit what you play.
I think GeoShred is the best of these guitar based synths and it originally started from the Cantor app. The fretless apps also work well.
I agree for guitar leads it is really hard to beat GeoShred. But Guitarism and GuitarCapo+ were excellent for laying down strumming.
I think @klownshed might be right, GarageBand's approach is really excellent for strumming. Press a button, get a strum.
For a while I a kept a blog called Unstringed which dealt only with guitar apps. But as you note they dried up big time. Nothing to write about other than endless Positive Grid sales!😉 So blog gone...
Right now Guitarism is still the best strummer... though never realized it’s full potential. There just wasn’t any reward for the developer unless the app was given away. GeoShred is absolutely terrific for solos and guitar synth sounds. I wish it had chord\ strum buttons but even without it’s amazing. OMGuitar is still worthwhile... and has a 12 String version too. Again I don’t think there’s a financial incentive for much development.
Check out Jam Maestro ( bit hard to play...) and Yonac’s Steel Guitar ( I’m sure they could do a great version of a regular guitar and iFretless Guitar ( though it doesn’t hold a candle to Geoshred.
As noted GarageBand ‘s Guitar Instruments are pretty great too!
Don’t forget kb1 (and Thor) have strumming modes
Thanks guys for all the comments, yes I like GeoShred and is the modern day version of these early apps. Not sure it does classical guitar though.
What about ThumbJam?
I don't think there's much of a market for virtual guitars, and there's much less guitar in popular music these days.
Pearl Guitar was the best of these for me, pity it’s now dead.