WI Guitar™ app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 8610 ratings )

Music Entertainment
Developer: Wallander Instruments

4.99 USD

Current version: 1.13, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 01 Mar 2011
App size: 23.43 Mb

★★★★★ TOP #10 GROSSING MUSIC APP IN 17 COUNTRIES ★★★★★

WI Guitar™ is the first truly playable virtual acoustic guitar app, as well as a professional Core MIDI guitar controller over Wi-Fi.

Based on revolutionary patent-pending sample technology, WI Guitar has the sound and expressiveness of a real guitar. Includes two steel-stringed guitars, a classical guitar, a 12-stringed, twelve types of electric guitars and a Core MIDI OUT guitar for using WI Guitar as a MIDI controller over Wi-Fi (Core MIDI).

Does this sound too good to be true? It is not, and we can honestly say you need to try this app to believe it! This is why we also offer a free version, for everyone who wants to try this amazing instrument!

With WI Guitar, you can strum chords as softly or as hardly as you like, with ultra-realism. Hooked up to loudspeakers, WI Guitar is the perfect replacement for a real guitar at the party, or even in a band. Use headphones to play your favorite songs on the guitar, or write songs, on the way to work, on the airplane and everywhere else.

As an artist or songwriter, you can even use WI Guitar as a professional recording instrument. Add beautiful stereo guitar parts to your tracks!

WI Guitar includes 12 chord buttons, and the action buttons add9, sus4, 7 and maj7. In combination these give you instant access to more than 150 unique chords.

PLEASE NOTE! THE OPTION "?" BUTTON BECOMES DIFFICULT TO PRESS WITH iOS 5, DUE TO APPLES NEW NOTIFICATIONS CENTER. WE ARE WORKING ON A FIX!

VIDEOS (also found on our web site)

Wonderwall - WI Guitar on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCnKV0ZGHyk

Hurt - WI Guitar on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Vy1xNqQQM

TIPS AND TRICKS

- Strumming harder or softer also makes the sound stronger or softer.

- Pluck or strum closer to the board to get a stronger sound, and play further down on the strings to get a softer sound.

- If you release all fingers from the screen, all playing notes also released. If you want chords to sustain, press and hold the chord buttons while playing.

- Holding both the add9 and sus4 action buttons transforms from a major to a minor chord, and vice versa. Use this feature to also access the Gm, Fm, Cm and Bm chords.

- Holding both the 7 and maj7 action buttons produces an add6 chord.

- Hold multiple chord buttons to produce inverted chords. For example, C + E (or Em) produces a C with an E as the bass note.

- From the help panel you may transpose the chord map to any key.

- If you connect your iPad to the ION All-Star Guitar, WI Guitar will automatically enter a special mode where you can take chords on the neck of the All-Star! Also, if you hold down chord buttons in WI Guitar, the frets on the All-Stars neck light up, so you can learn how to play chords on a real guitar!

- If you want to use WI Guitar as a MIDI guitar controller on PC, please download and install Tobias Erichsens software "rtpMIDI" from: http://www.tobias-erichsen.de/rtpMIDI_configuration.html

Pros and cons of WI Guitar™ app for iPhone and iPad

WI Guitar™ app good for

Excellente application. Excellent son. En attente de la nouvelle version pour le choix des instruments This is a great application. Excellent sound. Looking forward to an update (promised by the author) as the choice of instruments is a major difficulty on the iPhone.

Super cette application avec toute les nouvelles guitare le son impeccable one of the best for music

The different guitars are great. You get both acoustic and electric. Arne makes fantastic hybrid physically modeled instruments that are really a joy to play. Most other sample based apps pale in comparison. I took the time to learn its subtleties. Its a very expressive instrument. I strum with my right hand index finger and my thumb picks the bottom notes, much like a real guitar. By varying the pressure and position of the strums you can get some amazing tones and rhythms. A few things I would like to see in his iPad apps- the amazing orchestral app too... Audiobus support, basic stereo FX, and Ability to retune the instrument. Otherwise, they are great! Such a joy to play once I learned. Thanks Arne! Ps if you need help I am a programmer. Www.waybackhome.ca !

Some bad moments

This app uses excellent sound fonts - good quality sounds. The main issue with the app is that while playing a song, you quickly end up missing chords on the chord pad. You have no option to set up your own chord pad with selected chords for a specific song. For exemple, try to play Everybody Hurts from REM - a classic … No issue for chords like D/G Em/A … But trying to play live the following chords is pretty difficult: F#m / Bm For those 2 above chords, you have to press 3 or 4 keys simultaneously with your left hand (plus to correct strings with your right hand !): F#m : F + # + add9 + sus4 Bm: B + add9 + sus4 An update would be very welcome.

Im new to iPad guitars and not much on a real guitar but this seems like 5 bucks wasted. Dont get this bit about the strings not being open unless you keep contact with the strings. So going thru a chord change where you lift all your fingers and the thing goes dead. Thats not realistic. Why cant I get rid of those chord buttons, I dont want them. Whats with that f chord, is that even possible? Disappointed.

Great app.! a lot of fun (prob. easier to use on an ipad than iphone) ...but great none the less! :-)

Sounds fantastic! The strumming sounds real, best sounding guitar app but really needs to let you customize the strings on the left since minor flat chords are tricky to do fast

Best guitfiddle app going. It sounds real and lets a klutzy keyboard player like me to finally add guit to the mix. Looking for some upgrades to include effects and pitch bend/vibrato to really sizzle this app. All in all it is deluxe and cant say enough about the sound quality. Only down side for an old retired 74year old is its a bit pricey but well worth the price. Thanks for hours of fun an r and r . Stan

Needs multitasking. If I need to look for chords for a song in Safari I dont want to have to launch this again. Also the ability to save settings would be nice. I love the 12-string sound! You get 5 stars because its so good sounding.

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