For my use case of writing deterministic, evolving generative pieces this is the best tool I’ve found. Most other things I’ve found use randomness as the primary method of producing variation; I’m not critical of that but it’s not for me. I tried things like orca, Midinous (nodal doesn’t seem to work anymore), others, but didn’t get on with them. With far I seem to be unable to produce anything I don’t like so far. With other tools I often get frustrated with the ui, the limitations, and the results. The ui in fmr is amazing, some really next-level concepts that I think will be copied as other devs see how well they work; it appears to have nearly bottomless complexity if you want it but can be dead simple if you want that too, and I haven’t yet thought “I wish it could do …” (except for sending of midi cc, hope that gets added). I was on the fence due to the price but when the sale came I decided to give it a shot. I would not hesitate to buy it at full price now that I know what it does. Can’t recommend it enough

Any video of this software will quickly demonstrate that its output can be captivating. The interface is excellent and feels only a little cramped on iPhone. However, it lacks support for batch operations or other quality of life features which might ease an otherwise tedious and repetitive workflow. Documentation is good but incomplete, and interface elements such as menus can be idiosyncratic; the learning process remains mostly intuitive. MIDI support is robust, and routing works well in Cubasis. The app is overall elegant, flexible and stable.

I was a big fan of the original fugue machine, but I hesitated on buying rubato due to cost and a lack of need. I’m glad I revisited that decision however as this app is incredible!! It’s so deep and such a cool way to approach sequencing. You could easily write a whole piece using just a single instance of this app! Also the fact that this was also released as a universal app makes it worth the added cost imo. I just hope at some point they release an auv2 wrapper so I can also use this in Reaper.

every time someone tries to sell me a sequencer I ask “can it do true polyrhythms?” and they always say “yes” but they don’t mean yes they mean “it can do polymeters” - but lemme tell ya - that ain’t the same thing! Not this one though, this one is the genuine article - in that it can actually do polyrhythms. Also it’s crazy cool and can do a bunch of other stuff and is a worthy upgrade to the original (it’s got a mac app! You can actually do polyrhythms in Logic now without hurting your loop braces!).