AUBE - Audio Unit Box Explorer

What a simple and yet great idea. An AUV3 catalogue app to tell you what you own. Suburb, just paid for the update 🙏.

Anybody with a library of AUv3 apps really needs this, a lot. . It's like Photos app for AUv3 … but so so so much better! . I can't think why it wasn't thought if earlier, it's the app I didn't know I desperately needed but when I first saw it I instantly knew I did. . Unutterably helpful. I <3 u dev(s). <3

Very useful to quickly review all the music apps on your device. It stops me overlooking to use apps I haven’t used in a while and might otherwise not use as much as I should.

I love the App. I’d like to be able to download a text file of all the AUv3 Apps so could print them.

The app seems fine, but I’ve just bought it and poking around, I’m immediately being asked to pay a (smallish)fee for a 90 day update of new database descriptions. I’m confused - what did I just buy? It’s a strange business model and seems like a sly way to force a regular ‘subscription’ for the database to run the app. The fee is not much, but why do I need to upgrade something I’ve just bought? And the upgrade I’d be paying for will only last 90 days. This is not an upfront way of wining support and makes the app useless and pointless for me. They should remove the subs element or provide a refund.

So much time saved when searching for the app you need. And with the option to sort favourites, even quicker. Certainly an option I’ve wanted for a long time in apps like AUM.

One problem I’ve found is it doesn’t find all auv3 apps and the submit unknown Audio Units doesn’t do anything. I have True Pan on my iPad and it isn’t recognised by Aube. It doesn’t stop me from using that app but it doesn’t appear in the list. I wonder how many other apps are invisible to Aube? Also there doesn’t appear to be a link to report bugs or problems, unless I’ve missed it.

This app is a great idea, and could be super useful. But it is a bit confusing, requiring turning off/on in order to stop the keyboard appearing in other apps. I bought it in good faith, expecting improvements to be made to functionality in due course. I then discovered that there is a plan to make it fully functional only via additional IAPs or a subscription app, which would hobble it for those who do not want to keep paying. This was NOT made clear in the App Store description. As a result I have requested a refund.

…for anyone who has ‘too many’ AUv3 apps to view easily or who gets a app name memory block. Add to that the almost instant support that Fred gives for his apps, and you just can’t go wrong. This is not a plug-in, it does not host plugins, it is a database enhancement for DAWs that support a search field and as such is the answer to this ‘maiden’s prayer’.

If you have loads of auv3 music apps, this app will automatically scan and organise them for you into categories. The killer feature is the custom keyboard you can add to iOS, which allows you to use AUBE in auv3 hosts that have a search box. I use loopy pro and it works great there. Highly recommended.