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.
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Nice update. Would like to see landscape and AB3 midi next, would be good to have multiple lanes one for each creature. Can't really see myself using it til then as I have the same issue with portrait only apps. Good for iPhone but not iPad.
It's a very cool, fun, innovative, and well implemented app. Having the choice of vertical or horizontal is always an advantage... but I guess I use my mobile devices... well, more "mobile" and not strapped into a desk stand. So, it's not an issue for me. My iPad is only in a stand when it's charging, and I can place it there either vertical OR horizontally. Otherwise, I'm using it as a mobile device and free to turn it any which way.
The excellent Droneo app is highly regarded in this forum, but I don't recall anyone complaining about that one being only vertical.
If I'm at the desktop and I'm running audio/midi from my iPad to the desktop via lightning cable... and I'm using an app that's vertical only, I just turn it vertically in it's cradle. Maybe some of you could look into a desk stand that's rotatable?
And, many audio apps are ONLY horizontal... which is very annoying to those actually using our "mobile devices" in a mobile fashion as intended... but no one complains about that either for some reason.
It's a bit surprising the dev didn't make a horizontal interface too... considering the excellent, minimalistic design of the interface seems like it wouldn't be that difficult to do.
That being said... to each their own. I'm enjoying the heck out of it and VERY happy that I supported this dev by purchasing the IAP on this one.
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why have such a gorgeous sound engine and not be AB or AUM compatible?
Still waiting.
You CAN record the audio and easily export right into AudioShare. You can even record a video of your session to export as well.
I really don't get all of this focus on what features some users demand, ie. link, AU, AB, IAA and end up throwing out the great things some apps are capable of.
I'm thrilled with this app and love how the developer has taken it to a whole other level. Maybe the iOS sound "enthusiast" audience isn't who this developer is targeting. Who knows. There's a community aspect of the app that I haven't explored yet, that looks interesting too.
Just figured I'd pass on that it's been updated with a bunch of cool features. I dig it for what it is and what it DOES do. Cheers
Very interesting!
Landscape please it's so beautiful to see these swimming musicians bugs
Don't get me wrong; I think it is a wonderful app and support the developers. However, they really went out of their way to design a really nice sound engine, but it is frustrating that one can't immediately drop it into the workflow. It's a given that I must go the internal record and export route with older apps from the pre AB or IAA days, but Seaquence is a stripling. Or maybe I am just impatient?
I don't know. I'd be lying if I said the first things I checked with the new update was if I could load it into AUM and if it had a horizontal display option.
But, those omissions aren't deal breakers for me. I'm also very fond of the interface. It's just so dang fun and intuitive.
I really like how they allow us to tweak before buying
Just left my review.
Has anyone reached out to the devs?
Midi in would rock!
Imagine KRFT and this?
You are not alone.
We are not alone.
I get if it doesn't bother you then it doesn't bother you. But the landscape/portrait thing does bother me, so there it is.
Forgot I had it. Seems to be a significant update.
Supported this app after John recommended it months ago.
Fun little app and not as "silly" as it seems. Very serious for making cool music.
Wow, truly enjoying this app!!
Anyone got it to sync to other apps? Or must the IAP Be purchased first??
same here. forgot i even had it, and am rediscovering it. i'm liking the midi update.
Got it synced up to Model 15 and Soft Drummer. Really cool!
Now trying to figure out how to disable the internal sound of a single organism that's sending its note data to Model 15. I have both playing at same time.
I can disable internal sound engine but that affects all organisms.
Pretty cool that Soft Drummer starts in perfect sync with Seaquencer's Transport. It really works!
Haven't tried inside AUM thought.
Right now I have AB3 hosting Soft Drummer and Model 15.
Just left my Apps Store review. I bought the IAP and I'm really enjoying this baby tweaking Model 15 and it's syncing up quite nicely with Soft Drummer. Haven't tested midi in, but i see midi input in the settings page.
Having a lot of fun with this one guys.
Can someone please explain what the Midi latency slider is for? What does it do?
Hey @MusicMan4Christ! Seaquence developer here. The MIDI latency slider controls the amount of time that MIDI messages are delayed before being sent. This is pretty standard. Since our audio engine processes samples in discrete blocks, without some delay MIDI will end up being quantized to the block interval. The latency slider allows you to trade off increased delay (latency) for more consistent message timing.
Also thanks everyone for the great feedback.. We definitely know how much lack of landscape orientation is an issue. We're still working through how best to implement it. Hoping to include that in a future update.
ryan
Hi all, other Seaquence dev here :-D
It's so cool to see all the feedback in this thread, thank you for all of it
It's inspiring to start thinking about Seaquence as a component in a workflow. It's clear that landscape orientation is necessary, especially on iPad. A bonus of landscape orientation is that it also increases the width of direct interaction in the the stereo field when dragging voices around
As far as integrations, our latest update includes audio (and video!) export, MIDI i/o support. Out of the buffet of integrations like AU, AB(3), IAA, Link (and others I've likely missed?), we're reading up on the docs and API's to see which ones we should dive into. AB3 and Ableton Link seem like top contenders.
That is great news. Thanks!
@quilime & @notlion been a fan since launch and I'm in love with the interface. Also, awesome that you cats donate support and charity for other artists, devs and musicians. That's so cool and influenced my decision to support your app development.
Hat off to you and bravo for such a killer app.
@notlion and @quilime so awesome to see you both dive in here and read up. Welcome and again, thank you so much for creating this beautifully crafted musical studio app!
So far its been such fun creating with your app. I know there are so many wishes and thank you for listening. AB3 and Link totally top of the list. Awesome!
Another thing i wish is the ability to have an internal switch to either have the internal synth engine turn off or on or both, for each organism voice. I don't know if that's what they're called.
So being able to select to use the internal synth which by the way is pretty awesome and powerful, but also be able to turn it off for that voice and allow the choice to select internal, external or both. This way, the external synth playing that voice for the organism will be the only one playing back. I had it working but somehow it got re enabled, don't know how i did it, but it was during the process of enabling or disabling the sound engine.
I know there are many pro users here that are way more advanced in midi than i am but I'm really enjoying driving Moog Synths and Infinite Synth, awesome!!
Also, i wish there was a way to draw predetermined boundaries for each organism. Of course optional, and have them only stay within those boundaries, sort of like panning, once you set the panning to a certain place, you leave it there unless of course you decide otherwise and let it go free to swim in the sea.
Last wish, is there a way to be able to increase the number of measures or bars allowed to record in each organisms voice sequencer? Would love to make a whole song with this app! It can be done, please someday???
So many wishes, but again, thank you and i hope my App Store review helps you guys out.
@quilime & @notlion kudos on the ethos etc.
Is there a keyboard? I hate just programming....
You and me both, but this is one sequencer that makes it pretty fun and fluid
There's midi in but I can't see how to record the midi into the creatures....
Same here
Absolutely loving this app. So completely delightful. Easiest IAP purchase I've come across in a long time!
Other than IAA, this pretty well matches my main hopes for the app though I'm not sure any are essential, per se. App is musical and productive for me as is.
A few more below from the request brain/train. Most are just ideas. Again, quite pleased with the 7 bucks I spent!
Wow so glad you like it man! I'm really liking it too but I couldn't get it to send reliably via Midi to Cubasis. It did but not solidly on my iPad. On iPhone its a lot easier with midi. With AUM sending to AUv3s a little better but again I'm not so good at midi and still learning. I really like your ideas and hopefully the Devs come through.
Setting resolution to 1024 in AUM fixed a lot of issues! Will do more tests.
Fun fact. I can't currently purchase the IAP because,in portrait mode, the keyboard won't display properly, so I can't enter my password! And, five mins later, the problem disappears...ios, eh?