iPhone Apps for bass player - (esp your fave tuner...)

[LukeFRC]

So yesterday I made the switch from Android to iOS ... it's an odd feeling...

So I need something to replace my nice android guitar tuner I used. - what do you recommend?


(and so thing thread is a little more interesting for everyone else... what other bass related apps should we all check out?)

[Kev]

I think you are going to be somewhat surprised at how much more you can do with iOS Lots and lots to explore!

But for a tuner, the Polytune App I have found the best and least glitchy for me

[DawnPatrol1990]

I would recommend the David Ellefson Rock Shop app, it's a fine app, has a couple of different bass & guitar amps on it (if you know who David Ellefson is, you'll know he uses Hartke stuff mainly so the main bass amp on there is made to look like one of their Hydrive stacks). Has a built in tuner, couple of effects and you can play any songs you have on your device through it to play along to.

[ahpook]

I use Cleartune for bass and acoustic guitar and Mrs. Pook's used it for violin as well.

Works well for us

[dannybuoy]

There are tons of apps with effects and amp models too, check out Tonestack, JamUp, BIAS, AmpKit, and FluxFX!

[xgsjx]

Guitar Toolkit is a brilliant app. I have the polytune app, which is really good, but I find I use the one in GT (they're both equally as good.
The advantage of Guitar Toolkit is it has a whole host of helpful things, such as metronome, scales & chord finder & you can choose which instrument you're using (bass, 5 string, banjo, 6,7 or 8 string guitar, uke, etc). Well worth the £6.

[TrevorR]

I've got the Pro Tune app and it seems pretty good to me.

Love using OnSong for chord sheets and PDFs. I control it with a Bluetooth foot pedal. Very handy.

[mingsta]

If you have a need to practice covers, then SweetMidi is hands down the best midi player I've found by a long shot. It's the reason I've stuck with my ancient iPad 2 rather than switch to an android tablet.

[steve-bbb]

Amplitube is good for headphones (never tried the output fed anywhere else tbh) has several in app purchases for effects and amp models (you will need an iRig adapter or similar to plug in)

if you have midi keyboard iRig make one that is extremely compact and does midi, xlr, and jack inputs, and some of the software synths available are pretty amazing

Also not a cheap app but well worth forking out if you have multiple uses is Audiobus which allows routing configurations between multiple different apps

Polytune or Ultratuner are good for tuners

Edited January 10, 2016 by steve-bbb

[chriswilliams666]

I really dig the Peterson "strobe" style tuner. Seems super accurate and have run alongside the physics desktop version. Would recommend an interface instead of internal mic though. iRig is dead cheap but the line 6 sonic port sounds the best IMO.

[Bigjas]

The Polytune tuner app has always worked well for me over the years. I don't use ios for anything else, so will be interested to see what else is out there.

Jas

[Pukie]

Here's a really long thread with some links... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/230948-ios-for-the-gigging-bassist"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/230948-ios-for-the-gigging-bassist[/url]

After reading it (when it was a lot shorter !!) I plumped for, and can recommend JamUp + bass expansion pack for headphone practice