BARBARA the Metronome vs JAX Squasher

With BARBARA you can quickly create and play metronomic sequences of bars, and the bars can have different time signatures. You can put rests between bars, and you can use alternative metronome sounds for selected bars. You can specify how many times, or minutes, each bar is played. BARBARA has many pages of buttons with which you can create sequences of bars. The buttons are marked with familiar musical symbols. BARBARA is a programmable metronome as its operation is based on the sequences of bars that are created with the buttons. Although BARBARA can be made to play bars with different time signatures, musicians most often need the basic metronomic functionalities. For these purposes BARBARA has a Quick Start button with which you can quickly start making some traditional rhythms or a monotonous metronome sound. You can set the tempo and activate the metronome by tapping an empty area of the main screen. With tempo buttons you can set or change the tempo of the metronome in any position in a sequence of bars. When tempo is programmed in a sequence, you can make BARBARA play a certain bar for a certain number of minutes. Special buttons exist to accelerate or slow down the tempo within a number of bars. BARBARA can be made to tick certain sections of music with a different metronome sound. One way to utilise this feature is to use the secondary metronome sound to mark changes in a piece of music. In addition to traditional metronome sounds, BARBARA can play simple drum sounds. Sequences of metronomic bars can be created so that they contain both traditional metronome sounds and drum sounds. There are several ways how BARBARA can repeat sequences of bars. You can even create a repeated sequence that is inside a longer sequence that is also repeated. BARBARA will store the sequences of bars that you create. You can name your sequences and play them later. A named sequence can be sent to a friend in a message. The metronome app contains many demo sequences that will help you to learn how the metronome can be used. You can copy and modify the demo sequences for your own purposes.

The JAX Squasher is a self adjusting loudness maximizing limiter with super easy adjustment. Just increase the input gain or tweak the threshold parameter up to the desired level. Very short attack and release times can produce harmonic distortion but the effect is intended to be used for transparent limiting / loudness compression results. Online manual: https://audio.digitster.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/JAX-Essential-Series-Squasher.pdf Demonstration video: https://youtu.be/snVg-0QrZJc Use the same AudioUnits (AUv3) across all Apple Silicon devices, including the iPhone, the Apple Vision Pro and the Mac (M1/2/3/4). Native MacOS apps like GarageBand, MainStage 3 and Logic Pro are supported. Any 3rd-party AUv3 supporting host should be able to host the plugin too. The hosts must support Apples standards for MIDI enabled effect processors. MIDI automation is inbuilt. Just select the MIDI Controller for the desired automation parameter. Multiple assignments are possible. All audio unit parameters are exposed for direct AU automation. JAX Essential Series have the following key features : - ultra efficient with low memory footprint, made for stacking up - fully scalable to any screen size, based on vector drawing - freely MIDI assignable parameters and control - all effects can be mixed to the audio with any amount - inbuilt preset management and factory sets - upwards compatible with older devices and iOS versions - available on all Apple Silicon platforms, iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS with one release and price More infos can be found on our support website https://audio.digitster.net For advanced usage (i.e. mastering and exciting), we recommend to select the chorus from our SELECTIVE RANGE SERIES, which allows to limit the frequency range for audio processing. This build is truly 'universal', meaning, the audio unit is available for: - MacOS (Apple Silicon) - iOS (all actual iPhones) - iPadOS (all actual iPads) - visionOS (Apple Vision Pro) ( AudioUnits (AUv3) are app extensions, requiring an audio host application to perform. ) OS requirements: MacOS 10.15++ iOS 14.0++