Bitbop vs Audio Object

Bitbop is a pocket instrument for making music. Every pad is in key, so you can't play a wrong note, and a full band plays along: lead, bass, bells and drums. START FROM 1,000+ SONGS Techno, house, trance, drum and bass, synthwave, lo-fi, hip-hop, disco, afrobeat, latin, raga, classical, folk and Bitbop originals. Load one, change anything, make it yours. Or tap Surprise me and start from a new idea. FIVE SOUND WORLDS Each one is its own synthesizer: - Bitbop: the signature chiptune sound, a PWM lead and a chip supersaw - Techno: a resonant lead, a clean sub and a driven kit - Retro: a pulse melody, square chimes and a smooth triangle bass - Classical: bowed strings and a plucked harp in a concert hall - Dancehall: a syncopated sub, a skank chop and a steppers riddim SOUND YOU CAN SEE 100 full-screen visuals that follow every note you hear. SHARE WHAT YOU MAKE - Export a video for stories and feeds, with the visuals you see - Export WAV audio or MIDI for any music app - Share a song as a link or QR code - Go Live: friends watch your jam in real time from a link, no app needed PLAY YOUR WAY - Tempo from 65 to 250 BPM, a vibe filter and a feel control for swing - Loops from 8 steps up to 10 bars, with a fader for lead, bass, bells and drums - Undo, erase, copy and paste, and lock a control between songs NO ADS. NO ACCOUNTS. Bitbop works offline and your songs stay on your device. Only anonymous usage counts are sent, and you can turn them off in Settings.

Audio Object is a pocket-sized music instrument for iPhone. It looks and works like a small piece of hardware — a wooden body with an instrument panel on each face. Pull the wood edge and the body rotates to the next face. WHAT IT DOES - Four-track looper with bar-quantized recording and per-loop trim - Three-voice drum machine as the click track — kick, snare, hi-hat with a per-step accent grid - Eight-pad sampler with grid, auto, and tap chopping, two switchable banks, three-band EQ, varispeed tuning - Project save, load, and WAV stem export with tempo map - Streams audio to any Mac DAW over USB (Inter-Device Audio & MIDI) - Sends MIDI clock over USB — Ableton, Logic, and Bitwig lock transport to the phone - Records stereo from any Core Audio interface (iRig, Focusrite, MOTU, and others) HOW IT WORKS Six faces. Perform pads on one, sampler on another, click and time signature on a third, projects on the back, I/O on top, master on the bottom. No menus, no tabs. Every control lives on the body. The click track is not a metronome. It is a three-voice drum machine with per-step accents, subdivisions from quarter notes to swing, and time signatures from 3/4 to 12/8. Set up a kick-snare-hat pattern, press record, loop on the beat. The sampler holds eight pads across two banks. Record from the mic or load from Files. Chop by grid, by transient, or by tapping markers. Each pad carries a three-band EQ, varispeed pitch, and an amplitude envelope. All eight play polyphonically. Recording quantizes to the bar, the beat, or runs free. A dedicated loop-adjust face trims each loop to the sample — drag the region brackets, snap to the grid, hear the result while the brackets move. Plug the phone into a Mac over USB. Audio Object appears as an audio input and MIDI clock source. The DAW locks transport to the phone's tempo. No drivers, no setup. Plug a USB audio interface into the phone. Audio Object names the device on screen and records through its preamps at up to 48 kHz stereo. WHAT IS NEXT A synthesizer — bass, chord, and lead modes — is in development for the next major release.