AMPAD
Rich Mcdonald Music iPad
AMPAD is a free Music app for iPad by Rich Mcdonald. Requires iOS 26.0. Updated August 29, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 33 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Aug 29
- 2026 · v1.0
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About AMPAD
AMPAD is a guitar rig and recording studio built for iPad. Plug in a USB audio interface and play through five circuit-modelled amps or load your own Neural Amp Modeler captures. Then record, arrange and mix — without leaving the app. AMPS Five original amp models, each with its own control layout rather than one generic set of knobs. Choose a microphone, move it across the cone, and set how much room you hear. NAM CAPTURES Load .nam files and play them live. Both the classic and Architecture 2 formats are supported. Eight slots, four recallable presets each, with a noise gate, three-band EQ and an impulse response loader for cabinets. FIFTEEN PEDALS A boost, a compressor, overdrive, fuzz, a vintage compander, two choruses, a vibrato, tremolo, tape delay, digital delay, and two reverbs — every one built from measurement rather than a preset curve. Drop up to eight onto the board, drag to reorder, and the signal path follows exactly what you see. STEREO Switch a rig to stereo and the delays and reverbs open up into two genuine channels, carried independently through everything downstream and into a matched pair of amp instances. THE STUDIO Multitrack recording with a timeline built for touch. Trim, move, loop, comp and split takes. Warp the tempo of a finished arrangement. Bounce a mix when you’re done. Every take is captured twice — once through your rig and once clean. So you can change the amp, swap a capture, or rebuild the whole pedal chain long after the performance, and hear it re-rendered against the original playing. PER-TRACK RIGS Each track owns its own signal chain, edited as a chain: tap any block to open its controls underneath. Save a whole rig — pedals, order, settings, amp and all — and recall it on any track in any project. SESSION DRUMMER Build drum parts from patterns with a sampled kit, in three feels tuned to different eras of production. ALSO INSIDE A chromatic tuner with five tunings, a sample-accurate metronome with tap tempo, and per-track volume, pan, mute and solo. An audio interface is recommended for the lowest latency.
App privacy
The developer, Rich Mcdonald, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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