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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And yet they still seems to make a good living from their desktop market.
Also without the desktop market non of these Fabfilter tools would exist on iOS and what if iOS sales reduce their main target. They shot themselves. Because of that no AUv3 yet maybe.
I even think that some developers make a fault and damage their own market to bring the same tools for 1/10 the price on iOS or vice versa try to sell it for much more as desktop plug-in like Nave and the PPG apps.
Maybe a reason there is a Infinite Pro coming for desktop.
I agree. Look no further than https://www.audiodamage.com/collections/plugin-instruments/products/ad042-axon-2
How can we explain this, assuming it is the same product (same sound quality etc)
App developers don't receive any money of hardware sales, so what does this have to do with anything? As others have pointed out, apps at this price point have been out there for years, and are among the most powerful and high quality. Entry-level apps and high quality apps can perfectly coexist, it would bring even more musicians to iOS and elevate the ecosystem.
that's the point - it looks great...
I have a high quality modular on PC (way more powerfull than Softube's), but barely use it.
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It takes an enormous amount of time to setup things and fiddling with virtual cables isn't the same as the real deal on Eurorack.
Seriously - I love the sound this thing can produce and it beats everything(!) on IOS in the modular domain, but I simply lack the time to deal with it.
The 'limited modular approach' like BramBos, Moog, Korg etc is quite cool - the big thing adresses a very small audience.
There ARE great synths on IOS and it's kind of modular with apps like AUM anyway.
Waves on iOS would be fun, €99 per plugin with regular €2.99 sales that get extended weeks after the 'last chance to buy' emails!
Maybe they realize that most good DAW´s come included with all these tools.
Tbh i don't love modular on iOS, dragging virtual cables is better with the mouse and a big screen. I personally think it is skeumorphicism gone too far. Thor for me is the perfect example how a powerful iOS synth should look like, patch creation just goes so fast. And with a AUv3 Thor with a maybe even better engine could be all the synth needed for many people, it is that amazing!
I broke down while volume matching a lengthy piece of spoken word audio and bought vocal rider for a bit less than €60, full price is almost €300. A few weeks later they put it on the €29 sale, I was slightly annoyed but would have been raging if I had paid full price (which was never going to happen)
I agree with this. I have Reaktor and tried VCV and they are awesome but often i use just some parts of it. I often see great videos and there are 100´s of cables patched but at the end i hear just "bling, clonk, boing"
) maybe Apple come with a real iPad Pro at 15" some day. They just follow the market and not make the rules.
I love Reaktor blocks (but very heavy on CPU).
VCV is great since already there are a lot interesting modules and it should come as VST/AU too in near future.
It´s still very fresh and the amount of support, tutorials and videos let me think it has a bright future.
But mostly i prefer really limited modulars which focus on a few things but do they better as everything else like P900, ACE and Bazille. I hope one day the U-he Berlin Modular come to reality and all U-he synths are modules.
The only modular i really like on iOS is Model 15 but i think i only really could have fun with it on a 12.9" iPad Pro.
Since the SurfaceBook 2 is a really great device (minus windows on it
I think this applies to the modular scene in general. They're a different species, maybe even aliens lol. Most of it isn't for me, but i'm not ruling out getting more into it....
Modular tools are a great learning source and the good thing is wherever and on what you use this stuff you always can use this knowledge for other synths and tools. The Model 15 tutorials indeed was the start for me.
IOS itself was the start in making my own sounds some years ago
The true is i also bought so many apps because they are cheap like hell but then of course i realize that it also can be an illusion if you buy 20 apps to do the same i can do with free tools or which already come within my DAW of choice.
And back......i would pay 50+ for Sculpture. Maybe still the one instrument which amaze me the most everything i play with it. Those timbre changes are just from out of these world. Only Infinite comes close to those noisescapes it can make.
It´s my most used Logic instrument for sure.
PPG Infinite should have a remote companion app that handles just the patch matrix - great reuse for outdated iDevices.
And one modular thing that would be handy in a similiar way: the matrix of iVCS3.
I would even consider to pay such an amount to this Sequencer module only from P900 if i can use it everywhere.
It has really much under the hood and without having to tab in any menus or change the page etc.
This video really doesn´t show how versatile this thing is but i love it so much. Maybe other arps/sequencer can do similar things but it´s the best thing for me since sliced bread if i compare a simple and easy to use GUI with a lot of complex things going under the hood. I want this as MIDI FX only too.
A midi out 960 Sequencer module from Moog itself would be fine too of course
NI Maschine 3
Reason IOS
Ableton IOS
Renoise IOS
Yes! Was just thinking about PPG Infinite's matrix and how it might be more accessible if it was resizable or had its own page. Remote app would be very useful, especially with his VSTs. Infinite is a great app with awesome matrix. I have good eyesight and nimble fingers, but the matrix on Infinite makes the Roland Boutiques feel like 5U modular! It is a tad fiddly and difficult to decipher, in other words. That iPen thingy might help. But the sound possibilities are, erm, infinite!
Herr Palm is great with the updates on his apps, so it's possible. Boy, if the engine of Infinite could be spliced with the interface of Wavemapper... some kind of inter-dimensional wavetable wormhole might open up!
What do you make of the software though?
Great timesaver for the task I mentioned, you can set it up to go easy on the automation and the voice will often need less or no compression afterwards. You can edit the automation it writes in more detail after and for main vocals you would probably want to in most cases.
Well worth picking up if it goes for 29$ again, there are one or two non waves sites that add an extra little discount on top during these sales. You have to make an account to see prices but often it's another 5$ reduction!
Have you checked out Audulus?
Same here. I’m so ready for an iOS LA-2A and 1176.
Only if Sean Connery is on the logo.
That is pretty funny too. I’ve been saying with a really fake French accent.
Hahahaha, those are good!
REJECTED BASS SYNTH NAMES:
Pigs in Bass
DEEP BASS 9
STAR BASS ONE
BASSed on a true story
ALL YOUR BASS BELONG TO US
Plan 9 from Outer Bass
FOBO (Fear of Bassing out)
Hahaha. I'm thinking of the Sean Connery parody from SNL (Saturday Night Live) saying "Bassh Shtation II0II"
Indeed. ''Twas way ahead of its time
That’s it!!
LOL, okay @BlueGreenSpiral & @Cib have a point. While I personally never got "got" by Waves seemingly nonsensical sale/discount strategy but know friends who have done exactly what you guys describe...buy a plugin or bundle and then find out days later Waves has it on sale for 75% less than what you paid.
But @JohnnyGoodyear has a point...my personal experience has been great with Waves stuff. It is really top quality stuff. I've been burned on a few sales in iOS but never felt compelled to seek a refund because the apps in question were quality software and in my view 'worth' the price I paid.
I'm not even sure how the return would work, since most third party dealers like Guitar Center & Sweetwater don't accept software return, but if I felt I was burned on a sale & the plugin sucked, I'd feel compelled to see what I could do about being burnt.
Waves is somewhat overated due to a reputation from ages ago
I trashed everything by them (including the Gold bundle) that was on my 2nd hand Pro Tools system.
A bit sad when i look at the top paid apps in my country. Not one really good music production app in the Top 200.
In the music category there is ThumbJam on Nr.79.
Not much going on there.
SHHHH-101....?
I'd pay Korg $50 just to put a latch button on their apps! Ok, exaggerating somewhat. But really would it hurt anything to put a hold button on Chicago and some other Gadget apps? And iWavestation. Great apps, of course. But as someone mentioned above: iKaossilator. I'd pay to have a bunch of Kaossilators handy simultaneously in Gadget. There is the odd XY pad here and there. But if it was really featured as Instruments, modulations, and effects, it would take it to the next level, IMHO. The sounds of the classic Bebot app are basic, but very expressive. Where is the next Bebot? Apps like like that (and DrumJam) make optimal use of the iPad's strength: SMOOTH SLIDING. It is not really a hitting, pounding type instrument like a piano or LaunchPad. DrumJam allows multiple drum strikes with a slide of the finger.
Another one worth some cash would be a version of Pianoteq for iPad.
I think that's a great question! I feel too often we're blinded by shiny skeumorphic interfaces, that look like the "real thing", when something great is already right in front of us!