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.
Gadget / Blocs Wave, learning the ropes, ended up with a tune (Electronic + Wizibel video)
I feel pretty lousy with my first post being a track not a question but after downloading and figuring out Blocs Wave and how to send Gadget tracks into it using Audiobus, and in doing so I ended up accidentally with most of a tune. Especially pleased with the huge bassline, that's Dublin in Gadget nearly untouched (comp for level, Analog Heat for warmth). I exported it to Ableton, roughly arranged it and smartened up some rhythm parts with Elektron Analog Heat. It's all fed into a rough master chain of Waves API 2600 > Pusher > DBX 160 > RS56 > Vertigo VMS3.
In terms of completion, it's around 65% there, might try vocals.
As a bonus, cheap 'video' using Wizibel! Enjoy!
Comments
Nicely done! And a bassline that deserves your pride as well. Trying to enjoy the pure housiness of the track — and I do! — but I'm dying to know the workflow. Is that so wrong?
Ah thanks! I still get surprised just how good the Gadget gadgets are, and the quality and fullness of the sounds they put out. Mind your I have another track based on Model 15 and that thing is solid! I'm hoping Moog go AU with it eventually and BM3 is the Live for the move I hope it is, then I'll find it hard not to be on the iPad most of the time.
Loving noodling on apps like Model 15, Rebirth and iElectribe and just recording in Audioshare, gradually compiling a library of my own samples in Dropbox.
Workflow. Well nothing fancy: make 4-8 bar loops in Gadget, record them into Blocs and add a few other samples in from my library, reslice some parts. Export to Lauchpad to play about and see what works together. Export to Ableton from both Gadget (Audio, Midi) and Blocs, arrange, mix and finalise in Ableton.
Hope that makes sense. Thanks a ton for checking it!