TabToolkit Update (Even better than Guitar Pro now, but its still on your iPod)!

I haven’t updated my apps in a while and I went to the app store today and was very excited to see that TabToolkit has come out with a new update! I personally think its just about better than Guitar Pro now, and it doesn’t hurt you can take it anywhere. 

      There have been a few minor updates since my last review on TabToolkit, but the latest was a large update which I promised to write about. Among the features up until now are some minor tweaks, the biggest of these adding support for playback of bends (for beginner guitarists or  those new to TabToolkit, Bends are where you push or pull the string sideways along the fret to bring the note a little higher and this wasn’t supported in the original version). But one thing I’ve been really wanting is a way to mush all the different instruments of a GP or PT file into one playback. When I say that I mean to have all the different virtual instruments playback at once.  

     Agile Partners has now made that option avalible along with a few more tweaks and upgrades! The way they have it set up is you pick the part of the tab you want to view and press play. By default it will play all the tracks together like a song. You can mute any tracks you want if there are a few your focusing on or whatever. The Part I really like was that you can set the volume for each track. For instance, your trying to learn a solo but you want the drums and rhthym and all that but you want to focus on the solo. You can easily mute the tracks you don’t want (e.g. vocals) and turn down the volume to the ones you want in the background and crank up (to 11 of course ) the track you want to pay attention to.  This is great for me, I’m also into DAWs and the different volume thing is just really cool to me.  Also, I personally am not a huge fan of metronomes so I have that turned off, but the addition of a drum track in the background really helps keep me in time when practicing along with it.

      So pretty much, this app which you can buy for $9.99 is as good if not better than major programs like Guitar Pro. The only thing that I was hoping for that wasn’t included in this update was to be able to veiw multiple peices of a tab at once, similar to the way text tabs work. But otherwise its my most used app (next to Shoutcast radio).

There were many different additions and such and you can read about them all here or on the App Store.

P.S. This is a new update and if I notice any other really cool features I’ll be sure to write about them.

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