- Price$4.99
- CategoryMusic
- Versions2 archived
- Installable2 of 2
- AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
- SellerWallander Instruments
- Bundle IDcom.wallanderinstruments.WI-Guitar
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Report an issue★★★★★ TOP #10 GROSSING MUSIC APP IN 17 COUNTRIES ★★★★★
WI Guitar™ is the first truly playable virtual acoustic guitar app, as well as a professional Core MIDI guitar controller over Wi-Fi.
Based on revolutionary patent-pending sample technology, WI Guitar has the sound and expressiveness of a real guitar. Includes two steel-stringed guitars, a classical guitar, a 12-stringed, twelve types of electric guitars and a Core MIDI OUT guitar for using WI Guitar as a MIDI controller over Wi-Fi (Core MIDI).
Does this sound too good to be true? It is not, and we can honestly say you need to try this app to believe it! This is why we also offer a free version, for everyone who wants to try this amazing instrument!
With WI Guitar, you can strum chords as softly or as hardly as you like, with ultra-realism. Hooked up to loudspeakers, WI Guitar is the perfect replacement for a real guitar at the party, or even in a band. Use headphones to play your favorite songs on the guitar, or write songs, on the way to work, on the airplane and everywhere else.
As an artist or songwriter, you can even use WI Guitar as a professional recording instrument. Add beautiful stereo guitar parts to your tracks!
WI Guitar includes 12 chord buttons, and the action buttons add9, sus4, 7 and maj7. In combination these give you instant access to more than 150 unique chords.
PLEASE NOTE! THE OPTION "?" BUTTON BECOMES DIFFICULT TO PRESS WITH iOS 5, DUE TO APPLE'S NEW NOTIFICATIONS CENTER. WE ARE WORKING ON A FIX!
VIDEOS (also found on our web site)
Wonderwall - WI Guitar on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCnKV0ZGHyk
Hurt - WI Guitar on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Vy1xNqQQM
TIPS AND TRICKS
- Strumming harder or softer also makes the sound stronger or softer.
- Pluck or strum closer to the board to get a stronger sound, and play further down on the strings to get a softer sound.
- If you release all fingers from the screen, all playing notes also released. If you want chords to sustain, press and hold the chord buttons while playing.
- Holding both the add9 and sus4 action buttons transforms from a major to a minor chord, and vice versa. Use this feature to also access the Gm, Fm, Cm and Bm chords.
- Holding both the 7 and maj7 action buttons produces an add6 chord.
- Hold multiple chord buttons to produce inverted chords. For example, C + E (or Em) produces a C with an E as the bass note.
- From the help panel you may transpose the chord map to any key.
- If you connect your iPad to the ION All-Star Guitar, WI Guitar will automatically enter a special mode where you can take chords on the neck of the All-Star! Also, if you hold down chord buttons in WI Guitar, the frets on the All-Star's neck light up, so you can learn how to play chords on a real guitar!
- If you want to use WI Guitar as a MIDI guitar controller on PC, please download and install Tobias Erichsen's software "rtpMIDI" from: http://www.tobias-erichsen.de/rtpMIDI_configuration.html
Ratings Over Time
| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 14, 2011 | 1.01 | — | — | $19.99 |
| March 9, 2012 | — | — | 17 | $4.99 |
| June 17, 2016 | 1.13 | ★ 4.0 | 15 | $4.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25Got this based on the reviews and am a bit disappointed. If you are just going to use it to play its probably fine. If you want to use it to make music not so much. The sounds for the most part are not pro grade. Too much reverb and or chorus and no way to modify the settings. If you listen to through high end gear or good pro headphones it is glaringly obvious and makes you want to stop playing. Playing it is a little funky also they way the transitions happen and the volume is handled. Garage band is much better for sound quality and it's much easier to play the notes. On this app one hand is always stuck touching a chord box to the left. Very unfriendly. Why not just be able to tap and sustain each chord until you want to transition??? Not really sure why this app has such raving reviews. Disappointed.
Like it~
Great sounds thanks for the fixes. Works perfect.
Thanks for the quick fix to the screen rotation problem. If you are looking for a great guitar app with excellent support, look no further. This is it!
Talk about breathing some life back into my DAW. I'm not a guitar player. Just tired of the f-ing piano roll.
This is truly a great and expressive group of guitars. but where is lacking is that it does not have the ability to save your own chord sets so that you could program a song per say and save just the chords that go with that song also it would be great to have more chords then just the basic splits and 13s and 11s would be nice. sorta like garageband does you can program the chords you wanna play in the guitar however garage bands's guitar is not as expressive and it can sound really mechanical when strumming. also the addition of some effects would be nice. a metronome and the ability to record would be greatly appreciated and last but not least Audiobus and this would be a perfect guitar app till then I gotta just give it 3 stars -- add everything mentioned above and for sure 5 stars
Honestly this app wins hands down in its guitar dynamics department...which is very impressive. That being said..that is it. No audiobus or iaa support. By itself i really dont have a use for it. Honestly if i was at a campfire id just use the real thing. To me the idea of an ap and ios portability is the ability to act upon an inspiration and with no way to record inside the app and no way to connect it to audiobus or aum or any other ios daw there really is no other use. Please, you win in the creative department now put that to good use and add some practical functions and you guys will make a million bucks
As a guitarist who is always annoyed by computers trying to emulate guitar sounds, I will say this did a pretty good job with the acoustic guitars. In my opinion, the electric guitars all sound horrible but the acoustic guitars are enough to make up for it. It's all chordal from what I can tell so if you're wanting to do a solo you can probably forget it unless your solo is all arpeggios. I play some classical guitar so it is decent for working out finger picking patterns so that's a big plus for me on this app. I'd give it 3 1/2 stars but they don't do half stars so i'll just bump it up to 4. For the price, I'd say it's a good buy. I've heard much more expensive programs that don't even come close. Electric guitars sound terrible on this though haha so just be aware of that.
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