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It seems like both Shoom and Moebius Lab got excellent receptions on release but were quickly forgotten about. I'm a big fan of both, despite lack of multi-outs on Shoom and the possible complexity of Moebius.
bip by sohla
https://appsto.re/us/9PJKI.i
Agreed. It's definitely quirky, but there's something about it that really makes me want to understand its madness. I find it rewards musicality in a way that many apps simply don't. (By which I mean the many apps that are technically impressive or clever but somehow impede creativity.)
I wonder if its quirky interface does the same magic that the OP-1's is said to do. All I can say is that I really really feel rewarded for having stuck to it.
Patterning
Samplr
all of Igor Vasilevs apps
all kymatica apps
elastic drums
seekbeats
MusicStudio - the first piano roll I fiddled with on iOS, that has some great features like easily creating a crescendo/decrescendo across multiple bars. The samples are not bad at all. You can score a symphony with it. Or EDM. It's universal, has a forum chock full of helpful folks and free custom instruments, and recently added Audiobus 3 compatibility.
Great utility, old unsexy interface, alas ...
Awesome! Thanks everyone, I love playin around with new stuff when I'm in a bit of a lull.
AudioShare. I love all the ones that start with A apart from AudioCopy
If underrated = apps not often mentioned around here, but which I enjoy immensely, then I'll have to second @Proto and give a thumb up to NS1. Also Concentric Rhythm, and Lofionic Duplicat.
Yep!
Borderlands is worth a mention, shame it didn't get more updates.
Kirnu Cream
Different Drummer
Parat+
Different Drummer
+1
Oscilab is really neat, alternative step sequencer/groovebox. Very nice looking, user friendly interface. Just found today that it has midi out, have to try it with other synths.
Mood by apeSoft
Samvada
IKaossilator. The most underrated of them all. Your playing surface and sequencer are one and the same. Melodies can be seen and punched in/overwritten at any time with a touch of your finger and saved quickly without stopping the music. No other app has this. Not Figure, not ids-10, not Gadget, nothing.
It's baffling - iKaossilator could be so good - a real classic - if it was developed and expanded.
Not an app but part of one: Korg Gadgets Marcielle PCM synth has all my favourite sounds from one a past synth I owned... pure nostalgia, and I love the graphical design, shape, colour scheme, minimal sound design features but remarkably powerful for generating interesting presets.
Honourable mentions for Machine. It works great in the iPhone, sounds great, tonnes of presets, NI updates it once in awhile. It seems to be the forrunner to BM3 in terms of its UI design. Too bad NI didn't recognise the value of making a sophisticated iOS app. All it needed was more tracks and patterns and better sample editing, importing and resampling.
+1
Moebius Lab was my second app purchase after Funkbox. I didn't do anything with Moebius Lab for weeks - I thought it would be too complicated. Then I actually sat down with it, manual in hand, and then realized how easy and wonderful it was to use.
Yamaha Synth Book!! With it's own Music Remixer a la Launchpad , and beautiful AN2015 synth.
Different Drummer
Modstep
midi stepsequencer. i hope it gets updated.
The dev has been showing cool experiments for future potential updates. Link and chromatic scale etc.
Yah seems like it could have been amazing. Could have been an IAP monster too...
Cs spectral and different drummer. Vast.
Hokusai. I just confirmed its noise reduction function works better (and it's simpler to use) than the much more expensive Waves plug-in, X Noise.
Left field: EasyBeats 3
The developer is working on Quantum Sequencer now, which is a more robust version.
Absolutely- it's annoying- so many gaps for expansion packs- but none there to get.
jasuto. pretty good modular synth. the sampler node is totally wicked.
Would actually put FunkBox among underrated apps. Haven’t heard much about it from others but got it after noticing everything it supports (AB3, including MIDI out, Ableton Link, etc.).
Never was one to use drum machines much but FunkBox is fun to use, in its own way. Even with the preset patterns, switching between them. And it does support melodic output through the bassline feature. Not that it’s the most amazing app in my set, but it’s more useful than expected.
Glad people are mentioning Samvada. Really been enjoying it with microphone input or with audio from other apps (including ThumbJam which supports some of the same scales), especially after going to a workshop on Indian improvisation.
Can’t really think of one key underrated app, though. My favourites (like ThumbJam and Animoog) are rated fairly well by some people in these forums. Filtatron might be one, because it has unsuspected power. But, of course, coming from Moog, it comes highly rated anyway.
Might still put Herrmutt Lobby PlayGround in the underrated category. Yes, it’s a toy. But it’s a viscerally pleasurable toy. Rarely encountered such a fun toy to play.
Got the impression that people here weren’t very enthusiastic about AC Sabre, maybe because of prior experiences with the developer. In the right setup, it can be really neat as a way to interact with synth parameters and to noodle/shred/jam.
People dismiss iWavestation because many of the sounds it produces reminds them of the 1990s (and, for some reason, they don’t enjoy that sound). Thing is, though, it’s very flexible, it’s universal, it’s supported rather well, it integrates really well with Gadget and, like other Korg apps, often goes on special.
As a utility, been finding MIDImux/Studiomux quite useful as a way to send MIDI to my iOS devices from both macOS and Windows, and as a way to receive audio from my iOS devices on Windows (macOS supports this natively).
There’s a whole category of apps which is rarely discussed here, having to do with helping instrumentalists with such things as leadsheets and instruction. iReal Pro is the standard, in many ways, and it could be used to very good effect in production, though it’s mostly meant as an automatic equivalent to the well-known Jamey Abersold series of recordings. Got a surprising amount of insight and pleasure from the iImprov series which, for some reason, actually helped me crack open some of my improvising potential. There’s also the Session Band series, many items from which regularly go on special. Haven’t really played with them much, but there’s fun to be had there too.
So many apps, so much musicking possibilities!
There’s also a whole lot of apps which are either overrated or simply don’t fit my “workflow”. Won’t mention them. Probably been too critical, recently. Still, it’s also useful to consider in terms of the mismatch between the amount of hype and how appropriate an app is in your setup.