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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10 minutes into using it: automation wonderland. So far so fun. Not disapointed and pretty sure I will get monies worth.
So intuitive... if it slides or turns it automates. Gone too far? Easy to clear.
No! stop! and stop making cool videos! I gotta save cash!
Just put some credits in. Gonna get this and Affinity Designer fosho!
Thanks for your first impressions and for posting the video, @AudioGus.
The video link JohnnyGoodyear gave is fantastic so far. When I opened up Synthscaper for the first time and played around a bit I went Holy smokes I’m in for a treat and a oh so worth it learning curve...I like a challenge🎹👍🏻
Different design for Korg, less skeuo, flatter and more modern. Looks cool.
Wow
Well, this is awesome. One hour in just messing with a one synth loop, playing around with params, automation, the motion step thingy and the Kaoss pad. Right away you could just record this straight into BM3 or Cubasis and build up tracks. Nice knowing it will reveal more and more soon enough.
Please tell me midi out is on the table. Waves controlling Gadget would be a match made in beat making heaven.
LOL not Stockholm (aptly named) but the other three absolutely.
Files.app support for Gadget should not be far away now that this new one got it?
Will we get a ’Gadget’ for it?
As far as I know this is Korgs first entry into ’Wavetable’ territory, not even the Kronos has this!
No doubt some day we’lo get a fully featured ’Sampler’ too.
Maybe a ’lite’ version of the HD-1 engine with wave-sequences and vector synthesis hehe...
Need to go get me some store credits but this looks like fun
Fat chance.
I bought it so I’ll try b
I Like It!
It is AB3 optimised & has Link
Aside from audio import and midi out I can’t find anything wrong with it. It lives up to its name: Electribe
I don’t think we will get a Gadget version of this. It seems, from their website and intro video, to be a completely separate project for Korg.
It's cool apart from
No audio file import function
Export of audio stuck at 44khz 16 bit
Fixed 4 note polyphony per synth part
Stock sounds from various gadgets (London, Recife, M1, Marcsielle, etc.) somewhere around 150 synth sounds, haven’t counted the drum hits. They’re all good and can be effected to make endless new sounds.
I doubt it'll ever be "gadgetized" unless they stripped 75% of the functionality and just integrated the sound engine part of it. Too many redundant parts imo. Judging from their history with iDS-10, iMS-20, and the other standalone groovebox/sequencers, a gadget version doesn't seem all that likely.
I'm incredibly happy with it as it is though, and with ableton link, it has a lot of potential if used in conjunction with other apps or even by itself. I've never been a huge fan of Korg UI design, but they've improved a lot since their early iOS days. Everything from automation control, to sequencing workflow is spot on IMO.
Would be nice if they open it up, & let you import wavetables in the future ...or better yet, create a sampler for it -- would easily be worth $10 as an IAP upgrade. But honestly, it's got an enormous amount of sound design potential as-is, with the 70 included wavetables + 70 PCM samples + healthy number of drum samples.
My only other feature request would be to allow for more than one individual effect per sound. It includes nearly the same number of effects as gadget has, though they don't have as many tweakable parameters. You can use 1 effect per sound, in addition to the global effect which you can enable or disable per each sound channel.
A through E are the factory example pattern banks, F through J are all empty user init pattern banks. 16 patterns per bank. Each pattern can be 1 to 8 bars long, with up to 8 synth parts and 8 drum parts per pattern. In song mode, you just arrange your patterns to the list in any particular order - I'm not sure if there's a limit for how many patterns in a song -- I added over 105 to test it and didn't hit a wall. ...
It's fairly limited arranging , you can obviously add multiple copies of the same pattern if you want, and mute different instruments/drums on each instance - or transpose the pattern. + or - ... But that's about it for arranging abilities. It does have 64 spots to save songs.
When you fill up the empty user banks, , and you can get around the limit by going to settings and hitting the Pattern/Song Backup and Restore button, so you can have multiple collections of pattern banks to recall and save whenever you want.
Korg = Buy happy bank holiday (UK)
I really like the wave-table synth in this Electribe Wave thing.
It's easy to tweak and has nice set of modifiers (sync, crossmod, etc) to trash the waves
Since not all features made it to the release version I'm looking forward to what they were?
(@davis_korgrd Can we get any teasers?)
Maybe automation of sample-start for the drums and pcm waves?
Ratcheting per-step?(Ie. step division).
Maybe some 'trigger conditions'?
And well, would be nice to be able to import user samples to 'both' the synth(PCM with loop and Wavetables) and drum (PCM Samples).
As for 'Gadget Integration' I feel it would be enough with the WaveTable synth with support for user-samples & wavetables!
Time to dig deeper