Open Mic: This video captures Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess demoing his favorite music apps for iOS, including: Magellan, Tachyon, Cassini, Nlog, Cylon Voice, Garage Band, Geo Synthesizer, DrumJam, NanoStudio, SynthX, VoiceSynth, BitWiz, SpaceWiz, Animoog, iDensity, iKaossilator, PixiTracker, TC-11, MorphWiz and SampleWiz.
What are your favorite music apps for iOS?
hell yeah bros apple is now the most valuable company in world history!
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Mine of course (I won’t shill, though)! Some apps that I’m digging right now are Cassini and Magellan, bs16i is a workhorse, and Genome is luring me towards sequencing on my iPad. I have yet to find a DAW that I’m comfortable with. VCVCBC is a great songwriting tool (a bit rough around the edges, but worth checking out if you write songs with chords and lyrics). Animoog is great, but I find that it’s often “too much,” with the default patches having more of a “listen to all the things I can do” feel than “this is a tone that works in a song” feel.
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Animoog. Surprised Jordan didn’t mention Sunrizer. It just KILLS.
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i can’t comment can i
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For “make whole tracks in me”:
NanoStudio (love its synth and overall workflow), iMS-20 (yeah yeah), BeatMaker 2 (thouph i prefer NanoStudio, i spent time jamming in BM).
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For “sound design”:
Jasuto Pro (it’s like eurorack modular in your pocket! one of the greatest app ever!), TC-11 (very deep synth engine + AWESOME use of touch display’s and gyroscope’s possibilities to control anything!!!), SampleWiz (pretty useful)
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For “groove”:
Bleep!Box (very-very good groovebox-synth with flexible synth engine and some live perfomance things), GlitchBreaks (dblueglitchME lol), JR Hexatone (very complex drum machine u know), Molten,Stochastic, iElectribe (hello ER1MKII !!!) and TweakyBeat (little awesomeness)
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For “real instruments”:
ThumbJam!
For “perfomance”:
BeBot/MorphWiz, GeoSynth (i hate keyboards lol), TC-11 , NanoLoop, RicePad
(i rly love RicePad for live improvisation and it’s more FUN than BeatMaker).
Also WerkBench now
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“Other”:
Curtis (strange synthesis from strange agency), CP 1919, iGendyn, Monnix (nice noise synth), Radarhead 19, RISCy . TOPLAPapp and now SpaceWiz (several voices either melodic or drum-like and different effects and sequencing\control. )
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+ animoog, addictive synth, grain science, magellan, cassini
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Nice to see Sunrizer getting so much love! Does anyone else have a few bugs with switching banks? I’ve been waiting for the update to fix it for a while now.
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Every now and then, Sunrizer loses the option to switch Preset banks when I’m trying to save a patch.
I haven’t going a workaround other than restarting. Still a great synth though.
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That’s what I’ve been doing too. I need to just organize all of the sounds I made into one bank instead of having them spread around as they are now!
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I’m tired of all these Apple centric postings! What about our favorite Surface synthesizers! Oh, wait.
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iMS-20, iElectribe, Animoog, Filtatron, Bebot, Werkbench, CP1919, Phaedra, Electronic Piano Synthesizer, Figure, 76, Sunrizer, Molten.
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Animoog
Glitchbreaks
DM1
NodeBeat
Grain Science
iTabla Pro
Loopy
Filtatron
many more
All on iPhone
Building MIDI controller to dock iPhone into for live stage!
So Stoked
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Well, obviously anything with polyphonic aftertouch: Animoog, SynthX, Magellan, Morphwiz, etc.. Extra credit if the app supports real unisons (SynthX really sold me on the value of true unisons.)
Favorite DAWs/audio recorders: GarageBand, Multitrack DAW, studio.HD, Apple
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Workhorse Synths: NLog Pro (your analog friend, shares patches with AU/VST version), Sunrizer (supersaw!), DXi (4op FM), Addictive Synth (6 oscillators make everything great), iSyn Poly (decent backup VA)
Up-and-coming stars: Magellan, Cassini
Racks o’ Gear: Nanostudio, GarageBand, Rhythm Studio, Xenon
Awesome virtual hardware: iMS-20, iElectribe, iKaossilator, Tenori-On, (maybe Fairlight too
Unjustly maligned favorites: SynthStation, ReBirth
Neglected drum machines: Molten, DM1, GarageBand, FunkBox, ReBirth
Yeah, I never expected the iPad to become such a favorite musical gadget, but it is – I even record other instruments (P’08, guitar, etc.) into it because it’s convenient and fun.
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make that “Apple Voice Memos app” – I use that all the time to record things that are in my head!
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Tried a few of them, but nanostudio has good sounds and great workflow.
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Bitwiz – live coding that you don’t have to know programming to use.
Sunvox – incredible modular studio.
Jasuto pro- uniquing sounding modular playground, could be a classic if not for many bugs.
TNR-i – advance mode and MIDI out!
I like TC-11, but it until it can work with samples and fm I can’t love it.
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I work up 303 grooves in Technobox 2 and then program them into my real 303. Quite useful.
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