The Best Guitar App for iPad/iPhone Musicians
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- The Best Guitar App for iPad/iPhone Musicians
In this video I count down my top 5 favourite iOS Guitar Apps that will help you get that amazing guitar tone you've been looking for!
The Top 5 iOS Guitar Apps in this video (not in order, obviously):
Tonestack pro: apps.apple.com/us/app/tonesta...
STARK: apps.apple.com/us/app/stark-a...
Rhino: apps.apple.com/us/app/rhino-g...
ToneBridge: apps.apple.com/us/app/tonebri...
Nembrini Apps: apps.apple.com/us/developer/n...
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Tonebridge designer here. Thanks for such a kind review! 🙌
No way, that’s amazing! Thanks so much for watching and for making such an incredible App!
@@TheGaragebandGuide cheers! If you have any questions regarding it, please feel free to ask.
@@t1germetal just wanted to say thanks for helping design such a kick ass app
@@heavenbent4pleather83 cheers!
@@t1germetal bro, this app has opened my GB world to SOO many possibilities! I was thinking of buying an electric guitar, but after finding out, I now use my acoustic guitar and with the app, you can’t tell! Thanks to you and the rest of the company!
Nice one Patrick Good to see stuff for real instruments available. Thanks for the pointers . (Especially the free ones) 🥳👍🏼
A word is a word ! Commented and supported. As always thanks Patrick
Congrats Patrick, really nice to get know to those apps and start playing with them. Good to have your guide!!!
Glad you found it useful! Thanks for watching! 👍
Your list is respected and appreciated. Rock on!
terrific video! got my daughter an ipad pro for her bday, been using for music when i found out how easy it is ha!
Very helpful review. I've own a few of these, and have played around with others not mentioned (Amplitube isn't too bad). My favorite however (at least for now) is Overloud's TH-U. I've been very pleased with it and, having an IR Loader is definitely a nice feature to have.
Great video. I took your advice and now have the full version of ToneStack Pro. I am able to make all the tones I need but I am having trouble with how to record and mix. Any pointers? Thanks Mike
100% agree Rhino is top knotch, cheap price, so versatile, I love it! Thanks for the recommendation!
Some great pointers here ! Cheers !
Thank you very much Patrick for making this helpful video, cheers!
Thanks for watching Doug! 👍
Fascinating how fast the landscape is changing in the iOS music production game!
Absolutely! Big companies who fail to listen to what their customers want (*cough* Positive Grid not porting apps to be AUv3 compatible *cough*) get left behind. 😂
Outstanding video, This was very helpful…..and I completely agree with your amp app ratings..
Nice! Thanks for watching! 👍
Your videos are incredibly helpful.
I appreciate that! Thanks for watching.
Nembrini BST100 has proved to be most versatile and best sound for me 👍
This is pretty helpful
Thanks for the great video! Could you, please, explain how to get to these apps from within the GarageBand? Should one use EXTERNAL/Inter-App Audio? Or AUDIO RECORDER/Instrument?
Just got into iPad and GarageBand, tone bridge is blowing me away, absolutely fantastic.
hi there. I’ve had a hard time using it in GarageBand. Is it still supported?
Great insight! Tonebridge is a no brainer for any guitarist. My most used amp is the Nembrini Crunck - just a trickle of gain and it sounds great. That being said, I’m just starting to explore Rhino.
Crunck is incredible and Nembrini are MENTAL for giving it away for free! Rhino is much the same - go easy on the gain and you can get some good clean(ish) tones!
Informative video .Thanks for posting.
I'm considering buying an IPad and using it for guitar.
My question is about which app sounds best for natural sounding clean and overdriven sounds.
I'm jamming through my Tonex pedal at the moment going into a source audio collider in to 2 Bose S1 pros and like many other amp sims, it sounds great when on a monster heavy distortion sound but overdrive sounds are fizzy and lack warmth and well to me at least !
Clean sounds seem to lack depth and warmth..
Any suggestions in 2024 ?
Thanks for the comparison! Do you know if one of these apps has a also a decent looping function, with more than one track? Thanks again
New to your excellent channel and GB. Thank you for your content! Nothing against any of the other plugins! I plan to check them out and especially ToneStack. I am curious about the dislike for Bias FX 2 and the their amp /pedal plugins. I infer from your video is it the cost? What about the sound? On another note, Rhino sounds great but I find the interface intimidating. At least Bias FX and ToneStack have an interface guitar players can relate to (amp faces and familiar pedals). Thank you!
Is there presets on tonestack pro? And it’s there a sharing community for presets for this app? Cool vid mate
Hey hello Patrick, I am Andrea and I really hate GarageBand, but the way you share your love for music is absolutely awesome and your voice.. So damn radiophonic. For these two reasons (except garageband 😂) I am officially a new subscriber and please do you know a way to loop a couple of bars in GB (IOS) without hide all the rest of the song? Ciao!
"Eh, fookin' bloody 'ell!"
Thank you for this. ❤️
Bout damn time they help a garage band brother out...
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, I used to play through an Ampeg B15-XY, using a SRD 19 inch rack mount effects unit and a Hughes & Ketner Cream Machine. Currently, I am using a first-generation Fender Mustang III. I love the idea of these apps but have no idea where to start.
Omg I’m so glad I saw this video I was so close to buying bias fx’s stuff
A lucky escape!
Best review and demo!
Thanks for watching!
Pete Johns has had some acceptable results with the native Garageband amps with his acoustic guitar....so, I'm thinking that might work with my cheap nylon-stringed classical guitar, as well....at least until I can finally afford to have my Epiphone Les Paul properly setup and playable.
Hi, Very good video. I use Tonebridge through Macbook +focusrite device linked to my mesa boogie amp. I wonder if there is a way to connect also a footwitch to move from clean to crunch sound automatically during one song? thanks for your advise
I’m new with iOS music production, what’s wrong with biasFX (now at ver.2)? Greate video, Tnks!
I just need a simple iphone amp. Clean jazzy RnB chordy low fi neo soul stuff. What do you recommend?
Very nice overview, thank you! I cannot play guitar, so I use Riffler to export a clean .WAV or guitar loops, so what app/plugin can you recommend to use with loops and audio files? Would the audio files need pre/post processing before going into the app?
Riffler can be used as an audio unit so why not run it through an amp sim in your DAW?
Great content btw i only make music with the iphone so this Channel its pretty handy for me
Glad to hear it!
Which iOS Guitar App rocks YOUR world? Give that like button a cheeky wee slap, then share your favourite in the comments! ⬇
Can you mix your mp3 music files with your guitar in tone stack and nembrini?? And what is the price of the pot 'o gold?
can you show us all the options of using the Amp/pedal apps in conjunction with drummers or backing tracks
Agree on Rhino!
It’s a great app!
I'm thinking to buy a mac pro but never had one. So i wonder about the free softaware availability.
I basically have to play a guitar and sing through an audio interface, and also to process raw format photos, 25mb each, with Darktable, or oher raw photos editor, like rawtherapee.
I may be interested in using a Matlab-like suite.
Do you think I'm going to have pain in the back?
How do you recall an interaudio app within Garageband ? like when you show you can access tonebridge controls within Garageband ? Thanks for these videos!
can I use geoshred for flamenco guitar? is there a preset closer to it... also is there a very good flamenco guitar app ?
Rhino and Amp One are my goto
So true for BIAS FX! hahaha!.... and right on point for Rhino as the BEST one currently!, Did you noticed Rhino also has an Octaver when you touch the center Rhino head and you can adjust the intensity of it by dragging along up or down the Rhino head, I sometimes even use it jut for the IR loader section as it lets you load 4 different IR and mix between them, so good!
I did NOT know that! Amazing, thanks for letting me know!
@@TheGaragebandGuide You're welcome! 🙂
That’s really handy to know. I’ve been scratching my head over how they made the stock bass patch.
I was thinking that too Bias should be top
@@andrewharman6861 At this moment the best sounding one for iOS is TH-U Overloud, the people at Aurora DSP abandoned iOS and Rhino as it hasn't been updated since released more than a year ago and they never released their other amps for iOS like Mr Hector as promised
Stark for me 🔥🔥🔥
considering switching to pot'o'gold with the tonestack , instead of using the multiple single plugins I'm using currently
that poly octave they've got; any way to have a freq cutoff like the boss oc3/ oc5? anyone know? that would be a game changer for me
I’ve seen some negative reviews for Tonestack on iPad. How much total cost are we taking here? Is it a onetime upgrade charge past the $9.99?
I’m interested in your top 2 picks , are they auv3 ? Can I use them to record into cubassis 3 ? I have jam up pro but it no longer can be recorded into cubassis 3 so I’ve been limited to the guitar stuff on mixbox .
All the apps here are AUv3. I won’t really use apps that aren’t nowadays to be honest. (Sorry if that makes me a snob)! 😅
Can Tonebridge be synced with Boss Waza Air headphones over Bluetooth. Waza air App works in conjunction with iTunes so I can put on any song from iTunes and play along to it. If I could get Tonebridge into the mix that would be amazing
OMG GETTING TONEBRIDGE
Stark just proves that an AUv3 guitar amp app is possible. I use it all the time.
Yeah, I had been waiting for Rhino to come to iOS... such a game changer. Great for recording, but could you imagine a guitarist bringing an interface and iPad to a gig instead of an amp... especially if the venue has a really nice PA.
Now THAT would be pretty amazing. People are already using iPad/iPhone in place of a pedalboard, so we can’t be that far off!
i actually witnessed that.. was playing before big act on a stadium and that guy obviously got tired of lugging amps... he played with irig and his iphone!
I've just completed a full tour using an iPad! I've still got the hardware stuff ; quad cortex, etc, but wanted to see if the iPad could handle it
it handled it very, very capably. Arguably just as good, if not better in some cases (massive flexibility, and the ability to just add things on via auv3 apps if you want more things)
I can see myself going fully iOS by the end of the year
I used positive grid spark app for my last performance... Planning to use bias fx2 for next... But for that i need a new pedal switch for it...
TH-U.
Thanks for watching!
I second that
Jam maestro, Guitar capo+, echoguitar pro, guitar pro, OMguitar, steel guitar pro, ishred, garageband smart guitars.
Every app you’ve mentioned there is either abandonware, doesn’t support AUV3 or is a virtual instrument. Nothing wrong with that, but I wouldn’t recommend any of them honestly. This video focussed on Amp and effect sims - Apps that you would use a ‘real’ guitar with.
have u tried overloud thu rigplayer?
A guitarist can lose himself for months in these endlessly cool fun apps. I have a number of these including the expensive one. But I can't remember ever using any of these apps when I was recording in either Garageband or Logic. I guess I'm not very picky and I use the built-in stuff. As you pointed out, it's very good and all most people need. I do like playing with Tonebridge.
Thank you for this video. UA-cam is lacking videos like this leaving iOS users in the dark. I'll be downloading these even though I do have Bias FX2 Elite
Thanks for watching! 👍 I really wish Positive Grid would update their apps to be AUv3 compatible.
Sorry for the 101 sound question, but in the artist based sound manipulations, do any of the app's take a shot at Alex Lifeson's big soaring overdriven delay soaked sounds? Love yer vids, thanks LDT
Are you speaking of the Power Windows/Grace Under Fire era or later? Or earlier for that matter?
@@Gee-no any is fine
Agree 100% the only one I do t use is Klevgrands because the tones aren’t heavy enough as you pointed out. But that doesn’t mean it’s no good. Just no use to me. 🤘Rhino is the Master for me!
Yeah, Stark isn’t really heavy enough for me either nowadays. Rhino is so so good!
Rhino is so good it doesn’t seem like it should be possible
Hi there does Rhino have harmonics build in
In Rhino, I can’t seem to find any MIDI Learn capability. Is this true? In ToneStack Pro, I can use my MIDI pedal switches to change a variety of parameters. Seems like a big lack in Rhino.
Maybe you'll disagree, but the best guitar tones plugins don't try to model amps/pedals, just evolve the classics. That's why Rhino is great. Another great is certainly GS VintageClean!
Absolutely agree, that’s why it’s top of the list!
can you show how it connects oh how it would sound on a speaker, i have a speaker (fender 24vl) and i don't want it to sound on a computer or a phone
help me out please. Looking for the whales effective or sky pedal. Where i can find it
Stupid question, but once we get these apps, how to we incorporate drums and mix the whole thing?
How du you use/record with this apps in GB on iPad?
Can you review Logic Pro? If you haven’t already that is
I made a whole channel about it: youtube.com/@TheLogicProGuide?si=xpzC7cVLRIgejE6g
Is there an update on these in 2024??? I’m getting started on guitars but I’m using iPhone
A good app that I use, Bias FX
Until Positive Grid make it AUV3 compatible, Bias FX isn’t really a good choice for most users.
Like Nembrini, but a direct cost comparison with alternatives available these days doesn't make sense for individual amp apps. Tonebridge, ChowDSP's free "BYOD"... I mean, we've never seen better free options before now.
I wonder why plugins are much cheaper for iPad than they are for Mac/PC, lol, not that I'm complaining. The Nembrini 8180 sounds BETTER than the real 5150 stack I once owned; that's insane.
As for full guitar/bass layouts, I think the Yonac Tonestack is the best out there, better than even Amplitude or Overloud. Until I got an iPad, I had never heard of them. And their slide app, and their synth/organ apps are unreal. Their organ app has several 60s type organs which no one else emulates. Okay, I'll shut up now. 😛
Thx, Patrick! Do you know the Bass Amp Mammoth from Aurora? I play bass, so …
I do! It’s fantastic! Pete Johns JUST put a video out about it that’s worth a watch!
I’ll 2nd that. Awesome amp!
A little late to the game here, but how do you intergrate the apps in the DAW you’re using on the iPad? A bit of a basic question but fairly new to iPad for music production
No problem - full guide here (using GarageBand, concept is the same in other DAWs too) ua-cam.com/video/ElJbHm43a7Q/v-deo.html
Cheers, appreciate the quick response!
Rhino sounds really good $20 ain’t bad for me
It’s such good value
I’m just getting started into this world. When it comes to this stuff, I’m a beginner and what I can’t find is anything that tells me what hardware I need to connect to make these apps work. At least nothing that definitively answers my question, which is basically what do I need to buy. I am running a late model iPhone 15 which has the USB-C connector. Some of the things I keep seeing tell me to watch out for adapters and things like that because of issues like latency. So can somebody please give me a clear direction on what I need to purchase in order to get into this sort of thing. Straight answers would be nice for a change.
Bear in mind that I am new to this topic and I am also legally blind. Reading through stacks and stacks of material and webs webs. Webs websites is very difficult. A little guidance would be appreciated without a lot of criticism.
Hello. I am a beginner base player and look for a mac/iPad/iOS setup for daily practice. Do you have any bass amp sim recommendation? I see there are a lot of options for guitars but not many for bass guitars. I guess it is not ideal but is it ridiculous to use guitar amp sims with a bass guitar??
Not ridiculous at all! Most guitar amp sims have bass amp presets included.
For a dedicated bass amp sim, I really like Mammoth by Aurora DSP.
@@TheGaragebandGuide Thank you very much for your reply! I will be checking out Mammoth!
The mammoth from aurora dps is a great bass amp sim
I used amplitiube and now I will try tomestack. Do you guys use a normal descent hifi speaker or connect it to an guitar amplifier? What are your experiences with amplitube? Kind regards and thanks for another great video. Keep on jammin!
I’ve used Amplitube in the past, but I’m not a big fan of their pricing model to be honest. I generally monitor through headphones if I’m tracking on iPad generally.
@@TheGaragebandGuide So I could take the line out from the headphones and plug it into an audio interface and drive monitors? That way I could replace an amp? What about recording into GarageBand? How does that work? Are these plug-ins?
I use to use amplitube as well bu much prefer ToneStack Pro. 10 times the bang for your buck.
maaaaaaaaaan, Rhino is crazy good
Sooo good!
Tonebridge doesn’t support focusrite Scarlett 😢
amazing review but does rhino work with garageband ios cant see any inter app or av setting on the apps site
You need to add it as an effect plugin on an existing track. More info here: thegaragebandguide.com/how-to-use-auv3-apps-with-garageband-ios
@@TheGaragebandGuide amazing its in my song just cool this thing
Hahaha i laughed at the “no chance”. I’ve always hated the Bias FX for some reason.
The Nembrini 8180 is hands down the best metal amp sim on iOS. Period.
Hands down AND period?!?! 😱
@@TheGaragebandGuide and hands up and no questions, too! 😉
Are your favorite Apps equally applicable for bass guitar? Or, are there better apps for bass?
I’d recommend checking out Mammoth, a bass focussed app from the same developer who created Rhino.
Can you do one for drums i always find that GarageBand drums sounds just si fake
Great idea! Check out Sugar Byte’s Drum Computer for now 👍
@@TheGaragebandGuide daaamn its just for iPad D:
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Hi Patrick,
I have a question… how can I take out the vocals on an Accompaniment Split Track in grange band. Hope you can help.
Hello Patrick. A question if I may? Is there such a thing as a piece of reverb kit that only cuts in when a singer sings beyond a certain loudness? Thanks.
Gated Reverb - not possible in GarageBand natively (no side chain compression), but may be possible using a third party app. Let me look into it 👍
@@TheGaragebandGuide Thank you, Patrick. I didn't know that that is what it is called. Gated Reverb. Thanks. Now I'm going to have to look up what side chain compression means! I'm a newbe!
Are they better than buying paddles?
Which of this packs closely resemble the Santana guitar Sound
Tonebridge has loads of Santana presets available 👍
I like Rhino, THU and Nembrini and I tried the Stark app too but I keep coming back to the Saturn app of Fabfilter.
That is the main app I use on stage for almost anything I play.
Rhino only $5 - July 2022
You plonker! you cost me over £100 of goodness that why I love you for them great stuff mate, especially Tonestack Pro "Pot of gold is really golden goodies" and Rhino "Love the damn thing it is awesome and oooof fat as FUCK when you chugging " never thought they will sound this good. Keep up the good work my good friend .
Best regards from London
My pleasure matey, enjoy!
5:05 - Worth it? $100+? No way is any virtual instrument worth that kind of price.
So, you are not mentioning the leaders… suspicious…
The leaders?
Tone stack wasn’t worth 10 cents to me
How come?
Music have become too digital; does not seems real… too much compression: well im old ; preffer o little bit of analogue in my music
This is outdated. Bias fx 2 is a beast... Elite pack is less priced now than mentioned for the bias fx mentioned here...
Until Positive Grid update Bias FX to be AUv3 compatible it remains impossible to recommend, regardless of how much they’ve reduced IAP pricing.
@@TheGaragebandGuide AUv3? whats that… is there any videos explaining that?
I use my ipad for running bias fx2 and bias amp2.
I have downloaded the softwares you mentioned in the video except for tonestack and stark, as my budget is tight… i will try these one by one.
usless info - i want guitar tabualtors. Your face keep coming up.
Yeah, I think you’ve misunderstood the type of guitar Apps featured in this video. Apologies for my face.
Apart from Nembrini, all the other apps he chose are complete junk and sound terrible. Scoffing at Bias FX 2 is hilarious, it's easily better than the shite he's chosen. Just wish they would update Bias mobile work with Logic Pro on iPad. The updated Desktop version is on par with Neural DSP IMO. Neural, Nembrini and Bias FX 2 are in the Premier League.
Bias FX isn’t CLOSE to being on par with the apps in this video precisely BECAUSE it can’t be used with Logic Pro for iPad or any other iOS DAW.
I literally cannot get a single good tone out of Tonebridge, it sounds horrendously fake.
Tonebridge is terrible. Never found a single decent Tone on it. Bias FX 2 blows most of these out of the water.
Bias FX is terrible. Ridiculously overpriced and isn’t AUv3.
@@TheGaragebandGuideI can't value any opinion that thinks that Tonebridge sounds good. Every preset sounds corny AF
@@TheGaragebandGuide Tonebridge has no volume on my Mac or ipad Pro, even with my gain cranked right up. It also crashes all the time on both platforms. I have tried everything and it's just horrible. Bias just works, sounds great and is infinitely tweakable with EQ settings and Bias Amp 2. I don't need Auv3.
Patrick, can we get a gift code for Rhino pls?
A gift code?
@@TheGaragebandGuide yeah, to get rhino for free or maybe trial? Maybe a gift code for bias fx expansion packs or other programs? Maybe they have something for promotion if you contact them?