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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I guess its the current version of Gadget with two of the new gadgets. If it was Gadget 2 they would have displayed much more of it and givven it much more space in their booth. If there was Teipei they would certainly have hooked up some external Logues and Volcas to show it as a control center. Gadget 2 is all about MIDI. The port of the MS20 and the Polysix were just the last missing of their softsynths and the port was not tied to G2. They will only release them togetehr with G2 (I guess)
I think it's fair to say the iOS side of Korg's marketing department are completely crap. Their new apps almost always appear out of nowhere, with no accompanying pre-release vids and sometimes zero info on the website.
True, but i was referring to the NAMM visitors. There were some iOS users going. They could have at least checked that demo iPad, get some hi-res pics of Memphis & Pompei panels and ask about ver. 2.
Give them a prod and ask them - best way to find out why they haven't included the iOS stuff.
I think they’ve abandoned the significant place names (Milpitas, say) for places that sound like the original gadget. MS kind of sounds like Memphis; MONo/Poly = MONtpelier. Maybe?
I thought they chose Memphis & Pompeii because they are very old places, associated with ancient history, and iMS-20 & iPolySix are very old apps.
Good one! Many layers to the Korg onion!
Could be, difficult to fathom where Korg are coming from sometimes.
Personally I wouldn't associate the MS20 with Memphis, which is not really known for electronic music. Pompei for iPolysix? Again...a bit of a weird association.
Oooft. I've only just realise I could use Gadget as a sequencer for my Volcas to break free from the 16 step trap! Now I just need to acquire a class compliant MIDI hub. My MIDISport 4x4 is too old to be recognised by the iPad.
Yeah
I guess Gadget 2 will be cool
Memphis, Egypt makes more sense alongside Pompeii.....both very old places...and in a strange twist of fate, much like iMS-20 and iPolysix...both abandoned
@chimp_spanner That's pretty awesome. I never would have thought to do something like that (I don't have any volcas, but hey).
I certainly wouldn't mind seeing iElectribe get Gadgetized. I think that's more nostalgia than anything though, to be fair...
This is true- but you can also use this technique with percussion and spoken word samples🤗
Hi everyone, looking for info on new gadgets led me here. So with them mentioning the external processor patch on the Memphis does anyone think that means audio routing will be enabled? I used to use the real ms20 external sound patch to turn signals from other instruments to cv and control the ms20. In the current state of ims20 you cannot do that
Hehe, just learned there is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,_Egypt
Thanks Korg!
Could be really cool to do a country song about Ancient Memphis.
Yeah, I didn’t realise that there was a Memphis, Tennessee. Somebody should write a song about it so we know.
Did I forget to mention, forget to mention Memphis, home of Elvis and the ancient Greeks?
OK, a practical question.
I have Mono/Poly. What does Polysix do that it doesn't?
It has a highpass filter.
Second question - I have Dublin - do I really need iMS20?
After using iMono/Poly, iOdyssey and Phoenix in several tracks, I'd sum it up like this:
Yes, you will be able to hear a difference when using these synths solo.
In a musical context, they can be tweaked to sound practically the same and the differences become negligible. Not that it's impossible to spot a difference when doing a direct A/B comparison, but they can be tweaked to add a very, very similar quality to the music. Dublin is a beast by the way!
Some Gadget users will not be interested in designing their own synth sounds, and they might get these newbies just for the different presets. Fair enough.
Depends what you want to do with it, but if the NAMM photos are correct, then you've got nearly double the amount of controls with the iMS20 Gadget. Dublin is alright, but it's no iMS20.
As for the iMS20 standalone it's a monster, and very faithful to the original - with a drum synth and sequencer thrown in as a bonus.
I suspect as with all Korg synths, the sequencer/arp is lost in the Gadget version, but here's hoping.
Yeah the sequencer looks to be missing as expected, no tab in the shot. It would have been a nice touch to have included this, one way of not necessarily using the piano roll.
I’m gonna go against the pack here and say no. iMS-20 is nothing that special to me - maybe just because there’s no nostalgia factor for me (never even heard of the hardware until I got the app). Or maybe that as far as I get with it usually is a mediocre patch or two that I could have gotten better and more easily with something else. I’m also no fan of the type of drum sounds it can make or its drum sequencer. The arp/sequencer is kinda cool though with the way you can automate parameters with it. But that probably won’t be in the Gadget, only the standalone.
Maybe if they finally update the standalone with some more modern features like Link, and updated AudioBus support, I’ll change my mind, but for now, it and iPolySix are in the pile of apps I take out every few months to give another chance, and never seem to find a use for.
What do you need the MS20 sequencer for in Gadget? Gadget is a sequencer.
It can be used to sequence not only notes but parameter changes also, in a different and creative way. It’s more of an alternative way of working that can unlock creativity than anything. It’s the only part of iMS-20 Really dig, to be honest.
The arp in the standalone Odyssey (and missing from the Lexington gadget) is pretty neat.
The built in presets are absolutely crap, and do nothing to showcase what it’s capable of. It’s a two oscillator synth with a patch bay giving it pseudo modular functionality. I haven’t used the iPad version much over the years (I don’t like the feel of the knobs, matron), but I get a ridiculous amount of variety out of the hardware.
You are 95% right, in my humble opinion. It is a bit tedious to recreate for example the beautiful arpeggiator from, let‘s say ODYSSEi, in the piano roll of Gadget. But not impossible, if I‘m allowed to show it by shamelessly posting this: