Today will be very interesting topic for those who actively use mobile devices from Apple. Specifically, I would like to talk with you about how to connect an electric guitar to iPad, iPod and iPhone, and what application we need for this.

Probably, many owners of Apple devices already know or have at least heard that using the iPad tablet platform, iPod media player and iPhone smartphone, you can create your own music studio.

Certainly, we are talking not about a professional studio, but about the fact that with the help of iOS you can realize creative ideas in a virtual environment, using special applications and additional accessories for this.

Method number 1. Guitar Connect Cable

A company that develops and produces accessories for home and portable devices, called Griffin Technology, announced in 2010 the release of a product that should interest many musicians (yes, in fact, it has already become quite popular).

Guitar Connect Cable is a special cable for iPad, iPod or iPhone that allows you to connect an electric guitar to any of these devices and automatically recognize it.

Using additional iOS software such as iShred amp and other similar programs that can process the sound of an electric guitar, you can get a lot of interesting effects. The cost of the cable on the official website of the company is $29.99, but you can order it in China for 2 times cheaper.

Method number 2. Guitar Connect Pro

Also quite unique and interesting device from the same Griffin Technology. Guitar Connect Pro is a special adapter that has a standard 1/4″ jack and a built-in control to boost the output signal.

It can be quite easily and quickly connected to any Apple device. Using this adapter, you get a very high quality and fully digital electric guitar connection using the Garageband application or any other program that can use the audio core of your i-device.

According to the manufacturers, Guitar Connect Pro is by far the most efficient and easiest digital audio interface for iOS devices, which is designed to work with all musical instruments (electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, electric violins) that have a standard 1/ 4″ "jack".

With this device, you can turn your tablet or smartphone into a mini-studio to rehearse or perform your track live. The regulator located on the side of the case allows you to adjust the output signal level.

The Guitar Connect Pro is a simple and intuitive device that has a 1/4″ mono jack input for standard instrument cables on one side, and an output for iPad tablet and iPhone smartphone docks on the other.

The sound can be put both on the speakers and on the headphones or the built-in speakers of the iPad. This adapter is silent and fully digital. Compatible with iPad, iPad2, iPhone4/4S. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. GuitarConnect Pro is priced at $79.99.

Method number 3. iRig

Another cool device for connecting an electric guitar from IK Multimedia, which has been a leader in the market of innovative digital solutions for musicians since 2002. The company's activities are largely aimed at developing various guitar amplifiers and effects, including for the mobile segment of iOS devices.

iRig provides the ability to perfectly connect your guitar to your iPad, iPod or iPhone using an adapter and a special AmpliTube app that acts as a virtual processor. Simply plug your guitar into the iRig adapter and then plug it into your Apple device.

To output sound, use headphones or active speakers, you can also connect to an amplifier. You will also need to download and install the AmpliTube program in iTunes and after that you will enjoy playing the guitar. The declared price for iRig on the official website is $29.99. Link to aliexpress.

AmpliTube features:

• Game without sound delays in real time
• 11 effects, 5 amps, 2 mics, 5 cabinets
• Includes digital tuner and metronome
• Ability to create and save your own presets (up to 36)
• There is a function of recording tracks with 8 tracks, a mixer and effects
• Import and listen to samples and tracks in the background
• Ability to change the playback speed of tracks

Method number 4. Homemade iRig

This method will appeal to those who are friends with a soldering iron and want to save a few bucks. An iRig analog can be easily made in one evening with the necessary components. So, the recipe.

In order to make iRig we need:

• 4-pin jack 3.5 mm
• Capacitor 0.047uF
• 10 kΩ resistor
• 1/4″ mono jack (input)
• Connector 1/4″ stereo "jack", 3.5 mm "jack" (output) is possible

Such parts are easy to find in any radio market. To power various peripheral devices, the 4th contact on the “jack” is intended, which is supplied with a voltage of 2.7 V. To prevent this voltage from entering the input, a capacitor is installed.

A resistor is also important, which is connected to 4 and 3 pins. By measuring the power load, which we have 2.7 V, the program thus scans the connected device. If the resistor is missing, then the program may crash.

Connect an electric guitar or microphone to the mono input jack, and headphones or an amplifier to the stereo output jack. We do everything according to the scheme, after that we connect the guitar and enjoy.

So we have considered with you several options for how to connect an electric guitar to an iPad, iPod or iPhone. All these gizmos can be found in online stores or on Aliexpress and ordered with a strong desire, especially since the reviews are mostly positive everywhere.

iRig AmpliTube for iPad

iRig AmpliTube for iPhone

Tuner for tuning

guitars is undoubtedly the most convenient guitar tuning tool. Using a guitar tuner, you have the opportunity to tune the instrument before each lesson on your own. Today, a tuner can be easily purchased at any music store, and if you have a computer, you do not need to buy anything at all. Download a program from the Internet - a guitar tuner and tune it through a microphone.

Computer programs for guitar tuning:

The principle of operation is as follows, you extract the sound on the string, it is picked up by a microphone attached to the sound card of the computer, and from there to the guitar tuning program. The tuner, having measured the frequency of the sound, displays the note on the screen. If the string is not tuned, the indicator deviates from the “zero” mark and you visually determine whether to tighten the string or loosen it. As soon as the indicator mark on the screen coincides with the indicator, the string is tuned. The quality of tuning is not inferior to inexpensive models of guitar tuners.

virtualtune- a program for tuning the guitar, by clicking on the desired strings, you extract the sound and tune your instrument by ear. Very easy to use gadget.

The topmost bar, "Input Level", shows whether the program picks up sound from the microphone. Play the guitar or just say something into the microphone. A light green indicator will appear on this strip, and on the right in the square field you will see a sound wave pattern (useless, but beautiful!). If the program does not respond to your guitar or shout into the microphone, try clicking once on the program window, it may not be active (in this case, the title of the window says: "Guitar tuner - Muzland.ru (not active)"). Or the microphone is muted.

Finally, the sound appeared, the upper strip flashed in green and it's time to tune the guitar.

Fine tuning.

Now tune the string exactly to the desired frequency. To do this, use the second green strip with the name "Frequency (cents)" and an indicator strip. When fine-tuning the guitar, the running indicator coincides with the red marks on the scale (the "zero" point):

Tuners for smartphones:

Yes, the owners iPhone"They not only know how to click like, do research and poke at the iPad. Many of them know how and love to play the guitar. And only laziness does not know about the popularity of the iPhone as an application platform)

Gibson competently coughed up notorious handsome on right behind advertising his guitar tuner Gibson Guitar iPhone App

Then the world-famous American brand Gibson could not miss the opportunity to launch its own tunerForguitars. The effect turned out to be natural. Already in the first few days after the release Gibson Guitar iPhone App (Gibson Learn & Master Guitar Application) this NOT ONLY guitar tuner has been downloaded to phones over 100,000 times and is the #1 free music app by Apple! And all because it is a really cool set of utilities that will be useful for both beginners and advanced guitarists. So what's included in Gibson Learn Master Giutar Application:

• Chromatic tuner - of course, a high quality and convenient chromatic tuner, with the possibility of advanced tuning (for example, to tune a guitar in a lower tuning). The microphone on your iPhone is used for setup;
• The standard tuner is an analogue of the tuner located at the bottom of the Watch and Play site, only designed in the form of a headstock and interactive pegs - they are signed with the corresponding note, and when pressed, they emit the corresponding sound;

• Metronome - useful and practical. Useful because playing along with a metronome instills a sense of rhythm, practical - makes the rhythmic pattern more even. And then, when you pump up the exp, and make Level Up!, you will stomp your foot on the beat without any metronomes. The metronome, commissioned by Gibson, ticks the speaker, moves the image on the display, has several preset measures and the ability to manually set the rhythm, and if you tap your finger 3 times on screen - the tempo will be set automatically;
• Chord library - and it's here. 30 fingerings are declared, suitable, beautiful, useful in oblivion of the child of revelry
• Any crap like guitar video lessons from a famous manufacturer, as well as updates from the site, which you won’t download anyway.

Two types of tuner and settings window

But while you have all the benefits of civilization at your disposal, download the tuner to tune the guitar Gibson Guitar iPhone AppA. To. A. Gibson Learn & Master Guitar Application for your iPhone or iPod

The “Green Robot”, which conquered smartphones (taking away the palm here from the old Simbian) and is located on non-iPAD tablets, is extremely popular now. Therefore, it would be blasphemy not to tell the suffering HTC drivers how to tune the guitar when, on the 20th performance of Agatha Christie's "Like at War", you hooked on some very interesting sounds that were not originally there.

Androydovodyam lucky - you have tunerForsettingsguitars-GStrings. If you decide to “saw” death metal on the violin, perform an act of exorcism with the help of the viola, mock the cello, abuse the bass, electric or acoustic guitar, jump on the piano or blow the pipes into the pipe aka wind instrument - this 130- kilobyte (!) guitar tuner For phone help correct the situation. What's there - even if you decide to give up on Hawaii, and sitting on the ocean, decide to honor the memory of Israel Kamakawivo "ole by performing "Somewhere over the rainbow" (R.I.P.), accompanying yourself on the ukulele - even in such a combobrake situation, take care of to keep your smartphone on android cguitartunerGStrings was at hand.

Joking aside, this program in combination with a smartphone can really beat an analog tuner in the middle price range. And that's why:

• as mentioned above, GString suitable for a very wide range of tools;
• combines both a chromatic tuner (using the device's microphone) and a classical (acting as a tuning fork) tuner;
• ! ATTENTION! allows you to use a 3.5mm jack as an input for an electric guitar through an adapter;
• a large number of specialized settings, such as adjusting the sensitivity of the microphone, or, for example, a tool for combating overtones that interfere with fine tuning.

The fact remains - and on standard settings, the program for guitarists GStrings does its job perfectly. So download faster, while it's free. Download link at the top of the page.

GuitarTuna is the most convenient, fast and accurate guitar tuner in the world!
With this versatile tuner you can tune your guitar, bass guitar, ukulele and more string instruments. More than 20 million people use it: from beginners to professional musicians!

Characteristics:
Accurate and convenient tuner for acoustic and electric guitars (uses the built-in microphone of your phone or tablet)
Professional mode with increased accuracy for experienced guitarists (enabled in the settings)
Convenient tuner for beginners (recommended by guitar teachers and tutors)
Clear visual response and signal history. Everything is very simple and intuitive
Auto tuning mode (super fast, no extra tapping, string by string)

Besides:
Metronome: select a beat, change the metronome sound, or manually tap the beat on the screen
Chord learning games: learn, practice and master guitar chords and learn to recognize them by ear
Chord Library: Find any chord charts you need
Learn Guitar Songs: 4 Songs with Tabs to Test Your Playing Skills
Award-Winning Sound Recognition Technology
Alternative guitar tunings
Chromatic tuner

Works with the following tools:
electric and acoustic guitar
Bas-guitar
mandolin
ukulele
viola
violin
cello
fidel
balalaika
banjo
and many other stringed instruments

Over 100 tunings, including:
standard
Open build
drop D
other low tunings
tune down half a step
tune for 7-string guitar including drop A
tuning for 12-string guitar

Additional functions:
Works great in noisy environments (automatically removes background noise)
Designed by guitarists for guitarists and developed by the world's leading audio engineers
Improve your chords, riffs, tabs, ear recognition and playing speed like you would in a guitar lesson
The ability to choose the type of headstock, like your guitar (the type of tuner is changed in the settings)

Attention:
If you are tuning a guitar for the first time, we recommend watching a tutorial video on YouTube, asking an experienced guitarist or tutor for advice, or taking a guitar tuning lesson (otherwise you could break a string).

Review:
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What is the best guitar tuner app for iPhone & iPad? This was a typical question we received. There are many guitar tuner apps out there and it might be hard to know which one you should choose. We have been working hard to bring you the best guitar tuner on iOS that works both for the beginner, the experienced and the professional musician. The interface is similar to the online guitar tuner but optimized for iPhone and iPad.

ProGuitar Tuner iPhone/iPad app is a chromatic tuner that works like an ordinary guitar tuner but right in your iOS device.

The application listens and analyzes the sound in real time from the built-in mic, headset, guitar clip on or from any other external microphone. It is so accurate that it will be your best friend for guitar intonation!

Because ProGuitar Tuner is chromatic you can tune most types of stringed instruments such as guitar, bass, ukulele, banjo, balalaika and more.

The app also offers also high quality samples of real instruments so you can tune by ear if preferred. A massive library of different tunings for guitar, bass, balalaika, violin, ukulele and more is also included.

1. About the iOS Guitar Tuner

The app uses the built in microphone of your iPhone or iPad to help you tune your guitar. You can download the app from the Apple App Store or you can use the for free in your web browser.

Many guitar tuners will only show you the standard tuning, that is; E, A, D, G, B, e. These tuners may also just look for pitches in a certain range corresponding to each string and might not notice if you play a too high or low pitch.

However, the iOS app is a chromatic. This means that you can tune your guitar to any of the 12 pitches of the chromatic scale.

You can use the tuner made by to tune other instruments than a 6-string guitar. You can tune your bass, ukulele, banjo, mandolin, violin or balalajka.

The ProGuitar Tuner is used by many professional luthiers and guitar repair shops for intonation. The Guitar Tuner tells you with professional accuracy, on the cent, if your instrument is in tune or not.

2. About the interface

To make it more intuitive, we give you information about the current pitch in many different ways. In the ProGuitar Tuner interface you can see:

1. Cents for the current pitch
2. A red/green light indicating the closest current pitch
3. A note wheel corresponding to the chromatic scale
4. A fretboard with the current tuning setting displayed

2.1 Cents for the current pitch

When we measure how far apart 2 pitches are, we use cents. The distance between two pitches that is a half step apart is divided by 100, giving us a distance of 1/100 for every half step. This is the professional accuracy you get when you use the ProGuitar Tuner.

2.2 A red/green light indicating the closest pitch

For every pitch in the chromatic scale, the ProGuitar Tuner will show you with a red or green light if you are in tune.

On both sides of the circle there are smaller lights indicating if the current pitch is too high or too low corresponding to the closest pitch.

2.3 A note wheel corresponding to the chromatic scale

The note wheel shows you where your pitch is right now in relation to other notes in the chromatic scale.

Sharp signs are shown as standard, but you can choose to display flats in the settings panel.

2.4 A fretboard with the current tuning setting displayed

The default preset is a 6-string guitar in standard tuning. Thought, you can choose from many different instruments, such as ukulele, bass or banjo. You can change both instrument and tuning under settings.

Each string will light up in red or green depending on if you are on pitch or not. A small arrow indicates if you need to raise or lower the pitch of the string to get to the desired pitch for your tuning.

If you click on any of the strings, the ProGuitar Tuner will play back the pitch of the string you just clicked. This can help you if you want a reference when tuning by ear.

If you click on the white area to the left of the strings you can change settings for what kind of instrument you want to tune (standard guitar is the preset) and what kind of tuning you want (standard guitar tuning is the preset).

3. ProGuitar Tuner - settings

Figure 2 Click on any of these two buttons to reach the setting panel.

You can get to the settings menu in two ways:

1. Click the gear wheel next to the Note wheel
2. Click the white field next to the guitar strings.

Figure 3 settings panel. 1: Instrument and tunings, 2: Favorite tunings, 3: General settings.

In the settings panel you have 3 tabs where you can adjust the following settings:

1. Select instrument and tuning
2. Display your favorite tunings
3. Change settings for what the tuner should display

3.1 Select instrument and tuning

You can use the guitar tuner found on the App Store to tune many different instruments. This is a list of instruments that the app has presets for.

guitars

• standard guitar
• 4-string guitar
• 5-string guitar
• 7-string guitar
• 8-string guitar
• 9-string guitar
• 10-string guitar
• 11-string guitar
• 12-string guitar
• 13-string guitar

Bass guitars

• standard bass
• 5 string bass
• 6-string bass

Ukuleles

• Ukulele std (Soprano)
• Ukulele (pocket)
• Ukulele (Concert)
• Ukulele (Tenor)
• Ukulele (Baritone)
• Ukulele (Bass)
• Ukulele (Contrabass)

Banjo

• 4-string Banjo
• 5-string Banjo
• 6-string Banjo

Mandolin family

• Mandolin (Soprano)
• Piccolo Mandolin
• Mandola (alto)
• Octave Mandolin (tenor)
• Mandocello (Baritone)
• Mandobass
• Irish Bouzouki
• Citern
• Greek Bouzouki

Violin family

• Violin
• Viola
• Cello (violoncello)
• double bass
• 5-string Double bass

Balalaika family

• Balalaika Prima
• Balalaika Piccolo
• Balalaika Secunda
• Balalaika Alto
• Balalaika Tenor
• Balalaika Bass
• Balalaika Contrabass

After you have selected any instrument you have to choose a specific tuning. The iPhone/iPad app provides you with over 200 custom tunings.

The tuning options are divided into groups to make them easier to find. For guitar, the categories are:

• General tunings
• Raised tunings
• Lowered tunings
• Dropped tunings
• Double dropped tunings
• Major open tunings
• Minor open tunings (cross-note)
• Modal tunings
• Miscellaneous tunings

3.2 Favorite tunings

If you have certain tunings that you often use, you can save them as favorites. This gives you easy access to them under favorite tunings.

Figure 4 The favorite tuning panel

To add a tuning to your favorites:

1. Click on the guitar in the settings panel
2. Click on Tuning
3. Click on the star next to the tuning you want to add to your favorites

3.3 Settings for what the tuner should display

Under Settings tab you make general settings for the tuner's performance.

1. Reference frequency
2. Display the frequency in the tuner GUI
3. Display notation as flats or sharps
4. Restore to default settings

3.3.1 Select reference frequency

In the settings panel you can choose a reference frequency between 415 hz and 467 hz. “A4” as 440 Hz is the standard reference frequency as this is the most common reference for modern music. There are times when you want to use another reference frequency and for this you can use the ProGuitar Tuner.

3.3.2 Display frequencies in Hertz

Click "Yes" if you want to see the detected frequency displayed in the main view.

3.3.3 Notation

You can show pitches in the tuner as flats or sharps. Sharp is the default preset.

Go to the Apple App Store and download a guitar tuner with professional accuracy for your iPhone or iPad.

As a musician, you obviously have not thought about the iPhone or iPad as an accessory for your musical instrument. But in fact, an iOS device can be a much better creative assistant for you than, for example, teammates.

We are pleased to present you a selection of our favorite guitar apps for iPhone and iPad. Whether you're a beginner looking for an inexpensive music teacher, or a seasoned pro looking to expand your arsenal with new guitar sounds, guitarists of all levels will find something useful on this list.

Songsterr Guitar Tabs

This program is a simple tool for downloading tablature from a database of over half a million high quality guitar and bass recordings. The playback function will allow you to play along with the tracks of the loaded tablature.

Highlight certain tracks and change the sounding instruments according to your preferences. Playback can be slowed down to train at a comfortable pace of the game. Songs can be downloaded for later listening and training offline. With application Guitar Tabs You will never be left without access to hundreds of thousands of songs to learn.

AmpliTube Slash

Developer IK Multimedia offers users some of the best virtual instruments in the App Store, featuring high quality sound. Program line AmpliTube- the best that the developer has at the moment. And I would like to highlight the version dedicated to the former guitarist of Guns ‘N Roses.

It features a digital effects processor based on Slash's favorite amps such as the Marshall JCM Silver Jubilee, the Marshall AFD100 and a vintage 1960 Marshall cabinet. There are also six different virtual guitar effects pedals, including OctoBlue, WahDist and X-Chours, in addition to all tuned to Slash's favorite settings. Well, is it possible to add something else about such a chic program? See for yourself:

AnyTune Pro+

Are you in a cover band and want to learn new songs with the band, but are having trouble with a particular difficult solo that you can't figure out? This application allows you to slow down any music to a comfortable perception speed without changing the pitch.

You can select certain fragments of the playback and loop them. By gradually increasing the speed you will eventually learn to play according to the speed of the original recording. Any guitarist who has ever tried to repeat a difficult solo will appreciate the usefulness of such a function. You can import any song from your music library, allowing you to parse and learn how to play your favorite songs.

GuitarToolkit

Another program from the Tab Toolkit developers. Supports Guitar Pro and Power Tab formats, along with PDF and plain text files. As a full-featured notation and tablature application, GuitarToolkit it doesn't stop there. It has useful features such as a metronome, a chord guide with over 200,000 chords, scales and arpeggios, and a tuner.

Application GuitarToolkit supports a wide variety of instruments: six-, seven-, and twelve-string guitars, four-, five-, and six-string basses, ukuleles, and more. Tune your instruments to the standard tuning or choose from a variety of alternatives. This comfortable comprehensive program can replace many of the accessories you usually put in a guitar case.