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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Massive AUM update
Big update with lots of improvements, fixes, and new stuff!
User Interface:
- Speed up app launch
- New Save UI with folder picker navigation
- Add search bar to node picker (drag down to reveal it) where you can search for plugins and IAA apps, etc
- Append current date and time to 'Untitled' session name
- Use title of source node for unnamed channels.
- FilePlayer preview: auto-play when tapping preview button
- Tapping 'home' button in chan bookmark menu when already at the start now scrolls to the end
- Bus sends: show amount in dB as well as percent
- Show parameter min/max in MIDI control list for built-in filters etc
- Add time and date in engine status view (tap DSP/battery indicator)
- Various UI layout and transition improvements
- If main audio engine is not running, color play button red and show warning message when tapped
- Allow access to transport controls while Clock Options menu is open
- Use numbers and punctation keyboard for value edit popups
- Various graphics optimizations and pixel-level tweaks
- Sort folders first in file lists
- Various users guide updates
Engine:
- Add 8 more mix busses
- Add metronome pre-roll-only toggle in Clock Options menu.
- Automatically reset transport when changing pre-roll if not running
- Deactivate audio session when going background and stopping audio. fixes unresponsive audio engine in some cases after switching between apps
- Don't stop engine if disconnected from host unless running in background
MIDI:
- New optimized MIDI engine, with sample accurate timing for AUv3 and IAA midi
- Many improvements for the MIDI matrix: full screen, color coding, icons, activity indicators
- Add MIDI route button in the main top bar for quick access to MIDI matrix
- MIDI source lists: add activity indicators and icons
- Allow swiping to clear an assigned MIDI parameter, swipe on a subpage for 'CLEAR ALL'
- Handle MMC deferred play message (same as play)
- If AUv3 plugin has only one MIDI out, don't name it
- Various fixes for MIDI SysEx
Audio Unit Extensions:
- Allow plugins to expose a single main parameter to display next to the node. (default to first parameter returned from parametersForOverviewWithCount)
- Use the parameter tree hierarchy when listing parameters
- Add 'last time used' sort mode for AU plugin node picker
- Add show-own-controls toggle (for plugins built-in keyboard etc)
- Show param min/max in MIDI control list
- Allow plugins to update their shortName dynamically
- Clip plugin MIDI output timestamps in case they are out of bounds
- Call selectViewConfiguration after resize
Bugfixes:
- Avoid crash when removing channel with a node that receives MIDI from an AU and has a bus output/send.
- Fix occasional crash when MIDI learning parameter
- Use actual filename as title when loading session from file. Avoids confusion after renaming files
- IAA nodes: fix rare crash after ejecting node
- Various layout fixes for recent iOS device models
- Fix crash when Link tempo drops fast in some configurations
- Fix crash when enabling MIDI clock send while already running
- Bus Sends: fix double-tap for default value
Comments
That's a big list
Fired up my project from last night and had a quick look around, all working as expected so far....the channel labels are nice, midi routing is much better Maxima is displaying the OutPut Mix as a control...great stuff
Thanks @j_liljedahl and the beta testers for all your hard work !
Sounds great. AUM is one of my favourite apps.
Awesomeness beyond awesomeness!!
Thanks!
Cool - thanks @j_liljedahl
Thanks to all! AUM was getting a bit laggy and is now quicker from my short dive. It may seem like a small thing, but the midi route button in the top right is quite convenient.
Brilliant!
This is great to see. Thanks!
@j_liljedahl Woot! Just had a quick play, looks great! Thanks for this!
AUM is just awesome. The best gets better. Thanks
Little bit of trouble right out the gate:
If anyone has a chance can you please see if it’s replicable?
Should imagine thats BASSALICIOUS it’s always been a bit buggy!
Thank You @j_liljedahl ! Great update.
Unfortunately dubstation 2 AU crashes when using the new control to change Delay Time.
I can confirm the same behaviour on my air 2 (Latest OS )
no LINK - start, stop yet?
He mentioned it’s being worked on and not part of this release.
Way faster, and nice and full-screen again on the new iPads. 👍
It's a very nice and refined update, and AUM has been extremely stable during beta testing on my 7 Plus.
I can however confirm @Iso issue with Dubstation2, seems to appears only with that delay time parameter. Perhaps it's on AD side @Chris_Randall?
Add ENKL AU to the list of non working apps for me inside AUM no sound when triggering with AUM keyboard and Autony.
Good work
Will take a test drive later
Thanks for your time and efforts
That’s what I was waiting for!
Like the update just having a few problems getting midi to work, just tried Rozeta LFO cc into Autony parameters no joy . Autony driving Aparillo fine. Rozeta LFO cc to Aparillo cc parameters fine ! Checked cc numbers match etc.
Thanks!
I don't see anything done wrong from AUMs side, so I can only assume it's a problem in the plugin. In 99% of the cases where a plugin crashes, it's because of a bug in the plugin or because the plugin parent process is using up too much memory so iOS kills it.
That's good to know. Not a big deal, here, i will just avoid using that control in Dubstation until it's fixed by audio damage. I was a bit unlucky. That was the first random control, in the first AU i tried with the new update! Great to know it's not a problem with AUM itself. Thanks again for the update & all the great work. AUM rocks!
Damn, AUM loads fast now!
20 thumbs up! The best app to own along with audioshare and audiobus!
p.s. Big speed up when loading especially on my air 1! thanx
HA! Look forward to trying that out. Am very impressed with this substantial update, but the thing that I noticed previously about AUM, for all its wonderfulness, was how slow it was to launch. Sounds like a fix
It’s a great update, I’ve been loving the midi routing page improvements, search, file saving workflow improvements, and other things like auto naming of channels, loads of great new stuff
Excellent!!
Thanks .. digging in..
Very grateful for this update. AUM was already my favorite iOS app before today. The new selectable exposed parameter for AU plugins is a fantastic idea and will allow for much exploration and learning. Thank you @j_liljedahl!