Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
Download on the App StoreAudiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.
Impaktor On Sale
Impact or on sale for $.99 US. It's on the Bus.
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What a steal. Great great app. Like, one of those 'why you make music with iOS' type of apps.
Anybody heard if Pro Keys is getting on the Bus?
Nice! Been waiting for this one to drop.
On sale again at $0.99, this weekend. Everyone should own this amazing physical modeling synth. Amazing percussions app.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/impaktor-drum-synthesizer/id557824278?mt=8
This app is easily worth 15-fold...if you like that kind of thing
Impaktor kicks ass!
I only wish beepstreet did more updates!
@Greg said:
Tell me about it. I'm even stalking him on his Facebook in Polish but he doesn't even make as much as a squeak in reply.
Actually bought it after I read this. The price before may have been a little high for something I didn't think would work. Turns out it does work and makes copying loops pretty easy into DAW's. There are times i can tap out a rhythm but have trouble converting that into a pattern grid. This is a nice alternative with a small file size.
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Thanks for the recommendation. I bought it. It looks fun!
dTb
Impaktor is definetly fun, so much fun I wanted to control it with a midi controller and Daw, so I mailed the Dev and this was his reply.
This synthesis method is driven by the real audio signal, that contains much more informations than midi can deliver.
I gonna add “artificial transient generator” in impaktor 2.
Jaroslaw Jacek = BeepStreet
http://www.beepstreet.com
http://twitter.com/beepstreet
http://www.facebook.com
Ooh Impactor 2 on the way, coolio
Yea Impactor uses a lot more data then volume to construct the sounds. It listens and analyses the volume obviously, and also the timbres of the incoming signals. So it analyses lots of data, then generates lots of data to create the sound, all with no latency (unless you run it in Audiobus or whatever) which is pretty incredible.
Yep, I had a similar reply from him via Facebook yesterday. Direct google translation from polish. Hope it makes sense:
'I think that this year I can get to spend the impactor 2, I have some cool models but first new synth best regards!'
He speaks English just fine though. How many languages do you speak @supadom? Besides English I've seen you write in Italian (I believe, or Spanish?) and now polish!
Anyway he was always really fast at getting back to me via email when i had some Qs about iSequencer. Really cool dev!
I wish I had another one to add. I used to speak Russian before I learned Italian but Italian basically pushed it out! Guess I could use this fact as a boycott of what Russia's doing down in Crimea. But I was born in Poland so I thought I'd use that to get that top secret info which turned out not to be so secret after all. I have an impression that he's done with the old impaktor and he'll only start with version 2 once he's done with the new synth he's working on now. So to summarize, with my translation of the message: 'I think that this year I will manage to release impaktor 2'. Which doesn't sound overly definite.
I'm just gonna focus on what I have rather than waiting for elusive updates/new releases. Couldn't take the pain
Ok cool, only other language I know is English. We gotta learn it here wether we want to or not, which probably is a good thing though. BeepStreet, I know that when he was done with Sunrizer and Impaktor, he said he was done learning about synthesis and wanted to do a more DAW-like thing next. Now he's on another synth again though, so focusing on what we already have is a good advice me thinks.
@ChrisG I don't claim to know the man but I wouldn't be attempting building a daw kind of app with two under 5's running around the house. I have one and It is enough as it is! It's good to know where one stands, I was kinda hoping all the update floodgates would open with AB2 but apparently not for beepstreet. It's ok though. I was after midi sync (start/stop) etc. but loopy hd and impaktor's looper dance like an old couple, they never skip a beat (if you stay on the impaktor's page all the time). Loopy's bindings are unreal and most of my trusted synth can be controlled remotely too so, yeah cool pants I say. lol
Sounds like activating Impaktor with app generated sounds via Audiobus would be interesting, if only it was effect slot compatible.
Really enjoying it. Only scratching the surface, really. Is there any way to import like a .wav file of a drum or cymbal, and then have the synth engine respond to that? (I assume not).
The included library of sounds is pretty diverse. You can program like a 909 bass drum with a more traditional snare. There are some good acoustic drum sounds, but you have to fish for them.
I get that some people would want an external controller of some kind to increase accuracy, but to me, that just makes it more like other apps. The appeal of this thing is that you have your phone everywhere and if you're rhythm-inclined, you can just load it up and immediately tap out your idea. What a unique, cool idea and a steal for 99 cents.
I find it very responsive (can't believe how little latency there is from when you tap your finger), but it's a little of a challenge to avoid ambient noise messing up your programming. I kept breathing on the microphone area and programming additional hits! (You can adjust sensitivity, so maybe this can be avoided). But it sounds great and exports quite easily to DAW's. Seriously going tap out a few beats at my office desk during lunch.
I think you'll just need to breathe in time.
@StormJH1 you can use an epad via Irig to avoid re triggering in a live/no headphone environment. Uploading your own samples would be beyond the point. This is a synth.
I mean to try triggering Impaktor via a contact mic plugged into an an audio interface at some point. Try the mic on an acoustic guitar body, a pot, etc.
Jaroslaw (the developer) was trying to contact the Mogees people about getting a Mogee pickup for development. Bruno from the Mogees team seems to be open to a collaboration of some sort.
@PaulB completely agree about being able to use it in the FX slot. I have been hoping the dev might implement that.
@PaulB said:
Yes, this. I asked him about this via email a while back and he said he'd like to try it but that was it.
Would be really handy (were that implemented) if impaktor also recorded your audio performance so that you could edit it later to fix/change stuff.
@supadom said:
Not sure you understood me exactly. It's a synth, yes, but it still takes a base sound as the source material (or at least I think it does). So you get a 909 bass drum or a PVC pipe or something, and then all the same synth controls and FX can be applied to one or the other. I didn't expect I could load my own and have it just work, but I would love even more! (Even as an in-app purchase).
The degree of sounds is pretty darn good, but there are just a few that I wish I had. For example, there's a hi-hat, but no symbol crash or open symbol that I could find. The reason I like having traditional drum kits in Impaktor is that it does something with touch-sensitivity that a touch screen really can't. There's even one that's goes from a bass drum to a snare as you tap the table softer to harder. Pretty freakin' cool!
According to the website there are no samples used.
It doesn't use samples, it's physical modeling, frequency modulation and noise shaping. Says so on the App Store info page.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/impaktor-drum-synthesizer/id557824278?mt=8
But there is a rotary control to determine how much of the impulse signal is mixed with the synth.
Ah ok @StormJH1 I think I've got ya. There's two modules each with selectable: membrane, resonator, noise and fm. Looks like membrane could be a sample based source (despite what the website says
). Anyhow, who knows it may be a feature of impaktor 2.
Saying that I see these limitations as an opportunity to be original. I have to admit I built a kit emulation myself but try not to use it in a traditional sense and just create rhythms with other weird sounds that come up while programming. So for example with a bit of tweaking of the hihat preset you get more of a matchbox sound, then that becomes a long shaker, then an ocean drum, mix in a little low pitch membrane from the other oscillator and you get like a gathering drum with some sand inside. It sounds like the real thing but just a little different. I think this is part of the genius of this app, that it has a capacity to sound different. I recently started programming and grouping sounds according to pitch in order to build performances in a specific key. I'm still trying to get my head around the scales, I'm still not quite sure how that works exactly but hey, work in progress. It is by far my favourite app.
On sale again at $0,99.
Does any body know if it will get updated to support ios 8?