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Live Guitar and Live Guitar:Free updated to v1.4
Live Guitar and Live Guitar:Free updates are available. LG is half price for the weekend. The new version improves support for Audiobus (taking care of a problem with Auria), adds MIDI in, and also does a few other things. If you're not sure if you need a guitar-style controller, you can give the free version a try -- no Audiobus, but it does have full MIDI support. If you like it, you can buy us a cup of coffee so that we can keep coding! If it's not for you, then you're not out any money!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/live-guitar/id434828118?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/live-guitar-free/id455702977?mt=8
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Congrats. Nice work.
Is it by design that only the top string is available for midi control when in pick mode? Or am I, most likely, missing something?
@TedBPhx -- each of the strings in fretboard mode sends on it's own channel -- if you can set your synth to omni mode, it should take care of the problem. I'll have a toggle switch in the next release so that both the chord and fretboard interfaces can either send on a single channel, or on consecutive channels. I'll also add a separate MIDI interface configuration for the fretboard.
If the fretboard is set to send to synth X on channel Y, the strings are sent on Y, Y+1, Y+2, ..., wrapping around to channel 1 if you go past channel 16. This is designed so that if you're transcribing into notation software, the pitch can get mapped to the right string and the right fret. Logic supports this nicely, as do a few other applications.
Ah Ha! Thank you.
One more midi puzzler on my end... It is as if the note off message gets lost for the first? or second? note sent.
@TedBPhx -- which synth are you sending to? On the fretboard, when you slide up or down a string, the new note turns on and the old note is turned off immediately afterwards. It might be that the two messages come in quickly, and the synth you're using drops one. I've noticed Animoog do this from time to time, and a few others -- if you're sending over WiFi or through a wired connection to an external synth, this might be more of a problem. This sounds like the typical "midi stuck note" issue, right?
And one other thing that a couple people have noticed -- audio is routed to the main speaker. I was trying to fix a bug, but inserted another one. If you're using headphones, you'll need to unplug, and then plug them back in. I'll get this fixed in the next release (not too far off).
Headphones
Animoog
Magellan.
Sounds like a perfecta.
Seriously, I really like the app and look forward to perfection at the hands of its dedicated and talented developer. Your work is much appreciated.
Live Guitar and Live Guitar Free have been updated to v1.5. New stuff includes fixed samples for the steel string guitar (no fret buzz.. I liked it, but it annoyed some folks!). The strum area for the iPad has been expanded -- this had been causing some missed notes, depending on how you play. I've tightened up the audio engine, so it should be more responsive on older hardware.
MIDI input support has been improved. Chordion can now play Live Guitar, but there are some problems still -- it seems that Chordion doesn't play nicely with any other Audiobus app that I've tried, so if you don't get sound with both Chordion and Live Guitar on the bus, I suspect the problem is on their end.
A bug in sharing and importing chords through Twitter has been fixed. If you don't have any chord shapes that go past the 10th fret, you probably have not seen it.
Here's a quick demo of the new version (with a screen record of the display, so that you can see exactly where the touches happen). The next version will support the simple single-touch chord selection that apps like Guitarism and OMGuitar are doing, as well as the multi-touch interface that's currently in LG. We've got some other stuff planned as well. Drop me a line if you've got questions!
The demo has me bashing through the riff from Smells Like Teen Spirit; I'm using open string upstrokes, which fill out the rhythm and give a little bit of discord. I've also put in a custom chord shape on the power chord F, so that I can use the top two strings for the drone part. I toggle on JamUp for distortion; it would be easier to do with a stomp box, but....
The demo also has a little chunk of controlling Alchemy through MIDI; I'm really getting a kick out of the Alchemy guitar pack -- some great heavily processed sounds.