App Profile: BTS for WAZA-AIR

Dog Paddle

Rating: 3/5

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.

D1Stewart

Rating: 3/5

It works pretty well with the WAXA-AIR headset amp. But it needs to have a landscape format—it needs to be able to flip for use on the iPad. And the virtual knobs that control two different effects are horrible. They’re not really usable. The effect on/off is also pretty inscrutable. Each effect should have its own on/off and setting knob.

Stmoxon

Rating: 1/5

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.