Phone it in

Dragonfly is also available on iOS as an AUv3 for the ridiculously great price of £4.50. To use it properly on mobile/iPad, you’ll want to use it in tandem with a supporting music workstation app, such as GarageBand or Steinberg’s Cubasis. Performance is fluid on our five-year-old iPad, using GarageBand.

Experimenting with Dragonfly in this context was a keen reminder of just how much fun mobile music production can be, and had us eyeing up the other offerings in Bleass’s iOS effects repertoire, including Alpha Synth and Delay. Be warned, this might be the first step down the slippery slope of Bleass-addiction…