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.
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I sold mine after realize it has some unfixed bugs in the sequencer part but I love the concept so bad!
Never liked the pads , could not rename the midi CC display , the sequencer could not record a sustain note (had to manually tie notes) ,bought an mpd 218 for less space ( crappy pads , too much hype on the net )
I bought a pad One for the xy and midi output (a must when I used docks)
I didnt use it much after buying it but its a good controller in my opinion. The software sux and im not too worried about the sequencer. So im basically using it for the pads,knobs and faders LOL
those triggerfingers can send out multiple messages from a single pad though, that's very useful
Im making beatmaker 3 presets and intruments as we speak. 16 pads and 64 pads color coded for easy remembering of what type of sample is loaded
To beta testers :
How are the filters ? Didn't like BM2 filters at all. ( no character )
I played with them some, but didnt do any proper comparisons or paid too much attention to its quality, but im quite picky about this sort of stuff and didnt notice anything wrong with it.
@Shazamm does Bm3 support the novation launchpads rgb LEDs? Also does it have Ableton link ? Pretty much my main two concerns. That follwed by does it have Iaa multiple outs ?
Hey guys!
We greatly improved the filters in BM3. It's really a step up compared to BM2!
Cheers.
Mathieu.
Launchpads led colors can be controlled on MIDI Channel 5 or 6 and using note velocities as the color code.
Check this article out: https://us.novationmusic.com/launchpad-pro-lightshow
Now I don't have a Launchpad to try this out!
Also, BeatMaker 3 supports Ableton Link.
Cheers!
Mathieu.
Great ! Are there different filter types ? Meaning , not Hipass,Lowpass (which is standard) ,but different type of Lowpass ? If not please don't add this feature ( for the obvious just-launch-the-app-now-please )
Oh I know that. Was wondering if there would be native support. Infinite looper did a fantastic implementation. Pretty much every launchpad shares user mode 1 so it I would involve just making 1 script for all launchpads.
Thanks....
When will BM3 be released?
Sssshhhh! Don't scare it away!
Noooooooooo.... Everytime someone asks this, they report the release date one month later... didn'nt you know ?...
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I just want to say one thing. The UI screenshots of BM3 look fantastic. Even if I can't make a sick and fat beat to win me a Grammy I'll enjoy using the app if it performs as good as it looks.
Will bm2 files transfer over easy to bm3?
Uncle @Samu
If I have a long, say five minute wav file of somewhat unquantised noises, bits, bloops etc is it easy to drag bits of it into the sampler and trim it or select ranges, drop portions onto pads or some such thing?
It's easy to add slice markers to files yes, they get mapped to keys buy default, you can then do slice to pads if needed.
Longer files will be streamed from 'disk'.
When you do a 'slice to pads' the file is not chopped but instead the pads reference the original file and set the bounds to match the slice, you can 'trim' the file too but it's actually quite smart to use bounds as you can easily adjust the slice afterwards. It saves some disk-space too
That sounds awesome!
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No news, no videos, no nothing ?...
No. They said in their forum they would work on it if they had enough request but only two people asked for it, I was one. BM3 is very different structurally from BM2.
I was going to write the same thing yesterday but I feel asleep looking at screen shots! lol
I took out some money from my savings to consider buying and mpc live (which could be redundant) or an op-1 however, BM3 could be my answer but I need to test it out first.
In the same boat. Which is not a bad boat to be in. But it's a slow boat for sure.
Meanwhile I just discovered I can AirDrop zips & wavs from my Mac to my iPad and choose to Open in BM3 Beta.
Transfer is damn fast actually.
I zipped a whole Maschine Expansion Sample folder and sent it this way, and I discovered that it reads the .CAF files from Logic X libraries. Which is cool because they have some nice loops in there.
I'm working on a video and hopefully have it ready when it will ship out.
Hehe, meanwhile, rub it in dude!
You can easily import full folders from AudioShare(Or any other file-manager) using the standard iCloudDrive Document-Picker. If you select multiple files for export they will be automatically zipped.
Saving AppleLoops is also possible.
Export them to AudioShare and use the iCloud Drive picker from Garageband to import them
All I can say is that it will be worth the wait!