Session Notes AU vs BrainBud - Bud App Controller Usage & Stats
Session Notes AU offers seamless access to a personalized notes database integrated directly into your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). Easily access lyrics, song ideas, mix notes, set lists, and more without interrupting your audio production workflow. Simply add the Session Notes AU plugin to an audio unit slot and you're good to go. With its intuitive user interface and robust features, Session Notes AU is an essential tool for music producers and performers alike.
Session Notes AU is compatible with any AUv3 host running on iOS & iPadOS versions 14.0 to 18.x. Popular host applications include BAM, AUM, Final Cut Pro, LumaFusion, Auria Pro, Cubasis, GarageBand, and Logic Pro. For a detailed user manual, I recommend exploring the iOS companion app.
Key Features:
• Instant access to a personalized notes database within your DAW.
• Customizable and intuitive user interface.
• Access to Lyrics, Song Ideas, Mix Notes, Set Lists, and more to cater to your production requirements.
• Compatibility with all AUv3 audio unit host applications.
• Universal app for iOS and iPadOS.
• A unique music production tool designed for the esteemed Audio Unit community.
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BrainBud controls the keys and scales of the Bud apps all at once. Connect BrainBud’s MIDI out to MIDI inputs of:
- SnakeBud
- PolyBud
- MelodyBud
- ShiftBud
- ScaleBud 2
- In Theory
- Textquencer
- Binarhythmic
- Auto Bass
- BounceBud
- MuseBud
- Kebarp
- FuncBud
- Note to Be
You can also broadcast the current key/scale to the newly connected apps with Budcast button.
If you’d like to experiment, you can try the randomise button.
With the AUv3 plugin, you can change the BrainBud's parameters or even automate them with AU parameters.
For using the AUv3 plugin make sure you have an AUv3 host app such as AUM, Cubasis, Nanostudio, apeMatrix.
BrainBud is a MIDI based app and requires other Bud apps present in order to work right. If you don't have any other Bud apps mentioned above, you can't make a use of BrainBud.
BrainBud doesn't produce any kind of sound on its own.
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Session Notes AU VS. 
BrainBud - Bud App ControllerJanuary 15, 2026