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  • Portrait only mode.

    I really wish it’s available in both landscape and portrait. It’s so limited when I use it with my iPad.
  • Love it

    Best money I have spent on a tool to help me practice.

    It has something for everyone. I personally use the presets and just use my guitar controls with the katana go volume knob to do tweaks. I love this as I personally don’t want to mess around with settings in the app too much right now. There is a ton of features in there to mess with when I do get to that point but I love that it’s optional.

    Sessions is where I do use the app a lot. It allows me to add tracks that I want for practicing. Some really great features in there for marking points in a track and tempo control. For me I just created playlists in Apple Music and then sync them to my phone. From there I can import tracks in and use them for practice. I have also used web links and it worked as I expected.

    Librarian is great for saving tweaks as presets that I can use again later. Also being able to just jump back to the presets on the device is great. I have not messed with many of the user created sets but I have downloaded all the Boss ones and they are very fun. I mostly stick to the presets that came on the device though.

    Used tone studio to download all the boss created sets. I find it fun to swap it up a little from time to time.

    My general workflow is using the built in tuner before playing, selecting my preset from the device, opening sessions, and running through tracks I am practicing. I switch from sessions to using a metronome app on my phone.

    All this is super simple and makes practicing very easy to do. Super minimal and mobile solution that covers all my needs.

    I hope they do sort the Katana Go out in the future and offer it again. I am a hobbyist and do not really need an amp for my needs, but this checks all the boxes in what I was always looking for.
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  • Not working at all.

    After the last update it no longer works on my iPhone 6. Thanks for that!
  • Core features still missing

    So, the GO was discontinued due to manufacturing issues, but the app is indicating that in June there will be an update to enable sharing and downloading of user presets. Well, it’s just about the end of June and no update yet. Will this be abandoned?
  • Why no USB option for Katana 50 Mkii?

    I wish this app would have allowed for the control of my Boss Katana 50 Mkii amp via USB. Or, if Boss had built Bluetooth connectivity into the amp from the get-go. Or even better, if Boss had designed its amp with a mind to #UX, so that remote control via an app/dongle would not even be necessary. Imagine Tone Studio built right into the top of the amp, via a touchscreen! Boss makes some of the best-sounding pedals, but all those wonderful sounds are inaccessible to me via this app.
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  • Nearly 5 starts

    Everything that you need but I hate the fact you can’t use the app in landscape.
  • Great app but please let it go into landscape view

    This would be 5 stars but I can’t understand why it’s fixed in portrait mode. It ruins the whole experience!
  • Works, but needs a few more features

    Please make the app display in landscape orientation so it’s more useful on the iPad.
    Please fix the session song import so I can load drum patterns and other backing tracks stored on my iPad in wav, mp3 and m4a formats. It’s a PITA having to jump through the iTunes hoops…
    Otherwise the app works well, I’m enjoying my Katana:Go
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  • Love Katana GO

    This device is perfect. Software does need a little extra work. Hopefully they will continue to develop and improve the app.
  • Using with Voice Over

    This app does not seem to integrate with VoiceOver at all for adjusting any of the settings so as a visually impaired user this app is useless to me, could this possibly be looked into?

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