A board you build by hand
Drag blocks onto the canvas and wire them up. Fork the signal into parallel lanes and blend it back — the rig is whatever you draw.
TAURUS
Chain your plugins like you'd chain your pedals. Finally.
Drag them onto a canvas, split the signal, switch scenes mid-song. Mac and iPad.
Any NAM profile*. Any AU plugin.
One board.
Drop in a .nam capture and Taurus runs it natively — no wrapper, no extra plugin — or pull one straight from TONE3000 without leaving the app. Alongside it, the AUv3 and AUv2 effects, instruments and generators you already own. Chain them in any shape: straight through, or split into parallel paths and merged back. Every block on the board is real, with its own knobs and faders.
NAM profile hosting, TONE3000 browsing, cabinet IRs, the looper, the Mindy pedal, network MIDI and the iPhone build are in development and ship in a future update. AU hosting, MIDI control, scenes and the tuner are in the app today, on Mac and iPad.
TONEX, BIAS FX and Ibanez Tube Screamer are trademarks of their respective owners. Taurus hosts these plugins; it is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by their makers.
What's on the board
Everything a rig needs. And then some more.
Most rigs ask you to pick a sound or learn a studio. Taurus keeps the plugins you trust and the feel of real pedals.
NAM profile hosting, TONE3000 browsing, cabinet IRs, the looper, the Mindy pedal, network MIDI and the iPhone build are in development and ship in a future update. AU hosting, MIDI control, scenes and the tuner are in the app today, on Mac and iPad.
Pricing
Pay once, or pay as you go.
Try everything free for 7 days — the whole app, nothing locked. After that, every plan unlocks the same thing; the only choice is how you pay.
Monthly
$4.99/mo
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
LifetimeEarly bird
$90$30once
One payment. Yours forever.
Yearly
$24.99/yr
Billed yearly — about $2.08/mo.
Download Taurus and pick your plan in the app.
FAQ
Everything you need to know about Taurus.
Does Taurus come with its own effects?
Today it's a host: it runs the AudioUnit plugins you already own along with Apple's built-in AUs, and puts a chromatic tuner on every board. A native NAM amp modeler, cabinet IRs and a multi-track looper are in development and ship in a future update. Until then, the sound is whatever you load onto the board.
Can I use my own NAM profiles?
That's coming. Taurus runs .nam captures natively — no wrapper plugin — with its own Bass, Mid and Treble tone stack, a noise gate, and input and output gain around the capture. Profiles trained at another sample rate are resampled in real time. Native NAM hosting isn't in the current App Store release; it ships in a future update.
Can I control it with a footswitch?
Yes. Taurus takes MIDI from any CoreMIDI source — USB interfaces and controllers, virtual ports and paired Bluetooth MIDI devices — and maps it per board, so a footswitch can switch scenes, toggle blocks, and hit the tuner or global mute without touching the screen. First-party support for the Mindy Bluetooth pedal and network (RTP) MIDI are in development.
Which plugins does it support?
AudioUnit plugins: AUv3 on Mac and iPad, plus AUv2 on Mac. That covers audio effects, instruments and generators, with full access to each plugin's own editor, knobs and faders.
Can I use it on stage?
Yes. Scenes capture your whole board, and you can switch between them live, along with bypassing any block, tapping tempo and kicking in a boost. A chromatic tuner is always on the board.
Does it run on iPhone?
Not yet. Today Taurus is built for macOS 15 and later and iPadOS 18 and later. An iPhone build is in development and ships in a future update.
Do my boards sync between devices?
Boards live in iCloud and follow you between Mac and iPad. Everything works fully offline and catches up when you reconnect. If two devices edit the same board, you keep both copies instead of silently losing one.
What about latency?
Taurus runs on AVAudioEngine and lets you choose the buffer size, so you can trade lower latency against CPU headroom to suit your interface and the size of your rig.
Where are my boards stored?
As plain board files in your iCloud Drive, written with file coordination so you never end up with a half-saved board.