Black Friday Deals 2019 ( Music Apps.)

auxmux

@White said:

https://twitter.com/synclavier_digi/status/1199793988666101760

Is that knob still $200? LOL

timaza

AUM sale price is active 😎👍

Nicebutfun

Cheers Bram, Noir was all that I expected it to be
Sweet
Best black Friday purchase so far

White

From facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/104737956223109/posts/2804397716257106?sfns=mo

errorism11

So i got ruisemaker noir and troublemaker. 😊 Moog is also on sale! Got model D and Model 15

dmnc

Eventide Apps are on sale now.

david_2017

https://cp3.io/

Cykle will be on 5,49€ too (tomorrow)

[Deleted User]

Korg apps and IAPs are on sale now too

gregsmith

Collection complete, thanks @brambos

errorism11

Do i Need Perforator and kosmonaut? 🙈

jolico

@errorism11 said:
Do i Need Perforator and kosmonaut? 🙈

You need perforator

OscarSouth

@audio_DT said:

@klownshed said:

@audio_DT said:

@haulin_notes said:
Auria DAW apps on sale
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/auria-pro-music-production/id1016291290

@haulin_notes said:
Auria DAW apps on sale
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/auria-pro-music-production/id1016291290

Do you use it? Worth getting? It doesn't seem to get much love on here, but I've been close to getting it a few times. I'm wondering again!

The following is just my personal opinion and is biased by decades of using apps like Logic.

Anyway. Auria Pro has an amazing feature set. I ended up buying the full version as it promised a sampler with EXS support and lots of cool specs.

However.

I really can’t recommend it.

MIDI editing is awful. The piano roll is horrible to use. It can’t loop record. The UI can be unresponsive and glitchy.

When you add auv3 tracks, every single track responds to MIDI at the same time. As default. You have to go into midi setting every time you add a track and turn off that feature. Every time. Maddening.

When I have tried to use it to mix audio I keep running into problems and multiple crashes.

I tried using auv3 MIDI sequencers and the timing is completely off when you record them. And if you add another midi fix it mutes everything else. So for example if I add a rozeta bassline then add a midi monitor, the bassline is muted and nothing will play. Which is just as well as it won’t be in time.

When you use it for audio you have to zoom in and out all the time to be able to move or edit a region. The regions need to take up half the screen before the tap targets for looping appear. And when you are zoomed in far enough to be able to loop it’s impossible to drag the loop point where you want it because you’re zoomed in too far and lose all sense of position.

Everything I try ends in frustration. It seems to be designed for people with brains wired differently to mine. But in my humble opinion there are too many features that lack attention to detail

I won’t be using Auria again. I’m annoyed at myself that I kept trying to get on with if for long enough for the return period to expire. The more I use it the more I realise it’s designed for somebody else.

I do like Nanostudio 2 and GarageBand and have no problems using either. I’ve used sequencers since the late 80s. so I may just be stuck in my way, but I think on the whole Auria is over ambitious and features got added before others were polished.

Sorry for the rant. Its lack of love is fully justified I’m afraid. I really want to like it. I wanted to use it. I bought it after all.

I have deleted it.

Aww - and this started so well! I'll give it a miss, then. Thank for the heads up - you've just saved me the best part of £25.

AP may not be the kind of flashy-fancy instant satisfaction fest that is popularised on iOS, but it’s still the most powerful music app on the platform with serious functionality and quality implementations that are still not found anywhere else on the App Store.

None of the audio work I do in AP is particularly exciting, but it’s certainly my most used app on iOS (even without buying anything from the AP store).

I don’t even mix on iOS — if you want to mix and master on the platform then there isn’t even a choice to be honest.

[Deleted User]

@errorism11 said:
Do i Need Perforator and kosmonaut? 🙈

You need kosmonaut.

richardyot

@tja said:
@richardyot Thanks for that longer review of AP!
Very interesting.

You did not mention BeatMaker 3, did you also tried this?

I've only really used the sampler in BM3 (which is excellent), I've never tried sequencing in it.

@AudioGus said:
Is it routing / side chaining that makes AP the mixing powerhorse for you?

Yes. I think Auria might be the only DAW that actually supports sidechaining right now, albeit with the native plugins only. I'm sure that will change and one of the others will figure out AU sidechaining at some point.

But for routing only NS2 can match it.

If NS2 nails audio tracks, AU sidechaining and automation then it could really pull ahead of the competition.

Elvisthenrodent

Been following this thread realising i bought everything i wanted and more than i need the last 6 months .

gregsmith

In case it hasn’t been mentioned, blocs wave and launchpad IAP unlocks are on sale

Just bought the full unlock for ipad on launchpad. Do I still have to buy the audio import unlock on iphone does anyone know? Bit silly if I do

cruz777

Any word on whether Audiobus 3 will be on sale this Black Friday?

wingwizard

@espiegel123 said:

@espiegel123 said:
@audio_DT : it is worth noting that not everyone shares @klownshed’s opinion. For some of us, it is our preferred workstation. I’ve not experienced the problems that he/she has had with timing or difficulties looping.

The MIDI input settings for tracks is not so troublesome. The only difference from AUM, for instance, is that in AUM MIDI input for a new lane is off until you route something to it. In Auria Pro, input is on when you add a new midi track. So, if you don’t want incoming MIDI being sent to it, you need to turn it off. I think the workflow on MIDI integration it is going to be revisited. It could be more convenient but is not a big deal...especially if one needs the things that AP has that no other app does so far.

Some people love it and some don’t. If channel buses, tempo changes, integrated audio tracks and MIDI and high time resolution MIDI and audio editing matter, there isn’t anything else with these features yet on iOS. All of the DAW and DAW-like apps on iOS have their flaws, unfortunately.

And to add, I fine the audio editing inAP vastly superior to Cubasis’. I have not encountered the problems zooming I or out mentioned by klownshend. Unlike Author iOS DAWs, you can get in and edit at any zoom level from sample level out. You can move audio (and MIDI events) without restriction which allows edits and crossfade sand overlaps not possible in Cubasis. Some people don’t need that, but if you do it is a big deal.

Same. It’s my personal opinion that auria is for musicians/songwriters and cubasis for EDM/producers/loop based music. Obviously this is a huge simplification but I think it’s true for most people. I’m in the former category for example and all the complaints about Auria’ s workflow are actually true for me of Cubasis - I cant stand it, the workflow is completely counterintuitive to how I make music, and I find the ui and gui extremely off putting style wise. Same goes for nano studio to a lesser degree. I’m know the same is true in reverse for most edm/producers Etc.

marcuspresident

@Korakios said:

@Pitje said:

@senhorlampada said:

@Pitje said:
The ampify apps have their IAPs on sale, most (haven’t checked if all) are half off

Grabbed some cool sounds for blocs wave ^_^

But not on groovebox, right?

Looks like the sale price

Bought it
Would be nice (and much easier to buy) a Pro ** preset ** bundle ,instead of endless scrolling on individual per instrument presets
@AmpifyxNovation ?

I agree totally! Some pack larger pack kind of deal...

hellquist

Now if @FredAntonCorvest would add his apps to this Black Friday my weekend would be complete.

audio_DT

@OscarSouth said:

@audio_DT said:

@klownshed said:

@audio_DT said:

@haulin_notes said:
Auria DAW apps on sale
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/auria-pro-music-production/id1016291290

@haulin_notes said:
Auria DAW apps on sale
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/auria-pro-music-production/id1016291290

Do you use it? Worth getting? It doesn't seem to get much love on here, but I've been close to getting it a few times. I'm wondering again!

The following is just my personal opinion and is biased by decades of using apps like Logic.

Anyway. Auria Pro has an amazing feature set. I ended up buying the full version as it promised a sampler with EXS support and lots of cool specs.

However.

I really can’t recommend it.

MIDI editing is awful. The piano roll is horrible to use. It can’t loop record. The UI can be unresponsive and glitchy.

When you add auv3 tracks, every single track responds to MIDI at the same time. As default. You have to go into midi setting every time you add a track and turn off that feature. Every time. Maddening.

When I have tried to use it to mix audio I keep running into problems and multiple crashes.

I tried using auv3 MIDI sequencers and the timing is completely off when you record them. And if you add another midi fix it mutes everything else. So for example if I add a rozeta bassline then add a midi monitor, the bassline is muted and nothing will play. Which is just as well as it won’t be in time.

When you use it for audio you have to zoom in and out all the time to be able to move or edit a region. The regions need to take up half the screen before the tap targets for looping appear. And when you are zoomed in far enough to be able to loop it’s impossible to drag the loop point where you want it because you’re zoomed in too far and lose all sense of position.

Everything I try ends in frustration. It seems to be designed for people with brains wired differently to mine. But in my humble opinion there are too many features that lack attention to detail

I won’t be using Auria again. I’m annoyed at myself that I kept trying to get on with if for long enough for the return period to expire. The more I use it the more I realise it’s designed for somebody else.

I do like Nanostudio 2 and GarageBand and have no problems using either. I’ve used sequencers since the late 80s. so I may just be stuck in my way, but I think on the whole Auria is over ambitious and features got added before others were polished.

Sorry for the rant. Its lack of love is fully justified I’m afraid. I really want to like it. I wanted to use it. I bought it after all.

I have deleted it.

Aww - and this started so well! I'll give it a miss, then. Thank for the heads up - you've just saved me the best part of £25.

AP may not be the kind of flashy-fancy instant satisfaction fest that is popularised on iOS, but it’s still the most powerful music app on the platform with serious functionality and quality implementations that are still not found anywhere else on the App Store.

None of the audio work I do in AP is particularly exciting, but it’s certainly my most used app on iOS (even without buying anything from the AP store).

I don’t even mix on iOS — if you want to mix and master on the platform then there isn’t even a choice to be honest.

Thanks. I've decided to stick with what I've got for now - which is every other major DAW on iOS bar AP. It's Black Friday and I've just bought KEW. Plan to get a few others, so AP will wait.

blakkaz

I don't think this one has been mentioned yet?

FPC

Ahhhhhh! It's a feeding frenzy!!

Too risky to buy Korg synths in the hope that they'll become AU?

Would be silly of me not to complete my Bram Bos collection...

richardyot

So it looks like FabFilter and Sugar Bytes are only doing Black Friday deals on their desktop offerings this year, and not on their apps, which is a shame.

[Deleted User]

@richardyot said:
So it looks like FabFilter and Sugar Bytes are only doing Black Friday deals on their desktop offerings this year, and not on their apps, which is a shame.

Really? Good news for other devs though I guess.

Stiksi

@richardyot said:
Yes. I think Auria might be the only DAW that actually supports sidechaining right now, albeit with the native plugins only. I'm sure that will change and one of the others will figure out AU sidechaining at some point.

Don't most of the DAWlike apps support sidechaining on native plugins? Or do you mean the Auria exclusive versions of Fabfilter effects for example?

@richardyot said:
So it looks like FabFilter and Sugar Bytes are only doing Black Friday deals on their desktop offerings this year, and not on their apps, which is a shame.

And Fabfilters are -25% at that, augh, still not in my price range Would have loved to snag iOS Turnado…

richardyot

@Stiksi said:
Don't most of the DAWlike apps support sidechaining on native plugins? Or do you mean the Auria exclusive versions of Fabfilter effects for example?

Do they? Can you sidechain in Cubasis or GarageBand or Gadget?

But yes, I do mean the Auria Store version of the FabFilter plugins.

Paul16

Gosh, have spent the last twenty minutes feeling guilty for having previously denied myself the delights of Ripplemaker & Rozeta for all this time ! 😔😯😄

RajahP

@mojozart said:
I wish Thesys would get a UI makeover for iOS. It needs a separate screen for each panel on the main screen, and responsive controls having more of a "native" feel.

+1 .. and custom scales..

Samu

Are there any 'brand new' apps that we know of that will drop tomorrow or later today?
(AudioDamage has teased with a new Synth so that might be something I'd get).