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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Edgy bunch here...
Pronounced with a silent R, of course ...
Looks like the classic Novation Launch app has been fooling around
Or at least I hope it's like that...
I do wonder how many IAPs this app new will include, like one for loading user samples, one for export, one for synth editor, one for...
Looking at the photos so far, I don't see the usual shopping trolley IAP icon. That's not to say there aren't any IAPs or that some won't be added in the future.
Please mind the gap....
To clear this up the product Blocs Wave will stay as is, however, we have formed a new Sub-Brand that will be called 'Ampify'. We'll slowly release this as the app Groovebox comes out.
Also, just so everyone is aware of our story, we are an innovation team made up of a bunch of people from Focusrite/Novation. Focusrite (our parent company) decided to create our small innovation team 2 years ago to come up with new exciting stuff, as separate from the main hardware product groups. The idea is that this allows us to move quickly, and come up with new stuff, faster. Under our new Brand name, you'll see even more cool stuff come out.
Have faith though, that Focusrite & Novation hardware stuff will work awesomely with our apps :-)
// Matt
@blocsxnovation Are you preparing some news because the 'globe' menu in Launchpad crashes every time I try to scroll past a point... (It's never done this before).
Domainname was registered 27 may, futher pretty vague
Domain Name: AMPIFYMUSIC.COM
Registrar: MESH DIGITAL LIMITED
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1390
Whois Server: whois.meshdigital.com
Referral URL: http://www.meshdigital.com
Name Server: NS-CLOUD-D1.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
Name Server: NS-CLOUD-D2.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
Name Server: NS-CLOUD-D3.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
Name Server: NS-CLOUD-D4.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 11-jun-2017
Creation Date: 27-may-2017
Expiration Date: 27-may-2021
Geographical information
Location : (52.9557, -1.172)
Latitude : 52.9557
Longitude : -1.172
Geo Location address : Nottingham, J8 Nottingham, United Kingdom
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I love Blocs, it's one of my favourite apps and the support has been excellent, so not in that sense. More of an 'all in one' thing, which I'm not actually a fan of. Since I have a mountain of excellent FX, synth, drum and recording apps, that can all be linked together via (Link), AUM and Audiobus (after all that's why we're all here...right?) - self contained apps like Auxy, Oscilab, Tabletop, iMPCPro, iMaschine, Skam, Figure, Gadget etc. etc. etc. tend to sit in the corner and not join in, unless they've grudgingly added audio or MIDI out, and even then you have to pester them for separate channel outs and they generally play up even then.
Being developed by the Blocs guys is a definite big tick, as it's sure to be superb quality and well supported. But since I'm not a 27 year old bearded hipster knocking out beats on the tube train, I just hope it's bringing something new to the table that multi app nuts like me can enjoy.
I'll still probably buy it though, so I don't feel left out.
does it sample, does it edit samples, does it sequence samples, does it mangle samples, does it pan samples, does it organize samples, does it import samples via iTunes, does it allow audition of samples before importing, does it delete unnecessary samples, does it export samples?
The missing dot... exciting wait!
I don't think it's a sampling 'Groovebox'
It looks like drums and synths only at the moment
I'm thinking this a kind of a novation circuit app
If this has the quality of launchpad and blocswave and is backed by the synth boffins a few doors down at Novation - it's probably going to be absolutely brilliant. Novation don't do duff synths. And we can all get it tomorrow- for a few quid. And we don't have months to wait. So jolly well done for that. I feel dizzy. I need to lie down.
Why do you say that? From those images? Or are you seeing something else? That waveform in the pics gives me great hope! It would be kind of astonishing if BM3 was scooped by this app....
well if it's not then hopefully it will allow import of it's drums at least, with that and enough sequencing /fx mangle options could be fun.
made me think of auxy, I hope it doesn't do that again.
midi out tells the truth about any app
Lest you have a sustained attack and release yourself.
(Sorry, couldn’t resist)
Any relation to this BeatPacer?
(Knew somebody must have caught that. Didn’t notice it in the second page…)
Maybe it doesn’t matter, depending on which Trademark office deals with such things. But it’s indeed a case where there could be confusion, even if that other app uses another category.
You don’t say!
If any developer wants to generate any kind of appetite for a music-related app, they just have to cue in one forum member with a screenshot showing “OSC 1”.
Just going on the description on that initial release where it describes 'a new beats and synth groovebox' that and the last actual groovebox (where Novation have perhaps borrowed the term from?- maybe it's a generic term now) released by Roland was the MC 808- which was described by them as a 'sampling groovebox'
Seems like a strange decision to change the name since the team have built a very good reputation with updates and adding user requests.
Hoping this will have integration with the launchpad hardware.
If it's Electribe 2 Sampler in an IPad app I'm sold.
Looking good from here.
@blocsxnovation there's a typo in the "Blocks becomes..." section of the screenshot above. The url at the bottom says http://amp>M<ifymusic.com/ Just in case the email hasn't gone out everywhere yet!
Snooping the source code a bit, looks like this will have a sharing/remixing component.
In terms of sampling functionality, I'd assume Groovebox shares the same symbiotic relationship as the other Novation apps... that is, you can import samples from Blocs and export patterns to Launchpad. I guess we'll know for sure tomorrow.
Aware of its groovebox pedigree:
http://ampifymusic.com/img/[email protected]
http://ampifymusic.com/img/[email protected]