GeoShred

I have been performing as a professional pianist and teaching for nearly 50 years. As a teacher I am always looking for new ways to inspire people to learn to be creative and to play a musical instrument. I can honestly say that Geo Shred is the most exciting aid to music education that I have come across for years and I am amazed that I’ve only just come found it. First of all so many people already have an iPhone and/or iPad so the cost of Geoshred compared to pretty well any other musical instrument is tiny. Secondly, I am finding it very easy to learn to play myself. One of the downsides of being a pianist is the sheer size and weight of a good piano, even digital stage pianos are heavy and bulky compared to most other instruments and I’ve been looking at other instruments to learn to play myself but of course this takes a long time to learn to play them well. I am finding the layout on Geo Shred really easy to navigate and am learning very quickly to play things that would have taken me much longer on other instruments. Finally the ability to play truly expressive music is nothing short of amazing, I’m just loving the downloads of instruments like flute, cello, sax, clarinet etc. I see enormous potential for use in education, it would be relatively easy to set up groups of students playing anything from orchestral arrangements to heavy metal. I think I’ve only just scratched the surface when it comes to exploring the full potential of this wonderful instrument and I am so glad that I stumbled across it, I will certainly be recommending this to my students, colleagues and friends in music education.

You can choose a key for crying out loud, choose a backing track from your library on iTunes and play along to your hearts content. And the way you can play the sax, ie growl, is so lifelike it’s the next best thing to create a tune without disturbing the neighbours! I suffer badly from depression and this app has helped me so much. Thank you.

It’s too riddled with inconsistent performances, or not working at all. Arcane and without YouTube there would be things that are unknowable for an average musician working in the digital world. But strangely it mostly all worked ok in my DAWs until recently - now the SWAM packs I’ve thrown money at don’t work in GarageBand or LogicPro, but the poor native instruments do. And the performances I’ve previously recorded all sound abysmal, with all the nuances in my playing absolutely gone. Caution advised.

Wow wow bless up Jordan this is one of the greatest must softwares of all time. This deserves a Grammy award

Dream is the beginning of legends with canns on ! Tippy tappyy. Jordan 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

GeoShred has some terrific sounds, especially the Naada and SWAM in-app purchases. High quality instruments including exotic stuff that is hard to find on IOS. Selecting what you want is STILL a scrolling nightmare, despite the recent update, and that update has caused my previous purchases to not show up in AU3 mode. Yes, I have ‘restored purchases’ in stand alone, and still the problem persists. Hopefully this will be fixed fast. GeoShred with Riffler the guitar app (not to be confused with Riffer) under AUM or in Loopy Pro, and you have the basis of a hard rocking band!

Really good - now make it all more obvious how to change the note ranges!

As someone who, by no stretch of the imagination, can be classed as a musician/player I have managed to master the GeoShred playing surface and on occasion convince ‘players’ that I am a ‘more than capable’ multi- instrumentalist. I have to admit it’s all thanks to the developers and their ‘instrument’. Based on a stringed instrument, you set it up to your taste and away you go. The support team are very helpful and are guaranteed to speedily get back to you with answers to your queries. Yes, a joy to ‘play’.

I’ve been searching long and hard for great guitar tones and GeoShred absolutely delivers in that department. Customisation goes as deep as you want it to. And it’s a lot of fun and super playable, whether playing the GUI itself or using an MPE controller. I never play a gig without it. The addition of SWAM patches brings this instrument to a whole new level. My wish is that they develop electric bass sounds one day. But for now this is my absolute go to.

This is a serious instrument which can be used in serious musical productions! Hugely expressive, and just like a ‘real’ musical instrument, it rewards practice. I’ve used GeoShred in many of my released musical productions and the quality of the sounds is outstanding. I particularly like the the sax, violin and flute IAPs, but many of the included instruments sound fantastic. It is also easy to get instant and gratifying sounds from simple noodling with the presets - it’s enormous fun.