Fugue Machine Rubato is a powerful music creation app designed for iPad, iPhone, and Mac. It transforms the way you think about making music by offering a multi-dimensional musical canvas where you can bend time and automate notes effectively.

This app builds on the multi-playhead piano roll concept found in Fugue Machine Classic. It adds exciting features like time-bending playheads and a sophisticated parameter automation system. At the heart of Fugue Machine Rubato is a unique nonlinear time engine. Unlike regular sequencers that follow a steady beat, this engine allows time to expressively accelerate, decelerate, freeze, and even change direction. With this flexibility, playheads can swing, strum, bounce, and move in creative ways that feel both natural and surreal.

The parameter automation system is robust, allowing you to automate nearly everything, including notes. You can sculpt envelopes with curves, making it easier to control how sounds evolve over time. You can play up to eight playheads at once, enabling rich and complex musical arrangements.

Fugue Machine Rubato also lets you apply note echoes on each playhead, arpeggiate notes from multiple playheads, and blend them together. You can offset, stack, spread, and invert pitches, as well as compress and expand velocities. There's even support for per-note Drum Trigs, which gives you the ability to program drums in a precise manner.

Organizing your work is simple with nestable folders for patterns. You can launch these patterns quantized to the beat to maintain rhythmic precision. If you need to revert to a previous state, the auto-saved Snapshots feature makes it easy. You can learn how to use the app through contextual popovers, guiding you as you explore the roughly 150 built-in patterns available.

Fugue Machine Rubato allows for touch, keyboard, and cursor control, making it accessible no matter your preference. You can also resize the Mac window to fit your needs. It fully supports iPad, iPhone, and Mac, including Apple Silicon and Intel devices. Integrating with other tools is seamless thanks to the AUv3 MIDI plugin and Ableton Link support. This means you can run multiple instances of Fugue Machine Rubato within apps like AUM, Logic Pro for iPad, Loopy Pro, and Cubasis.

As a universal app, you pay once and can use it on any device within its ecosystem. If you’re curious to try it out, you can access a free demo via TestFlight on the Fugue Machine Rubato website. This app is truly packed with features and is designed to help anyone create music in a unique way. Whether you’re a hobbyist or a professional, Fugue Machine Rubato offers a versatile platform for musical time manipulation and fugal music patterns.