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 is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
