ToneDNA

Hear a tone. Play it.

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Play any recording into ToneDNA and it builds the rig behind the tone - amp, drives, delays and all - matched to your own guitar in about a minute. Every guitarist knows the moment: a tone comes on and you have to know how it was made. ToneDNA listens to the recording and builds the answer - a complete, playable signal chain, matched to your guitar, in about a minute. HOW IT WORKS 1. HEAR IT - Load a song, or capture audio playing on your device. Working from a full mix? ToneDNA can isolate the guitar first. 2. BUILD IT - The matcher auditions hundreds of rigs against the recording, derives a speaker cabinet from the sound itself, and fits every level to a capture of your own dry playing - so the rig is tuned to your guitar and your hands, not a generic profile. 3. PLAY IT - Plug in and play through the result live, with latency low enough to gig on. WHAT GETS BUILT - Amp voicings from clean American sparkle to modern high gain - Drive, fuzz, boost and compressor pedals - stacked the way the matcher hears them on the record - Delays with tape character, reverbs, chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo and rotary - A speaker cabinet derived from the recording itself - Stereo width measured from the record's own ambience Where a recording's rig is well documented, ToneDNA starts from the circuits the record actually used and fits every level from your playing - and the saved preset says so. MAKE IT YOURS Every block in the chain is open: tweak drive, swap the amp, pull a delay back, or remove what you don't need. Save the rig, tag it, and build set lists. ON STAGE Perform mode puts one song at a time in front of you - big type, next/previous, a tuner and a bypass, nothing to fumble. Step through your set from the screen or a MIDI controller, wired or Bluetooth. TUNED TO YOUR GUITAR A ten-second dry capture is all it takes, and your playing never leaves the device - the matching runs on your own hardware. Working from a full mix, the span you mark is sent up to isolate the guitar; it is held in memory only and never stored. Looking up a record's documented rig sends the song and artist, never audio. WHAT IT COSTS One Tone Scan builds one rig. Three are included to start, and more come in one-time packs - no subscriptions. Every rig you build is yours to keep, edit and play forever. GOOD TO KNOW - A USB audio interface is the way to play live through ToneDNA; the app is fully usable without one for building rigs and browsing them. - iPhone, iPad and Mac.

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Information

Seller
  • Hans Zanger
Size
  • 38.2 MB
Category
  • Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
  • English
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • 60 Tone Scans $29.99
  • 20 Tone Scans $14.99
  • 5 Tone Scans $4.99
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Copyright
  • © 2026 Hans Zanger
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