Auxy - Workstations - Ipad

Auxy - Workstations - Iphone - 13Mo

Auxy isn’t an entirely new approach to music-making, though. If you’ve ever used a sequencer app – professional or amateur – you’ll feel at home, as you paint beats, bass lines and melodies onto grids to create loops.



It’s beautifully designed, though, from a step-by-step tutorial that doesn’t outstay its welcome, to the stripped-down neon graphics and logical use of multi-touch gestures to switch or copy loops, drag sounds around and flick between different instruments.

Auxy is very much a tool for making electronic music – no synthesised guitar riffs here – but the more you explore it, the more flexibility you’ll find, from expanding your loops from one to four bars, and playing around with the sounds to find the squonk or wub you’ve been looking for.

One thing I didn’t spot at first in the tutorial is recording. Accessed by a button at the top-left, you can start recording and trigger your various loops to construct a song, then share it via email; export it using the AudioCopy technology and on to SoundCloud; or transfer it to iTunes or other apps like Dropbox.