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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Audiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.

What Is iCloud Backup / aud-iOS

A bit on iCloud & iTunes backups

The App itself (the bundle) isn't included in an iTunes or iCloud backup. There will be an initial sync, such that you can restore the App, but the idea here is the App itself, and any content of the App that can be re-downloaded from the Store doesn't need included in a backup. This is to save iCloud storage space and ongoing network traffic for you.

Data and Documents that aren't easily recreated from the bundle download can be included in either the Documents/ Folder or the Library/ Folder -

The Documents/ folder - . "Documents" are file types that are meant to be accessible to us.
Any data in this folder is included with iTunes and iCloud backups - these are the files we see and can work directly with.

The Library/ folder is where data files are stored that us users don't need to access directly, but are important to back up - like our Preferences. It's not visible to us.

The Library directory contains (I think) 3 subdirectories; Application Support, Caches, and Preferences. Everything in the Library/ folder and is included in iTunes and iCloud backups. Only the Caches/ subdirectory isn't restored with a backup.
Application Support/ contains data files, templates and the like - this is how Angry Birds knows what level you last passed when you reinstall it.
The Preferences/ subdirectory contains preferences specific to the App and its contents are included in iTunes and iCloud backups.

Lastly the Caches/ subdirectory contains app-specific files that are "easily recreated" - This is the subdirectory (I think) responsible for blowing up the "System Storage" of our devices. For example - Netflix may place a Cache of the next episode in a series you are watching. The Caches subdirectory is not included in iTunes or iCloud backups.
If you select the Encrypted backup option - your passwords, Wi-Fi settings, Website history and Health data are included in the backup. iCloud backups are always encrypted, iTunes backups have encryption off by default.

There are some other differences between an iTunes and an iCloud backup - differences aside iTunes backups are more comprehensive than iCloud backups, they are also much faster since they don't need to use Wi-Fi: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204136

Rock on!

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