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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Audiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.

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  • Interesting idea.

  • edited December 2013

    Whoa shit??? This guy has done some major acts.. Nirvana's nevermind which pretty much started the whole "alternative" scene which morphed into "indie". Ramones, white stripes, public enemy, aerosmith, Herbie Hancock, Beastie Boys. Damn!

    Copied this from wikipedia:

    In 2011 he moved to Los Angeles and opened Howie Weinberg Mastering located in Laurel Canyon after working at Masterdisk, New York City, since 1977. Weinberg was responsible for the mastering of several Bill Laswell related releases, such as Herbie Hancock's Grammy Award winning album Future Shock (including the hit single "Rockit"), Rhythm Killers by Sly and Robbie, Brain Drain by the Ramones, Material's Memory Serves and Buckethead's debut album Bucketheadland. Other notable works include the Beastie Boys' License to Ill and the multi-platinum Nevermind by Nirvana.

    Once Andy Wallace had finished his mix of Nevermind, the master tapes were forwarded to Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk Studios in New York City. "I'm sort of a goal tender in the creative process," says Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk Studios in New York. "I'm the last stop to make it better before pressing."

    Weinberg also worked with Tom Waits, The Mars Volta, Spoon, Public Enemy, Rammstein, Aerosmith,[2] 30Aut6 [3]and The White Stripes. Dimebag Darrell of Pantera fame is quoted as saying:

    When you get to mastering you've got to find the magic mix that works once it goes through all the compression and EQing. We worked with Howie Weinberg and he's a fantabulous motherfucker.[4]

    He appeared at the 2009 SXSW on the Panel: Producers On Making Classic Records.[5]

    In January 2011, he left Masterdisk to set up his own mastering company in Los Angeles.[6]

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Weinberg

  • edited December 2013

    sorry, double post

  • Just bought it. You import songs into it via your music library or dropbox. You basically can tweak the parameters or have him "help you" via his customized settings. Right away you can see the flaw because there is no one size fits all settings. Trying to experiment how it works on flat recordings but it's hard as I also like to mix songs how they'll ultimately sound in final mix

  • edited December 2013

    The EQ, can you adjust all the bands as you wish (and how many bands)? And the compressor, is it just a threshold and volume thing? Or is it all presets?

  • @ChrisG - this is how the app is structured:

    Import your song and decide the genre you want to master in. There are 3 bands and 2 VU meters at every stage. The 3 bands are Gain, Frequency, Preamp. The genres have a default setting for the bands or you can tweak them. There is also a visualizer at every stage showing from 20hz to 20k. The imported song show as a waveform and there is just one control play/stop. You can scroll via dragging forwards or backwards.

    Genres and their mastering stages in sequence:

    Acoustic - bottom/thump - midrange/presence - grit/push - air/ultra highs - compressor - render

    Electronic/Dance - bottom/thump - midrange/presence - grit/push - air/ultra highs - compressor - render

    Hip Hop - kick/thump - midrange/presence - grit/push - air/ultra highs - compressor - render

    Rock - bass/low - attack/midrange gritty/push - air/presence - compressor - render

    Pop - bottom/thump - midrange/presence - grit/push - air/ultra highs - compressor - render

    Spoken - low - speech - sibilance/lisp - air/ultra highs - compressor - render

    At the compressor stage you can use these options: Dynamic, Open, Squash. There is also the Threshold and Make Up Gain sliders.

    At the render stage, you can compare the original vs the mastered song. You then press render and options for soundcloud, email and share.

    I did a rough mastering on just iPad and the mastered version was louder. I haven't used it in anger yet but it seems it could do a job with just the minimal settings. For the price it is worth looking at.

  • Thanks, got it. Might be interesting as a quick "spice a track up" on your phone thing,

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