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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I hated my Oktatrack... gone
Now lusting after a Makita power saw
Digitakt (much faster to use than the Octatrack) plus iPhone over USB MIDI as external MIDI synth and a Y-cable for listening to both with the same headphones.
Started using the setup with a Keystep but getting more and more used to the strange Digitakt chromatic keyboard
I'm currently doing a little shootout to find the synths with lowest latency. Found everything between 21 (Animoog and Laplace) to 68 milliseconds (zmors Modular) so far.
Sometimes I'm attaching my EMX1 too, which works a lot better than most iPhone apps but eats a lot more space on the table too...
Digitone.. bought
PO 35 Speak.. Lusting
Digitakt.. Used to own, if they get in a good OS update, I will be lusting again now that the Digitone is on the way..
Octatrack MK2.. Lusting but scared i will not like the complexity
Big Sky Reverb.. Always lusting after this beast (3+ years now)
thats it!
hardware = fingers
lusting = more talent o_O
the occasional analogue thought is being dispensed with fairly well tho
i bought a EMX1 for my Digitakt, was a mistake if you want to control from Digi because EMX1 doesnt have true envelopes and sound poo triggered from midi.. promptly sold it
see this is why I'm scared to plonk down the money on the Octatrack!!
I’m selling my novation controllers and trust less in novation apps. I will keep the essential for blocs/launchpad and focus in garageband.
I’m going to buy a microarranger or similar with sounds which was my first idea and I should pursue instead of iPad centric setup.
Also wondering if buy a SP555 again or something like.
Samplers are welcome in any form to my hands anytime
Huh?? Why trigger the EMX1 from the Digitakt?
I'm using the best of both - the sequencers, sound engines and real time manipulation, and only sync their playback via MIDI clock. Works lovely. Maybe you've sold it too soon!
Yeah in that case great, I wanted five synth engines to trigger from the digi.
I love the emx standalone. its a classic, owned it twice. if your using them seperate than ya very cool
heres my first emx track.. it is a beast >:D
Yessss!!!
I'll keep mine definitely
I’m being tempted by the idea of a hot air soldering station. The trouble is it’ll be too big and won’t get taken down and used. If it is one of those cheap Chinese ones there’s too many to choose from and they’ll all fall apart anyway.
is that like a floating soldering iron?
Minibrute, using ... Minibrute 2S, lusting :-)
Had terrible GAS over last three months. Tr 08, sh01a, jp 08. Doctor reckons I'm beyond help
I wouldn't mind having fun beyond help
What's that Yamaha module under the laptop?
Not even sure why, but I’m kinda lusting after one of these
https://www.gear4music.com/Keyboards-and-Pianos/Zoom-ARQ-Aero-RhythmTrak/1GTD
Just got a Korg Kross 2 w Audio/Midi USB. Wouldn’t mind a Squarp Pyramid and yeah, Im scared of Octatrak.. Also sample mangling might be the next frontier in iOS.
Love that Kross!
iPad Mini 1
Akai MPK Mini 2
Zoom U-24
Zoom H1
Teensy 3.2 with some DIY electronics
Hobbytronix MIDI hub
Generic foot pedal
TC Helicon VoiceTone T1 + couple of mics
Raspberry Pi and pico projector
Various acoustic instruments, if they count as gear
Right now I am seriously lusting over those new pocket operators but I shall resist the temptation. Be strong Ribbon, be strong.
A Gibson J200 (in my dreams)
And a Seaboard Block (more likely to happen).
I’m looking for a Novation 61 SL, if that happens to be one of the items you are selling.
Haven’t been lusting over much recently cause I’ve got my Moogs and a KIWI 106. However, if I come across a Nord Lead 3 at a good price, it’s going to be near impossible to resist. I love programming sounds, and the interface on that one is top notch. Plus it would sound sick with the heavy stuff I’m doing these days.
QX21 .. owned from new and recently brought out of retirement. Unfortunately the enter buttons have become unreliable sometimes not registering or worse, entering key hits twice.
Waiting on delivery of its replacement a 25 year Roland MC50 I like mixing it up
Makita makes good stuff.
I've been trying to resist the GAS on the second one for a couple of months.
But then have you seen the prices for them on Ebay?
Doomed, I tell ya..
New iPad
Digitakt
Roland SE-02
Time
Piano / Music Lessons
New macbook pro 15" (maxed out in every way ).
Oh yeah - I normally avoid Ebay, but that would actually be tempting if I had any money.
Seaboard Block, I’d love to play with. Also, at some point should fortune favour me, I’d love to build a small, very portable very powerful PC. To replace my desktop model.
Probably along these lines, but with better components.
https://youtu.be/xTpaB1FAU5s
MacBook Pro 13”
Ableton Live
Teenage Engineering OP-1
Oto Biscuit
Marantz CP-430
Tascam 246
Library of Congress C-1 Tape deck
Sanyo microcassette Talkbook
iPad Air2
iPhone 7
Currently GASing for more space on my desk XD
Edit:
Then there’s my guitar rig:
Fender Esquire
Roland Jazz Chorus 120 amp
Pedalboard:
Montarbo Sinfothon fuzz
WMD Geiger Counter
Eventide Pitchfactor
MXR Flanger
EHX Stereo Memory Man + Hazarai
EHX Cathedral
been looking at SP555, SP808 and SP303 recently but Grooverider has been quite good at keeping me distracted
How do you rate it over IOS music making, is that a comparable thing? I always fancied one, but always thought i could do it all on IOS....