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Guitar apps
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Not impressed with these..
Guitarism...no touch response..no Bluetooth keyboard working.
I Fretless Guitar...sounds timid.
And so the best guitar apps are?
I mean Garage Band is honestly better than the two above...waste of money for me...sorry.
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For non guitarists I mean...need simulation of strumming techniques...comprehensive chord choices...good variety of quality guitar sounds....and playing techniques...string and body sounds...just real guitar simulation...
Thanks....
Could you create your chord voicings of choice with a chord app, feed them into steppolyarp for your strumming/picking pattern and feed that into geoSHRED? Maybe not ideal to recreate wild strumming but might sound good for picking...
Guitarism does not have midi in. Not sure what you mean by no touch response. I use it as a controller all the time and to figure out songs quickly when I don’t have a guitar handy.
IFretless is one of the better sounding guitars on iOS. You have to kill the reverb. And mess with the velocity/ volume control.
Also BeatHawk has some awesome sounding guitars in the Spanish Gypsy (nylon) pack and the Baroque (classical) pack. You would need some sort of controller as suggested, like midi strummer, steppolyarp, ChordPolyPad, or KB-1. I’m sure there are others I am missing.
SampleTank has the “best” sound with the American Acoustic. I recommend the fingerpicking presets though because some of the other ones have some terrible “realness” sounds added to the bottom notes.
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For me, jam maestro has the best work flow by far. The clean sound and the palm muting kind of does the trick but not hugely convincingly. Geoshred has the potential and by far the best muting but it’s really hard to find a decent clean sound. Midi strummer has a great sample bank but it’s muting is not good. It would be great to find a decent mix of all three but personally I am yet to find an app to provide that. And I am constantly looking!
The best (electric) guitars I’ve heard are from either the CleanElectric pack in MoodUnits Waverley or there’s some EXS24 guitars on pianobook.co.uk that you can download for free an import into audiolayer.
There’s a couple good acoustic and electric guitar presets that sound pretty good in Pure Synth Platinum
And there’s also some heavy electric guitars in NanoStudio 2 in the Acoustic 2 pack for Obsidian
None of them are perfect, especially if you’re looking for a comprehensive guitar sim, but they can get the job done. Especially if you pair them with a midi strummer and run them through a good amp sim like MixBox or something like that.
Guitarism is awesome, not sure what your expectations are but it is so good for arpeggios and trem picking. The 3 separate MIDI outputs for string, chord and bass are very useful too.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Guitarism...strumming is same volume no matter how hard or weak you strum...just slight tonal differences depending on fretboard position of fingers.
Will retry I Fretless.
Will look at Jam Maestro.
Yes agreed we need more guitar apps on iOS. Definitely missing in action!
Okay..I Fretless..does sound good with my headphones on..
Can record its audio in Cubasis 2...but not midi.
It crashes a lot when using touch screen playing of I pad.
Still no strumming though...but can tap melodies and block like chords..
Obviously needs practise as it’s an instrument....
I Fretless has touch response...Guitarism doesn’t...just very slight positional tone changes....
I have the other I Fretless apps...Bass, Sax, Brass....these seem to be updated more recently than I Fretless Guitar...
I can record midi with all of the above except I Fretless Guitar...
If you're actually looking for something that responds to dynamics and is good for strumming you are going to be pretty disappointed.
I like using some sound fonts, SF2, in SoundFonts AU. Or SFZ/EXS in Audiolayer. Geoshred.
Echo Guitar is cool, but hasn’t been updated in forever. GuitarCapo+ Also.
IFretless guitar is the only one that isn’t AUv3 yet. It is coming though. Not sure when. I haven’t had issues with recording midi though...want to share your setup?
Jam Maestro has some complex strumming techniques that sound pretty good. There is a way to use it as a controller for other sounds but haven’t had much success getting it to work.
Thumbjam has a couple guitars as well. But don’t expect strums.
Midi strummer May be your best bet for controlling any of the above.
Guitarcapo+ has some great sounds but they always die out too soon.
You might give OMGuitar a try?
It has a several guitar sounds that might mix ok ... effects, chord pads and to your point a selection of auto strum / picking patterns. There’s about 40 or so. You can’t edit them though. It also has Midi I/O. There’s a 12 string version available too. I’m on iOS 14.2 and it runs fine.
I don’t think the guitar sounds are as nice as Guitarism, but as you note, that has other limitations which at this point are not going to evolve!
Strumming is a deceptively complex beast... note count changes constantly, rhythm, level and tone modulations at an incredible pace... it’s one of those ‘sounds’ that on an actual guitar even the player won’t be able to explain all the variables in play.
In terms of a digital simulation I’d say it’s ripe for an AI approach.
I wish there were more (or any) development on guitar apps but it seemed that those who tried in the early days of iPad were not rewarded. Shame..
The best strumming app I’ve seen is PolyHarp. Super flexible; midi out.