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Topic: iPhone/iPod steel guitar app |
Don Sutley
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Pensacola, FL
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Posted 30 Jul 2009 4:59 am |
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I just downloaded this app to my iPod this morning:
http://www.yonac.com/software/steelguitar/index.html
I haven't had a chance to do much with it, but it's hard to really complain about an app dedicated to emulating a steel guitar. It certainly has plenty of options (different tunings, bending, amps, etc.). It sounds more like a harpsichord than a steel guitar to me, but then again it's still pretty cool to have a pocket steel guitar.
Here's a link to a demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPXGloBYi4k
I wish the demo would have shown more of the capabilities and options rather than one song.
Anyway, I thought ya'll might be interested. Oh yeah, it emulates a 10 string pedal steel as well.
-Don |
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Peter Jacobs
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Northern Virginia
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Josh Cho
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New York, NY (orig. Honolulu, HI)
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Posted 30 Jul 2009 6:14 am
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Steel guitar builders everywhere are shaking in their shoes...a "killer app" indeed-no need to change strings, easy to haul, always in tune...and sounds so realistic! 
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Lap-n-Console Steel Guitar Lessons |
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Bryan Daste
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2009 11:07 am
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AJ Azure
From:
Massachusetts, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 31 Jul 2009 6:36 pm
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| could be good on the train or plan when you can't practice regularly |
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Dennis Coelho
From:
Wyoming, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2009 8:02 am Topic: iPhone/iPod steel guitar app
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You don't need and iPhone. The new Apple " iTouch" iPod works the same way, but without the phone.
Looks like a terrific app, and only $.99.
Dennis |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2009 9:41 am
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| Josh Cho wrote: |
| ...and sounds so realistic! |
It even emulates a real drummer with bad time. |
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seldomfed
From:
Colorado
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Posted 13 Aug 2009 8:33 am
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hey that was my idea 
well, for $1.99 (price went up) it's sorta fun. Ain't no steel. It could evolve into a useful tool for learning - like experimenting with tunings, copedants, finding chords and scales.
As iPhone apps go, the 1.0 version usually sucks, then with updates things get better. Send them feedback for features and functions.
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- have presets for tunings by artist? ie. select 'sneaky pete' and the tuning snaps to that, would be a great way to have info documented.
- let you save a couple 'user' tunings, right now it wont' (that I can find)
- perhaps even string guage ranges for tunings?
- the coolest would be a steel guitar 'chord finder' like 'Chordmaster' iPhone guitar app by Planet Waves Type set your guitar, tuning and copedant, then type in a chord name and it would show inversions and pedals needed. That would be worth $1.99
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Chris Kennison
Rhythm Cats - steel, guitar, banjo, dobro
Gold Canyon, AZ
www.rhythmcatsshow.com
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