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List of virtual instrument hosts?
Hi everyone! Just getting back into making music on the iPad after buying an Oxi One sequencer. There's so much stuff out there, and I'm learning about new ios music apps all the time. Anyone have a comprehensive list of AUv3/IAA/Audiobus hosts? Anything from basic mixer to looper to sequencer, doesn't matter, as long as it can host virtual instruments. Here's what I have so far:
**** Updated List based on responses:
- ApeMatrix
- Audio Evolution Mobile Studio
- Audiobus
- Audioshare (effects in the recording section)
- AUM
- Auria Pro
- BAM
- Beatmaker Pro
- BM3
- Camelot
- Cubasis
- DawnBeat
- Drambo
- EG Nodes
- FL Studio Mobile
- Garageband
- Groove Rider 2
- iDensity by Apesoft
- iMPC/iMPC Pro 2
- Logic Pro by Apple
- Loopy Pro
- LumaFusion (audio effects)
- MIDI Guitar 3
- midiSteps
- miRack
- Modstep
- Moebius Lab
- Multitrack DAW (Harmonic Dog)
- MusiKraken
- NanoStudio 2
- NS2
- SAND
- Sessions By Open Planet
- Tabletop by Retronyms
- Zenbeats
- zMors Modular
Comments
OK….(in no specific order) here are some extras.
Drambo
Loopy Pro
BM3
NS2
miRack
Audio Evolution Mobile Studio
Don’t forget BAM and SAND
ApeMatrix
DawnBeat
Garageband
ou could also check out
NanoStudio 2
GarageBand
Drambo,
Audiobus
Zenbeats.
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best of luck
Edge cases (because effects rather than instruments):
EG Nodes is one y’all missed
MIDI Guitar 3 hosts AUv3 effects.
Very left field this one… MusiKraken
How u like it?
I’ve only dabbled with it, it’s completely different than anything else, not really a DAW more something a (music) mad scientist might use 🤔
You got my interest lol
Also supports midi 2 as of a few days ago… some details here…
https://www.soundonsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=90430&p=915213
EG Nodes should be added to your list
I'm not saying I'd ever use it for AU hosting other than FX, but Multitrack DAW supports AU instruments as well now.
Wow. Not a single mention yet of Auria Pro.
How the mighty have fallen.
And from waayyyy out of left field ...
zMors Modular. I just opened that one up for the first time in years. It's pretty cool (when it works).
[edit] whoops. No longer available for sale, only available if you already own it.
Modstep. 😬
Apesoft’s iDensity can load AUV3 FX and instruments. Powerful granular processing lab & sampler with an Apematrix style host built in.
midiSteps (AUv3 only, no IAA).
Is Moebius Lab still available? That was another unusual host
The developer is focusing on desktop now by the looks of it with the release of ReBeat.
You’re right.
For years that would have been the first one I would have thought of.
Used to be my number one DAW for years and I didn’t even think about it until you mentioned it here.
Yep. I forgot that one is a host. 👍🏼
I’ve never used it, but doesn’t Camelot host AUv3s? Apologies if someone’s already mentioned it, I did a quick skim through and didn’t spot it.
What is interesting is how many hosts there are, of so many types/focuses. Which is surely a good sign for the iOS ecosystem.
For completeness, we could add the still pending Groove Rider 2.
You can also refer to the iOS Pro Audio spreadsheet.
It currently includes a total of 32 apps for the AUv3 Host category.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1vydiVIIZR48AFiRcfANzmRnec-eZ-6yiE5C21ztkU6A/htmlview
Credit — I think @BillSherry is the spreadsheet author and maintainer.
Updated list with most recent suggestions. It's a great list!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bWcfjLnDrx1lSJHXxEEsxLnEloDUlpTh/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=105164582052369675956&rtpof=true&sd=true
It’s a mostly blank features list, but I think it has most major hosts listed up top!
Wow ... a big one I'm not seeing that may actually be perfect for an external sequencer like the Oxi One:
Open Planet Sessions: Plug-in Host
Like Cantabile for Windows, designed primarily to host your plugins for live performance (and/or CPU off-loading to another device). Just grabbed this on sale for my dawless setup as a quick way to explore, try things out, route MIDI between apps and external sources.
Oooh, I like Cantabile. I'm surprised how few people use it or know about it. It just gets out of your way while at the same time provides powerful MIDI filtering and routing when you need it.
I'm really liking the 16 macro buttons on Sessions. That means I can just use the same mapping from my MIDI fighter regardless of the instrument.
That's pretty handy, I'll have to look more at that.
Another recommendation on the PC side that perhaps mimics some iOS MIDI tooling for interop functionality is the CopperLan Manager, which allows you to create virtual MIDI routes accessible between programs (a bit like DDMFs MetaPlugin), though you still need something like VoiceMeeter Potato for inter-audio that mimics ASIO, I suppose similar to ASIOALL. At times I have found these solutions provide better latency or controllability than Reasons ReWire or other tools.
I believe most of this functionality is now covered in iOS, but I'm still learning.
Was happy to learn only tonight it's possible to extend the RME Babyface Pro FS (which I have connected to the iPad) I/O channels by connecting via optical ADAT, which I was pleasantly surprised to learn my MOTU Ultralite AVB supports, and which can then be further extended a little through MOTUs own AVB tech and the MOTU 8A ... and which, almost unbelievably, means I can use this bridged audio interface while simultaneously connected to both iOS and Windows.
Reminds me of the time I fixed a broken python.net framework to integrate with jython required somewhere between Coverity and TeamCity, giving me the ability to write Python code while being able to import both Java and .Net libraries ... it's one of the most disturbing things I've ever done.