Guitarism - Pocket Guitar App Reviews

This app sounds incredible! I cant stop playing it and havent picked up my real guitar in days. The midi out capabilities add tons of creative possibilities. Its a great way to layer the guitar sounds from Guitarism with synths like Animoog.

Absolutely one of the best tools available for playing or writing on the iPhone and iPad. The midi in/out features and built in AUFX effects are really excellent. Thanks for another great update!

In all of the iOS universe, no other app comes closer to sounding like a real guitar. It departs from a real guitar when it comes to how it is played, but that is a VERY GOOD thing, because trying to shape chords and fret strings on a touch screen is annoying and stupid. If you only get one guitar app, this should be it. If you have more, this should be at the top of your collection!

Great app that works so well for guitarists and non players alike.

I cant say that Im the best person to judge this Application, but there are too many extras that you can download without the thing asking for passwords. It looks more like there might be a scam behind this guitar.

For an app, its surprisingly satisfying for a real guitarist to play (when no real guitar is within reach), and its sound, although far from a perfect replica of a real guitar, is quite convincing at times. But listen to me, buy the in-app purchase stuff, especially the 4play thing! It allows you to route any of the guitar notes, bass notes, and chords (like a pad) to either the Guitarism virtual guitar sound, or any virtual MIDI channel. I highly recommend Arturia iSem for the bass notes, DXi for the chords, and the guitar notes through the internal Guitarism virtual guitar sound. With the virtual analog synths playing the bass notes and chords alongside a very convincing virtual guitar sound, its very... old school prog rock. Wanna get really fancy? Open Guitarism in Audiobus as an input along with the two aforementioned apps. Put the awesome delay effect Crystalline in the Audiobuss effect slot, and then just use the speaker or your favorite Audiobus recorder as the Audiobus output. 21st Century prog!

Very nice. But would need ability to create custom chords and shoppers different chord positions to be get 5 stars. Also, would be nice to have additional guitar sounds... Les Paul, hollow body electric, telecaster, etc.

This is the best one, pay no attention to what the App Store charts may tell you. Its not that close. Best sounds, best interface, most responsive developer anywhere. If you get just one virtual guitar app. This is it.

This is the first touch guitar interface that I have run into that actually sounds good and is playable. It has its own synth but also allows you to use an external synth via MIDI. The interface is uncluttered and easy to understand but also has a lot of depth to it. And the best thing is that it actually works reliably. This is a very high quality app. The developer has recently made all the in-app purchases free making it an amazing value as well.

Especially using 4play!!! And should be improved chord number!!! Now we can see 6 chords But usually we can cover all the song with 8 chords!!! Tilted chords system is very complicated when I play songs!!! Please gather 2 chords box there!! Then we can make it easier and comportable! Very nice app it is!!!!! Thank you!!

I love this app! There are only a few decent guitar simulator apps in the iTunes Store, and this one is tied, in my opinion, with iShred. guitarism sounds better, and supports iPad - iShred works on iPad, but only at iPhone resolution. There are two features that iShred has that Guitarism does not, so I want to request those features and this would get a hearty five stars from me. 1) Add a fretboard mode, so you can pick out individual notes. Having a bend feature and hammer-ons, are essential. 2) Create a mute pad somewhere, so that instead of enabling fret-muting globally, you could just tap a spot on the body of the guitar to mute just when you want it. My third request is a bug - not sure how widespread it is, but this app wont play audio at all through my Bluetooth headphones. Strangely, both Guitarism and iShred both wont play through Bluetooth, so whatever the problem is, is common to both. IShred hasnt been updated in years, so Im planning on building a new relationship with Guitarism as my PRIMARY guitar app for both iPhone and iPad. Thank you for building a WONDERFUL app, and I look forward to your future updates.

This is a fabulous guitar app. Full of surprises. Great for all ages and very user friendly.

Ive only used this a few days and am really impressed. Im puzzled, however, that you only get to choose between 6 chords. It means I often need to stop between songs and change the chord configuration. Especially in the Ipad version, and with the larger screen iphones, there is plenty of room to add an optional extra row if chords. This would allow a freer flow between songs, and make the program much more enjoyable to use. Please consider adding an extra row of chords!

Why did I not get this app sooner? It leaves every other guitar emulator choking on its dust. Beautiful design and performance. Get it!

This app is very realistic. I play guitar and this thing is really good.

The only two things I would like to see from this app is custom chords that can be built using all fret positions and sounds modeled to emulate different guitar brands and models.

Great job on this app! Well done. Thank you.