Fugue Machine Rubato

Fugue Machine Rubato dives deeper into the multi-playhead piano roll concept of Fugue Machine Classic by adding time-bending playheads, parameter automation, and much more.

At the heart of the sequencer is a nonlinear time engine that lets playheads move with a natural — or surreal — feel. Unlike conventional sequencers, where time advances at a constant rate, time in this engine can expressively accelerate, decelerate, freeze, and change direction. Playheads are now free to swing, strum, bounce, move elastically, and more.

Built upon the time engine is a robust parameter automation system with time-bending automation playheads and envelopes sculpted with points, curves, and shapes. Nearly everything can be automated — even the notes.

Eight years in the making, Fugue Machine Rubato is rock-solid and absolutely packed with features.

HIGHLIGHTS
• Bend time with curves, rates, and offsets
• Automate notes and nearly everything else
• Sculpt envelopes with curves and shapes
• Position playheads anywhere on the grid
• Play up to eight playheads at once
• Apply note echoes per-playhead
• Arpeggiate notes from multiple playheads
• Blend notes from multiple playheads
• Offset, stack, spread, and invert pitches
• Clamp, compress, and expand velocities
• Program drums via per-note Drum Trigs
• Route notes to up to eight MIDI outputs
• Organize patterns in nestable folders
• Launch patterns quantized to the beat
• Revert state via auto-saved Snapshots
• Learn contextually via popovers
• Explore ~150 built-in patterns
• Control via touch, keyboard, and cursor
• Resize Mac window at native resolution

Nonlinear time engine. Time can expressively accelerate, decelerate, freeze, and change direction. Playheads are now free to swing, strum, bounce, move elastically, and more.

Automatable notes in a piano roll. A note’s x-position, y-position, width, velocity and more can be automated.

Multiple playheads positioned anywhere in a single piano roll. Using separate horizontal and vertical braces for each playhead, an entire composition can be sequenced with a shared canvas.

Drum Trigs. An intertwined drum programming workflow that allows you to assign drum triggers to notes on the piano roll. When a note is triggered by a playhead, the enabled Drum Trigs trigger too.

Controlling up to 8 synths and a drum machine at once with a single canvas, bending time and automating notes. I personally love using it on iPad connected to hardware, as well as on my phone as an AUv3 inside AUM connected to software synths and effects.