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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Adorable and terrific, but worse than porn if my son should wander past and see all that STUFF the kid of yours has at his happy fingertips
So good!
Ok....I’m a little worried now. He just made a synth fart joke.
@JohnnyGoodyear If ever in the north east, bring’em by. We share.
@syrupcore You know it!
I have a few of the same pieces (and still want that Lifeforms!). Fun times for me that you're son might also dig: create a sequence on both the Monologue and the Keystep. Hold down the Key Trig/Hold button on the Monologue. Set one of the BSP melodic sequencers to 1/4 speed, stuff some notes in there and point it at both the Monologue and the Keystep. I use a MIDI router but THRU might work on one or the other, I'm not sure. Now that BSP sequencer will transpose both the other sequencers. You have to reset the HOLD button on the Monologue after each stop/start but otherwise, hours of fun.
@syrupcore Haha.....great minds! We’re on the same page. I have the BSP clocking everything. It runs into the Keystep which has thru enabled. From there into a quadra thru into the fm/sv-1/mini and mono. We had both sequencers on the BSP running....one to the fm the other to the mono. Keystep was controlling the arpeggiator on the sv-1. Free play on the mini. I told him roughly what all the knobs do and cut’em loose.
Awesome! And I see you’re a fan of death wish coffee is well, wonderful stuff.
@mrufino1 Valhalla Java!
Yessir, odinforce blend! Makes really good cold brew too.
@waynerowand
Man... man, this makes me feel really good. My parents never promoted music so I had to spent countless afternoons after school for hours in guitar center alone to learn everything I did about music, synthesizers, and all the rest. I will be doing the same thing as you are for my kids if and when when they exist someday. You get a MASSIVE HIGH FIVE. 
This, I see now, is how boffins are bred....
Sweet! Wish you were my dad. I usually point the KeyStep at the V.FM because it's polyphonic. One BSP seq for transposing other sequencers, the other pointed at something or other.
Also, in the similar gear vein, the vfm or the Monologue is usually routed through the zoom ms-50g.
Does he compose songs/ideas or just jam on the synthy goodness?
@waynerowand. That is awesome. Record everything he does, if he lets you. I sold a 4 track cassette recorder to a friend and with it a handful of tapes.
He emailed me a file with my son singing a song we wrote together. Maybe 30 seconds long. You can hear him whispering/practicing the lyrics before he starts singing.He was about 7. He’ll be 20 in March. Totally forgot that we did that.
It’s like freezing time.
Is that a Mini or Monologue?
I see it now. Zoomed in.
My older son (who's 12) takes both piano and guitar lessons, and he loves plugging the guitar into GarageBand and playing with the amp sims. His younger brother is taking piano (doesn't like guitar because it hurts his fingers) and he likes messing with the silly settings on the digital piano they practice on. The only problem really is getting the little buggers to put the practice hours in, when they would rather watch YouTube or play Overwatch. I'm the only one who really tries to practice every day...
Of course in a couple of years they'll both play much better than I can anyway, despite their laziness. They're already much better at drawing than I was at the same age.
As you will have realised, your kids are also on a path that while traditional and valid, is old school.
One of the things that I find endlessly interesting here is the coming together of traditional musicians with those music makers using only sonic imagination and the ‘instruments’ of the present: music apps.
I hear lots of examples from real world musicians here, whose skill is obvious. Yet I also hear music from those who cannot play a physical instrument, which is every bit as creative and well crafted.
Hopefully, your boys will grow up having the best of both worlds, and as a result make splendid sounds.
Geeky, and proud
@ryanjanik Thanks!
@syrupcore I love those zoom pedals. Great bang for the buck. I have 2 ms-70cdrs running in aux channels on the board. They sound great!
@Ben Notice the h-5 in the upper corner? I hear you, I’ve already had a few of those moments.
@richardyot That’s the challenge. I never pressure my kids to practice, but make it very clear that being a musician is a decision. Btw, I’m a band director. When I say my kids I include my students too.
@Zen210507 There is nothing old school about putting effort into a skill regardless of the medium. Everything worthwhile takes time and work. Traditional education or autodidactic, there is a period of work, education, and discovery.
It is only the dead who cherish the living (some forgotten Russian bloke).
my partners daughter has for the last two years been having piano lessons but she hasn't the slightest interest in making music on iPad or synth hardware
shes far, far superior on the keys than i am too
Funny that isn't it? The Kid here has an inherited iPad full of apps, but just glazes over when I explain how he could hook up the Circuit to it and go mad or make music in the back of the accursed Texan car trips; he's all over FL Studio on the desktop and considers the iPad ersatz (I feel like I'm getting it from both ends sometimes
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I didn’t say that was the case. Real world instruments are old school. Virtual instruments are the new wave. Either or both are best used when effort has been made, yes.