Your best music making friend

Is it a guitar? A drum set? An exotic indigenous instrument of some kind?

Nope. It's an app. That's right, an app called Caustic. The folks over at SincgleCellSoftware.com really nailed it with this one and all it's power is available right in your pocket.

Also, extremely handy on touch-screen tablets, Caustic puts the world of synthesizers in a nice neat bow for a mere $9.99. They even have a Volca Sampler editor, so you can add your samples directly into your Volca via your phone!Trust me, you won't miss the ten bucks. I had to look up how much it even cost because of how often I use it. To download from the Play store please click on the link in this paragraph.

I must admit, I am a sucker for step sequencers, but this one is different. With it's easy UI, you'll find yourself making tunes in mere moments with Caustic's 14 built-in 'rack mount' synthesizers. Each of the 14 Modules boasts a crazy number of presets, which all have maneuverability amongst machine parameters (LFO, VCA, Phase, Etc.). I own hardware synths (Moog's Mother 32 and DFAM, Korg's Volca Sample, SQ1 and MS20MINI, to name a few) out the yang but always find myself gravitating back towards Caustic. I think it allows me to ground myself and really get back to basics. It allows one the ability to set up structure when running short on ideas. I'd trade the Piano Roll in Logic for Caustic any day of the week.

Check out a track I made solely with Caustic here - www.soundcloud.com/chuckwny/eegc-21019