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.
New midi app. Chordbud.
ChordBud - Chord Progressions par Cem Olcay
https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/chordbud-chord-progressions/id1313017378?mt=8
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Cheers @flo26
Hey everyone, I'm the developer of this app, thanks for the post!
You can ask me anything or give me any feedback about it.
A little about ChordBud:
Combines most important concepts when writing music:
Super easy to use, two major screens:
http://keybudapp.com/chordbud
Thanks
Cem
Cem, beautifully done and from your description it sounds like many here will be interested. I don't suppose you have a video or two of ChordBud in action, do you?
@cemolcay,please add ableton link.
Any luck yet, fixing the crashes and sequencer play problem?
@Jumpercollins yup, today submitted new 1.0.1 version.
Also I added you as a external test user. I'm waiting for Beta App Review team approve my external tests over testflight. When they approve, all external testers should recieve an email from testflight.
I didn't get any crashes, hope you won't too
Looks good but would need Link or MIDI file export for me to purchase.
Same here. Ableton link is a must have nowadays
Ok, I will start working on it tomorrow.
Any other "must have" ideas?
Copy and paste please.
Right, I have planned adding more advanced features to time table like select multiple inputs and move them, copy & paste them in future updates.
FYI, You can long press to tracks to duplicate them in project screen in ChordBud.
Also, time table component is an open source project on: https://github.com/cemolcay/MIDITimeTableView
I want to make it like an exact replica of garageband's time table, pull requests are welcome btw
Looks cool and easy to use. Have a lot of chord apps already but gonna pick this one up because I that you've open sourced the guts. Good luck with it!
Downloading now. +1 on link and video. Have you sent a promo code to the mighty Doug @thesoundtestroom? Feel like Apple should just make that a part of their music app submission guidelines at this point.
I'll find out soon enough but may as well ask here in case other folks are interested. Is it possible to send different tracks to different ports?
MIDI Outputs are global for all tracks in the projects right now. I didn't make outputs selectable trackwise because you can assign different MIDI channels to tracks, so, technically you should send MIDI to different ports over MIDI channels, but of course, if you want me to add it as a next feature, I would happy to add it on my roadmap
EDIT:
Nope, I haven't yet. But PM me if anyone wants a promo code.
I'm waiting for a 1.0.1 version update, which would likely be in the store tomorrow, it fixes a crash, then I will ask folks who are review music apps.
I dont need a code thank you. Id rather buy it to support the dev - after Link is implemented
Thanks for the heads-up. Looks interesting.
And is cheap and universal.
Bought to support. I'm a chord-a-holic.
Only getting option to delete.
@cemolcay said:FYI, You can long press to tracks to duplicate them in project screen in ChordBud.
Is there a panic button? Had a nice thing going with Zeeon and deleted a note but it kept playing. Could not find a way to stop it. Had to kill both apps.
Yeah, I mean long press the track headers, my bad.
I just realized that I didn't mention it in the tutorial. Added to version 1.0.1.
Next versions will have ableton link, midi export and more advanced timetable editing.
Also, I'm going to make a brief video about how to use it, thanks guys
Did you experience any frame drops? Maybe your touch events kind of stuck at that point. It is a good idea to add a "stop all midi events" kind of a button.
It would be good to add a custom scale type where the user just picks which notes to include, if you don't have this already. It will keep you from having to add every scale people request, and they don't have to wait for a scale to be added before the can use it.
@cemolcay —Woupd love to see a “guitar mode” like my old Yamaha QY 700 by Which we could input a guitar sound and generate voicing correct guitr riffs. But I realize that might be outside the scope of this app.. But maybe not, who knows?
@cemolcay Does the tutorial end at "Other Apps"? I've re-started it several times.
Yeah, I assume you did tutorial in landscape mode, it is a layout bug, you should be in portrait mode on that point to see the popover. It will be fixed in the next release.
Thanks, yeah it is a good idea but as you said, it's kind of out of the scope of this app, it does not generate sound, but maybe you can get your effect from another app that accepts midi input and generates that sound effect?
But I will consider adding arpeggiators in the next releases, maybe guitar strumming like arp would work for you?
+100 for arp
No, not a big deal. Easy enough to do the routing in AUM. Sweet that you can send to one or more discreet channels per track. I'm not sure I've ever seen that in any music sequencer.
Just had a quick 30 minute play with it driving some synths in AUM (don't tell my boss). Good stuff. Congrats on it. Some early feature ideas below. None of it a huge deal, just ideas.
In Project settings, what are "Other Apps", "Session 1", "Unnamed" and "callback midi in"? Guessing "Other Apps" is Chordbud's virtual port and "Session 1" is a network session? If so, think it's pretty standard to name the first "Chordbud output" and the second 'Network Session 1'. "Unnamed" and "callback midi in" show up in other apps as MIDI destinations but only when Chordbud is loaded. Some audiokit weirdness going on?
I think he means guitar chord voicing. Currently, the app voices
Em
like it normally is on a piano—a tight triad (E2-G2-B2).Em
on a guitar is voiced like E2-B2-E3-G3-B4-E4. Edit: I should say that's one of many ways to voiceEm
on a guitar (or a piano!).Looks good. Downloading right now.