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Which 2015 Music Apps Will You Be Using Most in 2016?
This is not necessarily about what you think is the most innovative app that debuted on the store in 2015. -- ie Patterning & Fugue Machine! 
It’s about what apps you think you’ll use the most to create your music in 2016. After all, the "best" music app is a personal thing, because we all make different kinds of music. Here’s my list:
Tools: Auria Pro, Audiobus Remote
Synths: Fabfilter Twin (in Auria), SynthMaster Player, iM1
Drums: DrumPerfect Pro (if it comes out this year)
Effects: Pro-C2 & Pro-Q2 (Auria)
There are still some apps I need to study more--just won a copy of Elastic Drums!--but these ones I know will be using all the time.
How about you?
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I don't think Fugue Machine will be getting much use from me, I bought it out of curiosity when it was first released but it's not one that I've been tempted to come back to after the initial play.
Auria Pro for sure though, as its at the centre of everything I do. Gadget also, as well as BIAS FX and Tonestack. And I'm slowly rediscovering all those synth apps I've bought and making more use of them, iSem being my favourite.
Auria Pro. When 2016 rolls round my app budget will allow the immediate upgrade to Pro. Waiting until then.
All the ones you mentioned minus drumperfect and AB remote but plus Patterning.
Cubasis is always my go to DAW, it just does what I need really well with out hogging up resources and without overpriced IAP's.. Patterning and of course Gadget, and Alchemy gets taken out again in again even though I really hated it being abandoned.
Sorry, @Tritonman: fair enough you say that AP's IAPs are expensive - since they are indeed, for many people - but when you say they're overpriced, you only show you haven't a clue of what you talking about. It's harsh, but true nonethless.
Gadget (it's not from 2015, but since supporting Ableton Link it feels like a brand new app)
Elastic Drums
+1
How are you using link with Gadget.?
I only just got any Auria, went straight to Auria Pro with a handful of Fabfilter fx, so hope to get a lot of use from that to justify my investment! Impressed with Twin2 so far. Like others, I still like working in Gadget too.
After upgrading to Auria Pro, I'm afraid it's back to Nanostudio for me. Still the King, despite its lack of up to date features. It's the only iOS DAW that I can actually get anything done on.
I'll still use Auria for mixing and mastering duties which it is fantastic for, but the midi update for me was a waste of an iTunes voucher.
I picked up Final Touch in the sales, it's nice, I expect to use it a lot.
I disagree with this specifically, but then everyone has toast. BUT I wholeheartedly and vehemently agree with what works for you (or me) for getting things done with the caveat of reminding myself not to turn my face away from things that so very apparently work well for others for one day I may find they work for me as well...
Gadget - my fave DAW (almost) for track creation.
Auria Pro - getting my head around this one right now...(with Pro C2, Pro Q2, Timeless and Volcano)
Audioshare - essential (for me) audio file management.
I am using this setup with Gadget by playing back recorded sequences from Fugue Machine. Using Fugue Machine to sequence Gadget is fantastic. Using AB, Gadget is playing along with Patterning and iSymphonic which is being controlled by Fugue Machine. I am also playing on Thumb Jam.
If I dont sneeze the iPad Air can actually record it all at once in Auria Pro on seperate tracks for about thirty minutes or so, until something goes wack (mostly Patterning bailing) but I find I usually can recover pretty quickly without having to reload everything. I can hop between Fugue, Gadget and Patterning, switching patches, tweaking the sequence etc, with pretty much no negative effect on recording. To lighten the load though I may spread the Link elements out onto my ipad mini.
Thanks for the full disclosure @AudioGus ! That sounds very, very cool. Are you playing multiple gadgets at the same time?
Yah, I currently have a Helsinki, a Kiev and a Chiangmai. I am probably going to put the Chiangimai on the other ipad though to separate it out.
Cool... What type of music? Sounds pretty ambient. I love those three Gadgets.
I'll take the OP as being apps I want to spend more time with in 2016...
Heavy Brass. It sounds promising.
yah, It is turning out to be some sort of new age ambient anime glitchno thing. At times I think man this is cheeze ball number five but maybe i can offset it with some contrasting bits so it is not full on sappy. I will post a sketch of it.
i am loving Heavy Brass and Funk Drummer. HB with Dedalus fx can make some wild avant horn garde.
Hopefully Loopy Masterpiece and NanoStudio 2!
Helio Workstation
I'm fascinated by how many people are loving Gadget. I'm curious: what do you find specifically great about it ? The sounds? The way everything works together in one app? Easy to use? MIDI editing? All of the above? Having Ableton Link does indeed make it a new app.
I have more synths than I know what to do with already, and have only recently begun using Audiobus and Auria to connect them and attempt to make actual music. So far, it's working out okay so I have no way of knowing if something else could be better.
It's something to consider, but not now that it is back to $40 again.
Gadget is nice for the workflow. All the settings and automation are alive and well the second you load a track. The way it simply should be in this day and age. If it had robust interal fx that really let you make the sounds your own that would put it over the top for me. As is Gadget is a good ingredient (great with external fx like Emo Chorus etc) but really it is a nice respite from the frustrations of IAA and flakey midi setups etc. I still love the alchemical voodoo of wiring different apps together, experimenting and figuring out workflows but sometimes enough is enough and it is just a good break to frollic in the warm cozy sandy safe zone of Gadget. Now with Link it certainly makes it way more useful... i cant wait until Auria Pro gets Link or Modstep squashes its bugs... Link enabled overdubs.... Oh man... Mmmm
Mostly Auria Pro and the Fabfilter IAPs.
I've limited my installed apps to one page with no sub folders. It's already having a positive effect forcing me to learn the apps I already own and forces me to really weigh up the value of an app as I only have one page of room. If I want a new app I have to delete an existing one, has also limited impulsive app purchasing
But the ones I will be using most in 2016..
-samplr
-gadget
-patterning
-csSpectral
-borderlands
-animoog
-elastic drums
-fugue machine
-audioshare
-egoist
-deadalus
-wow filter
-guitarist (with midi 4-play iap)
-ikaossilator
Nice list. You can tell your life story with that lot, no doubt.