Top 10 Guitar iPad Apps
With the huge success of our feature yesterday on guitar iPhone apps, we thought we would take a look at guitar apps for the iPad. Apple has worked hard to help musicians better put their work out into the public. There have been many companies too that have developed an ipad guitar interface to link guitar signal into a digital one fed into the iPad directly. Using apps, musicians are able to do light to moderate post-processing on their pieces. The iPad is seen as of huge significance to the musicians and these guitar apps are sure to prove invaluable. Just take a look, they really are something else.
PocketAmp – Guitar Amp and Effects
* Built-in iPod music player with instant access to ALL YOUR iTUNES MUSIC, no file imports or transfers required
* no add-ons or extra purchases
* universal full screen support
* 4 amp models with 7 great effects
* effects after amp modeling using rack mount design, instead of pedals
* true stereo modulation effects
* easy and fun to use with simple navigation
* low latency DSP processing, with very short delay
* Works with various adaptors, visit pocketlabworks.com/pocketAmp_cable
$4.99/Download
Guitar World Lick of the Day
Guitar World Lick of the Day delivers a new and challenging lick every day with videos that feature amazing guitar celebrities and award-winning instructors, and tab and standard music notation for every lick.
Created by Agile Partners and Guitar World, the world’s best-selling guitar magazine, Lick of the Day is a must-have app for all guitar players who want to continuously improve their guitar playing skills and broaden their repertoire in a fun and engaging way. Guitar World Lick of the Day has a one-of-a-kind feature set that enables guitar players of all skill levels to learn cool licks in a variety of styles.
Free/Download
Band Simulator
This application is a guitar, bass and drums three-piece is a sequencer.
It has recently been updated, here’s what’s new:
Addition of song copy function.
Pitch notation display.
Correction and change in chord conversion algorithm.
Bug fix.
$15.99/Download
TabToolkit
TabToolkit for iPad is an Apple Design Awards 2010 winner! TabToolkit is an incredibly powerful guitar tablature and music notation viewer, now with multi-track playback! An essential tool for learning and practicing music, TabToolkit includes an audio synthesis engine so you can listen to and control the audio for all tracks individually.
TabToolkit also provides playback tempo control, a metronome, and a tab upload and download manager. The app is a perfect fit for guitarists and musicians of all skill levels. Take your tabs and sheet music with you wherever you go!
$9.99/Download
Guitar Chords, Triads & Quiz
This handy app includes over 3000 of the most commonly used guitar chords, as well as information on chord theory and easy-reference diagrams.
$3.99/Download
Guitarist’s Reference
ALL-IN-ONE Package: Guitar Chords, Scales, Triads, Arpeggios, Notes On The Fretboard, Reverse Chord Finder Tool, Chord Quiz, Alternate Guitar Tunings and Chord Scale Relationships. ALL-IN-ONE Package: Guitar Chords, Scales, Triads, Arpeggios, Notes On The Fretboard, Reverse Chord Finder Tool, Chord Quiz, Alternate Guitar Tunings and Chord Scale Relationships. Get this all-in-one guitar tuning app today!
$4.99/Download
Six Strings
Play guitar and other string instruments on your iPad. Instruments included are acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, steel drum / pan, and drum pad. The instruments have the same size as the real things thanks to the big iPad screen. Now you can play different string instruments easily with this music app without needing to know all the chords. Won’t be painful to your fingers when switching chords. Changing chords is just a tap away. Swipe your fingers across the strings to strum or pluck as you would with a real string instrument. Recorder is included so you can overlay with different instruments together for added richness.
$3.99/Download
StompBox
StompBox is an application that turns your iPad into a fully fledged digital effects unit, complete with chromatic guitar tuner, metronome and loop recording tools. StompBox allows you to build a rack of effects in any order and then save your settings as patches that can be recalled at the press of a button.
With StompBox you get the best of both worlds, a rack of professional sounding stereo effects (with far more control than simple foot pedals) and a foot controller to access a tuner and all your patches.
$19.99/Download
Guitar Lab
TrueFire’s Guitar Lab app streams video guitar lessons with text, standard notation and guitar tab to your iPhone, iPad or Ipod Touch.
NOTE! This app streams high quality video and you MUST have 3G or WiFi to work with the lesson material.
Intended primarily as a practice tool for TrueFire students on the go, everybody is welcome to hang.
$0.99/Download
E-Guitar HD
This guitar method will give you great informations & technics to improve your guitar skill.
For beginner and intermediate guitar player starting from 12 Bar Blues to electric blues and going to Jazz II V I sequences over Gypsy Jazz, Bossa Nova, Blues Jazz …
$3.99/Download
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
