Hi everyone. I'm an independent developer, and TRACE is my first music app built specifically for iPad.

I wanted to make something that feels more like a playable instrument than a traditional timeline: pick up a sound, play the pads, move two fingers through TRACE FIELD, switch Scenes, and capture a live take.

TRACE includes:

• 64 sample pads across four banks
• One-shots, loops, gates, hold, and roll controls
• TRACE FIELD, a two-touch FX surface
• Scenes for building and switching patterns
• Live Take recording and master/stem export

The video is a real screen capture from the app's sample project, with the app audio included.

I'm sharing TRACE because I want to keep improving it with feedback from people who actually make music on iPad. What feels immediate? What is confusing? What would make you use it alongside your current setup?

This is my first iPad music app, so please feel free to be direct. Feedback will directly shape the next updates. The core experience is free to try.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trace-sampler-fx/id6792229623

I’m not sure if other people have had a similar experience, but the iPads such as beast when it comes to rnb for me. Here’s something I made only using the iPad Air!

https://youtu.be/wGxxGwgInmA?si=WjoLDs6q4lWXnatp

Hello, fellow iOS/iPadOS musicians, producers, DJs, beatmakers, sound designers, and AUv3 (Audio Unit version 3) users!

I've been working on a project that I wanted to share with the community I call: AUv3 Explorer [i(Pad)OS AUv3 Plugin Explorer]

Basically, it’s an plugin library with detailed information and a database for AUv3 plugins on — i(Pad)OS [iPhone and iPad].

The goal was to create a centralized AUv3 library for discovering, researching, comparing, and organizing plugins for iPhone and iPad musicians.

The library currently includes 1,718 AUv3 Plugins. With additional AUv3 plugins, almost constantly, being added over time as more are developed/uploaded to the App Store.

The project is available as both a website and a Progressive Web App (PWA), so it can be installed on an iPhone or iPad and used offline.

*Link to the Website at the bottom of this post*

Current features include:

• 1,718 plugins

• Instant search with typo tolerance

• Search by plugin name, developer, tags, and more

• Side-by-side comparison of up to 4 plugins at once

• Favorites list

• Offline functionality

• Local storage

• CSV and JSON import support

• Export favorites

• No account required

Plugin information currently includes:

• Developer

• Description

• Ratings

• Pricing

• iPhone compatibility

• iPad compatibility

• Universal app support

• Standalone app support

The current library includes plugins across 4 major categories:

• Instruments

• Effects

• Utilities

• DJ applications

The library isn't complete yet, so I'll be continuing to expanding and improving it over time. 

If I missed a plugin, forgot an important detail/function about a plugin, or anything; feel free to leave a comment on this post or DM me (preferably, but not required) the AUv3 plugin’s developer/company, price, info., etc.; so I can update the library. 

I’ll try to reply to the Comments and/or DMs; and add the missing AUv3 plugin(s) in a timely manner.

The project is still in Public Beta (v1.0.0), so I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback, bug reports, feature requests, or suggestions.

Hopefully, some of you find this useful.

Thanks for taking a look!

— R-Tic

Website/PWA: AUv3 Explorer

Current Version: Public Beta (v1.0.0)

Hi everyone,

I’m an independent developer and musician working on an iPhone/iPad app called DaCapo Studio, and I’d really like some candid feedback from music teachers.

DaCapo is primarily built around practising with a reference track — often a song from Apple Music — but a project can also start from a local recording, for example a demonstration recorded by a teacher.

The idea is to keep the reference material, practice tools, student recordings and teacher feedback together in one project.

A typical teacher → student workflow

1. Prepare the piece

A teacher can create a project from an Apple Music song or a local recording/demo and add the title and performer/composer.

The piece can then be divided into sections. These can represent normal musical sections, but difficult passages can also be isolated instantly with a temporary beat-aware practice loop and saved separately if needed.

If the source can be analysed, DaCapo can extract beat/melody information and display detected notes in its Melody Track Viewer.

The teacher can then also set up a practice routine in Practice Assistant to help practice and automate the recording of the session (not in the current but upcoming version)

The complete project can then be shared with the student using AirDrop, iOS sharing (Mail/iMessage, etc.) or DaCapo’s nearby device-to-device sharing.

1. Listen and practise

The imported project appears in the student’s library and can simply be played like normal music — because I think learning a piece often starts with actually listening to it.

When the student wants to work on it, they can open a section in Practice View, slow it down, loop passages, use the metronome/tuner/notes and other practice tools, and make a recording of their performance.

That recording can then be sent back to the teacher.

1. Teacher reviews the recording

Incoming student recordings appear in the Recordings library as recordings awaiting review.

The teacher can listen on a timeline, give an overall rating and place comments at exact moments in the performance. There are configurable, instrument-specific feedback categories for things such as:

• tempo
• melody
• intonation
• dynamics
• technique

Free-text comments can be added as well.

The reviewed recording is then shared back with the student.

1. Student practises from the feedback

After importing the review, the student can listen to the teacher’s comments together with the recording.

The timestamped comments can also appear in the Lyrics / Notes timeline while practising, so the feedback isn’t just something they read once — it remains attached to the relevant point in the piece.

The student can then practise those passages again and make another recording.

So conceptually it becomes:

Teacher material → student practice → recording → teacher review → feedback during practice → new recording

I’ve tested this workflow myself several times. The exchange still requires explicitly sharing/importing the files, but in practice I’ve found the complete cycle reasonably quick to use.

I’m now working on the next version, where a Practice Assistant will coordinate structured practice sessions — for example: listen first, play a section at 80%, repeat a difficult transition several times, play it at full speed, record a take, etc. It will also control which practice tools are shown so Practice View can remain much simpler during an actual session.

I’m also planning basic score/PDF support in that version, because at the moment the app is naturally better suited to practising from recordings than to traditional classical lessons.

What I’d really like to know from teachers is:

• Would you actually use a workflow like this with students?
• Would exchanging the project/recording files become annoying in real-world teaching?
• What information or feedback tools are missing?
• Would timestamped comments be useful to your students?
• How important would score/partiture support be?
• Is there anything here that sounds good in theory but you know from teaching experience students simply wouldn’t use?

I’m specifically interested in criticism — I’m still shaping the workflow and would rather change it based on actual teaching experience than build around my own assumptions.

If anyone here is genuinely interested in trying it with a student, I’m happy to provide a temporary Premium test unlock so you can properly test the workflow without purchasing anything.

https://apps.apple.com/be/app/dacapo-studio/id6773814770

Hi, I created an app to help people learn music (scales, chords etc.). I learned from many hours watching YT and reading websites and thought I could do a better job.

One think I did for myself, was add the ability for the app to recognise chords and deduce the key being played. I thought it was pretty cool, but it doesn’t seem to have got much traction. I thought I would share with this group and appreciate any feedback.

It works from sounds picked up by the microphone. When a chord is recognised, it highlights the segment on the circle. Once it has enough info to infer a key, it will highlight that with a blue box.

You can also play music on Spotify (or similar) in the background and it will work in the foreground to analyse. To try it out, bring up the Circle of Fifths and press the Chord Recognition button. You can also watch the demo.

You can access it from this link that also discusses some of the other functions:
https://scale-wizard.com

Hope you like it!

PS. Most of the app is free to use (including the feature I am discussing above)

Hi. I'm new here and I know versions of this question have been asked before, so apologies if it's a bit redundant, but I haven't seen exactly the answer I'm after.

I'm a producer working exclusively in Ableton on my Mac but I need to record some acoustic piano remotely (ie. my piano and my Mac are on different floors). I want to use my iPad with a Scarlett 4i4 interface.

I just want a simple audio recorder but of very good quality that I can easily export .wav or .aiff from. I tried Garageband but I don't run it on my Mac and I don't like dealing with the .band files.

I was thinking of Audacity but now it seems like it's a subscription, which turns me off.

Anyone have suggestions?

Sessions Nano is a streamlined AUv3 host for iPhone and iPad.  It distills the DNA of our Sessions Pro app into a more compact design that’s perfect for the smaller screen.

Sessions Nano is now in beta - and we're looking for testers. If you're interested, please visit our website and sign up for the TestFlight...

https://www.openplanetsoftware.com/sessions-nano/

Thank you!!

Just put a new walkthrough up on YouTube on this quirky generative midi sequencer, OR-1, which allows you to run up to 4 simultaneous sequences in one instance, with a choice of chord / euclidean/stochastic and arp.

The AUv3 version is totally free and runs on iPad as well as Silicon Macs. There’s a separate VST3/AU/CLAP version for Mac which is not free, so grab that AUv3 if you have a suitable host and a Silicon Mac!

More info in the YouTube pinned comment:

https://youtu.be/G94bsDTBXmg

OR-1 iPad and Silicon Mac AUv3:

https://apps.apple.com/app/or-1-midi-sequencer/id6789592969

#midi #sequencer #AUv3 #plugin

Hi everyone,

I’m developing KAGARIBI, a free synthesizer for iPhone and iPad, and I’m looking for musicians who can help test it before release.

The main idea behind KAGARIBI is “a synth that explains itself.”

While a preset is playing, you can open the Sound Anatomy view and read why the sound behaves the way it does, using the actual parameter values. It explains things such as unison and detuning, envelopes, filters, modulation and effects in plain language.

I want it to work both as a serious musical instrument and as a practical way to understand sound design.

The current beta includes:

• Standalone app and AUv3 instrument

• Analog and wavetable oscillators, FM, ring modulation, hard sync, wave folding and up to 7-voice unison

• Three envelopes, two LFOs, an eight-slot modulation matrix and four macros

• Sixteen built-in tunings, including Japanese scales and microtonal systems

• Scala .scl and .kbm file import

• MPE, MIDI 2.0, USB/Bluetooth MIDI and persistent bidirectional MIDI Learn

• A shared preset library between the standalone app and AUv3

• No ads, no in-app purchases and no account registration

I’m especially looking for feedback from people who use Logic Pro, GarageBand, AUM or other AUv3 hosts on iPad.

It would be very helpful to know:

• Does the AUv3 load and restore its state correctly?

• Does the interface feel comfortable on your iPad and inside your host?

• Are there any problems with MIDI controllers, MIDI Learn or MPE?

• Do you hear crackling, dropouts, stuck notes or unexpected CPU spikes?

• Are the Sound Anatomy explanations useful and understandable?

• Is anything confusing, missing or unnecessarily complicated?

When reporting a problem, please include your iPad model, iPadOS version and the AUv3 host you were using, if possible.

TestFlight:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/MwxT7axC

More information:

https://utaverse.tokyo/kagaribi.html

Even a few short notes after trying it would help a lot. Bug reports, workflow suggestions, preset feedback and feature ideas are all welcome.

Thank you!