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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We all crying (me too, yes) but we buy it anyway. What's wrong with us?
Addiction. These devices are designed to be addictive more than productive
Exactly! Thank you.
Good insight!
Spot on. I'd say half of my app purchases have been down to a Friday night 'treat' habit. Played with for an hour or three then put away when the next one comes along. Funny though, when you break the cycle, like I did in the beginning of the year, it becomes hard to get back into it and buy anything at all, even the good, useful stuff. Though higher prices and less spending cash make it easier to say no.
My current addiction is much easier on the wallet - Reaktor ensembles. A few of these are released every week by community members, and I check the site daily for new ones. Best bit though is they're completely free.
Apple has always operated as a proprietary premium brand sold on the basis of delivering a superior user experience. As a corporation they're obligated to try and turn as much profit as they can for shareholders. They're always going to be trying to figure out the balance between price points and when people decide it's too much and do other things with their money.
Loyalty is a two way street so if Apple over reaches with their customer base, their business could start to unravel very quickly.
For me personally, the purchase of new Apple products is definitely a more wait and see affair as their ratchet strategy combined with a two year maximum compatible approach along with the lag between the introduction of new iOS changes and apps which use them or are updated to continue functioning all factor into the quality of my user experience.
If the current issues with the new iPad Pro 12.9" are resolved with iOS 11 and/or hardware quality control changes, I'll purchase one and an Apple Pencil for the ability to do graphics and run more audio apps in a modular fashion otherwise I'll stay with my iPad Air 2 and re-evaluate next fall.
The new iPhones are interesting especially the AR functions but I'll wait to see how developers respond so that when I do purchase a new iPhone there will be apps which take advantage of AR in ways that are useful to me. I do think AR apps do have the capability of opening up music creation which will not work on iPads at all giving some developers the incentive to create iPhone only apps which doesn't currently exist.
I've discovered carp fishing again. iOS addiction is not even in the same league as carp tackle addiction!
Nor me. While many people were supportive of my argument, Someone recently called me 'a fountain of negativity' or something like that, for criticising Apple. Under Jobs the company was often fantastic. Under Cook, it's all about less for more and iPhone uber alles,
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The problems I'm having with this iPad Pro are less than they were, but the attitude I encountered has really turned me off buying Apple in the future, I'm also highly unimpressed with Microsoft, so like you I'm sticking with what I have until it breaks, and then will likely buy something refurbished.
IM heading in the same direction. Bought a cheap android phone this week and was impressed. It's only the music apps that keep me on an iPad ( for now)and the MacBook replacement for Ableton will be a PC.
Sad to witness Apple's brand shift to ultra luxury
ROFL!!
Apples brave new future.....
Looks pear-shaped to me.
Despite apples high prices many non Apple tech support experts say they still work out to be cheaper than other brands, as they have a longer life span with fewer issues needing tech support.
IT specialists often say that companies spend dramatically lower in IT costs for maintaining Apple hardware than any other brand. So stumping up front for higher Apple hardware costs actually saves money in the long run in hardware maintenance costs and longevity.
A lot of people on this forum keep mentioning how they are sticking with older model iPads, some for many years. This isn't something you hear that often from people owning non Apple tablets, as they never usually last that long. Also Apple products come with loads of free productivity software and a relatively secure OS in comparison to bloatware android.
I've already switched to Windows a while ago. What I discovered is that there are so many free and interesting VST plugins, some of them are even 15 years or older and still work en FL Studio. On the mobile side of things I'm still in the iOS ecosystem and probably will be because I just invested much time and bought a lot of apps through the years. But somehow my app addiction stopped when Apple increased the prices of apps in the EU. When apps became for example 1.09 instead of 0,99 they felt somehow much more expensive and started buying less and less. Nowadays I look better at new apps and buy hardly any apps anymore.