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.
Your 2018 All⭐️Star Top 10 lists of iOS music apps
Just for fun... what were your top music instrument and production apps for iOS this past year? Give your ⭐️ and awards.
List as many as you want! Subdivide categories if you’d like (fav new, oldies but goodies, best bang-for-buck, most used, fav experimental, cool bread-and-butter apps, effects, sequencers, etc)
Your opinions and experiences... totally subjective and unscientific, but could be informative and entertaining...
Comments
My list of most-used, workhorse music apps for 2018. The envelope generator, please... 😄
(in no particular order)
Bebot
All PPG apps (including MiniMapper for iPhone)
AUM, AudioShare, and Audiobus 3
Aparillo
Cyclop
Korg Module
SampleWiz
Samplr
KB-1 and RM-1
AniMoog
UVI Beathawk
Noise
GeoShred pro
BM 3
Rozetta
ThumbJam, DrumJam, BumJam... (ok, i made that last one up)
(Unfortunately, a slightly inebriated Bebot gives a rambling, unintelligible award acceptance speech, punctuated by random flatulent noises. Robots can’t handle their liquor! 🤖😅)
Best new apps for me:
Riffer
Ruismaker Noir
Spacecraft
Aparillo
Discord4
Lot's of other good stuff about - it's been a very good year for music apps - but those are the ones that stand out for me.
When I think best app of the year - one comes to mind first and foremost ... Spacecraft!
NS2 - speeding up and making starting songs less stressful than some apps. I was dubious with all the hype, but it works for me.
Cubasis recording from Noise, iFretless Bass and now GeoShred.
The sample plus instruments of Embertone - would love to see more of this style of app.
Not all new, but it’s what I’ve loved this year.
For next year, I just want to see more apps play nicely and the whole process further gel into a smooth and pleasurable process and less like having to jam square pegs in round holes
Top 10 depending on how much i use them at the moment:
1. Model D
2. Zeeon
3. DRC
4. Model 15
5. Finger Fiddle
6. Mitosynth
7. GarageBand
8. TF8
9. Animoog
10. iSymphonic
I bet next year NanoStudio2 will be on Nr.1
Ruismaker Noir ...definitely my favorite new app.
Used daily, in no particular order:
Modstep
Icegear Laplace, Lorentz, Redshrike
Ruismaker OG, FM
Virsyn Audiolayer
Virsyn Tera
Stagelight gave me back the joy of easy fiddling around
Nanostudio 2
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Grooverider GR16
Troublemaker
Ripplemaker
Phasemaker
Kosmonaut
Perforator (obviously @brambos is my hero
Zeeon
Electribe wave
Stagelight
DAW
1 Cubasis (for some reason i keep finding my self going back to it after i experiment with other daws)
2 BeatMaker 3
3 Stagelight
SYNTHS
1 Model 15
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2 AudioLayer
3 LayR
4 Audio KIT Synth One and D1 (Waiting on the AUV3 and they will go up my list coz I LOVE EM)
5 Quanta
6 Synthmaster One
7 Synthmaster Player (JUST GOT IT TODAY,LOVING IT SO FAR AND THINK IT MIGHT GO TO NUMBER 1 DEPENDING ON AUDIO KIT AUV3 VERSIONS
EFFECTS
1Pumphouse
2 Dischord 4
3 Eos 2
4 Filterstation 2
5 AnalyserFx
6 RoughRider 2
Stagelight, NS 2, SampleTank, Amarillo, BeatHawk, Geoshred 3..
--2018 AudioGus Spew--
What a year!
Biggest Game Shifting Paradigm Changer - NS2 - It is my new hub. It is where tunes begin (and possibly end) for me on iOS now. Blew my mind right out of left field and this is even without audio tracks or AUfx automation yet. Amazed, gobsmacked at it's simplicity and playflowy utility. I can't trust my own assumptions or beliefs of what I think I need or even want anymore. Mighty devs, show me the way for soon I burn my PC in your honor.
Mightiest Synth - Synthmaster One - a robust, real deal, broad power synth. The new bar on iOS.
They Actualy Did It Award - Aparillo (they actually did it!) - For me she is the twisted sister of Synthmaster One. These two form a mighty duo!
Where is it? Award - Synthmaster One packs
You Da Man Award - Chaztrip
Best Monzo Award - There can only be one.
Most Anticipated Sexy Sexy Tease - Drambo
Tip of the Hat / Bump of the Fist - Spacecraft / Kleverb / ProQ2
Best Beta - PolyPhase - Squeal!
Best Finger Drummer - Drez
Kindred Spirit / Guiding Light - Johnny Goodyear
Next Years OMG Award - Complete Fabfilters bundle promo code for AudioGus? (A boy can dream...)
Cubasis 2
LayR
ReSlice
Quanta
Ripplemaker
Pro-Q 2
Model 15
Aum
Discord 4
Grind
@audiogus thanks for mention of PolyPhase, trying now.
It's a good one. Once all the bells and whistles are in, dayum!
🏅🏆🏅 An award goes to all who have contributed to this list! I’m researching many of your suggestions. Thanks to those who mentioned Discord 4 since i had overlooked that one.
@AudioGus... 😄 high-larious and informative. Thanks!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Korg Electribe Wave, probably one of my favorite apps of all time.
Of the apps I have bought this year:
With honourable mentions to Zeeon, Ape Matrix and St Just Organ, just because I haven’t yet fully got into them yet. And for DAWs I am split depending on the project between Auria, Cubasis and Gadget.
Of stuff that atually came out this year:
apeMatrix
NanoStudio 2
Model D
Patterning 2
Pro-Q 2
Kosmonaut
Ratshack Reverb
DAW Cassette
Kleverb
RE-1
For me it’s 80% Nanostudio 2 just now, and 20% Beatmaker 3...
But, honestly, I’ve certainly bought 100 apps this year with a lot of awesome stuff...
Coming back with a more precise list...
Ohhh, by the way, but, Synthmaster One may be the best synth ever to iPad (personal opinion)...
Why do you have to do that to us?? 😉
Amazing post @AudioGus
2018 was a very exciting year for us iOS musicians.
Some of my favorite Apps:
AUM
Audiobus 3
Audioshare
Stagelight
Ruismaker Noir
Cubasis
GeoShred
SpringSound
SynthScaper
Roli Noise
iVCS3
Moog Model 15
Moog Model D
TC 11
Neo Soul
Groove Rider GR-16
Wolfgang Palm’s Stuff
and some more, plus incredible tools like StreamByter
and of course my brand new cutie, the Haken Continuum (no, it‘s not an App) with the EaganMatrix, which is just unbelievable!
1) NS2 - the app I look forward to working with in my free nightly music making
2) GR-16 - the app I look forward to having lunch with
a) Biggest surprise app of the year - Magellan.
b) Most fun app of the year - Rozeta (by a mile)
c)Nicest eyes - Elliot Garage Waveshaper
d)Most likely to succeed - NS2
e)Most prolific Audiobus forum composer award - @MonzoPro
f) Most likely to shame it’s user award - Syntorial
g) Most likely synth(s) to get my time in 2019 - DRC and Obsidian
h)Funniest and most creative post on Audiobus forum in 2018 - @LinearLineman and @WillieNegus
Honorable mention - biggest time waster on forum in 2018 - @kinkujin
My favorite tools for production this year:
Gadget sometimes in conjunction with xequence.
Cubasis when recording midi and audio.
Electribe Wave when I want to use just one App nothing more
ROLINoise with Seaboard and Lightpads
Gestrument Pro
There are some little helpers I really like:
StepPolyArp Unit
ChordPolyPad
Autony
KB-1
Rozeta Suite
These are my preferred synthesizer:
Sunrizer and Zeeon
LayR
Syntronik
SynthMaster One and SynthMaster Player
Audiokit D1 and Synth One
Model D
Infinite
Korg OdysseI
Korg iWAVESTATION
For additional instruments I love:
BeatHawk
The complete iFretless Series
Sensual Sax
ThumbJam
For experimental stuff:
Spacecraft
Aparillo
Sliver, Shoom
FieldScaper, tardigrain
E-L-S-A
Drums and rhythm:
Patterning 2
ITablaPro
Drum jam
Ruismaker Series
AUM and Audiobus 3, Audishare are also essentials
😊
P.S.
I forgot PolyPhase - love it!
best of 2018 for me
Synths: Aparillo, SpaceCraft, Tardigrain
Fx: Kleverb, ReAmp, ProQ2
Daw: Cubasis (2018 updates)
Most Suprising: Aparillo
Most used: Tardigrain
Best Drums: Noir, Patterning 2
Most Promising: Nanostudio 2
Best GUI: SpaceCraft
Most Disappointing: Korg Electribe Wave
looking most forward to next year: Drambo, DRC AUv3, NS2 updates and AUM updates.
FAVORITE NEWISH APPS
Aparillo
D1 Digital Synth
Synth One
SynthMaster One
KB-1 and RM-1
Grooverider GR-16
EG Wave Shaper
“WHY THE FUDGE DON’T I OWN THESE APPS?” AWARD
All Bram Bos and Audio Damage apps I don’t have yet
LayR
Touchable Pro
Volt
Korg Electribe Wave
Moebius Lab
NS 2
THE “I WILL FIGURE OUT THIS APP EVEN IF IT GIVES ME A BRAIN HERNIA” AWARD
(AKA: EXCELLENT APPS THAT MAY BE SMARTER THAN I AM)
Egoist
Aparillo
PPG Infinite
Mitosynth
Virtual Ans
Audulus 3
TC-Data
Midi Designer Pro
“THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES” AWARD (AKA: NOMINEES FOR THE MOBILE MUSIC APP HALL OF FAME)
Wolfgang Palm, PPG
Doug Woods, thesoundtestroom
Jakob Haq, Haq Attaq
Analog Matt, developer Audiokit Pro
Tim Webb, disschord
Redsky Lullaby, sound design
Audiobus, app and website
VJ FranzK, demos
Jordan Rudess, innovater
Honorary awards for inspiration: Bob Moog and Co, Susan Ciani, Don Buchla, Herbie Hancock, Jexus, Roger Lynn... (and apparently the entire country of Germany for the endless synth innovation 😄)
.... and countless others. Suggestions?
👍⭐️🏅
+1
Brice Beasley, Sounddesign 👍 🏅
@haulin_notes : Aren’t there a ton of instructional videos for mitosynth though?
Garageband
Beatmaker 3
Animoog
Model D
Model 15
Filtatron
iVCS 3
Rozeta
PPG Infinite
Yamaha Synth Book
It really is the best though