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NOVIQ Practice.
The practice room, on its own.

Learning a song is a different job from playing it on the night, so it is getting an application of its own. Loop and slow down any song, take the guitar or the vocals out, and plug in and play along through a real amp capture - built on the same engine as NOVIQ, and kept off the laptop you take on stage.

Slow down without changing pitch Take the guitar or vocals out Tuner, metronome, fretboard, licks Amp captures & cab IRs A practice plan that adapts

Not available yet  ·  In development - what follows is a preview of the current build, and may change before release

The NOVIQ Practice player: a song's waveform with a section looped in amber, markers reading 'switch to drop D here' and 'closed hand on this turnaround', a transport with A/B loop points and a tempo of 128 bpm, faders for the guitar and vocal parts, and the song's detected key, E minor.
The chromatic tuner, showing standard tuning's six strings and a needle gauge.
The player

Learn any song off the record, at your own speed

Drop a song in and it is yours to take apart: see it, loop it, slow it, mark it up - and keep the stretches you are working on as exercises that remember how fast you got them.

A waveform you can aim at

Zoom right in and hold Shift to drag a loop across the exact bars you want. Set A and B from the transport, or press L to take the loop from the top - the press you make more than any other when working a passage.

  • Slow down to any speed without changing pitch
  • Markers with notes - “closed hand on this turnaround”
  • Save a loop as a named exercise, with your best tempo
  • Cut a section into a song of its own
  • The song's key and tempo, worked out for you
  • A click that lands on the recording's own beats
The practice player with a loop from 1:16 to 2:11 highlighted in amber, and the buttons Save as exercise and Cut to a song.

Take the guitar out - or the vocals

A separating model splits the song once, on your machine, and keeps the result. Then each part gets its own fader: down to a whisper under you, or solo it to hear every note.

Save it as it sounds

Found the arrangement you want to play to? Save the whole song with your faders applied, or export the guitar or vocals alone to take anywhere.

Key and tempo, detected

Every song shows its key beside it - and says so honestly when it could be either of two. The tempo is measured from the recording, so the click sits on the band's own beat.

The toolbox

The tools you used to open five apps for

All of them one click from the song you are working on.

The tuner in standard tuning, with a needle gauge.

Chromatic tuner

Straight from the microphone or your interface. Pick Drop D or another tuning and it shows six targets, measuring the string you are actually tuning.

The metronome at 100 bpm with Traditional, Polyrhythm and Polymeter modes.

A metronome with three modes

Traditional with subdivisions, polyrhythms like 3 against 2, and polymeters like 7 over 4. Tap tempo, accents, and a tempo that climbs by itself.

The fretboard explorer showing E major across 15 frets, with its harmonic field and scales for improvising.

Fretboard & harmony

Any scale or CAGED shape, lit up on the neck. Pick a key and see its seven chords, plus the scales worth reaching for over them.

The licks library with a B.B. King blues turnaround and a James Hetfield metal gallop, each with tab, difficulty and a tempo range.

A curated licks library

From the blues to metal, filed by style and by player. Each lick has tab, a difficulty, a tempo to aim at, and remembers the fastest you've played it clean.

The guitar rig

Plug in. Sound like the record.

Play along through a real amplifier capture instead of a thin, dry DI - without leaving the song you're learning or opening another program.

A whole signal chain, in the order you want it

Guitar→Noise gate→Pedal→Amp head→Cabinet→7-band EQ

Load any Neural Amp Modeler capture, put a captured pedal in front of it and a speaker cabinet impulse response after it, then drag the stages into any order.

  • Match loudness, so choosing between captures is about tone
  • Save the whole rig as a preset - chain, gate, EQ and captures
  • Shares the sound card with the song, at the song's rate
  • Rate, latency and dropouts shown while you play
The guitar rig: an input dial, then a chain of noise gate, pedal, amp head, cabinet and equaliser, with the amp head open to choose a capture.
The practice plan

Open the app, say how long you have, play

Fill in one page about yourself once. After that, every session is built for you - the right exercises, in the right order, for the time you actually have today.

The About you page: level set to Intermediate, blues and rock chosen as the music to play, and Improvisation as the goal.

A plan that knows who it's teaching

Where you are, the music you want to play, the players you want to sound like, the songs and solos you're stuck on and the days you can practise - turned, with your own practice log, into today's session, with the reason for every part written underneath.

  • Each exercise says what it trains and what to listen for
  • Spaced repetition brings back what you've left too long
  • “Don't like this one” swaps it out for good
  • Tempo logged per exercise, so progress is a number
  • An optional AI coach - off until you switch it on
Why a separate app

Two jobs, two applications

The practice room used to live inside NOVIQ. It has moved out, on purpose.

The stage carries only the show

NOVIQ, the app you take on stage, keeps just what a show needs - and never needs the internet to play.

Its own library and settings

NOVIQ Practice will have its own name, icon, library and settings, and can run beside NOVIQ without touching your show.

The same engine underneath

It plays through the same audio engine as NOVIQ, so every fix to one reaches the other.

Want to know when it's out?

NOVIQ Practice isn't available yet. Drop us a line and we'll tell you when it is - and in the meantime, NOVIQ is ready for your next show.