Pro Music Apps

Ampkit the new guitar amp and stompbox simulator has finally ben released.

A joint venture between Peavey and Agile Partners, Ampkit looks very promising indeed.

Agile Partners and Peavey Electronics are proud to announce AmpKit, the ultimate iPhone amp and pedal studio with extensive recording and re-amping capabilities, and AmpKit LiNK, a high fidelity electric guitar interface.

AmpKit is available in two versions:

AmpKit is a free app, available on the iTunes App Store, that comes with a Peavey ValveKing amp (clean and very-high-gain lead channels), two ValveKing cabinets (4×12 and 1×12), two pedals (Noise Gate, Elevenizer overdrive pedal), two mics (Workhorse 57 dynamic mic, Germann 87 condenser mic), and a built-in Noise & Feedback Filter.

AmpKit+ is a paid app ($19.99 in the US App Store) that includes everything in the free version PLUS the following additional gear at less than half their individual prices: Peavey 3120 amp with clean, rhythm, and ultra-high-gain lead channels and matching 4×12 cabinet; Colonel Vintage amp paired with matching 4×10 and 1×12 cabinets; Vintage Brit amp with matching 2×12 cabinet; and distortion, fuzz, compressor, chorus, phaser, flanger, reverb, and 10-band EQ pedals!

In both AmpKit and AmpKit+, an amazing array of additional gear modeled after real-world equipment is available for purchase through an in-app Gear Store. AmpKit has more than twice the number of components of other apps, with more gear coming!

Features:

• Over 60 predefined amp and pedal setups
• Easily create and save an unlimited number of custom setups, with a dozen or more active pedals in each setup
• Record as you play: AmpKit creates both “dry” (guitar signal before effects are applied) and “wet” (guitar signal with effects applied) recordings
• Ability to “reamp”: re-record a previous session, applying a new amp and pedal setup
• Realistic simulations of high-gain amps (e.g., Peavey ValveKing and 6505+) that you can listen to with headphones (be sure to use AmpKit LiNK which has special crosstalk / feedback reduction circuitry)
• Mic positioning control
• Ultra-low latency (i.e., not even noticeable)
• The same high-precision tuner and metronome technology used in GuitarToolkit
• Upload dry recordings for reamping, or your favorite songs and backing tracks to play along with
• Download AmpKit recordings to your computer, email recordings, or share using SoundCloud

More info and video here

There’s a new Bass guitar app on the block. iJBass.

Here’s what developers Sardine Studios have to say.

Early 70’s J-bass in your pocket!
iJBass is a bass app which reproduces vintage J-bass’s look & feel. Playability panel makes this nice looking bass accommodate realtime playing by placing your favorite intervals as buttons.

For best results we recommend playing iJbass through external outputs.

Features :
- Authentic vintage bass look & feel
- Hi-quality sound samples from original 1971 J-bass
- Fully configurable playability panel supports diverse playing style with 6 factory presets and 3 user presets
- Muting is easily controllable to play your own groove
- Scrolling fretboard, by dragging screen or tilting device
- Floating bar makes open string accessible at any time.
- Vibration or trill by shaking device
- Left-handed mode

Grab iJBass now –

Turn your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad into a practice guitar amplifier and effects processor! INSTRUMENT ADAPTER IS REQUIRED; visit pocketamp.com
Special introductory offer of US$ 2.99 includes universal iOS device support with full screen native graphics!

PocketAmp™ delivers what guitar players want for practicing their chops; great tone with an easy and fun to use interface. Quickly dial in your sound, and spend more time playing!

Features:
* Clean, Blues, Rock, Metal
* Gain, Volume, Noise Gate
* Treble, Middle, Bass
* Reverb, Echo, Chorus, Flanger, Rotary, Tremolo
* Four quick presets, unlimited named presets
* iTunes music play along

Grab the latest in this developer’s apps at – www.pocketlabworks.com

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Well, things are getting really interesting for guitarists.

What with a bunch of new amp simulators hitting the iphone/ipad platforms.

And just as new are the cables being released to connect your guitar to your device.

Griffin Technology have announced GuitarConnect, along with there own amp sim app.

Griffin Technology Inc., maker of ingenious ways to power, play, protect, and connect, and Frontier Design Group, maker of musically inspiring apps, has announced availability of Griffin’s GuitarConnect Cable and Frontier’s iShred LIVE in the UK. With this combination of cable and app, your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad becomes a mobile guitar workstation that is both fun and useful to musicians of all skill levels.

Griffin’s new GuitarConnect cable turns iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad into the most portable gig and practice rig imaginable. The 1/4″ cable connects easily into guitars, basses, or other instruments, and a stereo 1/8″ mini-plug connects directly to iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad for use with audio applications such as iShred LIVE. The 6 foot GuitarConnect cable also provides a stereo 1/8″ mini-jack to connect headphones or audio cable for connection to a home stereo, amp, mixer, or other audio source. Intuitive layout means no clutter and no unnecessary weight or stress on the cables; just comfortable, great sounding music with GuitarConnect and iShred LIVE.

iShred LIVE is a mobile app with amp modelling and stomp box effects for guitar, bass, and other instruments. Based on the popular virtual guitar app from Frontier Design Group, iShred LIVE gives musicians of all skill levels the ability to play a real instrument through their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The app opens to reveal a sight familiar to most musicians: an amp and pedal board with life-like effects pedals. The built-in amp simulator features clean and overdrive settings for added tonal colour. Each pedal features fully adjustable controls for accurate reproductions of classic guitar tones. Just tap the controls and iShred LIVE zooms in on the effect for easy manipulation. The first three effects are included for free with download of iShred LIVE:

•         HK-2000 Digital Delay (with tap tempo)

•         Q-36 Space Modulator / Flanger

•         Buzz Kill (noise gate)

Players looking for added tonal flexibility can download these additional effects through in-app purchase:

•         Hot Fuzz (super fuzz pedal)

•         Sybil (dual chorus)

•         Trembler (variable waveform tremolo)

•         Adrenaline (adjustable treble booster)

•         Kömpressör (compressor pedal)

In addition to effects, iShred LIVE features a number of essential guitar tools. Favourite sounds can be saved in one of 48 user-programmable presets, organized as 8 colour-coded banks for easy organization. A chromatic tuner allows quick and accurate tuning; the adjustable metronome includes tap tempo and selectable accent sounds. The app also features a looping audio player, giving users the ability to play along with any song in their device’s music library.

For more info go here:

http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/guitar-connect

http://www.frontierdesign.com/iShredLIVE/

Grab iShred LIVE now –

The fine fellows at IK Multimedia have just tweaked the already impressive guitar and bass effects simulator for iPhone – Amplitude, so iPad owners can now take advantage of the extra display real estate. A few noticeable additions include a new chromatic tuner and metronome.

Turn your iPad into the ultimate mobile guitar and bass multi-effect processor! Use the AmpliTube iRig interface adapter (www.amplitube.com/irig) to connect your guitar to your iPad and you are ready to rock!

Jam anytime, anywhere with world class guitar and bass tones right in the palm of your hand. AmpliTube for iPad gives you incredible ultra-realistic tones and modeling accuracy in a convenient and mobile app, from the leader in gear modeling software for professional recording studios.

With AmpliTube for iPad, you’ll have an entire guitar/bass rig at your fingertips, comprised of 4 simultaneous stompbox effects, an amp-head plus cabinet and a microphone.

You will be able to choose between 5 amps (Clean, Crunch, Lead, Metal, Bass) with full controls, 11 stompbox effects (Delay, Fuzz, Overdrive, Wah, Envelope Filter, Chorus, Flanger, Phazer, Octave, Noise Filter + Distortion once registered), 5 speaker cabinets and 2 microphones (dynamic and condenser).

Plus, AmpliTube for iPad features a chromatic digital tuner and a metronome and you can also import and play along with your own songs or backing tracks with real time effects, and create, save and recall up to 36 presets on the fly!

- Real time guitar and bass mobile multiFX app
- Full rig built from 4 simultaneous stompboxes + amp + cabinet + mic
- 11 Stomps, 5 Amps, 5 Cabinets, 2 Mics available
- Import and play your songs or backing tracks with real time effects
- 36 presets can be saved/recalled on the fly
- Includes tuner/metronome
- Low-latency for real time playing
- FREE and LE versions also available

Visit www.amplitube.com/irig for more information, audio and video demo about the app and on how to connect your guitar to your iPad with iRig interface adapter.

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/irig/ipadscreenshots/

Grab Amplitube for iPad now –

Released just yesterday for iPad, is this 3 piece band simulator, offering programmable bass, drums and guitar parts. Not sure how flexible the programming features are, but looks to offer step time and possible real time recording. If your Japanese is any good you might find out more from the developer’s site.

This application is a guitar, bass and drums three-piece is a sequencer.

Guitar
The tone Drive, Clean 2-tone
0 to 22 full sampling frets
Mute noise, brushing off the sound when recording noise.
Drive sample 366 72MB
Clean sample 288 74MB
Velocity, BPM, while calculating the time to play pick-string falls in real time by the stroke length of the note.
The normal playing, muting, hammer, Pulling off, brushing can be specified.
Attribute specified input method, full code given fret, high code, power chords, octaves and single-tone input.
Attribute, offset, type, velocity, picking (down, up) playing style, fret position, stroke length, sounds (Clean, Drive), on each string, can be edited off.

Bass
String string 1to4 0to22 full sampling to fret
Brushing noise, noise when recording off the sound.
3 string, 4 string 12 fret to sound in four sampling switch results in live sound just like root note.
The sound will play bass bass amp drive pick, as it gives high sound pressure and limiting so.
Specified input method or attribute specified by two frets. TAB enter the screen-like marks.
Even glissando playing, hammering, pulling off reproduce.
Attribute (root, 3rd, 5th, 7th, octave) and offset (down 1 tone, semitone lower, the semitone, one tone above) will soon be converted simply by specifying the code type.

Drums
The tone, BD, SD1, SD2, Tom1, Tom2, Tom3, HH (Close, 1/4Open, 1/2Open, 3/4Open, Open), Cymbal (4Type), Ride (Edge, Cup), China, Splash the recording.
BD 26-inch 06-inch types 18, SD can be selected from four types.
SD1, SD2, Tom1, Tom2, Tom3 sounds like life is obtained by switching the four tones.
4 BD, but the sound velocity, HH the sound of two switches.

Developer’s site – http://www.zc.em-net.ne.jp/~power-beat/Home/Main.html

Grab Band Simulator now –

We found this video on a guy using a video cable to connect his guitar to an fx app.

There are a few purpose built cables about to hit the market so it was interesting to see that you may not need to buy one.

Some people have had issues getting a video cable to work. If you’ve tried, let us know if it’s worked or not.

Causing a riot and making a racket is RiotFX from Riotmode.

RiotFX is a guitar processor for iphone/ipad with a stack of tasty effects.

Here’s what Riotmode has to say.

RiotFX can be used with both acoustic and electric guitars:

For electric guitars, an adapter cable such as the PRS Guitarbud™ can be used to connect your guitar directly to your iPhone or iPod Touch.

For acoustic guitars, use a microphone-equipped headset with the microphone placed near the guitar.

Application Features

• Nine high quality effects:
  • Quad-Tap Delay
  • Distortion/Fuzz
  • Chorus
  • Expander
  • Pitch Shifter
  • Reverb
  • Flanger
  • AutoWah
  • Tone
• Low-latency audio processing gives no noticable delay
• Ability to freely configure your effects chain
• Three audio quality settings
• Antialiasing option

Grab RiotFX now –

This original hardware stompbox has just been tuned into an iPhone app, and is still one of the only polyphonic tuners on the market. Gotta love their mantra to – Strum, Tune, Rock!…

Still tuning one string at a time? PolyTuneTM for iPhone is your short-cut to perfect and swift tuning, which will get you back to playing music faster than ever before! Just Strum. Tune. Rock!

PolyTune
PolyTuneTM is the world’s first polyphonic tuner, a game-changing total tuning turnaround that will have future guitarists wondering how we ever got by without it.

It couldn’t be done – until we did it.
The magic lies in a never before seen approach to tuning aimed at speed, accuracy and ease of use. With PolyTuneTM, you simply strum all strings on your guitar or bass at once, and it will immediately tell you which strings need tuning! This cutting-edge tuning technology revolutionizes the way you tune and accomplishes what has been deemed ‘impossible’ until now: tuning all strings simultaneously! It really is as simple as strum – tune – rock, and this quantum leap forward allows you to get in tune fast, and back to doing what you love: playing.

PolyTune for iPhone
The PolyTune iPhone app is a 1:1 port of the award-winning PolyTune pedal tuner, and PolyTune for iPhone delivers exactly the same features and tuning technology as the pedal version. However, you probably don’t want to mount your iPhone to your pedal board, so that’s what the PolyTune pedal is for. PolyTune for iPhone, on the other hand, is the fastest and easiest way to tune at home, in the band bus or backstage before the gig.

Fever Pitch
You can set the reference pitch anywhere from 435Hz to 445Hz, so you can play with anyone, with any instrument and in any situation. And if you like to drop tunings, you can go from E-flat all the way down to B.

Chromatic champion
PolyTuneTM is also a chromatic tuner with an amazing 0.5 cent accuracy, and it has two chromatic tuning modes: Needle and Stream. Needle Mode is the classic tuner view, and if you want a little more real-time information, the Stream Mode visualizes even the slightest pitch as a rotating motion.

MonoPoly
Whether you prefer the polyphonic or chromatic approach, the unique MonoPoly technology recognizes whether you play one or more strings and seamlessly switches to the right tuning mode.

We can’t make tuning fun…
…but we sure can make it a whole lot easier! We want to help innovate the life of guitarists as we are passionate guitarists ourselves, working every single day to make all our lives easier and more rocking. In short, PolyTuneTM is here to give tuning a much needed kick in the A440!

A full rundown on the features are available here - http://www.tcelectronic.com/polytune-iphone-app.asp

While not exclusively for use with guitars, it appears most of the audio recording hardware coming out for the iPhone and iPad are aimed at guitarists. The latest to arrive is AmpKit LiNK from Peavey, which looks set to do the job nicely.

Peavey Electronics and leading iPhone applications developer Agile Partners have joined forces to launch AmpKit, an unparalleled guitar amp and effects iPhone application, and AmpKit LiNK, a high fidelity audio interface for the iPhone, iPod touch* and iPad. Together, AmpKit and AmpKit LiNK provide musicians of all skill levels with a powerful and convenient way to jam with high quality tones anytime and anywhere.

The AmpKit LiNK audio interface raises the audio fidelity bar for the iPhone platform. AmpKit LiNK is an iPhone, iPod touch* and iPad interface for electric guitar, bass, or any line level source, with an output that can be connected to headphones, powered speakers or a PA.

AmpKit LiNK’s revolutionary CrossTalk Eliminator solves the feedback problem inherent in existing unpowered iPhone interfaces. Unpowered guitar interfaces suffer from feedback when using headphones. AmpKit LiNK is a powered device with circuitry that virtually eliminates feedback.

The interface can be used with any recording, processing, or tuning application, including Agile Partners’ GuitarToolkit, one of the highest-rated applications in the iTunes App Store.

The AmpKit LiNK guitar interface is available for pre-order from the Peavey online store as well as from dealers, distributors and retail stores worldwide for $39.99.

Head to the official site – http://peavey.com/ampkitlink/