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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that would be one of the quietest videos ever made !
what are the 2 squares made up of little dots in the upper right corner?
would be great to add probability to the note and chord nodes!
The left one turns on snap mode for moving stuff around, or organizing your node layout. The right one is a lasso mode for selecting stuff in your layout.
thank you!
Anytime.
I’m sending separate midi outs from each emitter? You can send any of them to 1 of the 16 channels. I’m also able to inject midi notes from a keyboard or an app.
@DCJ - sorry for the confusion, such little info on this, you made my day !
No prob. I was definitely on the fence, but am super happy that I took the plunge. Loving this app!
Thanks man. I am glad my little noodlings could help to soothe your spirit at the end of the day. There’s definitely much to love in this app.
If you ask me is it essential...i dunno. To me it’s just one of those tools which is fun to use because you’ll end up doing some fun and funky stuff while experimenting in the sonic dimension...and not being traditionally trained, i explore by testing, noodling, jamming and feeling my way through what feels right.
Fwiw, i picked it up as a sign of support for the dev. This is one of those cool tools like Quantum before it and soon to be Odessa after it.
Ahem...and yes i am trying to rationalize my appholicisim.
Loving the noodling / chance possibilities of this app! I've recorded some sequences into Ableton Live and the notes don't relate to those within Senode — Ab becomes G# etc. @sebastianarnold / anyone — know why that would be the case? I'm not transposing or doing any MIDI manipulation in Live...
@Artefact2001 a flat is the same note as g sharp
ROFLMAO
Senode is brilliant for driving Gadget on multi-channels
I take it you're new to making music ? They're the same notes as @Trueyorky stated.
Don't be embarrassed though. I used to not know this myself lol.
If you know everything you’ve not learned anything.
so most of that now makes sense — but why am I getting an F on the 3rd note when that should be Db (or C#!)?
Just tested the very same notes and it was just fine. Did you do any further tests?
So does this app have the ability to be triggered from the live drums? Anyone tried it?
@sebastianarnold
Owner of a Roland V-Drum, I would love to know too if this live interaction is possible within the app- as shown in a previous video ?
If not, will the update for this be available any soon ?
Cheers!
Based on the video, yes. Still waiting on the how, though.
Anyone see a manual anywhere?
Mind blown.
In app help...
Graph Editor Help
Edit Modes
Moving Nodes
Select the move tool
Drag nodes with your fingers
Double tap and drag the canvas to lasso-select multiple nodes
Adding Emitters
Select the emitter tool
Tap the canvas to create a new emitter
You can also directly drag new emitters from the toolbar
Adding Nodes
Select the node tool
Tap the canvas to create a new node
You can also directly drag new nodes from the toolbar
Connecting Nodes
Select the connect tool
Drag a new edge from one node to another
To delete an edge, drag the same connection again
Deleting Nodes
Select the nodes you want to delete
Tap delete
Keyboard Input
Playing the Synthesizer
The keyboard controls the "MIDI Thru" synthesizer
Tap the canvas to see the parameters for this synth
You can select a MIDI channel, if external devices are connected and enabled
Recording Notes
Hold down notes on the keyboard
Pressing record will record these notes
if a node is selected, its notes will be replaced, otherwise a new node will be created
in connect mode a new node will be connected to the selected one
Editing Notes
Select the node you want to edit
Hold down edit
Now you can toggle notes from the keyboard
Parameter Help
Clock
Actions
Play – start clock and restart tokens of all active emitters.
Pause – pause or resume clock, leaving all tokens untouched.
Stop – stop clock and clear all emitters.
Parameters
bpm – tap or drag the tempo between 40 and 240 beats per minute. The clock will generate 16th ticks.
Emitter
Actions
> STEP – advances all tokens by one step
x CLEAR – clears all tokens
Parameters
Name – emitter name
Chan – MIDI channel to send notes. Select "Synth" to use the internal synthesizer. MIDI devices can be enabled in the settings popup.
Ticks – number of ticks. Use this as a clock divider, e.g. select 4 (default) for quarter nots.
Vel – overrides velocity for all notes. Select "Node" to use node's individual velocitites. Select "Input" to retain the velocity from MIDI bindings.
Transp – transpose generated MIDI notes up or down. Select 0 for no transposition.
Node
Parameters
Name – node name. Will use contained notes if empty.
Ticks – number of ticks until the graph steps. Use this for individual note durations.
Vel – velocity for generated notes. Might be overridden from emitter.
Len – length of the generated notes. Select "legato" (default) to keep the note until the token leaves the node. Otherwise select a value between 1 (10ms) and 127 (1s).
Synthesizer
Parameters
Wave – waveform for oscillator. Select sine, saw or square.
Tone – volume of sub oscillator. This will add overtones to sine, and more "body" to saw and square.
Vol – volume of the synth
Filter – lowpass filter (1-pole)
Reverb – amount of reverb
A – attack of amp envelope
D – decay of amp envelope
S – sustain of amp envelope
R – release of amp envelope
Really cool stuff!
What is "+" on emitter?
Adds a new "playhead" in the loop
I like it too, but he a> @MusicMan4Christ said:
Um...guys. Do we need to have a conversation about the rules about singing drummers again?
I see a lot of similarities with Seaquence...but without the shrimps...