Drambo, Fugue Machine & Friends - 2021-Feb-07

Discovering what’s new with iOS music making in 2021 in this short Sunday morning jam, and much has changed since I took a hard look at the iPad as a music making platform. All for the better. Everything feels much more stable. Apps “talking to one another” feels natural and not like a tech support chore.
I’m just getting acquainted with some new apps here.
Drambo, Fugue Machine, Lagrange, DYLM, Blackhole Reverb, Drum Computer, Fabfilter Saturn 2, L2, Q3. I’m really using a lot of very mildly tweaked presets in most of these.
All of the notes except the drums are driven by Fugue Machine. Pretty amazing the melodies it can create from a few notes of music. This was my very first time using Fugue - very impressed! Drum Computer is providing its own sequence.
And of course Drambo is the bomb. A full on modular synth (and also the host here). Still discovering all that can be done with this monster!

[@volkerbosch9078]

Very good work!

[@joegrant413]

Wow, you are also into the iOS world. I have tons of iOS apps and synths, including Drambo and Fugue Machine. TBH, the reason I went to the MPC last summer was to take a break. Too much time futzing around with learning curve and buying one app after another, like bags of Doritos every week. But I have slowly been incorporating iOS back as a tool with MPC at the center. For one thing, I use MIDI Guitar 2 on iOS and have the MIDI create lead lines on the MPC. (I have played guitar for years and barely know keys.) Anyway, glad to see you're into this as well.

[@joefilbrun]

You should try Eurorack sometime. Just like iOS music apps except the bags of Doritos are really expensive haha! I think I have MIDI Guitar 2 but haven’t messed with it in forever. I’m the opposite - better on keys than guitar. That’s cool you’re starting to integrate iOS and MPC though. At some point I hope they add a feature where you can plug an iPad into Force and MPC, and have direct digital audio and MIDI over the USB connection. The Korg Kronos has a feature like that, and it’s really sweet to be able to treat those iOS synths like they are native plugins.

[@ShapeNoise]

Very nice, all the fun toys in this one

[@mikew5th]

I’ve got some of these apps, but not all - just learning Drambo here too!

[@joefilbrun]

Drambo is amazing isn’t it!? It stays very true to modular concepts, so I mostly feel right at home with it. Being able to host and even control these AUv3 synths with modular signals is kind of otherworldly.