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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Sheesh Korg fix the battery drain...
Gadget should be called Dracula...dang
I only recommend gadget if you have it plugged in...
Maybe Doug was referring to a Gadget Pro release in the game changers thread about a new app coming out...? A Gadget that supports AUv3 synths and fx!! Certainly be a game changer - but I kinda doubt it - too much energy and focus put into Gadget ... but we like to dream about such things here so...
Anyways - disappointed in the update here - but I still love Gadget a lot. I guess since the new Gadget is not much interest I should take advantage of the sale and finally pick up the Oddessei or Vancouver ones ... I have enough left for 1 or the other in my iTunes account. Oddessei??? Leaning towards that... convince me (don't need much convincing but I'm listening)
Even as an admitted Korg fanboy, I've got to say, the presets they give us with their sampler apps defy the definition of anything close to musical. Going off the stock presets alone, had I paid full price I would definitely feel that I paid too much. So does Korg know best? With their presets, I have serious second thoughts. Then there's their demo songs. Like what demographic besides some old Japanese game developers are they trying to appeal to?
I've seen many comments about battery drain and heating up iPads from using gadget ... but I've personally not experienced this. On both my old iPad 4 and new 2018 ipad - I can use it for an hour or so and maybe use 10-15% on new iPad - maybe 20% on old one - and iPad not any hotter than using a bunch of synths in AUM or other setups ... wonder what's up with that? Before I got my new iPad I thought it might've been a 32 bit vs 64 bit issue ...
I’m not sure about heat...I haven’t noticed that, but I just went from 95% to 52% in 25 minutes....that’s some hefty drainage.
Turning off all services, (WIFI/Cellular) and killing any background processes can significantly improve battery life too.
I don’t know that people made a poor buying decision by buying Korg apps years ago, but I do know it’s doubtful Korg will be getting any more of my money until they adopt AU as I strongly prefer its workflow versus IAA as well as its stability.
I have passed on many Korg synths the last couple of years as they didn’t provide AU support which similar apps did. Sugarbytes, Moog, VirSyn, iceWorks, and PPG are just some of the developers who have added AU support to their apps which I appreciate.
Hopefully at some point Korg will do the same. I wish Apple had and would provide better AU support and documentation so the transition to IAA could be smoother and easier for all developers to do.
Apologies if this has been answered already but this was added a while ago, if yours isn't working take a look the in the main settings of your device where you can enable the native modes for gadget. Mine are all enabled and I only have one of the listed controllers.
I've never tried to import anything into Gadget before, so perhaps I'm doing it wrong ., but when I just tried to import some rex files , they are all greyed out. Tried copying them to dropbox from my PC and selected dropbox under import in ipad stockholm. Also tried opening dropbox on ipad, making them available offline, etc.
Perhaps it's an incompatible version of rex file? It's from a Big Fish Audio sample pack I own ., .rx2 file extension.
It was an instant buy for me as I use gadget all the time and have GBs of rex loops.
How'd you import from audioshare? I'm trying everything I can think of -- my .rx2 files show up in dropbox but are greyed out ... I tried copying to audioshare but still trying to figure how to import into gadget.
Duh.. I feel like such an idiot
lmao. Been pulling my hair out trying to figure out what I was doing wrong.
Well if it happens, don't! Five minutes less in your lifespan without the Oslo gadget. (My prediction of what Thor would probably be called in Gadget.)
What I've learned:
Stockholm is fun.
Using Nanostudio with Gadget is fun also (because I've never bothered to before because that's not what I bought it for because I'm an idiot).
I consider Gadget a hardwired machine at this point; battery drain no better.
Thank you @Peter321
Thank you @Jumpercollins
Seems like it’s not possible to play two rex-files/loops at the same time one time (for layering) using one instance?
Multiple slices from the same loop can be triggered at the same time though. Is this a ’bug’ or ’by design’??
I’ll mess around more later with the nanoKEY Studio connected, maybe the pads can be used to select a loop and keys to trigger the slices or something like that...
I do miss a ’chromatic’ play-mode for the slected slice, sure it can somewha be automated using the loop-transpse but anyway...
Recording to the pattern only works using the ’Perf’ tab using either keys or pads. Made the same misstake at first trying to tecord tapping on the wave-form to record triggering slices...
This s a missed performance performance opportunity, swipe up/down on the pad to adjust playback pitch of the slice and left/right for direction etc. would have created a pretty expressive instrument.
Remains to be seen if Stockholm will receive feature updated, I mean the Reverb in Vancouver got a fix.
If we do get an ’Europa Gadget’ with sample import I’ll be all in
Every slice is mapped to a note on the piano roll. You won't get any sound without either dragging the slice info to the roll or place notes manually to trigger slices yourself.
I think people became annoyed for the fact that first, the Gadget ecosystem is one of the most expensive ones on the app store, combined with the second fact that you cannot even try a gadget to see if its features fit your bill.
Yeah, Gadgetribe would end up on many people’s shopping list.
Hey man, thank you so much for sharing your insights. As soon as I come home I will zu this with my circuit and see if that already works
thanks man!
Still on the fence between DT or DN, as I do mostly ambient. YouTube has some amazing examples for both. But that’s another topic! Have a good one, mate!
Even the second-hand prices of old Electribes SX and MX haven't dropped a bit in the last years.
And the attraction of solid knobs, a steel and aluminum case, and a great look&feel seems like stuff that Korg's current product management has yet to embrace.
Thank you!
You say ambient ... I can imagine iWavestation (and its Gadget "Milpitas" counterpart) adding even more exciting sounds. You don't have to use the wave sequences for rhythmic stuff, you can also build incredible pads with them, far beyond of what's possible with FM. Think Roland D50 on steroids.
I actually have wavestation. Used it for layering drums with Rhythmik madness when doing some Drum and bass, never wrapped my mind around this darn thing to program it. Way too deep for my brain. But if you say so I should give the presets another spin
Automation options aplenty on this thing but transposition to me seems like the least interesting one.
I haven't tested the Nanokey yet with this but with my custom mapping providing each pad it's own midi note I've now got a 64 pad multisampling instrument which is kind of inspiring.
As someone who's never used Dr Rex, how long is it going to take me to learn all the functionalities here? I'm thinking that this 8 loop layering/chopping is could be a bit mind bending.
Thanks, I haven't actually tried it, have uninstalled Gadget a while back, am trying to decide if it's worth re-installing and revisiting.
I'll give it a go later
Another easy way is to hit the “copy loop to track” button:
Rex files are basically audio that's been sliced up. You put it into the rex player and can alter parts/transpose/change pitch for the parts etc etc. They are a format for Dr Rex/Octo rex player. They're easy to make in reason or even recycle which is another propellerhead software but again that's not IOS.
The idea of octorex is basically to make it easy to switch between parts. Each rx2 etc file will have 8 parts and you can select what you want for that part of the music. If you are a good drummer? Or good with rhythm, you might not need it. If you buy packs then you are at others mercy and you will have to edit to make it work for you or you can create your own but it's a process. You can look for an idea on youtube or whatever - search for dr octorex reason...however this ios one has interesting automation touch functionality. It's just a bitch that you can't import anything but midi (seemingly!!!)
Them a good next step from Propellehead is RECYCLE for iOS
Thanks very much for the comprhehensive answer. That helps me a lot, because I know now that I don‘t need it. It is obviously not of use for my style of music and for my personal workflow.
Cheers,
LK
and thanks to the other guys that answered to my questions!
anyone knows how to find .drex files on my pc? I can't find them
Anyone know what was actually wrong with the reverb in Vancouver that needed fixing? (Always sounded ok to me!)