This music app generates complex and dynamic MIDI patterns using advanced algorithms. It offers a unique rhythm event feature and variance control for extensive customization, allowing users to create evolving musical sequences.
4.9(9 ratings)
$3.99
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4.8😊(129 ratings)
$5.99In-App Purchases
This app generates original musical melodies and accompaniments algorithmically, requiring no prior musical knowledge. Users can customize tempo, key, scale, and more, then export creations as MIDI files for further editing in DAWs. It also offers an AUv3 MIDI plug-in for seamless integration into music production workflows.
What We Love
- 🎵 Generates highly musical and realistic melodies
- ⚡ Intuitive and easy to use interface
- 🔄 Consistent and frequent app updates
- 👨💻 Responsive and engaged developer
- 💰 Excellent value for the price
- 🎹 Works as both standalone and AUv3 plugin
- 📤 Multiple export options (MIDI, audio)
- 🎯 Deep customization options available
- 🧠 Great for learning music theory
- ✨ Inspires creativity and breaks writer's block
- 🎼 Produces professional-quality output
- 🔧 Flexible MIDI routing capabilities
Room to Improve
- 💸 Pricing strategy feels deceptive with multiple IAPs
- 🐛 App crashes in certain situations
- 🚫 Limited real-time parameter adjustment while playing
- 📱 Barebones documentation and help pages
- 🎛️ No visual piano roll representation
- ⏱️ Minimum tempo too high (20 BPM)
- 🔌 MIDI connectivity issues and inconsistencies
- 🎸 Limited instrument variety beyond piano/guitar
- 📊 Cannot save custom arrangements
- 🔗 No GarageBand native support
- 🎚️ No velocity control for notes
- ⏰ Limited time signature options
4.8😊(93 ratings)
$19.99In-App Purchases
This app is a clip-based audio unit host and MIDI sequencer for creating musical projects. It offers a variety of built-in MIDI and audio nodes for generating sequences, recording, and sampling. Users can load external Audio Units and automate parameters for unique compositions.
What We Love
- 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
- 💡 Innovative concept and workflow
- 🚀 Fast idea generation
- ✨ Inspiring and creative
- 🔧 Powerful and flexible
- ✅ Great for concept creation and sound design
- 🌟 One of the best apps
- 🧩 Fills a missing piece in music production
- 🎛️ Excellent for building compositions without a DAW
- 📈 Constantly improving with updates
- 👨💻 Responsive and engaged developer
- 🎚️ Easy to record automation
- 🎶 Great for live performance and jamming
- ⚙️ Superior ergonomics and smooth workflow
- 🎵 Makes music creation fun
- 💡 Well-designed MIDI sequencer
- 🚀 Fast and fluid to use
- 🎛️ Good for Berlin School jamming
- 🎧 High sound quality
- 🎚️ Easy to get started with AUV3 plugins
- 💡 Generative features and probability are excellent
- 🚀 Quick to bust out ideas
- ✅ Great on its own and as a MIDI controller
- 👍 Easy to grasp quickly
- 🌟 Modern alternative to AUM
- 🎚️ Fun and genuinely useful
- 🚀 Ideas just flow
- 🎶 Perfect for coming up with song structures
- 🌟 Superb ergonomics
- 💡 Unique host app
- ✨ Feature-packed and fun
- 🚀 Turns iPhone into a powerful music tool
- ✅ Good alternative to AUM
- ✨ Wonderful and fun
- 🚀 Dev working hard to improve
- 💡 Great tool, intuitive
- 🚀 Releases come often
- 💡 Amazingly intuitive Ableton style groovebox
- 🚀 Easy to get started
- 💡 Excellent for solo musicians
- 🚀 Developer extremely responsive
- 💡 Incredible intuitiveness and ease of use
- 🚀 Allows excellent creativity and depth
- 💡 Wonderful job
- 🚀 No brainer purchase
- 🌟 New go to for music noodling
- 🚀 Excellent!
- 👨💻 Developer on it with bug fixes and improvements
- 🚀 Implements things at lightning speed
- 🚀 Jamming in no time
- 🚀 Easy to use and powerful
- ✅ Clear and easy to understand
- 🚀 Can be grasped quickly
- 👨💻 Dev worked quickly since release
- 🚀 Totally recommended
- 🌟 Modern Alternative to AUM
- 🚀 Off to a great start
- 🚀 Best app I never knew I needed!
- 🚀 Fluid and fun to use
- 👨💻 Developer super engaged
- 🚀 One of the most used iOS apps
- 🌟 Great job
- 🚀 Perfect for Live Performance and Jamming!
- 👍 Big toggle buttons
- 👍 User interface doesn’t require a microscope
- 🚀 Great sequencers and an arpeggiator
- 🌟 Superior ergonomics and smooth workflow
- 🚀 Easy to write music
- 🚀 Anticipates common actions
- 🎶 Very good sound quality
- 💡 Ability to load AUV3s and lay down MIDI easily
- 👨💻 Developer very responsive
- 🌟 First Thoughts...Super! Fantastic! Even Super Fantastic!
- 👍 Reasonable price point
- ✅ "Gets" me, and likewise, I "get" it
- 🚀 Ability to work fast
- 💡 Many excellent types of nodes
- 🚀 Ability to add X/Y pad(s) and/or slider(s)
- 🌟 Amazing!
- 🌟 Wonderful!
- 🚀 Cool! Neues Groove Box Konzept.
- 💡 Many small details make it fun
- ✅ Well designed midi sequencer
- 🚀 Great for getting ideas going quickly
- 🚀 Smashing!
- 💡 New approach and I like it
- 🚀 Purchase, and start making beats
- 🌟 Does EG stand for Excellent, Great because this app is definitely that.
- 🚀 Takes iOS music to the next level
- 🚀 So much fun
- 🚀 Go buy.
Room to Improve
- 🐛 Sampler won't play correctly
- 🐛 Sampler features inconsistent
- 🐛 Random arming and recording into disabled scenes
- 🐛 Crashes with some apps
- 🐛 Too much crashing results in losing work
- 🐛 Accidental refresh instead of saving
- 🐛 Can't sequence all AU parameters
- 🐛 Chord module seems weird
- 🐛 Rhythm module labeling is hard to understand
- 🐛 Pads option for iPhone could be better
- 🐛 Sustain pedal input issue (resolved)
- 🐛 Pan bug (resolved)
- 🐛 Teething problems being sorted
- 🐛 Some bugs reported (quickly fixed)
