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.
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I've been getting away from iOS daws lately, while I learn Ableton 10 and Reason 10 on desktop. Integrating iOS as a sound source with my Icmidi4+ though...
It's probably wishful thinking, but I think it'd be incredible if iOS daws/apps could implement something like
Ableton 10's 'capture' ., behind the scenes always recording the last 10 minutes of your noodling, with a button to save the midi if you come up with something inspired ... I've recorded some of my best work in years lately with it, as it relieves the pressure some feel when recording the usual way ... It's out of sight, out of mind ., but always on , ready to grab that diamond in the rough when it pops up out of the blue.
You could always build a kit where single sounds are mapped to different notes on a single pad and it will work like any other drum module
I prefer this workflow too. I have most of the DAWs in the poll yet find them to be more cumbersome and leave me feeling like I’m trapped inside a spreadsheet.
I’ve incl Estes so much in Auria Pro, but currently find myself using AUM AB3 and BM3 the most. Especially since BM3 can do AUs easily and painlessly! For both effects and Synths.
No daws, no AU, Groove Rider and other groovebox apps only. And now Grand Finale
Which other apps do you use?
What style of music do you produce?
Figure, iKaossilator, Auxy, Groovebox sometimes. I keep Animoog too for making new sounds. I don’t really know what genre my stuff is, I just make whatever sounds good to me at the time
Auria has elastique Pro v3 built in, with the same feature set available on desktop (e.g. Reaper). Say what you will about MIDI, Auria is king for audio on iOS. Unfortunately, there is nothing on iOS that comes within a hundred miles of Logic Pro's Flex Pitch. These days, that's literally the only thing I use the desktop for.
I voted Cubasis but also use Auria Pro and Gadget quite a bit, it depends on the project, whether it has vocals, what style I am after etc.
I voted BM3 but interestingly, this thread got me to look into Auria Pro’s midi Dept. I actually find it quite easy. This morning I said, I’ve never really have given AP’s midi a chance, and while Cubasis is still superbly easy, I’m finding AP’s midi quite easy and cleanly laid out. I don’t know why but it’s just finally clicking for me.
I got GrooveRider playing drums and melodies and Zeeon playing some cool pads in AP and recorded, edited the midi with such ease as never before!
Oh well, I guess having all these amazing options at our disposal is sometimes counter productive but at least one can definitely not say that the options are limited.
As long as they keep updating it every 6 months or so it will eventually hit some of these key power features. Once it went 24 bit I knew there were serious intentions for it...a true AU Sampler though would be fabulous...I bet there’s one being cooked up somewhere.
I've stopped using Reaper on my DT. Not cuz it's not a good option for me, but mostly because of the convenience of ios/ipad DAW/music stuff.
I do fire up Reaper to use my DT synthmaster player occasionally.
I'm surprised that Cubasis has a higher %% as the DAW of choice, that's all, just a surprise to me.
Of the available choices, I voted for the Harmonicdog MultiTrack DAW, but I do 90% of my work on the little 8 track recorder in Tonestack. I can just work so quickly and intuitively in it.
Cubasis hits a sweet spot somehow, for me at least, between features and approachability. And they keep adding features...
I use at least 3 others but I keep Cubasis on the front page.
I thought this was a popular one... I guess everyone has moved on to shiny new options. Until NS2.
Have only ever used BM3 with my daily AUM experiments so I don’t know what I’m missing. Well... I do, because you all keep telling me...
NanoStudio.
It doesn’t get much love on this forum, but for me it is easier to complete tracks in NanoStudio than anything else I have tried (Aurio Pro, GB, Music Studio, Beatmaker, etc.). I am a linear sequencer guy, so loopers and audio guys may not like it as much. It is ‘dated’, but I’ll bet that NanoStudio 2 will be well worth the wait.
Same here. Linear recorder, that’s why Auria Pro is finally clicking with me. I’m very impressed with the super tight clock with GrooveRider and Navichord and all with Ableton Link disabled!
This thread got me to look into it more on the midi side and I’m so glad I did.
I do still have a soft spot for BM3 and really enjoyed getting to know it this past while but yesterday while going through old tracks on the mighty PC tower of power, I realized the best tunes I have made seemed to start in Renoise with VSTs, and why haven't I installed Renoise on my little two year old Zenbook yet? If anything, just for making stems for BM3. Works like a charm so now I am in semi-mobile VST preset/automation heaven.
Definitely BeatMaker 2/3. Cubasis is too basic and Auria is too Pro Toolie.
Projects started in:
Auria Pro about 20 in past year.
Cubasis about 10 in past year.
BM3 over 50 In the last couple of months!
CUBASIS with Waves plugins, FX 1, FX 2 packs, Classic Machines, free RoomWorks SE and built-in Internal Effects. Also use Cubasis with Poison-202, Kauldron, SwarPlug and other apps as AU. Time Stretch, Mini Sampler, SpinFX, Channel Strip are satisfactory. Steinberg nailed Automation, AU, Audiobus and IAA with their solid implementations inside Cubasis - its workflow is very simple and highly fun to use. Professionally designed.
At times, GarageBand, Animoog, Sunrizer, etc on some projects with AB into Cubasis. Have FLSM (plan to use this soon but its 2D UI with candy colors are distracting - unlike its cool desktop version), Gadget, Medly, MusicStudio, iSEM, Zeeon, Magellan, BM, iMS-20, etc. but haven't used them on any project, yet. Haven't opened Auria in a long time - maybe after I upgrade my device.
FL Studio with scalable vectorial Interface up to 8K resolution:
I’ll be advocating the devil
But
How many finished?
I really thinks it comes up to that.(not in any specific rather personal)
I’ve never finished a track on my own ever, so that’s irrelevant to me lol
Hi five then
I miss jamming with real people - it’s the only way I seemed to get past certain stages in putting music together
another DAWless vote here. AUM + xequencer/rozeta/random MIDI generator, Elastic Drums and BM3 where I can. I wish I could tie it all together without clunky workarounds such as rendering stems or trying to time specific apps to start/stop at a specific place. Maybe I need a controller that’ll allow me to start and stop apps. Or maybe just switch to doing everything in SunVox.
This whole week I’ve been concentrating on only using Auria Pro and it really has paid off. I’m feeling so much more confident with it the more I use it. It feels like I’m using an old Hardware recorder. But I’m trying to keep it simple. So far it’s been really stable, but found a few apps that they themselves might be unstable especially when using in app audio.