Apps

If your music-making workflow is centred on an iOS device, you can now pick up FabFilter's plug-in suite in app form for a fraction of the price of their desktop counterparts.

This app serves up four sequencer engines, each with its own fully-formed synth, a pattern-based drum machine, a compact mixing environment with effects, and plenty more!

In GotoEQ, Klevgränd are attempting to recreate some of the magic of the Pultec EQP‑1A hardware — in AUv3 plug-in format.

Steinberg's Cubasis is one of the more popular and powerful DAWs/sequencers for the iPad — and since its first release, this...

O-G-SUS (Oliver Greschke) is already well known amongst iOS musicians for the excellent Elastic Drums app, but his latest offering is an effects app: Elastic FX.

How do you improve upon what is already one of the best iOS drum machine apps? Well, Olympia Noise Co are giving it a go with the release of Patterning 2.

While virtual drummers are part of the music technology furniture, non-drum virtual instruments that provide automatic musical accompaniment are thinner on the ground under iOS. Enter iBassist...

Kosmonaut is Bram's take on a delay effect. Like Troublemaker and Ripplemaker, the GUI is both a cool design, easy to use in the compact mobile format and packed with features.

There are several tablet and phone apps to help determine optimum mic array setups for stereo recording, but one I’ve only...

While Lo-Fly Dirt can make things very grungy, it is perhaps more akin to the analogue saturation plug-ins that have become very popular on desktop platforms over the last few years.

The Model D app is based upon the 2016 Minimoog Model D — the one with the dedicated LFO and additional modulation routings — rather than the original Minimoog...

For audio mastering, Fred Anton Corvest’s new Maxima app might be ideal for users simply looking to get the final audio levels right with a bit of compression or limiting...

This synth app is aimed at drum synthesis and, if the App Store blurb is to be believed, also features a dollop of artificial intelligence.

iZotope’s Spire Studio breathes new life into a format that will be familiar to many home studio owners.

Phosphor 2 is Audio Damages' first of their desktop virtual instruments to be ported to iOS, bringing with it exactly the same features as the desktop version.

Partnering again with veteran iOS music-makers Blue Mangoo, Embertone's Jubal Flute is the second of their Kontakt instruments to be released in iOS guise.

Kauldron is most certainly up there in terms of analogue sonics and with its combination of features and competitive pricing, should prove attractive to many.

Like its desktop namesake, with which it shares the full feature set, the QuatroMod app offers four ‘modes’ of modulation processing: Flanger, Chorus, Diffusor and Freqshift...

This suite of six MIDI sequencer tools run as AU-only plug-ins within a suitable AU-host. Rozeta also makes use of one of the new features Apple has snuck rather quietly into the iOS 11 update: the ability for AU plug-ins to send MIDI Out data.

Wolfgang Palm is undoubtedly a bit of a synth super-hero to many. He was the man behind wavetable synthesis back in the 1970s...

Korg's latest soft synth is an iOS version of the Mono/Poly, which appears to be so similar to previous versions that it can swap patches with them...