Fugue Machine User Reviews

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Great sequencer

Enjoying it! Would be even better if it would support notes input via MIDI

Very powerful

This is very very convenient for getting as much as you can out of a simple melody.

Exceptional Midi Controller With Major Flaw

Would be substantially better if you could use midi to input notes onto the piano roll. Being required to use the touch screen alone to input notes is tediously unnecessary.

There is no discount on bundle for classic owners

There is no discount on bundle for classic owners. It’s actually a penny more through the bundle.

Are you Seriously Going to over charge

Price gouging for your apps on iOS
A community will be built to watch
For these type of Developers.
We understand how much it
Takes be fair, that’s all we ask fair
but keep in mind we consumers
Who make or break the sales of an app.

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Lack of Support and Updates

I’m very disappointed the features of the new Fugue Machine Roboto app weren’t simply brought into this app as an update for a reasonable price. The fact that an “update” is $80 with no discount for owning the original app is frankly ridiculous and an insult to the iOS community that supported this developer. Compared to what you can get for $80 from other developers’ apps on the App Store, the successor to this app is a joke.
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Wonderful creative tool

This is one of my all time favourite apps, it can create the most beautiful and interesting melodies based on a very well designed user interface.
My only wish is to be able to have different loop lengths for each track, it would make endless possibilities for counterpoint and phasing music. Fingers crossed this becomes a feature.
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Digitone’s Best Friend

I wish so badly that it was possible to input midi notes without having to touch the screen. Being able to input with a midi keyboard would be a huge game changer. No the less.. this tool is absolutely amazing.

The best!

Simply the best sequencer ever made.

MacBook

Absolutely love this! Would be great if it worked or could be used in DAW on my MacBook Pro :)

Very creative app.

If I could make one mini request, would be possible to make the text for note name a bit larger and darker. Thx

AMAZING

If you know what auv3, DAW, and MIDI mean, just buy this now. It's fun, it's instant, it's inspirational and it's usable in almost any situation that calls for MIDI instruments. If you don't know what any of this means, probably not for you.

cool but

how do i load it into logic?

Nice little app

I had higher expectations about it.
Not sure why its limited to 4 tracks.
The sequence’s length could be extended. Would be great.
The rounds knobs make life difficult to set a value.
The app is easy to use though.

Sooooo gooooood!!!

This an amazing and very well done sequencer. Great tool for creating complex or simple yet interesting melodic sequences. The multiple playheads each doing there thing really bring the patterns to life. I'm a score composer for Snap judgment and I use this all the time. I also use it as my main melodic sequencer in my live set sending each play head to separate synths. Highly recommend! Pretty much the reason I got an iPad. It's a game changer!!
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iPhone functionality is gross

Can’t communicate with GarageBand, but yet it shows up as an AUv3 option. When clicking on it, it just migrates to fugue… can’t change sounds, only pitch… I saw a video of someone using this on an iPad and they were able to have this app communicate with a few different ones and from there, change sounds/instruments… if this is not an option for iPhone then why make this available for iPhone?? It’s not even an option to copy the MIDI into GarageBand! Seriously, if you can’t fix these issues then for iPhone this should be a free app. I paid full price but got maybe 5% of the app. Not cool man… and this app is even advertised as an “additional extension” within GarageBand. So to be fair, I’m equally disappointed in Apple about this. This app looked so useful 😔 I guess it serves me right for paying for something and expecting to get what I paid for 😞
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Response from developer

GarageBand does not support AUV3 midi plugins, so in the setup you’ve described, you’re using Inter-App Audio, which is audio only. Also, everything Fugue Machine does on iPad can be done on iPhone, and it’s a universal application. If you’d like Fugue Machine to control GarageBand synths with MIDI, open Fugue Machine standalone and route its MIDI to GarageBand via Settings. With this approach, you can also record Fugue Machine’s MIDI into GarageBand’s timeline. The Fugue Machine AUv3 MIDI plugin, which is included in Fugue Machine standalone, is supported by other AUv3 MIDI Host applications, like Logic Pro for iPad, AUM, Audiobus, and more. Feel free to reach out at alexander@alexandernaut.com for more help.

Brilliant - any updates for the future?

This app is so wonderful - be great to have new randomisation and some kind of arrangement possibilities to upgrade as this would really help for musicians creating evolving ambient music.

Amazing MIDI Controller

I love this app to control both synths and drum machines. I would love it even more if a random note generator were added. If that increased the price it would be worth it.

Simply amazing

Just updating my review as I’m still using this app many years after purchase. So unique, very inspiring and a central part of my iOS music making process. Delighted to see it still gets maintenance updates by the Dev. Very very good. Highly recommended.

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So good. Really great idea. The ultimate idea generator. An essential part of my iOS music workflow. Thank you for making this brilliant app.
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I love it but

I guess the developer stopped to work on it. Sad because it’s a great creative tool

Response from developer

I maintain it, just updated actually. It's done for now though. Working on something new.