Jam Maestro: create guitar tab 4+

I absolutely adore this app!

Hello my name is Tommy, I wanted to start with how much I absolutely adore this app! It is by far my favorite music writing app for writing out tabs & midi for guitar and bass and have an amazing sounding demo track right out of my phone. I noticed a small bug where the 32nd not grid often doesn’t line up on the drum tracks along with the guitars and bass, as well as sometimes will not copy and paste the 32nd notes when copying sections; which really makes it difficult when composing and arranging. I think with a fix on the 16th/32nd/triplet note gridding it would really solve the inconsistency of the timing placement between tracks. Which would really help as I love using this app to write on the go without a computer; it just has a couple of limiting bugs that think hold it back from its full potential. As well it would be nice to be able to change time signatures throughout a song, as well as tempo. All in all an incredible app and I love to use it to write out ideas when they come up. I would love to see some of these fixes as I would love to use this app more and more for writing. Thank you for all that you do,
- Tommy

Developer Response ,

Hi Tommy!
Thanks for the love. You can actually already change time signatures and tempo throughout the song. Just set different bars for the time signatures, and tempo see the automation menu. As for the bugs, feel free to email me with the details and I’ll take a look. Cheers!

Best tabber on iOS

After a small learning curve this is a great app. Very intuitive and has some great functions like adding notation for a full band mix, customizable guitar sounds and fx, and input notes from guitar string layout. Touch input on iPad blows away trying to tab on a computer. MIDI export function is great addition. Guitar sound is very usable. Export works well too. Lots to dig into and I’m still learning more cool stuff I can do with this app.
There are some hiccups here and there, but mostly with guitar fx. I did lose one session after clicking “Restore Session” when opening the app... could have been my error in saving, idk. I just cancel that every time I open the app and it works fine.
Would love to see AU implementation! Definitely worth the money, especially on iPad. iPhone version is great also... just remember to turn the layout for different modes, that was confusing at first.
4/5 overall app
5/5 in iOS tab apps

Close to perfect

There are lots of options and good sound quality. This is an effective and versatile tool for getting your ideas onto some sort of canvas.
Cons: steep learning curve, unintuitive interface, .gpx import is not supported. Seven string tabs unsupported. Lowest tuning supported is drop A#, but the app won't let you open tabs tuned lower than that. It should just automatically set the tab to drop A# if the tuning is too low rather than not display the tab at all.

To respond to dev response: it's not that I want to see lower tunings possible in your app (drop A# is low enough for me), but rather I would like to see tab files already tuned lower be automatically formatted to A# so I can actually view them. Currently, such tabs cannot be opened. I'm aware that gpx can be easily converted to gp5, but most tabs from UG for example are gpx, which means I cannot simply grab them using Safari and view them using only my iPad. These are both simple minor inconveniences which hold the app back from perfection. Thanks for the response, I love your app and I look forward to the next update!

Developer Response ,

Find me a way to understand how to import .gpx and I may consider it :) You can always export gpx files to gp5 before exporting. Criticism about importing lower than drop A# noted. (Seems no matter how low tuning I provide someone always wants lower!).