Aerophone GO Plus

Roland Corporation

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About this app

Aerophone Go Plus is the essential companion app for the Aerophone GO digital wind instrument, offering extra sounds, useful practice features and additional customization options. This free app uses Bluetooth to wirelessly connect your Aerophone GO and smartphone; once connected there are over 50 extra sounds to explore, which you can try out by playing along with favorite tunes from your smartphone or working through 11 included tutorial songs. And there are several ways to learn specific songs, including slowing the tempo or looping a section so you can study it in detail. You can even customize Aerophone GO’s fingering setup or adjust the bite sensor and breath control to match your playing style. If you own an Aerophone GO, take the next step with Aerophone GO Plus.

FEATURES
・Access over 50 extra sounds on the app to expand your musical repertoire
・Play along with your favorite tunes from your smartphone
・Various song playback options help you to learn to play, including tempo and key changes, playback level adjustment, A/B repeat and center cancel function
・Build skills quickly with 11 tutorial songs
・Customize all setup configurations for comfortable playing
・Metronome function helps develop your sense of time
・Connect with your smartphone wirelessly via Bluetooth*

*You can also connect an Android device with included USB cable.

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Ratings and reviews

On the positive side, the app is useful (essential, in fact) for changing advanced settings on the instrument. Connecting via Bluetooth may take a few tries but it generally works. But the serious problem that has been noted by others is that the latency when playing the sounds in the app is bad enough that you need to use the USB connection. But I and many others have been unable to get this to work on Android devices. The phone just doesn't recognize the connection, so it's Bluetooth or nothing. And since Bluetooth is useless for actually playing the extra sounds, except to test them (and they're pretty good, too), Android users find themselves in the frustrating position of hearing the sounds, wanting to play them, but being unable to do so in a useful way, due to lag. I tried the workaround another reviewer posted but it didn't help on my Android phone, a OnePlus 6T. Roland needs to fix this as soon as possible, since as things stand the app does not function as described.

After finally realising that the Aerophone GO wouldn't connect via Bluetooth as my phone's GPS wasn't on (???), I managed to get it to connect. However, the latency between the Aerophone GO and the phone speakers is so long that its unplayable. I tried connecting via USB, that made no difference, I don't think that the app realised that something was connected.

I like the app a lot. I use it with my Samsung Galaxy S10E and have no problem with connecting whatsoever. There is a notable delay when using it with bluetooth, therefore I use it almost always with cable. The app offers a much greater variety of sounds, and these sounds are much more realistic than the pre-installed ones. What I especially like is the range of settings you can use in the app, and the lessons. These are really great, although I dont know how to increase the speed from Slow. My only question would be if you are planning to release more lessons, I would certainly be interested in that . All in all, I am pretty happy with the app.

What’s new

Fixed some bugs.