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PocketGuitarVersion: 1.2.2

$0.99
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2.0 out of 5 mice Reviewed May 29, 2009 Reviewed Version: 1.2.2
18650 user reviews

Age rating: 4+

Compatibility: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later

Filed Under: Music

PocketGuitar turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a virtual guitar. You can press and strum strings, just like a real guitar.

You can choose the sound from 6 instruments - Acoustic-Electric Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Muted Guitar, Electric Bass and Ukulele. You can also choose effects from Distortion, Chorus and Delay and edit parameters.

NOTICE: If the application is displayed in Japanese instead of English and you want to see the English messages, please change your language preference to English first and change it back to your language (e.g. German) again.

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Reviewed Version: 1.2.2

Guitar simulator doesn’t fit well on the iPhone’s screen

by Brian Beam, Macworld.com

When native apps finally became available for the iPhone, PocketGuitar was one of the first ones I bought. Having been a guitar player for most of my life, I thought this app was so cool. I was impressed by the way developer Shinya Kasatani mimicked the guitar fretboard and provided various types of guitar sounds (electric, classical, and so on). I also liked how you could choose alternate tunings, do hammer-ons and pull-offs and set up other effects. Unfortunately, this held my interest for all of about 30 minutes. In that time, it became apparent that learning to play even the simplest songs on the PocketGuitar was going to take hours of my life, which I would rather spend playing a real guitar.

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Fun but not usable

Reviewed by khaugen

It's fun to play with the distortion effects and different instruments, but you can't exactly play it for real. If it had some kind of chord tutor in it, it would be worth it, but as a 'guitar of desperation' you're better off borrowing a real one on the street.

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