Turn your ppc into a guitar

[ryallchild]

hey i saw a link posted by gimme5 to an app made by iperov at xda to turn your ppc into a guitar and it works suprisingly well. i have it running on my touch pro and love it check out the thread at xda here. all props to iperov at xda and gimme5 for his post on it i just didnt see it here in the software form and thought some ppl would like it!

[ryallchild]

anybody try this yet?

[nuguy]

Looks like fun, Ima gonna give 'er a try...

[WanderingMinstrel]

I've been playing with this since it came out. The idea and sound are great. You can really strum the strings and get a guitar sound with minimum lag. It's amazing because you can't hit two notes at a time on a TP to make polyphonic chords.

That's the part I love. The other part is that on a TP, you have to experiment a lot to find stuff. The buttons that work (to set up and make chords play) seem to be the volume levers and the Back button. The chords are a mystery though. You actually can change and play them but I don't know how to get the chords I want. Someone who plays guitar might be able to guess better than I can. (I play banjo, 4 and 5 string, which have different tunings and chord positions.)
Finally, the X button is microscopic. It's in the upper lefthand corner and if you peck around with your stylus, eventually you will hit it and be able to close the app without a soft reset.

Conceptually, it's brilliant though. And it's a work in progress that is worth following if you have any interest in making music on your WM phone.

[ryallchild]

if you know how to read tabs you can basicaly just transfer the tabs to the fretboard on the program, on the touch pro i can use all the directional buttons and the volume buttons for chords.

[PDAPhoneJunkie]

The strings are backwords. The low E should be on top.

[guitardoc64]

I've been messing with it for a couple weeks, offering suggestions and waiting for it to get better. On the Vogue the sounds are kinda crackly, and the strings (to me) are backwards from low to high, but I really like the idea.

[ryallchild]

well the way the string are now your making the chords with your left (assuming your using the d-pad) and strumming with your right same as normal, but that being said i agree it feels backwards

[guitardoc64]

I figured out you can just turn it over to make everything work, using my right hand on the "strings" and the left to push the buttons to change chords. My main issue is the sound crackles. iperov did post that it is a problem with Qualcomm processors, I'm hoping for a fix.

[ryallchild]

yea ive also got the crackling problem but for it being a phone, it makes a good guitar lol