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iFretless Bass

iFretless Bass is a professional virtual instrument that provides bass and guitar players with an expressive fretless playing surface. The layout is like a nine string bass guitar with the notes colored black and white like the keys of a piano. Although it looks different from a guitar neck, bass players will find it surprisingly easy to use.
Category Price Seller Device
Music $14.99 Ngo Minh Ngoc iPhone, iPad, iPod

The app's ability to measure the force of touches on the screen allows it to respond to dynamics and accented notes with a wide range of different tones for each instrument.

FEATURES
1) Over 200MB of bass samples
2) MIDI input and output
3) Audiobus support
4) Audio copy support
5) Inter-app audio support
6) 4-band EQ

BASS SOUNDS
1) Fretless bass
2) Slap bass
3) Jazz bass
4) Acoustic upright bass
5) Pick bass
6) Muted Pick Bass
7) Hard Fingerstyle Bass
8) Electric upright bass
9) Saw wave analog synth bass
10) Chameleon synth bass
11) Snarling synth bass
12) FM synth bass
13) Wonder synth bass


* We recommend at least iPad 3, iPad mini with retina display, or iPhone 5.

** iPad 2 and 1st gen iPad mini users will experience significantly better performance if they do not update their device to iOS 8.

Reviews

Very cool app design well
BBmag

Great sound and layout is easy to understand. Cool bass app...


Like it
RobFielding

It's my kind of app. Simple and workable.


Ifretless
Panders9

Fun!


Like it!
Marlow77

Great MIDI controller with effective virtual MIDI routing. I would like two things: 1) Ability to enable note-off messages too. It seems that some notes stick in BM2, but that could be BM2. 2) A vertical slider on the left with assignable cc message numbers so those who are using synths can control one parameter in addition to volume and pitch bend. Even being able to send a modulation controller message would be helpful. Also, when closing background MIDI apps, the app starts making really loud crackling sounds until network midi is re-enabled or closed and reopened. Thanks for a great app!


Excellent if not for the LOUD cracks
KevMitts

This is a great app and I would rate it 5 stars if not for the loud CRACK that occurs often when you perform a hammer-on. I about jumped out of my chair the first time it happened. It's really, really loud. And, unfortunately, blows the whole sound out. I normally would communicate directly with the developer about this but could not find any way to do that. Please fix this so I can give it a 5-star rating and recommend it to my friends! I'd also recommend setting up a blog so we can direct problems to you instead of voicing them in a review...


Incredible
valloy

This sound very good and that can't be said about to many bass apps I've purchased. Very pleased with this app great job dev hope the latency get a little better other than that it perfect.


Love the new XY pads
ReniGhost

With this latest update and the new XY pads, this becomes one of the funnest and most useful midi controllers that I own. I'm especially liking how solid virtual midi works now :)


Interesting input
John in MA

This is certainly a different way to play the iPad. Sounds are cool, but I'm not sure it beats a good bass synth.


New version needs to be fixed
dvbssman

First of all it would not install properly on my iPad 3. It took multiple try's for it to finally install. After that it crashes immediately when trying to open. I am hoping for an update soon so that I can use the app again.


Lots of Fun
Fat Veggie

Lots of fun to play with. For "fret oriented musicians", it's the next best thing to having a physical instrument. With midi, the sounds are unlimited. I'm using it with Sampletank right now. Wish List: For guitar players, an option to set the 3rd string to a 3rd and leave the rest as 4ths. For power users, an option to assign each string to consecutive midi channels, starting with channel 1 at the top. Combine that with ios apps like Midibridge or various PC/Mac apps and you'd have a huge range of performance options and tweakability.


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