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.
You can only keep one of each type. Must be AuV3
Subtractive synth:
FM synth:
Samploid synth:
Granular synth:
Reverb:
Delay:
Chorus:
Guitar amp sim:
Compressor:
Limiter:
EQ:
Sequencer:
TB-303 synth with TR-909/808/606 drum machine:
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Personally I would ditch the FM synth and rompler (if that’s what it is) for another two Subtractive synths, but would choose ones that give more options in their osc sections.
ROMpler, RAMpler, anything that uses samples as an oscillator etc. e.g. soundfonts, wavetable etc.
Subtractive synth: Sunrizer (decided from another thread)
Granular synth: Spacecraft
Reverb: Virsyn Audioreverb
Delay: Cubasis inbuilt (though tempted by Kosmonaut)
Chorus: Cubasis inbuilt
Guitar amp sim: ToneStack (still dreaming of AUv3)
Compressor: NY Compressor / Cubasis inbuilt (different jobs)
Limiter: Waves L1 Ultramaximizer
EQ: Blue Mangoo Parametric EQ and Waves Q10
Filter: Filterstation 2
Miscellaneous FX: Turnado
I wouldn’t class Wavetable in this bracket, but as you are, PPG WaveMapper then
Could you imagine compressing this
to those few apps!!! I can’t even fit all my apps on my current iPad.
Remember half the fun of iOS music making is buying some new apps to play with every month
Nice.
That Korg folder looks expensive
Ooh, that's tough...
Subtractive synth: iMonoPoly (but it has to be AUv3, it has to! If not, it's Mood)
FM synth: Oh, do I even own one? Okay: FM Player
Samploid synth: Digital D1
Granular synth: Grain Science (forgotten gem) ... okay, it's not AUv3 and never will be, so... Quanta
Reverb: Eventide Blackhole
Delay: Bleass Delay
Chorus: FAC Chorus
Guitar amp sim: Stark
Compressor: Pro-C 2
Limiter: Virsyn Bark Filter (sneaky, right?)
EQ: Pro-Q 3
Sequencer: Atom Piano Roll
TB-303 synth with TR-909/808/606 drum machine: Haha, let's think about the millions of options here... Hmm, what about ... Pure Acid?
Now that you say it: Dang, it looks exactly like mine...
Beside for reverb maybe just Drumbo for everything
The reverb could then FAC Alteza.
So everything is in the future.
Subtractive synth: Zeeon (Not the most flexible but the easiest to use)
FM synth: NFM (better usability) or KQ Dixie (Lower CPU)
Samploid synth: AudioLayer
Granular synth: Quanta
Reverb: TB Reverb
Delay: Eventide UltraTap
Chorus: I'm torn between Discord 4 and FAC Chorus, might well go for Discord 4
Guitar amp sim: My guitar into the Zoom MS100BT Pedal (Sorry but yes 😅)
Compressor: TB Barricade
Limiter: TB Barricade
EQ: TB EQ
Sequencer: There is no acceptable sequencer out yet in the AUv3 world.
TB-303 synth with TR-909/808/606 drum machine: No need for these here.
Subsynth: Synthmaster One
FM: Phasemaker
Sampler: EG Pulse (drums samples is all i need in terms of samoling)
Granular: -
Reverb: Reverb in FAC Bandit (at least until FAC Alteza is not released )
Delay: Delays in FAC Bandit
Chorus: FAC Chorus
Guitar Amp: -
Overdrive/Distortion: FAC Bandit
Limiter: Pro-L
Compressor: Pro-C
Transient shaper: FAC Transient
EQ: Pro-Q2
Seq: none (really can't imagine using other seq than NS)
303:Pure Acid, obviously
Added 2 categories which are totslly cricial for me (overdrive/distortion and transient shaper)
btw. i'm not payed by FAC, i just love all his plugins :-)
I'd like to add the new category "Wavetable Synth", my candidate is KORG Electribe Wave.
THIS !!!
Subtractive synth: Model D
FM synth: Phasemaker
Samploid synth: Factory
Granular synth: iDensity
Reverb: TB Reverb
Delay: Dubstation 2
Chorus: FAC Chorus
Guitar amp sim: Nembrini upcoming amps
Compressor: Korvpressor
Limiter: TB Barricade
EQ: RedRockSound EQ 560
Sequencer: none atm
TB-303 synth with TR-909/808/606 drum machine: Pure Acid
AND...
Drum Machine: EG Pulse
Lo-fi FX: FAC Bandit
Phase Distortion Synth: Shockwave
Wavetable synth: PPG Infinite
Tape emu: TB ReelBus
Generative music: Riffer
Midi suite: Rozeta
Multieffect: Effectrix
Filter: Wow 2
Noise reducer: Brusfri
Probably would have been better to just allow four synths of any kind, as many of the synth apps of late are pretty much able to fit all categories in at least part.
Subtractive synth: Syntronik (yeah I know it’s samples but it the closest thing to my real subtractive synths in sound) Actual synth .. probably Moog Model D
FM synth: KQ Dixie
Samploid synth: Don’t know what a samploid is 🙄
Granular synth: Don’t like em
Reverb: EOS
Delay: Eventide
Chorus: Eventide
Guitar amp sim: Bias 2
Compressor: Fabfilter
Limiter: Fabfilter
EQ: Fabfilter
Sequencer: Cubasis 2/3
TB-303 synth with TR-909/808/606 drum machine: No
Subtractive: Poison 202
FM: I'm going to shoe horn phase distortion synthesis into this category so Shockwave
Samploid: Taken as anything that uses files so Sugar Bytes Factory
Granular: Comes under sounds interesting never get round to using it much. Quanta, it's the only one I have and it's MPE so there's that
Reverb: Blackhole
Delay: Torn between Ultratap and dubstation 2, I'd go with Ultratap if I could only have one
Chorus: FAC obvs..
Compressor: Roughrider 3, clean, simple, does what it needs to do.
Limiter: Maxima
Sequencer: Mosaic, roll your own
XOX: Come on, how could it be anything other than Pure Acid..
Subtractive synth: SynthMaster One
Granular synth: Spacecraft
Sequencer: Cubasis
Effects, etc: Built-in effects of Cubasis and it’s IAPs
Subtractive synth: Mood
FM synth: KQ Dixie
Samploid synth: Chameleon
Granular synth: Spacecraft
Reverb: Bleass
Delay: Bleass
Chorus: FAC
Guitar amp sim: Nembrini
Compressor: Barkfilter
Limiter: Barricade
EQ: ToneBoosters EQ
Sequencer: Atom
TB-303 synth with TR-909/808/606 drum machine: Pure Acid
Subtractive synth: Factory
FM synth: KQ Dixie
Samploid synth: NOISE
Granular synth: SpaceCraft
Reverb: FabFilter
Delay: BLEASS
Chorus: FAC
Guitar amp sim: iFX Rack?
Compressor: FabFilter
Limiter: FabFilter
EQ: FabFilter
Sequencer: StepPolyArp
TB-303 synth with TR-909/808/606 drum machine: Egoist?
PD synth: Phase84
Subtractive synth: Moog Model D
FM synth: FM Play-a
Samploid synth: AudioLay-a
Granular synth: SpaceGraft Cranular
Reverb: AudioReverb
Delay: Kos mo' not
Chorus: FAC Chorus
Guitar amp sim: Gain Stage
Now in an open beta, try it with FlightTest... I like 'em clean.
https://testflight.apple.com/join/RPTo2w8j
Compressor: Magic Death Eye
Limiter: FF Pro-L
EQ: Parametric Equalizer by Blue Mangoo
Sequencer: Mozaic (if you can type... you can code... if you have fingers, you can play)
TB-303 synth with TR-909/808/606 drum machine: Pure Ass Syd'
It will be great when these are available as plugins outside of Auria
Granular synth: Stria
Nobody mentioned Bebot yet
sunrizer
fm player unless i can keep shockwave 😎
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i’ll add...🤪😎
DCR
Phasemaker
Pardon?
Spacecraft
Blackhole?
Dunno - maybe that reverse delay from the Drum Jam guy
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Not sure, I just use what’s in NS2
Never use
Not sure, I just use what’s in NS2
Not sure, I just use what’s in NS2
The visual TB one
Rozzeta
Erm - Pure Acid - obvs.