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I've been out of the iOS world since 2016. What are your favorite music apps that came out since?
Hi everybody! I used to be a pretty active member of this forum. Some of you may remember the videos I did on DrumPerfect Pro Once I got big-time into using Cubase, I started learning about orchestral and I spend a lot of time on a site called VI:Control.
Lately, as I've been reading about Logic Pro for iPad, and that brought back a lot of memories. I've been loading up my old apps and messing around with them. As I now have a new (bigger) iPad, it's very different and more fun. It's been so exciting to meet up with my old synth friends, with a few disappointments, like my beloved Magellan not working unless I upgrade, and some IAP not restoring. 
I was excited to see that Scaler is free and is only $19 to upgrade. That's one of my favorite things on the PC, but I never seem to find the time to learn everything about it. Now I will.
So far I've discovered that there's this amazing thing called Riffler. Wow!
I have a lot of apps, but I really don't know much about anything that happened in the last 7 years. I'm the Rip Van Winkle of iOS music!
I'd appreciate any advice that you want to give. Not that I am looking to spend all my money, but I want to know what the really good stuff is, so I can begin checking out the videos.
Thank you!
Reid
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There have been a series of threads started recently with this exact question. With a quick search you should be able to find them. There have been a lot of very good apps which have come out over that time period.
Oh man that’s a hard one. So many of my favorites of all time have been released since then. I highly recommend all the Bram Bos apps. Glitchscaper and all other Igor apps. Zolotovs apps like Fractal Bits. And the AudioThing apps of course.
One good thing to do would be search for new release in the search tab and look at all that’s came out. There’s a lot.
Hey TTF! Nice to you here
Perhaps if you could share your preferred workflow(s) and some thoughts about genre you intend to explore, it might be easier to give more focused advice.
@Reid Nice to see you again, and, nice to have you back😊
Like in the movie “Goodbye Lenin”, you wake up well after the fall of the Berlin wall 😂
Should we reveal you all the wonders that have been released since (and the “big one” coming for end of May) ? Would you survive the shock ?
Just kidding 😉
After a quick look in the App Store it looks like AUM may fit your date range, so if so it’d be top of my list.
I’ve been using my iPad and iPhone for music for ages but really only kicked into full action again in 2020, so my list is biased towards 2020 onwards. I’ll try to keep it short!
MiRack: like VCV but with fewer modules. But very well optimised and well integrated into iOS.
The AudioThing apps that are arriving thick and fast.
Bram Bos’s apps.
Erik Sigth’s apps (Rymdigare in particular)
Other Desert Cities
Eventide Black Hole
Quantovox apps
There’s a plethora of others, but those highlights are definitely worth a look.
Drambo has been the big one for me in that time period, but it really depends on what you're after
@el_bo @thesoundtestroom It's nice to be back.
My workflow is just to get inspired by something I get. I start playing with it and that leads to a piece. The day I got Bohemian Violin, I wrote this.
And when I got some instruments from the Evolution Series (and a binaural audio plugin) I wrote something just using that stuff.
So when I see something like Riffler. I think, there's nothing exactly like this for the PC. I know I use it for a piece. Probably a lot of them.
I have tons of synths and instruments and effects on both my iPad and my PC. I feel pretty covered. I will make music in both places.
I guess I'm not looking for the newest traditional synth, but offbeat pieces of music software that might not even be instruments in the normal sense. Creatures of iOS music. Anything come to mind? Something that really broke new ground and is now essential like AUM?
Thank you so much in advance. And @theoundtestroom old friend, I guess I have a few months of your videos to watch!
I don’t know who you are, @Reid but it feels good that you’re back! Big improvements in acoustic emulations but you may not be interested in that aspect. Pianoteq (modeled, not sampled) was just ported to iOS after years of waiting.
Thank you, @LinearLineman That will be interesting to find out about, but I've got a lot of that stuff. But I may get back to composing on my iPad and bringing it over to the PC for new instruments and mixing.
Piano Motifs is probably the one app I find most inspiring that has been recently released. Excellent developer too.
Endlesss, free on iOS and desktop. Not only great fun but super useful.
I'll take a look at this stuff. Thank you! Some of these things I already have on the PC, like Blackhole and Quantovox. I have a lot of Audiothings stuff, but not the same as what's in the store. T
That's up my alley. A Groovebox.
It's funny. I was just looking at videos about this today. I will give it a deeper look.
I’d say the three apps that have had the biggest impact on me are AUM, Loopy Pro, and Koala. There are also so many great effects from AudioThing, Bleass, Brambos, Caelum, 4Pockets, FAC, Klevgrand, and Unfiltered Audio, amongst others.
I'll check it out! The price is sure right.
Logic Pro, lol
AUM is my favorite too. It's one of those things that comes out and you can't imagine how you lived without it before. I had the first version of Loopy, but it's just not the music I make. I already own a lot of Klevgrand FX, and will explore all your suggestions.
Yeah, some are put off by the modular options. I enjoy that, but it's also easy to ignore it and just use it as a host for other plugins that for me it fully replaced AUM. Setting up complex modulation (e.g. wavetable LFO), automation or even Elektron-style parameter locks of plugin params is a breeze.
I came to iPad music making in 2020. I had a MacBook Pro with Logic Express prior to that and I had used Roland hardwear VS880 the VS2480. I find now that I can only bear the instantaneous and convenience musical “hit” that the iPad affords me. Prior to that I was lost in leads and connections! Since 2020 I have spent an enormous amount of money ducking and diving to find best way for me to make my particular kind of music just using the iPad. I keep coming back to Cubasis even though it drives me mad. It’s the most solid DAW for my more traditional music making. I find I only use AUM as a trial/sketch pad as I just cannot get my head around finalising work in it but it is just unbelievably quick to set stuff up in and make ideas. I think BeatHawk was my favourite find of all. It’s just such a well designed box of tricks filled with great sounds (IAP’s) and integrates really well with Cubasis. However my great challenge is to try out making all of my music in Logic almost exclusively as it will allow. I may be disappointed by i,t but on paper it looks to cover most of the bases I have been hunting for this past two and a half years. We shall see… 🤞
If you are interested in Drambo, this place is worth checking out:
https://patchstorage.com/platform/drambo/
Yeah, Drambo is the best thing ever. It can be an Octatrack on steroids, or whatever else you want from a groovebox.
Nice tracks! Just gave you a Soundcloud 'follow'. I remember that binaural track. We actually spoke about in the comments section of that video
In the year since you put it up, things have definitely amped-up with regard to Spatial mixing. Remains to be seen which of Logic's stuff comes to the iPad. I'm skeptical about full-on spatial object mixing, but hope they at least include Logic's older ' Binaural Panner' 
Loopy pro is waaaay more powerful than Loopy HD, has a timeline style sequencer as well. You can essentially create your own DAW with it.
k you so much in advance. And @theoundtestroom old friend, I guess I have a few months of your videos to watch!
Thanks! I hope that Dear Reality will port Dear VR Music and VR Mix to iOS There's nothing like it on the app store yet and I bet that a lot of iOS musicians mix and listen with headphones.
I will check it out. Thank you.
Studying it a little I can see that it is definitely one of the biggest events I missed while I was sleeping in my cave.
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