Amazing, really. – AUM - Audio Mixer Review

Many people wonder whether they should get AudioBus or AUM. I’ve used Audiobus since it’s first version so to me that answer was clear once I came back to iOS music production: AudioBus 3. That being said there’s so much talk about AUM going around so I HAD to get it eventually. I must say I wouldn’t “choose” between one anymore. Both are great and I would certainly recommend any: AUM however is far more intuitive and had a sleeker UI. One thing I love about AUM is it’s AUv3 handling; the resizing of windows is amazing and really lets you take advantage of the small iPhone’s screen. You can have several apps at once displayed on a small tiny screen which I find amazing. That being said, this is the only reason I wrote a review: There’s another kid in town who does this even SLIGHTLY better than AUM, and that is ApeMatrix. I have the three and tbh I choose a different one depending on what I need. Often times I even combine them into my workflow. However, ApeMatrix does ONE thing better than AUM in AUv3 territory and I beg AUM to take note and implement the same behavior as it really would make the app quite better: ApeMatrix will let you resize AUv3 plugins just like AUM does, but the huge advantage to ApeMatrix is that these AUv3 modules remember their position on screen even after being closed. Unfortunately AUM does not do this; this means everytime you open multiple AUm3 instances you have to organize them on your screen whereas on ApeMatrix you do that once and it’s set for the whole project. This allows ApeMatrix to work better as a AUv3 host as I can simply use this app in conjunction with my midi keyboard and pads to trigger opening such plugins whenever I need to have them on sight. The second detail is that double clicking on the “edge” of a plugin’s window in ApeMatrix automatically makes it full screen: AUM does the same but if you double click again it RESETS its UI, as opposed to ApeMatrix which preserves the “minimized UI” and leads you back to it once you double click on the edge again. This is also amazing and should be implemented in AUM as it allows for one to have multiple “mini AUv3” plugins which you can maximize to have full control of through the screen only when needed. These are two small requests that could potentially make AUM even better. Otherwise, this is a great app and a friendlier version of AudioBus, also sleeker (you’ll probably need both in the long run tho, and also ApeMatrix. Best 3 mixers out there).
Review by Enrique Raphaël Page Pérez on AUM - Audio Mixer.