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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Yes yes your welcome
There’s a difference, though, between critical and constructive thinking, and constant whining about perceived missing features. Sometimes the negativity here is overwhelming. I imagine many developers avoid this place for that very reason.
Anyway, rant over. I quite like it.
A lot can be automated. No jump sample change. Something called Motion which is % step automation of one item % pattern (e.g. Volume or filter or wherever other modulation parameters are on menu) there’s an interesting step sequencer (not a piano roll) with four note polyphony. Things can be copied over bars using a mini gadget looking arranger.
It’s got a wicked ass kaos pad, the gadget keyboard and a configurable bank of chord buttons a nice wide mixer screen, and a lot of the controls are midi mappable. It’s everything Gadget lacked in terms of UI.
Everything will be shown in detail on my channel... this is what I’ve been nagging developers about for years a live performance tool for the touchscreen
Kudos to Groovrider too, for stuff like Hiphop and Breaks you’re going to get more out of that. This one has a trance techno vibe to it because of the synth whereas in Grooverider you can mangle samples and glitch out the patterns with Trig Conditions which will also be showcased on my channel in future videos also
I dunno, I see less whining here than most public forums (fori?), it’s part of the reason I like it. I’d imagine it’s a relatively dev friendly place as long as you’re a dev that can filter enthusiastic feature requests.
Glad you like it, enjoy.
There are two modulation parameters, a filter, an IFX and MFX. It’s almost identical to Grooverider’s synth.
Does this have iKaossilator style note replace recording?
For what you get it is crazy cheap. It’s 1998 all over again.
Regarding “no metronome”. The 4/4 kick with a synth beep on 1 is your metronome.
I'd rather prefer a few additional bread-and-butter wavetable waveforms for the oscillator in Groove Rider. Edit knob 1 could scan through the wavetable and edit 2 could add some tasty waveshaping (by scanning through another wavetable, specific to distortion) to the OSC output.
The modulator can already target at "EDIT1" so there'd be nothing else to add IMHO.
A small improvement with a huge effect, and we can continue to use our own samples and stay in proper sync
There is a lot of good stuff in this app so I'm glad i bought it.
The kaoss style pad is awesome and feels great as does the whole app.
You can make like 35 parameter changes to each part!
The wave table samples sound different from my usual stuff (in a good way) and plenty of tweaking can be done
Loads of effects
The samples are fun and have that over produced feel which is true to what Electribe is.
However it could be improved by some additions -
Audio wave import at 24 bit (assume the app is running at 24 bit internal processing)
Midi out
Export Audio wave at 24 bit
Multiple audio out ports when running via a host
I hope this is not seen as negative just hopeful for future updates.
I posted the link somewhere in the thread.
The Kaoss pad jammy jam into BM3 is a pure slice of heaven I have yet to experience on iOS. Zero hyperbole.
You can pretty much motion sequence most parameters including IFX and MFX. Cool also these can be drawn in and edited (per step). Nice.
Also, patterns can be upto 8 bars whilst most grooveboxes are limited to 4.
What I like is the XY hold feature which seems like you can set say filter - hold, move to osc - hold etc., and save with those settings. Cool.
I’m not buying it because Korg, fix and update your other stuff
I appreciate anyone taking the time to make a video- hyping or critical- it’s an open forum and it’s all fair game to me. I have found them all helpful- the more the merrier.
One thing I don’t get is the one shot vocal hits- who is going to use them whilst retaining credibility😱? Either leave them off or allow sample import.
And yes it does seem geared up for IAP’s- so get your £14.99’s ready.
Hehe, something tells me vocal shots in general (without sample import) are simply to satiate a marketing department check box and get them off the designers backs.
The only sort of IAP I would totally consider is a sampler... maybe FX extension? But yah, no need for patches or patterns as it is super easy to use in that department.
This or Quantum? Or too different to make that decision?
It is going to be a long week waiting for payday
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Gadget could really use the improved 'Chord Pads' from Electribe Wave.
I mean it's super easy to create & save custom chord-sets with either single notes or chords.
(Just select a 'step' in the pattern and tap 'assign 1-8').
Can't wait to see those things that had to be postponed prior to release get implemented.
Oh and, It would be nice to be able to 'insert' a chord using the chord buttons on a step instead of having to tap in all the notes?! Live recording works though...
The "twenty dollar question" is: can you get things from this that you couldn't otherwise? A: Definitely.
Based on even brief listens of the demos do you hear the Nature of sound / UI that you like and want?
As someone who's a fan of the whole Electribe tree this branch is a buy-on-sight for me. Loving it.
btw - I meant as in groovebox functionality, loop creation, song creation. I know Quantum has no sound capabilities.
Indeed it does. There is a mono setting on it which means that the notes you enter override any previous ones recorded..... 😺
Props to Korg for making the manual in landscape mode too, makes it a lot easier flipping back and forth with the app.
Hope they do an iPhone version one day, really enjoying this app so far.