Fugue Machine Rubato
Categories: Commercial Software Products
Submitted By: Alexander Randon
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Fugue Machine Rubato
Product Description
How It’s Innovative
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.
See MIDI Innovation In Action
Most Inspiring Use Cases
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.
Expansion Plans
Looking forward to adding MIDI CC and MIDI Pitchbend capabilities to externally control the app’s parameters, as well as to automate parameters of external devices. Also hoping to add MIDI 2.0 features down the line, especially to make it easier for users to select which parameters of the external devices they’d like to automate.
More future plans can be found here: https://alexandernaut.com/fugue-machine-rubato/roadmap
Commercialization
It’s currently for sale on the iOS App Store and Mac App Store. Released on 5/20/25. It’s a Universal Purchase, users pay once and can use it on iPad, iPhone, and Mac.