Aube 2 - My tool for tracking audio (AUv3) plugins

This year I’m going to return to writing about the music plugins I enjoy working with on my iPad, a type of app/plugin called AUv3 which is based on the AU standard that exists for the Mac, commonly used within Logic, Ableton and so on.

I’m concentrating here on the iPad because I want to promote it as a seriously powerful device for music production and performance.

There are so many things you can do, perhaps you’ve got a controller keyboard, one that produces no sounds of its own but you’d use with other hardware or software to perform with. You could easily turn your iPad into a powerful and expressive piano for example with a plugin such as Pianoteq 9.

You could use the iPad as a generative modular synth, using plugins such as MiRack which is like VCV or Eurorack in the virtual form.

Stick with this series here on Hive as part of the Music Technology community, where we can share our ways of using tech, iPad, computer or any other systems to help us produce sounds, songs, compositions and performances alike.

AUBE 2

Aube is a database covering all of the plugins you’ve purchased via the App Store, currently have installed and also a peek into those that you don’t yet have, where you can manage wishlists for future purchases.

I can see that I’ve got over 200 of these plugins, probably around a quarter of what is available on the market today.

I’ve started tagging the entries on the database, to help me track the plugins I’ve written about on Hive and therefore can track what I’ve yet to cover in the future.

What’s coming up

I’m in the process of writing about Fugue Machine Rubato at the moment and how this can be used for developing some interesting musical passages. If you are anything like me and have a deep interest in musical scores, learning a bit of theory throughout our lifetimes, this is an app worth having. Though it has been criticised for being expensive, I thought it is worth the money, as I can see myself using it a great deal.

The post will include some video content, in fact it may end up being video entirely rather than written.