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iShred, an iPhone guitar app that makes playing real songs possible
Boing Boing Gadgets —
iShred from Frontier Design is yet another guitar simulator for the iPhone, this time with an eye towards electrics, complete with stomp boxes and pedal effects. Unlike a lot of the other guitar apps out there, though, iShred looks fairly practical to use as a real instrument, allowing you to assign up to 10 chords to buttons at the top of the screen, leaving your other hand free to pick or strum. It's the only practical way to do it—as cute as it may be to try to play chords on a virtual fret board, it's nearly impossible to do so with any accuracy on the iPhone's wide touch screen.
iShred is $5 on the App ...
iShred: To those about to rock, don’t do it on the subway or next to me at the DMV
CrunchGear —
iShred looks like an iPhone guitar app that actually looks usable, assigning chords to buttons at the top of the screen which are then played with a strum of the strings. Best of all, the system has a set of stompboxes for your amping pleasure including tremelo and looping. Overdrive, anyone?
I’ve used a few great guitar apps and the screen is just too small for real finger placement (Isn’t it funny that that I can actually write that iPhone guitar apps don’t let you play guitar well enough? Imagine saying that just two years ago.) Assigning chords is a ...
iShred Makes Rockin’ Music
Gear Live —
iShred can turn your iPhone or iPod touch into a rock funfest. Frontier Design’s app can turn even the most musically-challenged newbie into an artiste. Included is an interface with effects such as Fuzz, Delay, Treble Boost, Vibrato and Tremelo, and has a recorder and starter songs. Altogether ...
Turn Your iPhone Into an Electric Guitar With iShred
Wired: Gadget Lab —
A new application called iShred turns your iPhone into an electric guitar — and it's pretty damn fun even for experienced musicians like myself.
The $5 app, which launched this week, consists of a virtual fret board and a set of six strings. Mind you, this isn't a digital representation of an entire guitar neck: That would be pretty impractical given the iPhone's screen size. There are actually 10 frets, and each one can be programmed to play an entire chord or a single note. You swipe your finger across the touchscreen to strum a chord; tapping on each string plucks individual notes.
At first that might sound pretty lame ...
