BTS for WAZA-AIR

It’s nice that the app has a built-in tuner but… no metronome? Please, the app needs one. Being able to practice with wireless headphones is priceless, but not being to do so without a metronome is counterproductive. Also, when playing, sometimes the headphones stops producing sound, even when the transmitter has the green light on. I have to unplug the transmitter and plug it in again so it works again.

I tried using this app on my ipad, iphone, and ipod touch. The ipad and ipod touch were never able to connect to the Waza-Air at all. My iphone did connect to it, but when I tried to use the app to edit the settings on one of the sound patches, I kept getting a message that the app was having trouble communicating with the Waza-Air. So I tried turning bluetooth off and back on against to reset the connection, but my iphone was never able to detect the Waza-Air again. Without a functioning app, the Waza-Air is no better than a $30 plug-in headphone amp, yet it costs $449. So I’ll be returning it soon.

In general, this app does what it needs to and works ok. Some folks have articulated their unhappiness that Bst/Mod and Delay/Fx knobs are either-or rather than separate knobs that allow all to be on at the same time, but I believe this is simply a limitation of the number off simultaneous effects that the processor can handle. It’s not an insurmountable obstacle as most of the effects show up in both the Mod and Fx menus, and the reverb knob can be set for combined delay+reverb… so it is possible to get drive+effect+delay+reverb chain. Navigation could be more intuitive. Most of all though, I wish it had a dedicated iPad version that allowed landscape mode.