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 like this track...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0zci6lH4Ykc
I gotta say - this is one of the best apps I have ever encountered !
To be able to drive my Reaktor and Kontakt libraries, as well as some IOS stuff.
Setting up my drumkit, now I can interact with IOS sequencer like never before
A king is born !
Can we inject chords into the nodes via midi?
It would be amazing if we could
I never thought I'd see the day that Sebastian Arnold would pop in here. I'm a drummer too who synthesizes at the same time (it's a talent that only a few of us chosen ones can possess). His videos made me realize it was possible and got me more interested in it. Also I really dig his musical style.
Another synthesizing drummer here. Can’t play keys to save my life though
Yeah me neither. It's a note here and there. And arps. And sequencers. Come to think of it, I just mostly tweak the cutoff knob
@sebastianarnold Superb app - here’s my first go through AUM...
Ok. Took the plunge because the itch was just too strong. This is pretty great. Way better than nodal imo. A great balance of structure and randomness. Once this puppy has link and we can get drums going it’s ON.
This guy, Sebastian Arnold, is really creative. I am blown away. The app he just released already had my head spinning, but to hear his music and see him in action is pretty incredible. Nice find for me, fo' sho!
Other than this app's GUI has circle nodes that connect to other circle nodes, I don't see why anyone is comparing this to Nodal. Nodal lets you link together either built-in samples or samples you import. You can trim those samples, and add a few effects. You can also morph two samples together into a new sample. Then, each Nodal "node" in the chain plays back somewhat randomly based on Markov chains.
Unless I'm missing something.. this Senode doesn't play back samples or user imported samples does it? Seems to be something else entirely in that you can set notes for each node, and assign some probability. And also send the midi out to other instruments.
I don't get the comparison with Nodal unless Senode also lets you chain samples together in addition to note/chord assignment.
Nodal has a few issues I've found, but it really is something very different from this app. Of course, I could be missing something since I don't have this one yet.
Yeah, this is cool and worth the purchase. It gets my (worthless) Seal of Approval.
You’re totally right. I think it’s the layout and process that’s similar... connect the nodes in different ways and see what happens. Before playing with it i would have thought they were similar as well, but they’re really not. Senode does do chords and there’s an aspect of probability that’s super cool... but no samples. I’ve never actually been able to get anything that resembles a sequence, per se, out of nodal. Randomness seems to be king there, but Senode allows you to structure the order of notes and chords and then muck with the results.
I’m really loving it the more I play with it.
Funny, nobody compared it to Axon, but it looks kind of like that too. Also, and sorry if this is a dumb question, but couldn't you just drive a sampler with the MIDI out if you wanted to use samples with this app?
I was thinking the same thing.
iPad only? Universal someday?
Bummer iPad only.
Guys I don’t have access to my iPad so how could I buy it anyone can advise?
You definitely could, but not in the same strange way that nodal works, which is what skip hunt was comparing it to.
Axon is similar only because it uses nodes to trigger other nodes, but the neuron network has a very mathematical approach to how the nodes interact, so it’s not actually random. Senode feels a lot more (forgive me Axon fans), musical no matter how the nodes are triggering each other. It feels more a like a creative improv rather than experimental if that makes any sense at all. Similar principals but entirely different results I guess.
Yeah, Nodal is tricky. It’s more of a lucky accidental composition thing. Senode looks like it’s got great chaos built in, but also excellent control of the compositional direction.
I’ll likely get it too, but trying excercise at least a little restraint.
Yes, your description of these apps totally makes sense. I was looking at these three (possibly more) apps as a new approach to sequencing using nodal networks in general. Was wondering if more are coming too, or just where this approach is heading.
I have to look for more demo videos of Nodal. I looked for some when Nodal was making some noise on the forum a little while back, but there weren't so many at the time. I am not sure what you and @skiphunt were referring to about the way Nodal deals with samples.
Really nice.
Nuts to it, I have faith Link, etc, will arrive, will pick this up to fund more development.
It's on sale until the 29th so you have a bit of time.
The other option is to get someone without it to gift it to you and you gift it back. I'm happy to do this if you want to message me.
I'll hold off picking it up for now I'm temporarily on my ancient iPad anyway which struggles to run anything.
So nodal only uses samples. It comes with a bunch but you can also import your own. Axon still has a midi out bug that hasn’t been addressed, but even if it had been, I would say that Senode is the best option wether you want to sequence internal sounds or external ones using this nodal method. It’s really incredible to hear it work on AUs in AUM!
controlling an external sampler is cool but also not the same workflow. anyways this guy is a dope drummer I'm hoping that his next app will be a groove box with these great sequencing features and a sampler + crazy fx, slicing, and quintuplets/septuplets, p.locks, conditional trigs the whole nine
And the ability to move noise from the left and right as one might desire would also be choice. Just saying.
Thanks so much but how long do I have until I redeem the gift before they send it back to you?
I tried to gift it to myself but it wouldn’t allow me since I’m on the iPhone so i wonder if it would allow me to gift it to you.
I concur
@echoopera I am briefly away (Chicago) and can hardly make sense of anything and certainly not what this app would actually be like under my hands, but your piece upthread is sufficiently lovely that I am going to buy the thing as payment. Really very good and useful for bringing peace to the end of a chaotic evening amongst the Big Shoulders. Thank you.
I don't think that there's a limit on time but I've just read that you can't gift to another country/region which rules this out I think (you're in the US?).
I'd rather not set up a US account but will if you're stuck.
@sebastianarnold
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transpose via midi note on a keyboard would be awesome - great for interaction.
We also really need a how to videos asap.
killer app !