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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What is a Workstation/DAW?

LinearLinemanLinearLineman
edited March 2019 in Knowledge Base

A workstation was originally what we'd call a PC today. A keyboard, screen and CPU rather than just being a dumb terminal to a mainframe.

Then the name was taken to describe keyboards like the Korg M1. They combined a sequencer with drums and synths, etc. Basically everything you need in one box to make a backing track.

The Digital Audio Workstation was the computer/hardware used to record digital audio along with the software and audio interfaces required.

ProTools, Logic Audio, Studio Vision, etc. were just a component of a DAW, not the DAW itself.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
    edited March 2019

    By some of the posts indicated in the thread on What constitutes a DAW? this concept seems to have evolved over the years so that currently there are a variety of different types of setups and workflows which constitute a DAW.

    There are now hardware devices like the Novation SL49/61 MKIII which neither create nor record any sound yet can be used to control a wide range of hardware and software synths which may or may not be recorded.

    This distinction is somewhat similar to the differences between MainStage targeted toward live performance versus Logic for full music production on macOS or Audiobus 3, AUM, and apeMatrix versus Cubasis, Nano Studio 2, BeatMaker 3, GarageBand, Auria, or Cubasis on iOS.

    I think it would be interesting and very useful if a range of people were willing to share how they use a DAW in their music creation workflow.

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