iFretless Guitar

A killer apps for beginner and pro musicians alike! (This review was original written for iFretless Guitar but the Bass and Sax versions are very similar with some instrument specific enhancement so I will just use this in all three reviews.) The iFrelless Guitar is truly an amazing app, one of my top 10 most used music apps on my iOS devices, and I have hundreds of them!! I think the app would be great for: Budding musicians who wants to start sounding good from the start go and meanwhile learning and exploring the Guitar fretboard layout and how it relates to the piano keyboard. It is also great for learning and practising the different scale, modal and chord shapes for the guitar. (Been trying to convince the developer into adding a scale overlay to aid learning...would be even more awesome as a learning tool then. :)) Guitarists(and Bassists) who wants to have a realistic and great sounding onboard guitar instrument on their iOS, as well as a familiar fretboard interface to play and control other music apps like BS16-i, Sampletank, and hundreds of other synthesiser apps with. Keybaord players who wants to add good guitar sounds to their arsenal, while being able to finely control all their sounds with the best pitch bending and velocity sensing(plus a CC touch controller pad) on the iOS. The onboard guitar instruments sound great(you can have three guitars playing together), and while the onboard effects are quite good, you can even use Audiobus to output the sounds to effect apps like JamUp, Amplitube...etc to create your very own custom sounds. The developer has painstakingly layered and programmed the sound samples so that the instruments sound really responsive and realistic. Hands down the best sounding guitar soloing app on the iOS. (though it lets you play power chords concurrently as well!) Where it really shines for me though is it's playing surface. No distraction with buttons and the likes. Pitch bending is absolutely awesome and definitely (the best)one of it's kind. Period. The control feels natural and intuitive and once you have learnt the basic scale pattern you can play in all keys easily(unlike the piano keyboard) and there are different tuning options to pick from. An optional touchpad can be activated to control any CC's you want(e.g.: timbre, filters, volume...etc). Velocity sensitivity is the best I have seen on any iOS app and while this still has some room to improve, this is more a limitation on the iOS and

This is such a useful and brilliant sounding music tool. Much like the oustanding ifretless bass and sax it would be perfect with IAA support. if this is already in the works then please disregard, otherwise great work. I love the ifretless series and would purchase many more new instruments if made available. ifretless violin or trumpet maybe? :)

…guitar emulating experience of one’s that use a touch screen. It certainly helps to have the musicality to play it like a guitar is played because you can do some things with the app that is not possible with a guitar. Strumming is tricky and unique to this instrument though. You have to come up with a strumming technique that works for you. It’s strength is in tapping styles. It’s great on its own, but also great to control pianoteq’s physically modeled guitar with mpe capabilities.

PLEASE?!!!!!!!

I have been waiting for this update for a long time - finally a good guitar “synth” / romplr / physically modeled (?) instrument. I love iFretless - trust me when I say this - you won’t regret your purchase. One suggestion I would add for this particular iFretless: It would be nice to be able to strum coords too - perhaps a section of the string-board could be strummed (effectively playing loose strings too); this would be massive (look at Steel Guitar Pro for a reference of what I mean - they have the completely opposite setup - practically, you can only strum coords on their string-board. A controller like yours which also allowed strumming would be the perfect guitar controller. As of right now this is 95% perfect 😜😄🙏🏼. Thanks for this wonderful update - seriously - can’t wait for your next release!

Thanks for bringing back what was a great part of the collection. It’s vastly improved and a great combo of usability and design. Kudos!

Crashes upon opening on my Air 5. $10 gone

Sure, I was just about given up hope, but if by some miracle you could give this app, at least the size enhancement at the others have it would be so appreciated as I still like to use it, and I own all of them

This app hasn’t seen updates in over 3 years. At least make it compatible with the latest versions of iOS. We are basically at iOS 16 now — so your app may not function to due to a lack of support. It would also nice to see updated features. Thanks!

Once again thanks for the beautiful iFretless apps, they are amongst my favorites and I CANNOT wait for this one to become AUv3 too. It is fantastic and could really use an update. I do hope you will consider the idea of being able to play the strings of the guitar (and for iFretless Bass too) without playing ANY frets. Garage Band used to have this functionality before, not sure if it still has. Essentially, playing the strings from the right side would trigger the sound of the string itself without it being pressed on a fret. I’m sorry if I am not explaining this in the best way, I’m not a native English speaker but I hope you understand me. This is really one of the few things missing on the iFretless apps. The other one i’d really appreciate (especially for phone users) would be a way to lock the rotation of the UI of the AUV3 as for example AUM forces iPhone users into portrait mode which is not ideal for iFretless apps. If I lock my rotation, Ifretless becomes unusable as a screen controller. This isn’t such a big deal, but being able to lock the rotation of the AU would also allow us to grab the phone “upside down” as if it was an actual guitar (having the screen pointed outwards from the user essentially), which imo is amazing. The reason why I know this is because on ApeMatrix (since UI works differently) this can be done, and it is by far my favorite way of playing iFretless apps. Wonderful company! Keep up the AMAZING APPS!!! 🔥🔥