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 apps of the last year?
I haven't been following most new apps, over the last year, but as sale season is coming up I figure I'd better put together a shopping list. Already have heard about Ruismaker Noir and Digital D1. Let's hear it!
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apeMatrix
Fabfilter Pro-Q 2
Patterning 2 (if you don't have 1)
StepPolyArp Unit
Der Voco
Then whatever brambos, FAC, Audio Damage, and Klevgrand released this year.
SpaceCraft gets my vote for its sheer beauty and came it out of nowhere.
Korg electribe wave, stagelight
Spacecraft is the app of the year for sure. The coolest thing to hit iOS since Animoog.
In the last one year?
SynthMaster One!
Primer
D1
Tricky, been a very good year. Highlights for me are:
Spacecraft
Steppolyarp
Quanta
Riffer
Noir
Plus the apps that went AU.
D1
Middle East Drummer
iBassist
Model D
Zeeon
Syntronik
Kleverb
DAW Cassete
Degrader
Xequence
Ratshack Reverb
Perforator
Spacecraft
KEW
Tardigrain
Kosmonaut
Streemur
Ape Matrix
RE-1
D1
Synth One
Patterning 2
Riffer
Korg Electribe Wave gets my vote.
SpaceCraft
Riffer
Zeeon
RE-1
Kosmonaut
Gestrument Pro
My vote would go to Spacecraft as well.
Audio kit Synth One
Gestrument pro
ApeMatrix
These developers standout in my mind for their updates and new apps this year
apeSoft apeMatrix and updates across their range of apps
Audiobus 3 significant progress towards squashing IAA zombies and fx routing.
Audio Damage great effect and synth apps
AudioKit fantastic open source synths
Kymatica AUM Gestrument Pro
BeepStreet Zeeon and Sunrizer AUv3 reboot
Bram Bos Rozeta and Ruismaker everywhere in my setups
Erik Sigth refreshed and AUv3 updates
FAC effects are a primary tool to enhance your music
Jim Pavlov GR16 has had excellent and consistent upgrades/updated.
iceWorks refreshed AUv3
iMusicAlbum out of this world sounds
Mark Watt SpaceCraft nice take on granular synthesis
Open Labs StageLight early days but this DAW seems to click for me.
James N Square Synth 2 very cool chip tune synth
Wolfgang Palm updated high quality wavetable synths
Ryouta Kyra KQ Dixie KQ Mini Synth very efficient with frequent updates
Sugarbytes AUv3 goodness addded
SynthMaster One powerful versatile efficient synth
VirSyn new apps and AUv3 reboots of synths.
VoiceSynth reboot of excellent AUv3 vocoder
Groove Rider by a landslide
KEW
Synth One
Loopseqe8
For apps released in 2018
Noir
Kleverb
D1
MidiEcho
Gestrument Pro
Degrader
GotoEQ
RE-1
AudioLayer
Woodpressor
Patterning 2
ProQ2
iBassist
RX-950
StreamByter
Audiokit Synth One
Spacecraft
ScaleBud
ARPbud
DAW LP
ApeMatrix
SynthMaster One
DerVoco
DLYM
Kronecker
Perforator
FAC Envolver
ADverb2
DAW Cassette
Volt
Model D
FAC Transient
Kosmonaut
Samplist
Tardigrain
GrandFinale
Discord4
KQ Dixie
Filterstation2
WHAT A YEAR!!!! 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
I named three, then realized I could have named 50.
I really enjoyed going back through what was released and I missed some as well. We have so many amazing production tools at our fingertips!
For me,
Kleverb.
Tardigrain.
FAC Transient
Woodpressor
Woodulator
Degrader
APEmatrix
ProQ2
GotoEQ
Some amazing FX this year.
Synthmaster One, lovely synth with both bottom & crunch, and, versatile, sounds amazing and can do any sound!
Audiokit D1... Sounds good too, but the strongest things that amaze me is the nice UI, how easy it is to manage and how energic the developers are!
Groove Rider GR16, funny, sound good and just like above; nice developer that develop with an speed that almost nobody into iOS can beat!
But, there’s at least ten more apps in sound creation that easily can have made top tree...
2018?
KEW
D1
NS2
I don’t know SpaceCraft after that last MIDI update really did become a very solid choice!!
Galileo 2 allowed for more traditional keyboard players to have nothing but AUv3 for their setup!!! That is huge!
I think that’s it for me. I’d say Grooverider but there is a frequently commented on post here that would strongly suggest otherwise. Also, poor time signature support, so that kind of kills it for me
I’ve been out of control this year, I bought 29 paid apps!!
Have to say I'm really freakin peaved I bought Galileo 1 a few days before 2 came out. 1 is still cool and all, but...
let me just add NOIR. EFFING INCREDIBLE.
Gestrument Pro, by a mile.
Sunrizer getting AUv3
Spacecraft
D1
apeMatrix
Tardigrain
Quanta
Reason Compact?
Yeah, I think there was a sale or something then. You could have got a refund, but it’s too late now I think. So, one major advantage of Galileo 1 is you can use it as an IAA effect. So, rotary speaker on guitar!!! Etc. We don’t have many ways of doing rotary speaker as an effect as far as I know Cubasis is the only other reasonable option and what if you don’t want to be stuck in Cubasis.
Spacecraft (dude has only just gotten started)
I bought V2 as well. V1 was good enough I sold my Hammond L122! Though I do regret that a little.
The leslie effect is very good. V2 is definitely an improvement for Key click and a few other things like how pulling down the drawbars sound. Amp sims and FX are LOL but it's a cheap ass app that delivers a great base organ tone.