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What 9 Apps
I think I did this a year or so ago but plenty of great apps have come out since then and I’m sure we have a bunch of new forum members.
If you could only have 9 music creation apps, what would they be and why? I say 9 because I like to keep my iPhone slim so I stick to one page of one folder.
Mine:
1. Cubasis 3 - My favorite DAW, works well for transitioning from iPhone to iPad
2. BLEASS Alpha - My favorite synth. Versatile, easy to sound flashy, and an excellent UI.
3. Lagrange - Second favorite synth, especially for strings and complex sounds.
4. Bass 808 - Only 808 bass synth I know of on iOS, perfect for beatmaking.
5. EG Pulse - One of the few AUv3 sample drum machines that isn’t based on a single machine.
6. Flip - Fun little sampler/sequencer with some solid features.
7. Pure Acid - Favorite groovebox. Very fun, easy to pick up and make something cool that you can expand on later.
8. Endlesss - The most fun music app I’ve found. It’s great for when I want to create music without feeling like I have to be productive and create something “good”.
9. Mononoke - Relaxing and meditative
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Oh man I'm already at 9 but there are so many good ones that deserve a mention from the awsome fac stuff, over woot, up to the magic death eye compressors there is so much good stuff.
That's for the iPad, the selection is a bit different for the iPhone...
AUM, Drambo, EG Pulse, Mirack, KQ Dixie, Continua, Sunvox, Spectrum Bundle are my used apps of the last year. Not counting FX, which I'd have 9 of those at least. Yup, that's 7 not nine.
In an effort to use all other synths I didn't use as much, I tried using a different one each day of Jamuary/January this year.
Essentials at the moment:
AUM
Rozetta
miRack
Lagrange
Quanta
FRMS
FAC Alteza
FAC Chorus
Toneboosters EQ
Aum, Jam maestro and Xequence 2 as my go to “daw”.
ApeFilter for eq, Kosmonaut for delay and Stratosphere for Reverb.
Animoog
Sunrizer
IFretless bass
Patterning 2
Roseta + Mozaic
Drambo
GeoShred and KB-1 as midi controllers.
Honorable mentions : model d and model 15 ( I’d use them much more than I do if my poor IPad 1 could handle them), ripplemaker, Borderlands, Noir and ChordMaps2.
I bet a lot of music could be made with:
Auria Pro (for having a DAW with freeze, Fabfilter One and Twin2, and Lyra sample instruments)
SynthMaster Player
ProR
ProQ
ProC
Saturn (1 or 2)
Timeless
Volcano
ProMB
ProL
These are the ones
I use the most lately
on my Iphone
IReal Pro
Drumgenius
Korg Gadget
Blocs Wave
AUM
SpaceCraft
Electric Vintage
LoopBud
Sampletank
For the iPad:
apeMatrix
GarageBand
Rozeta
Hillman
Mellowsound
Moog Model D
Ripplemaker
Kronecker
Axon 02
Here's my list:
Of course, there are dozens more. But if forced to pick 9, this'd be them.
That's actually really all I use at this point. But I do also use some hardware :P
Edit: I make mostly noisy percussive-based dance music.
I mean if we are talking only 9, just to be honest, I couldn’t do that for reals, but let’s have a little fun shall we... maybe in a closed system or daw workflow you could get away with 9, but in a DAW-less workflow it wouldn’t be ideal, but here it goes... this is a struggle.
In a very loose order.
But I’m leaving out a slew of apps I use on a regular basis, a daily basis, which is why 9 is too few for my workflow, but something fun to think about. Actually it was a little frustrating, lol. So I tried not to overthink it too much. There are so many apps that deserve to be in that list. All the Bud apps as mentioned jokingly above, obviously Audioshare, Drum Computer, Pure Synth Platinum, Rozeta, Tonality AU Pads, SoundFonts AU, TB EQ, Bark Filter, Tape Cassette, Bleass Delay, EG Pulse, Chameleon, Fractal Bits, a bunch of FX apps, Midi apps, Koala, Kosmonaut, etc.. I could go awhile.... and there are many great apps I use often, not mentioned here.
AUM
MiRack
Drambo
Rozeta
Atom 2 (Early days but I’m making the call!)
Patterning 2
Factory
Spacecraft
Blackhole
FabFilter (Pro-MB, Pro-Q3, Pro-L, Saturn 2)
Nembrini (PSA1000, Blackice, Delay3000, Fuzz, Boss, Bst100, Cali Reverb, VoiceDC30)
Overloud
MixBox
AUM
Auria Pro
GarageBand
MDES
9 Ruismaker Noir
9 ChowCentaur
9 Poison 202
9 NSKS2
9 Thafknar
9 Audioshare
9 Midimittr
9 FAC Chorus
9 Aparillo
9 BASSalicious 2
For the acoustic minded...
Cubasis3
Ravenscroft 275,
BASSalicious
Module Pro
PureSynthPlatinum w inapps
BeatHawk w inapps
DRC
ISEM
MixBox
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Question : why isn’t there an AUM forum?
Really interesting to see how many times the same apps show up in these lists.
AUM
Atom 2
LK
Zeeon
Spacecraft
Blackhole
BLEASS alpha
Ripplemaker
Yukawa
Also.. koala and gadget 😎 also many more
1- Cubasis 3
2- AUM (Cubasis 3+AUM = gorgeous workflow)
3- FAC Alteza
4- TB Reelbus
5- Kosmonaut
6- Scatterbrain
7- Mixbox
8- iDensity
9- Drum Computer
Beatmaker 3
Korg Gadget
AudioShare
Elastic Drums
Arp Odyssei
Model D / iMini
Model 15
Mellowsound / Manetron2
TB Reelbus / Calum Tape Pro
You know, I’ve been thinking of which apps were great for acoustic sounds. Had a few of them already. Thanks for this list, @LinearLineman . What’s your thoughts on ThumbJam even in 2021?
Here’s mine...I’d say it depends on preference. But since we’re looking at iPhone specifically, here’s my go to:
8, Audiobus (or AUM) -This is the bridge to multiple apps. I use Audiobus 3 more, because of the ease of s
Drambo - because it’s my muse. An instrument, effect, sequencer, sampler, midi processor and more. I could delete every app except this one and be happy for years. Did I mention I also think it has one of the most flexible and creative samplers?
miRack - less of a muse than Drambo for me, but it shares the same capabilities as the former.
Sunvox - trackers bring something different out of me. I love programming percussion in SunVox. I think its built in instruments have real character. The song mode / timeline of SunVox is #1.
Poly 2 - best percussion sequencer on the planet. Poly rhythms (or straight sequences) for days. Excellent pattern permutations. Whether your jam is funk or IDM Poly 2 can cover it in spades.
Mixbox - Bread and butter mix and mastering tool. Jokes on the OP cause there’s like 50 apps for 1 in this one.
Saturn 2 - cause it’s just too damn good. Multiband saturation and distortion. The built in feedback is fantastic. Dialing in varying degrees of feedback on each of the 6 bands can do magic to tracks.
Thafknar - for all things reverb with quality. And special spectral fx the other apps can’t touch.
FRMS - 4 layers of granular synthesis going through filters with FM between layers. Great as an instrument or fx processor. My go to harmonizer.
Spacecraft - the best granular pitch shifting on IOS. As the others, this one also excels as either instrument or FX, doubling its utility.
Because only 9 apps allowed, I figure there’s no need for Aum. Drambo is more than enough to host only 8 other apps.
@seonnthaproducer, lots of good sounds in TJ, but I rarely use it these days.
OK this is today's list:
BM3 - a sampler on every pad, audio manipulator and that audio time stretch....easy work flow and fast taking over all the things I used to do exclusively in AUM.
AUM - sometimes you just want to peg a few things together and see what happens...
Gauss - there's just something about the sound and the workflow, plug it in and hey presto a loop that goes forever
Spacecraft - in time this has really become a favourite for granular work. Love the places this can take me to.
Saturn 2 - distortion, saturation, just generally messing things up and warming them up.
FF Q3 - when it's an EQ I need.
RE-1 - Tape delays - nuf said
Pro-R - Space
Sunrizer - for when synths matter, easy to program (my first synth purchase and still one I go back to)
But, in reality BM3, Gauss and Spacecraft are probably all I really need.
using right now
aum
zeon synth
decent sampler
segments
velvet
bleass shimmer
atom roll 2
bleass eq
reelbus
AUM
Cubasis 3
Tal u no lx
Lagrange
SynthMaster one
MDEstereo
Rozetta suite
ReelBus
FF Saturn 2
... I think lol
I feel you on “I think” 😂
I tried to consider what I use the most and what could cover apps that couldn’t use (Drambo is the Swiss Army knife of synthesis).