Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
Download on the App StoreAudiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.
Best "micro" app?
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Figure is the best 99 cents you could spend on an app - might even be free still right now.
Bebot and Guitarism (not sure if that's under $3 now though.)
Figure at 99 cents is hard to beat.
Edit: Another great "micro" groove machine under 3 bucks I forgot about, that recently got updated btw is TriqTraq
Wejaam,is my favourite with features like sample and synth playback and it's free and you can edit the synths with the free Wejaam designer for Mac and PC.
http://www.wejaam.com/#!wejaam-designer/cvvt
I'm a big fan of nils. Also sphero, Caelestis, Only A and Arivibes are pretty funky.
Edit: whoops! Only nils and Caelestis are Audiobus compatible. Others are still pretty funky though.
Drums by Asrodot 0.99
Another vote for Figure.
In addition to Bebot and Figure, I like Launchkey and Minisynth 2.
@Multitouch said:
Can't believe I forgot about WeJaam, since it's the groove box I'm currently using most out of all iOS groove boxes at the moment lol. Amazing app, and much more powerful then any other mentioned.
Beat Machine by Primitive Digital Software. Very promising drum machine app...
PS. First post.Hello!
Unfortunately, with figure I got what I paid for , not very much.
For free however, you get could get something that is actually usefull like
Alchemy mobile. Free can be good and in this case free can be much better than .99 cents spent.
I'm not a fan of Figure either. While I'm hardly the world's greatest musician I never felt like I was actually making any music in figure, just playing with canned loops.
Nanoloop
Animoog was released at .99 cents for 30 days before the price went up.
Nodebeat HD and Pixitracker went free, too.
In fact, both Pixitracker apps are like eating popcorn.
Another one: Music Melody Maker.
@richardyot said:
Pretty much lame canned loops even.. I just could never see what the fuss was over something as limited as it is.
If figure sounds like canned loops to you, you're doing it wrong. Yes, it's got fixed soundsets but it's pretty flexible.
LOL, I am not doing it at all. I deleted it. Go Figure.(-:
Thor was very well done however. I think the same developer did both perhaps?
Now that i can not figure out, given the later is so much more superior to the prior.
TweakyBeat!
I Am Synth.
I'm really surprised to see people underestimating Figure. Behind the scenes, that app has full Thor and a very capable drum machine running. If you're jailbroken or know how to use iFunbox you can even create your own patches. And the UI is just a joy to use for sketching.
@HelixPhoenix said:
Well for starters there's no real way to create or play your own rhythms, so for me personally I feel completely locked into what the app will or won't allow. It also feels very genre specific, so you can only really create electronica with it - this is not the case with fully fledged Thor which can be used however you like
If an app was to only let me create metal or fingerpicking country guitar I would feel equally restricted. But it's just a personal opinion, musicians that specialise in electronica can probably have a lot of fun with Figure, but clearly it's not for everyone.
You can turn off all the gating/arpeggios and scales in Figure, and lay down the beats (and synth lines) "manually" . But the idea behind figure is to be able to open it while sitting on the shitter or while waiting for the bus and bust out some beat in a min or two, that you later might wanna do something with.
What @ChrisG said, the quantization options are just to help make sketching easy. You can still do a ton with the app for the amount you pay.
Yeah, I think most people who are dismissing Figure haven't really used it enough. It's pretty frickin' sweet, and I don't do electronica music so... When you start messing with the FX (unique to each patch) you can get some gnarly sounds (and they have hilarious names on the X/Y axes, haha)
Droneo is interesting too
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tweakybeat, bebot, spacelab, h.fbk, noisemusick, dr-om...
oh wait, just one? crap...
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SeekBeats is another "micro" app. The most powerful and versatile drum synthesizer on the AppStore ATM without a doubt. 8 separate synths/tracks, 2 oscillators on each, plus envelopes,filters, effects x2. Really fun and useful parameters randomizer which = less tweaking and more playing.