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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heck ya, that's rad..... I can see how this will boost my productivity and workflow !! > @Ulonix said:
Also, everybody probably already knows this by now – my album Electric Ian is 100% gadget (except for the vocals).
Gadget is a little miracle. Same feelings about it - I use it on my phone only and... Damn I can make whole songs on my phone! Crazy. Amazing.
Love the enthusiasm, although I have kind of left the "Gadget Gang" some what for the "AUv3 Gang".
The excitement you exude is still very refreshing and fun to see. Congrats......
Really? Okay, just to show the versatility of Gadget (some jam stuff included):
All this 100% gadget with the help of the module, iMonoPoly etc. as gadget instruments.
Which is to say that I am totally into gadget right now. After first seeing it as only a first stepstone into iOS music making, I don‘t see myself leaving any time soon.
Wow!!!
If there's one property that Gadget has without doubt then it must be the capability of offering enough tools to make any kind of music. Well, almost
I believe the included gadgets have sample based OSC's, for analogue type stuff Montpellier/iMonopoly or Lexington/iOdyssei are much better when pushed to extremes as they have fully modelled OSC's, but they will push your CPU/battery more than the included ones.
If you want acoustic drums then Gladstone
If you want Bass Guitar then Madrid ( madrid also has an option for 'large' keys, I will often play in using Madrid then swap to another gadget when I want large keys to play with )
Module for decent piano's/elec piano's and organs (this is 1GB is size though)
Kamata can be fun and can provide a bit of Lo-Fi grit when needed.
If you are an ableton user at all I highly recommend investing in the mac version, it is actual less expensive than the IOs version and the ableton vsts making porting from IOs super easy and fun.
Does that mean the mac version is also easier to connect with other music producing applications?
Someone else will have to attest to that. I don't think so though, I'm pretty sure the VST export option is exclusive for the ableton live set export option. You could still export the audio stems to other Production applications but if you want the VST midi to port in I think you need Ableton.
wow! these are all great and really do show how versatile gadget can be!! Sick stuff here man !!!
Great stuff @LeonKowalski!
Unbelievable that this is all gadget. Compliment, very well done! 🎶👍
Now you have one more follower on SoundCloud!
Many greetings to Gadget City! 😎
Thanks a lot, glad that you like it. I highly recommend joining the Gadgetcloud community (small but friendly) to get a lot of additional inspiration.
Cool, thanks very much! 🤟
@LeonKowalski
May I can ask you is this track also made with gadget?
Love it! 👍
Edit // Sorry, now I see it’s not from you, but beautiful... 😎
Haha, yes it is, that‘s why I reposted it...
I like the flexibility of working with AU via AUM and/or Cubasis/Auria as much as the next guy, especially if I'm in the mood to experiment -- but when it comes to having an all inclusive environment to get directly to the task of creating, without having to fiddle with setting anything up or juggling different interfaces, Gadget has proved to be the ideal solution for getting ideas down quick and still having the flexibility of a very wide ranging sound pallet.
Here are some learning resources that helped me get started:
Ask.Video - Gadget 101 Absolute Beginner Guide (It's for the mac version, but most of the info applies to iOS)
and for some free tutorials, Jakob Haq, Hank Astral and Doug at thesoundtestroom all have some excellent youtube guides for gadget + devices.
I like the flexibility of working with AU via AUM and/or Cubasis/Auria as much as the next guy, especially if I'm in the mood to experiment -- but when it comes to having an all inclusive environment to get directly to the task of creating, without having to fiddle with setting anything up or juggling different interfaces, Gadget has proved to be the ideal solution for getting ideas down quick and still having the flexibility of a very wide ranging sound pallet.
Here are some learning resources that helped me get started:
Ask.Video - Gadget 101 Absolute Beginner Guide (It's for the mac version, but most of the info applies to iOS)
and for some free tutorials, Jakob Haq, Hank Astral and Doug at thesoundtestroom all have some excellent youtube guides for gadget + devices.
I agree all day, I love Ab3, AUM , audio units but... Just firing up an environment with gadgets that sound this good, and let you just get started on creating... And saving your work... Really lets you jam out and build tracks instead of setting things up for A while and hoping when you come back everything will load as you left it
Made this pretty quick, but I'm liking where it's going... And it was so easy to get things going and keep the mood/flow rolling.
Very enjoyable to listen to. +1 for keeping the flow
That’s really nice. Gadget seems to give a sound that is “produced” already.
The Montreal electric piano Natural Tine patch sounds so good it floors me every time.
thx you man!! I ran it thru daw cassette and it's really sounding great now... Imo 😀> @rs2000 said:
Ya it does! I am working on mastering it now and it really needs little work
Yes! Great start into Gadget.
i agree! Me and Helsinki were made for each other 😂 thanks man
To my own surprise I have to say that so far I haven‘t used Helsinki even once. Should try it, I guess...
An interesting barrier was crossed this week, for me. Since I released my album “Electric Ian” which was composed entirely in Gadget, I’ve been trying to get on and work on the next one (ostensibly also a concept album, and trying hard to be in this new sciencesynth genre I’ve cooked up). I’ve stalled for about a couple of months, not producing anything of use, and this is why.
I tried not using Gadget and instead using GarageBand and AUs, specifically Moog’s modular and minimoog apps. They sound quite nice, and fit in with what I do, and I understand how to patch them quite well (although I hadn’t dreamed it would be so difficult to actually patch Model 15 on an iPhone – give me a late 80s 16char x 2line LCD ‘paint the hallway through the letterbox’ display any day compared to that!). I found I wasn’t producing anything that, well, excited me. I got as far as one rudimentary song, with some nice bits in it, it took forever, and isn’t properly structured. I then did two more, and they’re useless and lacking and lifeless and limp.
I then ventured where I hadn’t before. The whole spiders web of hooking up AU apps to a sequencer app to AUM to Audiobus to the whole mess. Quite apart from not knowing which app to save from (turns out, Audiobus), versus which apps to exit from when the train gets to my station (leave them all on, the phone goes flat very quickly in the day, as well as hot, exit all the apps, I probably won’t get back to where I was the next time because I didn’t save things in a correct order), and I’ve spent about a month producing a sound, and a single melody which isn’t even in time because, well, it’s impossible to continue this way.
I decided last week if I hadn’t created anything worth keeping I’d revert to Gadget by this week. I didn’t, so I did. I went back to Gadget and immediately lurched into a set of not very good but comparatively scintillating assets, which have coherence and meaning and add up to a way forward. So, it’s back to Gadget for me if I want to actually be productive.
The journey is fraught with possibilities and cosmic guidance
I’ve always found Gadget to be a very productive environment, focussed on creating music rather than fiddling with sounds.