Guitar Scale Console vs S
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Guitar Scale Console
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Step into the ultimate music theory console. Designed for modern guitarists and musicians, this app turns your device into an interactive fretboard and a dynamic backing track generator. Whether you are exploring complex scales, mastering new tunings, or practicing your solos over drone, pad, organ, and piano sounds, everything you need is right at your fingertips. Key Features: Interactive Fretboard: Visualize scales, root notes, and intervals instantly across multiple alternate tunings. Practice Instruments: Jam and practice your solos over rich, real-time Drone, Pad, Organ, and Piano backing sounds. Emotion-Driven Chord Discovery: Preserve the exact feeling you want in your solos and instantly discover the chords that fit that mood. Features over 20 scales including Major, Minor, Pentatonic, Blues, Dorian, Lydian, Harmonic Minor, and many more. Premium Dark UI: A sleek, hardware-inspired, and distraction-free interface designed for deep focus and creativity. Reach pro-level in your solos, map out the fretboard, and take your musical journey to new dimensions!
S
This app is a polyphonic synthesizer that works with specific hardware. It offers a variety of sound engines, filters, and effects for creating unique audio textures. Advanced modulation options and a flexible routing system allow for deep sound design.
- Dual engine slots per voice
- Multiple sound flavors (analog, wavetable, FM, speech)
- Classic and Modern filter modes
- Advanced FX rack
- Two free-routing LFOs
- Unified mod matrix
- Standalone, AU, and AUv3 formats
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s-2 is a polyphonic synthesizer designed to work with the Roland AIRA Compact S-1. ENGINE Each voice runs two parallel engine slots that mix together. Pick a sound flavor per slot, including: • Classic analog — saw, square, sub, noise, pulse-width • Wavetable • FM • Speech • Chord • Plucked string FILTER AND FX Classic mode runs a vintage-style ladder filter into a simple Delay → Chorus → Reverb chain. Modern mode swaps in a multi-mode SVF (LP / BP / HP) followed by a 3-slot Advanced FX rack with Bitcrusher, Drive, Flanger, Phaser, Auto-Filter, Tape Delay, Plate Reverb and Chorus. MODULATION Two free-routing LFOs (sine / triangle / saw / square / random / noise, with optional clock-sync), a dedicated filter envelope with two destination slots, and a unified mod matrix dialog that visualizes every routing in one place. Click any knob in Learn mode to assign — no digging through menus. FORMATS • Standalone for iOS • Audio Unit (AU) for Logic Pro and other AU hosts • AUv3 plugin for iPad / iPhone in AUM, GarageBand, Cubasis and more - s-2 is an independent third-party application. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Roland Corporation. "Roland", "AIRA", "AIRA Compact", and "S-1" are trademarks of Roland Corporation, used here only to describe MIDI compatibility between this app and that hardware.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: S at Free against Guitar Scale Console's $1.99. On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
S is free to download; Guitar Scale Console costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Guitar Scale Console ships an update every 3 months, S every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Guitar Scale Console | S |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Batikan Bozkurt Kursat | Mathias Kirkerød |
In-app purchases
Guitar Scale Console
No in-app purchases
S
No in-app purchases









