Owners of the earlier GrooveMaker can have any packs they've bought authorised for use in the new app.
Covering genres such as house, dubstep, hip hop and "rock ace”, each bundle contains over 60 loops designed to "work well together”, with the loops organised into categories anyone could recognise. Claiming over 3600 loops that can be remixed and generally interfered with, the app serves as a front‑end for the purchase of 16 song packs costing between £2.49 $3.99 and £3.99 $5.99 each. GrooveMaker 2 is IK Multimedia's latest attempt to bring remixing and DJ performance to the masses. Tom Flintīasic app $0.99, Pedal and Amp expansion packs $9.99 each. Any guitarist already in possession of a suitable audio interface would be mad not to give it a try.
GuitarTone's designers have thoroughly exploited the touchscreen technology of Apple's devices, resulting in an app that is easy to understand, quick to edit, and simple to operate.
Nevertheless, any number of patch alterations can be made and saved. Although the list of presets is long, many of them require the expansion packs to work. Sonoma say that they set out to create interpretations of vintage and custom amps, pedals and microphones, and although it is hard to judge how close they have got without setting up the real things, what can be said is that the sounds have a great deal of character and a respectable basic range of tones to choose from. For example, the power button now bypasses both the amp and cabinets, enabling the app to function (when an I/O interface is connected) as an effects pedal board for hardware amp and cab setups. GuitarTone also features a tuner, a little monitor mixer and an easy‑to‑use noise gate, and, since version 1, Sonoma have tried to improve the amp and effects sounds while adding some new features. Alternatively, the user can swipe their finger across the amp and cab section to quickly flick from one preset to another. There is only one other screen, and that displays a pedal board from which any of the user's favourite 10 presets can be clicked into action. independently of the cabinets, so that, for example, a '60s Slant head could be used with 2x12 and 4x10 cabinets, and you could use different mics on each of those.Īll such changes are made on a single Edit screen that prompts the user to save before exit. The head can be changed Even the basic version of GuitarTone allows a healthy mixture of amp heads, cabs and mics to be used. Right at the top of the page is the virtual amp head offering Gain, Volume, Bass, Mid and Treble controls. Tapping on the image of the mic (or mics, as is the case when two cabs are selected) changes the type from one to another. Further control can be exercised by selecting the type of virtual mic in front of the cab, the options being ribbon, precision, dynamic and condenser. A button at the top of the page selects whether a single or stereo arrangement of the above cabinets is to be used, and it's possible to mix and match cab types. The largest is the '60s Slant 4x12, followed by a 2x12 and then a 4x10 blues tweed emulation. The basic set includes a phaser, drive pedal and a reverb, with a pre/post amp setting.Īs for the cabinets, the three options are essentially variations on size. For a start, the pedals can be arranged in any order and, although there are only three slots, it is possible to have multiple instances of each effect. In its unexpanded form there are three amps and cabinets and three pedals, which doesn't sound like a lot, but it still gives you plenty of variables to play with. It costs almost nothing in its basic form, but Sonoma are clearly hoping that its fans will choose to invest in additional pedal and amp expansion packs, which greatly increase the scope of the product.
GuitarTone is an effects processor and amp simulator which, in version 2, runs on iPhone, iPad and fourth-generation iPod touch devices. Published May 2014 Sonoma Wire Works GuitarTone 2.2