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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You can control the part levels via MIDI CC 7. If you do it in POLY mode it uses the MIDI channel to select the part that is controlled. If in OMNI mode it controls the currently selected part.
@jimpavloff is it possible to have a search pattern option at some stage?
You can set an LFO to be synced to the BPM of the track by selecting the "LFO BPM" Part Modulator or just "LFO" for free-running LFO. Not sure yet on how he is doing the speed divisions (0 to 127) when it is synced to BPM, haven't explored it completely.
Read the description of the latest update, these just got made more accessible
@jimpavloff bug to report: if you switch between user patterns or bank A, and if no pattern in newly selected bank is highlighted, and if you then turn the jog wheel, the app crashes
Thanks, confirmed. Will fix this one.
I updated my GR16 to try out the new midi feature. I want to route each of the 16 parts to 16 different synth tracks in BeatMaker 3. Is this possible because I can’t get it to work. I assume part 1 sends midi on channel 1, part 2 sends midi on channel 2 etc.
It seems every Groove Rider part sends midi on the same channel, and thats midi is send to the active synth track (pad) in BeatMaker..
You need to set the global BM3 midi settings to route all midi to selected pad to off. It's under settings and behaviors.
Well, I’ve got it working now..
The problem was that in GrooveRider part 1 (of the 16 parts) sends midi on channel 9. And part 9 (the top row in GR16) send midi on channel 1. This is really confusing..
Why not start parts on the top row and make part 1 send midi on ch1?
Did CC midi learn make it into the app already?
GR sends Channel 1 from Part 1, 2 from 2 etc. when sending to a stand-alone app or BM3 for me. Check your bank MIDI settings in BM3.
The reason you see part 9 at the very left mixer track is that part 9 is for the Kick drum by default, and it is convenient to see the kick drum mixer channel at the beginning of mixer page. So, on the mixer page (on the iPads only), part numbers are (from left to right): 9-16, 1-8.
Not yet, but planned.
Ok, cool. Thanks.
Well, If you swap the bottom row pads for the top row then you have the kick drum at the beginning of the mixer and is part 1 sending midi on channel 1.
It’s easier to remember instead of part 14 sending midi on channel 6....
Part 14 sends midi on channel 14. Easy..
But.. thanx for the midi functionality.. and the awesome updates to the app..
Could someone please explain what would be the perfect “song mode “ to use with the gr-16? I don’t understand his pattern chaining is working...to me it looks just as a “repeat one pattern” function. Thanks
Under Pattern, set “Chain to” to the pattern you want to play next. “Chain Repeat” is the number of times you want the pattern to repeat before chaining to the next pattern.
Under Settings you need to set to Chain Mode to “On”.
Thanks...wish I could set up a number order of the patterns ...so I don’t have to do it manually
You could do what I do and just record yourself selecting patterns in the preferred order straight into AudioShare or something. That way you don’t have to think about what to chain to where, etc.
@jimpavloff would it be possible to add the option in settings for lower sample rates 8/11/22khz? I'am attempting to experiment with really lo fi beats?Or a resample to different frequencies - could be a good feature though I'am more than happy with the current features
The only way to do it is to import user samples which already were downsampled somewhere outside GR.
@jimpavloff cool I been doing it in Audioshare getting some really good results importing into GR Will email you soon some Patterns Do you or anyone know of an iOS 12bit audio convertor (not plugin) - something I can load samples into ? - there's lots of 8/16/24/32 but seems hard to find any 12bit on ios and osx
Thanks in advance for any info
You actually can use Bit Crusher IFX to crush any number of bits on a part. However, there's no value showing you exactly how many bits you've crushed.
@jimpavloff I noticed that when you’re in erase mode, pressing the bar number/octave buttons does nothing at all. Would it be possible for them to control the octaves in that mode as well? Cause I’m recording notes on the touch pad while using the erase button for per note punch in/erase and I always go to change octaves while doing that only to realize I have to briefly switch to key or chord mode to change the octave for the touchpad. So basically, if those buttons don’t do anything at all in erase mode currently, would it hurt to just have them change octaves?
@jimpavloff yeh I tried the bit crusher but cant combine it with Decimate and low frequency rate - if I could put these 3 together no worries though downsampling in Audioshare then adding a touch of GR decimate is doing good things when used in small amounts - getting very dirty sounding grunge - experimenting Cool
Great midi out update on this app thanks @jimpavloff
I hope you make a Squarp pyramid clone as one of your apps in the future
Haven't been keeping track but I hope midi learn and AUv3 might be still planned, which would send this app through the roof
@jimpavloff slightly off topic but any chance of seeing both of Poison’s oscillators on the same page minus the keyboard? This would be great for sound design and when used with an external controller