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.
Recommend 10 or so apps to use an iPad in a particular way
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What 10 (or thereabouts) apps would you recommend someone starting out in IPad music. Obviously there will be many differing answers as many will use their iPads differently, but it may be of interest to new peeps.
Try to at least give an idea of why or how you use these:
My list for using an iPad like a Workstation Synth:
- Audiobus3
- AUM
- MF Keyboard
- MF Splitter
- Zeeon
- Ruismaker
- Rozeta
- WaveMapper
- BeatHawk
- AudioEFFX
- Cubasis
Audiobus, AUM, the MF apps and Rozeta give a decent live playing / mixer setup for the Source apps and for future growth. Plenty of arp, sequencer drum machine action from Rozeta.
Cubasis gives a decent and easy to use recording and playback setup.
BeatHawk supplies the meat and potato sounds with a few packs bought for it. Also being AU, it’s more adaptable than many other all rounders. Plus drums!
Ruismaker for synthetic drums.
AudioEFFX for your initial FX (you will need more) but a good multiFX to start with and AU!
Zeeon as your virtually virtual or close to real Analog Synth.
WaveMapper for great bass variety.
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Audiobus
Gadget
Groovebox
Figure
iKaossilator
Sector
AudioShare
Blocs Wave
Launchpad
Turnado
Patterning
WOW
Cubasis 2
IElectribe
Just use them all as described on the packet to make a pile of audio clips via Blocs Wave-then experiment with them in Launchpad- then make a final arrangement in Cubasis2
So the particular way is to make your music exclusively with your own home made audio clips- no midi involved.
A good old sampler/chopper/masher/basher/fizzasher....
BM3
Egoist
TC11
Audioshare
Zeeon
Eos2
Fac Chorus
Effectrix
Turnado
Rozeta (once BM3 supports AUv3 midi)
PlayerXtreme (or whatever other youtube rippah)
...or if they are super new to music making in general then just Gadget and the Gadgets of choice.
Or Caustic 3
Tru
No one has said Kauldron yet? Man that should be a mandatory synth imo!
This covers 90% of my noise-making needs on the iPad...
Cubasis 2 (With IAPs)
Gadget+IAPs(+ iM1, iWaveStation, iMono/Poly, Odyssei & Module)
BeatMaker 3
GarageBand
Virsyn AudioEffx
Poison-202
Zeeon
FM Essentials (Unlocked)
BS-16i
Documets by Readdle(& AudioShare)
The remaining 10% is extra spice apps...
no Animoog? tut tut
don't think i've got 10! lol
Animoog
BM3
Samplr (haven't used in awhile tho)
Midi link sync
on the fence with M15
could do with a drum app.
ElasticDrums, SeekBeats, Ruismaker, Ruismaker FM, iElectribe for starters in no special order.
thanks. i'll check them out. can't program beats at all.
been slicing up loops and playing them on the pads in BM3. good fun
If that is the case, Elastic Drums would be very useful. Has a ton of preprogrammed patterns that you can tweak or use as is.
Aum
AudioShare
Cubasis with all IAPs
Animoog
Zeeon
New soul keys
ISymphonic with all IAP
Gadget with all IAP
Beathawk with all IAP
Reslice
I could have used a good list of apps to try first. The ones i wish I knew about, for my purposes, are of the ipad not so much as heavy music production, but ultimate keyboard, drum machine, music widget, idea place:
1)Audiobus 3 or AUM - routing, mixing, combining
2) Audioshare - idea repository, audio editor, sample manager
3) Garageband - the beginner's DAW you can actually make nice music with immediately. Export directly to Logic Pro.
4) Animoog - the classic. convincing, impressive analog synth sounds
5)A ROMpler keyboard, i like iM1, but its a cheesy sound. Thumbjam is less dated, but somewhat less sounds. I'm curious about BS16
6)Patterning - THE ios drum machine to beat
7)Samplr - the mighty touch screen instrument. Take an evening to master the basics.
8)Altispace - versatile, impressive convolution reverb
9) StepPolyArp or Xynthesizr - a step sequencer of some sort
10) Loopy - the most mature, midi friendly looper.
Not the esoteric favorites, for the cork sniffer, but these are what I would have liked to have started with. One could also just get Gadget, and call it a day.
yeah, that exactly what i'm after. thanks. i'll check it out now
New to me, looks supper handy. And free!
Thanks for the tip!
No problemo, it's one of the more fully featured file-managers out there for iOS.
It has a nice integration with Safari too. If you find a Link you wish you wish to download just add r to the link (http: > rhttp: ) and Safari will launch Documents and download the file. It's also super handy for 'abusing' the Youtube > WAV sites for ripping audio from Youtube
It does have Audio Preview of the files and many other goodies (Stream movies from network drives etc. etc.).
If Documents gets quick tools to process Audio & Video files (Trim, Normalise, Convert etc.) AudioShare will get some major competition on iOS
@Samu
Wow, that all sound really useful! Going to check it out now...
(with Ableton Link enabled)
1 to 4 for easily connecting, mixing and organising loop-based songs.
5 to 8 to cover the basics in terms of drums, keys and sampling.
9 for external instruments.
10 for general multi-effects.
All pretty effective and easy to use for beginners without having to do too much setting up before you can start playing around and compose things or jam away. Of course you can also just start by just getting Gadget, but then you wouldn't reach 10 apps hehe.
But with all the available IAPs and other Apps that provide Gadgets it would be 10+
Gadget
Bibao (IAP)
AbuDhabi (IAP)
Madrid (IAP)
Vancouver (IAP)
Darwin (iM1)
Montpellier (iMono/Poly)
Kamata (IAP)
Lexington (Odyssei)
GladStone (IAP)
Miltipas (iWaveStation).
Lisbon (IAP)
Firenze, Salzburg, Alexandria, Montreal & Glasgow (Module)
Maybe next year or so if we get lucky and who knows how many IAPs it will contain to unlock features
Haha, very true!
That is a fantastic list of ten essentials.
I eventually acquired them through trial and error, but it would have saved time and $ to begin with them.
ps: BS-16 is great.
Figure or iKaosilator - just to get comfortable jamming some grooves
Gadget.
Then if you want to get a bit more creative maybe:
That’s about 10...
Audioshare
Zeeon
Patterning (assuming you can find/make/buy own samples)
Just to fill out the 10
Auria Pro w/:
Timeless 2
Pro-R
Saturn
Those 7 would be the first things I’d buy if I just got an iPad today but still had my acquired knowledge. This assumes the user is a guitar player (hence Saturn included).
So $155 to have everything you’d need before mixing and mastering. I guess this also assumes competency at playing keys since there’s no sequencer or magic random generator included.
Gotta say, I use Saturn for keyboards a lot. Really wish Saturn was an AU