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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There's just something about this that makes me happy...
Why shouldn’t we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music, some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world? (Elizabeth Bishop)
Have you bought one?
I have. Awaiting delivery. An old man's birthday present to himself. Rationalized by A: Desire. B: The prospect of death. C: A vague promise not to buy any more apps dammit. I believe A and B to be wholly valid.
Congrats! Personally I have so many apps I just don't have time to look into hardware as well. Apart from guitars and microphones of course, but the learning curve on those is done already. I still have a screen full of apps I've only half checked-out.
Guilty M'lud.
In fact, while taking full responsibility for my own splurginess (technical term), I did think of how you Proper Musicians get to go an buy big expensive pianos and guitars whereas, apps, considerably, to one side (and all right the Maschine and the Circuit), I've only ever really spent money on pens and pencils....
Nah. Not convincing, is it? Sigh. I need to just man-up etc. Truth is Mister @iansainsbury says they are very fun and so does that other bloke...
B propelled my decision to buy a new MacBook Pro 16”, instead of just fixing my ten year old broken PC desktop. Concerns about paying for it can be addressed another time.
Happy birthday, you’ll never stick with C mind
I sort of regret exchanging my OP1, partly because the value tripled after I did, but also because they are very nice, tactile bits of kit, and I think I may not have fully appreciated or explored its potential.
I did like the hands-on hardware aspect, sampling off the radio, and the excellent selections of arps. Put off by the song recording side of things, and sound quality when hooking it up to an external DAW, but still a fun thing to play. And the COW effect is ace.
I'm pleased to hear some, if not regrets, at least slight second thoughts. I was going to ask you further questions, but shied away on the basis that I didn't want someone trustworthy who I know knows more than me talking me out of it
I wouldn’t do that, as my particular bent on music making is different from most. Another thing I did like was it’s self-contained, portable nature. An ipad with knobs on.
I think though to get the most from it you really need to build up that muscle memory. Like Mr Cuckoo. Then you can concentrate on the creative bit.
My next purchase will be a new iPad, my 5 year old Air2 is really starting to struggle, and the sound disappeared last night - fortunately it came back after a reboot. Perhaps I’ll ruminate on our potentially shortened lifespans tonight and spur myself on to a bit more debt!
I SUPPORT YOUR RED WINERUMINATIONS!
It's deathbed stuff at this point: Looks at attractive young nurse stood with somewhat wet eyes staring down at the once-huge figure of a man now shrunk by the Reaper's advance into the room: "Don't make the same mistake I did lassie, madly upgrading my iPad while I was still young enough to work it!" No. Not going to happen
Happy birthdayish, @JohnnyGoodyear.
Thank you Luke. Actual day is still a week off and I have (hopefully) timed my wild purchase to coincide perfectly. Truth is, I'm already itching for the object.
In other news, and because, you know, nothing to do, I have been thinking recently about working on my notebook of odd headlines which I've been collecting for years, but lately it's all been Covid this and that etc. Just now however; saved
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/08/brian-may-hospitalised-gardening-injury-tears-buttock-muscles
Growing old is not for wimps.
I can’t express how grateful I am to the posters in this thread... I just discovered it, and there’s so much attention to real THINKING that if I could just stay here and wallow in it a while, my months-long depression may begin to dissipate. In past troubled times I used to open my copy of The New Yorker Book of Poems to a random page and read. To marvel at the creative beauty of the poets would lift me, but this time the book itself feels too heavy to lift.
Still... your thoughts since the beginning of this thread may have turned on the light at the end of the tunnel, and it’s not a freight train coming from the other end. Thank you to all (so far) and I hope this isn’t too personal.
heh heh heh heh
I think it was watching you wave yours around Vicar (all of adult life is a return to Public School for some of us...)
I like your idea about The New Yorker Book of Poems, I have had similar strategies down the years, and for far too long some of those involved powders or liquids, rather than poems, but in the end those things didn't alleviate the deeper areas of pressure or disappointment. Words can and music does. And if anything here or in the greater here of @Michael's kind forbearance helps then all to the good
I'm going in. I may be some time.
Nice one mister. Enjoy!
I've just read this here page number 19 of this here thread here and realised that, perhaps, it might just be your special day today. While you no doubt have a list of your own, this seems relevant, somehow:
https://kottke.org/15/01/24-pieces-of-life-advice-from-werner-herzog
I'm especially fond of #19.
Happy birthday, whenever it may be:)
Today IS that day and thus I especially appreciate your wishes. AND Werner's list. You're right that #19 is key, especially on days that hold the illusion of a new start etc.
Happy birthday!
Personally I would be much more excited about the Spire Studio than the OP-1, but as the famous gif says: "why not both?"
1. Factory.
13. Two security guards in their hut watching porn.
9. Oh yeah baby.
3. Shit! Didn’t see the Dobermans.
11. The Beak wouldn’t listen. Next time I’ll send #7 to his wife showing him wearing a leather mask and being whipped.
2. Seven fucking years.
18. No, Big Bob, I’m not gonna be your bitch.
24. Alright I will. You’ve got drugs.
23. Grass beware. I’m coming for you.
Happy birthday.
Flipping heck, someone's been a very good boy! Proper presents.
Happy birthday boss - 'special day' means it's probably either three years older, or seven years younger than me, obviously I'm hoping it's the former.
My Air 2 has been really playing up over the last couple of weeks and running slow, so I reckon I might be due a special day too, soon, even if it's just to celebrate still being alive.
Dunno what’s gone wrong with the font size. Most odd. Sorry about that.
It was meant to be. It's better this way.
Brilliant. I am going to put this to one side and when asked to make a character reference of some kind by some kind of international body or those people at the Palace perhaps (as will no doubt happen) I will simply whip this out and send it along with a note: This, this is the man you're looking for!
I think I might have you beat by ten minutes. Sixty NEXT year and then we'll really have something to talk about. But I doubt I will have presents as lush. Now all that's needed is to get back to actually writing a few songs and then go on and on about how it's the constraints you know, that's what all art in the modern day now requires....