Best Midi Strummer Auv3 Plugin Apps

4.3😐(51 ratings)

$12.99

This app generates MIDI note data to simulate guitar strumming and picking. It includes a soundfont player, definable chord pads, and a pattern editor for creating custom strumming and picking sequences. You can also chain patterns into songs and apply various audio effects.

What We Love

👍 Great app for guitar tracks
💡 Versatile arpeggiator
🎶 Excellent sound quality
🎹 Capable soundfont player
🎵 Intuitive interface
🚀 Efficient workflow
✨ Inspiring creativity
💰 Good value for price
🎸 Realistic guitar sounds
🎛️ Customization options
🎚️ MIDI input/output capabilities
🎼 Song mode for progressions
🎧 Integrates well with GarageBand

Room to Improve

🐛 Frequent crashes
⚠️ Suspicious support website
📉 Limited control over swing/triplet tempo
❓ Difficult to get MIDI out
🖱️ Clunky UI
🎛️ MIDI input only triggers internal chords
🎚️ Pattern length restrictions
📱 VoiceOver accessibility issues
🔊 Internal sounds sometimes mute
😵 Annoying audio unit extension quit messages

Mela – AUv3: Synth, FX, MIDI by Nikolozi Meladze

Modular Music-Making

Strong Contender

4.8(80 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

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Create complex synthesizers, audio effects, and MIDI processors with a modular music-making tool. Design instruments from simple patches to intricate custom setups, with a vast library of modules and extensive modulation capabilities.

SAND: Audio MIDI Sequencer by Matteo Caldari

Record & Make Music, Host AUv3

Worth Considering

Send triggered MIDI messages

4.6😊(89 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

This app is a grid-based music sequencer that allows users to create compositions using AUv3 plugins and external MIDI devices. It offers extensive tools for arranging clips, editing notes, automating parameters, and routing MIDI.

What We Love

👍 Great UI and features
💡 Potential for music creation
🚀 Fast and creative workflow
👍 Easy to use, no instructions needed
💡 Most usable studio on small screen
👍 Simple yet feature-filled
👍 Excellent developer understanding of workflow
👍 Great on phone
👍 Brilliant concept
👍 Dope and simple
👍 Solid experimental clip launch
👍 Minimalist UI
👍 Good value
👍 Smooth workflow
👍 Great start
👍 Easy to use
👍 Clean and easy to use
👍 Flexible and easy to use as groove box
👍 Good for beginners
👍 Fast beat creation
👍 Good for iOS music making
👍 Accessible developer
👍 Fun to use
👍 Brilliant app
👍 Great for AUV3s
👍 Deep yet simple interface
👍 Refreshingly simple
👍 Powerful and simple
👍 Good for composing
👍 Great on small screens
👍 Well-organized main interface
👍 Mappable features

Room to Improve

🐛 Record function always starts
🐛 Sand not opening in overview
🐛 Integration with other apps seems off
🐛 Record does not pick up data
🐛 Cannot save ideas from one app to another
🐛 Auv3 interfaces don't scale well
🐛 Not clearly explained it's a paid app
🐛 Not intuitive to use yet
🐛 Note editing, snapping/quantization awkward and buggy
🐛 Sand won't run within AUM anymore
🐛 Sand not recognized within AUM
🐛 Sand wouldn't recognize other apps as host
🐛 Rendering issues
🐛 Editing notes in pitch grid flies up
🐛 Entering note values difficult
🐛 Changing note length has issues
🐛 Bugs not worked out, more brought in
🐛 Clips out of sync when manually triggered
🐛 Needs more detailed instructions
🐛 Unpredictability for creating new notes
🐛 Selecting notes for editing difficult
🐛 Synchronizing between tracks problematic
🐛 Not enough features for usefulness
🐛 Paid for a half-finished app
🐛 Too cluttered to use on iPhone
🐛 Basic functionality
🐛 Cannot change sequence size (meter)
🐛 Cannot set velocity and modulation parameters
🐛 No CC automation recording
🐛 Few slots for patterns
🐛 Does not work with most other iPad instrument apps
🐛 Misleading advertising claims
🐛 Audio integration needed
🐛 Notes editing/selection/moving process is a pain
🐛 No BT headphone support
🐛 Needs more polish
🐛 Occasional crashes
🐛 Useless at v1.0.1
🐛 Less than 50% of synths/plugins show up
🐛 Many plugins don't work properly
🐛 Money better spent elsewhere
🐛 App prompts for purchase again after buying
🐛 Minimalistic beginnings
🐛 Missing standard sequencer features

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GM/GS compatible synthesizerPlays standard MIDI filesOver 370 instruments and drum sets

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Generative note creation with customizable probabilitiesAdjustable note, octave, duration, velocity, gate, and ratchet parametersIntegrated looper with up to 64-note buffer

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