GeoShred Play

GeoShred Play Version 7
With In-App Purchases for GeoSWAM and Naada instruments on devices running iOS 13 or later.

With GeoShred Play, everyone can shred.
Play with confidence on GeoShred’s innovative diatonic playing surface, where every key can fit the scale. Slide your finger in any direction and let the music flow with expressive vibrato, seamless fretless playing, and GeoShred’s groundbreaking intelligent pitch rounding.

GeoShred Play is the play-only version of the award-winning GeoShred musical instrument for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. It is a great way to get started with GeoShred, giving you access to the expressive GeoShred performance surface and the ability to play GeoShred Pro presets.

GeoShred Play can also be upgraded** to the functionality of GeoShred Pro, adding powerful features including preset editing, AUv3 plug-in support, MIDI/MPE, and setlist editing. GeoSWAM and Naada instruments are also available as In-App Purchases.

GeoShred’s expressive performance surface with “almost magic” pitch-rounding algorithms is coupled with physics-based models of musical instruments. It is a fusion of Jordan Rudess’ performance concepts and moForte’s powerful modeled guitar and effects technology, based on the physical modeling research of Dr. Julius O. Smith III of Stanford/CCRMA.

Awards
• 2nd Place Winner, 2022/2025 MIDI Innovation Award for Software
• Gold Medal Winner, 2019 Denny Award
• Winner, 2019 Guthman New Musical Instrument Award
• Winner, 2017 Electronic Musician Editor’s Choice Award

GeoShred Play Features
• Fluidly expressive playing surface
• Built-in physically modeled guitar
• Diatonic keyboard mode where every key is in the scale
• Backing track support
• 3D Touch on supported devices
• Inter-App Audio and Audiobus support
• Play GeoShred Pro presets
• In-App Purchases for GeoSWAM and Naada instruments
• Upgrade path to the functionality of GeoShred Pro

GeoSWAM and Naada instruments can be performed from the GeoShred keyboard, MPE controllers, conventional MIDI controllers, and wind controllers.

Praise for the GeoShred family of apps

“GeoShred is brilliant - it’s a real instrument.”
— Eddie Jobson

“A fantastic new invention which is going to revolutionize the way music is played, expressed and learned!”
— Patrick Moraz

“That’s just nuts. You’re the best guitarist-without-a-guitar of all time.”
— Joe Satriani

“GeoShred is a breakthrough musical instrument for the iPad.”
— Craig Anderton, Harmony Central

We are dedicated to delivering the highest level of musical instrument experience for our customers worldwide. If you enjoy GeoShred Play, please leave a review on the App Store.

Questions? Contact us at support@moforte.com

Minimum Requirements
iOS 13 or later is required for the GeoSWAM and Naada instruments.

* Due to App Store limitations, previously purchased individual instrument IAPs cannot be applied to the purchase of a collection IAP.
** The Pro upgrade is to the functionality of GeoShred Pro. The app remains GeoShred Play, but gains all Pro features and becomes functionally identical to GeoShred Pro

Version 7000.303.1.411 release notes

* New Application Note #54 for the Quarter Tone Keyboard * Fix for temperament issue where notes were tempered twice * Fix for global scale problems * Fix for incorrect notes on key edges * fix tuning of GeoSWAM bowed strings * Adjusted temperament of Balinese Pelog and Slendro scales * New Polkadot quarter-tone key style with on-device renderer * Polkadot Pattern designer: free-form colour picker, sticky preview, stroke/drop shadow, label circle size, help * Import/Export of Polkadot patterns for sharing * New QT (quarter-tone) Keyboard Presets * Added Shred Lead QT to Favorites * Quarter-tone vertical guide lines through key centers, with "Show 1/4 Tones" Settings toggle * Fixed Seaboard / MPE: two channels no longer fight on the same string * Fixed per-channel strum controller send for Naada effects * Updated Settings help * Revamped main menu * Improved handling of mono mode intervals/poly expression/arpeggiator for MIDI in * Proper indication of connect send/receive state after reloading DAW projects> * Optimized plug-in performance for multi-instrument projects in DAWs * Fixed custom scale temperament truncation when shift exceeds 50 cents * Fixed mouse hover crash in VST3/AUv2 plugin wrapper * Fixes to echo looper machine state * Fixed grid change detection on temperaments with large etdiffs * Backing track now plays in GeoShred Studio upon request via MIDI in * Fixed MPE manager channel expression routing in Pad Mode * Fixed octave rounding note-off mismatch * Fixed Naada strum resonance strings playing wrong key on root change * Fixed SWAM coarse tune reset on scale change * Fixed stuck note handling improvements * Fixed expression pad visual cursor not updating on MIDI input * Fixed Connect/Receive preset changes not persisting in DAW project saves * Fixed Connect/Receive MIDI configuration reverting to AU MPE on project reload in Ableton Live * Per-track MIDI configuration support * All MPE presets now respond to CC2, CC4, CC11 * Disabled legato button for SWAM/Naada instruments * Added Reset button to backing track * Fixed Music Library access alert text * Disable Edit button in MIDI mapping view when Learn mode is active * Improved help system for web and in-app