IK Multimedia has made Dimebag Darrell's Cowboys From Hell guitar rig available for Apple iPad or iPhone, so you can now take all his legendary tones for a walk!
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Stark is a cross-platform virtual guitar amp and effects bundle with a sleek, minimalist GUI design that does without all the glitzy graphics so common in virtual guitar amp packages these days.
The new iPad Air and iPad Mini are powerful, musician-friendly, and certainly among the nicest ~USD 500 pieces of gear you can purchase at the time. Headphone jack and Lightning port, anyone?
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The NUX Mighty BT20 has four channels, each with four sound presets available, potentially making this a versatile little practice amp. An app controls the onboard tones via Bluetooth.
Can an $18 iOS app can revolutionize speaker placement for live sound? The four modules included here use Augmented Reality and some pretty nifty tech to provide features we've never seen before.
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If you have the room for authentically sampled Mellotron tapes on your iOS device then Mellotronics Streetlytron Pro will serve you up some classically trippy tape-based sounds.
New busker orientated portable amp, the new Blackstar Black Fly is an expanded and upgraded version of the ever-popular Fly series of mini amps. A busker's best friend?
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IK launches a new portable, iPhone-friendly practise amp with mini speaker: the IK Multimedia iRig Micro Amp could be the perfect practise and recording tool for guitarists.
Synclavier is using NAMM 2019 to launch a reworking of their digital synthesis engine onto iOS plus they've got a hardware knob to help you play with parameters.
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The Amplitube iOS 4.7 version brings new licensed amp models and effects, including gear by Dr Z, Jet City, Orange, Carvin, Morley, T-Rex, Seymour Duncan and Wampler.
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Aparillo is all about unfolding the life of sound through the manipulation of sine waves, synthesis, harmonics and modulation. Or you can just move stuff about to produce some fabulous soundscapes.
REAMP is a joy to look at with its pastel colors, and judging by the audio examples, the sound is on point. Among the available saturation modes are a casette deck, tape reel, and tube amplifiers.
Eventide's H9 effect platform is good choice for players that like variety in the available sound palette - its 50th algorithm is a monophonic synth effect covering 70s and 80s synths.
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Black Friday is nearly upon us and Fender want to get in on the action early. Play subscribers can get 10% off any Fender gear ordered on the company's online store.
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Digital D1 is a retro-modern hybrid synth combining virtual analog and PCM samples to offer an authentically 80's digital synthesizer experience with lots of current character.
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If the sequencer in your DAW is feeling a little stale try Riffer - the randomising, scaling, motion moving, pattern and beat generating MIDI sequencer that runs as a plug-in.
