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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There must be a magic incantation that you have to say at least 3 times to activate it surely.
Me too. I dug Atom out for some quick midi action today, and quickly gave up because of this .
It works for me. Along with Riffer, Atom is one of my most used midi sequencers. Riffer for melodies, Atom for chords.
Is riffer au? And can you edit the melodies or is it all random
Yes, and yes you can edit.
Yes to AU. Yes to random. Yes to edit. You can even have a little of both worlds.
Riffer lets you anchor selected notes as unchanging but the rest can be mutated. You can also un-anchor, edit and re-anchor, or just draw in your own damn notes.
Interesting. But no chords?
Nah, unfortunately riffer is mono note only. Send it through Mozaic “the chordulator”
Is this thing contstantly dropping notes in basic 4 note chorus on anybody. Mine is unusable as it stands.
Just tested and can’t get it to drop a note. What host are you using and what synth?
I do actually like Atom a lot. It’s just this having to aim a bit higher to try and activate the slider. It can be aggravating at times, but I’m still glad I bought it.
If I could go back I’d still buy it even with the fussy slider mechanism that can sometimes be aggravating. Fingers crossed the dev has a fix/refinement soon.
I’d be happy with a couple of minor additions to Atom.
I don't need it to be feature laden and actually like that it's lightweight.
But just having the start/stop button in AUM triggerable would transform its usefulness! Multiple instances would get around there not being patterns but I could easily live with that if it worked.
With regards to moving the bar length slider, I can get it to work every time if I first drag the song position cursor all the way to line up with the bar end marker first. You can then tap the marker above the song position cursor marker and drag it.
i was just about to ask if i was the only one struggling to make this thing go out to 8 bars lol looks like a known issue. have we heard anything about a fix? just took me quite a while to stretch a loop to 8 bars...lots of zooming out and trying again
Apparently Audioveek aka atom dude has been crazy busy but has plans for an update, he knows it needs it, but didn’t give any timeline. It was in a thread on this forum maybe 3-5 months ago... I’m truly hoping it’s sooner rather than later since I use the app a lot.
@reasOne : I find the easiest way is to pinch the screen inside the Atom window in first so the initial loop gets small, and then it is easy to drag out from the top right and snap to whatever bar division you need. Rinse and repeat for as many bars as you need . I think it tops out at 40 but I rarely go above 32.Super easy. Barely an inconvenience.
i’m using atom a lot more now as well @Poppadocrock , now that i learned from @Daveypoo you could record midi into it live while the aum/apematrix is playing thru like a sequencer built into a daw! having the stop/play button exposed in AUM makes it a great way to build up and launch clips.
and ya @Svetlovska that does seem to be the quickest way
Yea I use multiple instances in AUM, recording my midi, and get my modular DAW-less workflow on. I do get this weird bug when I open up another instance of Atom later into a song and it doesn’t work right. The control buttons aren’t there, the GUI is misshaped. I usually start every session with 2-3 Atom instances so I don’t get that bug when adding them later on.
i’ve noticed that, i’ve been adding digits in a lot more, basically works the exact same way only you are limited to a range of 2 octaves per track.... you can make them higher and lower once recorded but still has to stay within 2 octaves
@reasOne What do you mean by digits?
dang it! digikeys 🤣
Gotcha. Yea I wanna try that. I know it records midi in. I’ll give it a go. Thanks.> @reasOne said:
it’s got its strengths and weaknesses, biggest weakness being that you can’t make a note longer than 16 steps at this point... you can go up to 64 on a pattern but the pattern is split into 16s... so you can’t even stretch a note from say step 14 to step 18 🤷🏻♂️ and i don’t think you can really do triplets / or more then one beat per step...
for most situations its fine, but there’s those times! however it is very stable and quick... the best option imo is still xequence 2 but if you’re trying to stay au inside aum atom and dk are kinda tied since they both have things that are great and terrible lol
Yea I have Digikeys. I got it when he put the bundle out. Since I already had Digistix I got a great deal. I haven’t recorded midi in yet but will try soon. I wish the randomizer, randomized based on diff instruments. Like specific randomness for a bass line, different from drum randomness, and piano randomness.
I have X2 too. It just sometimes feels like a lot, a big workstation when I only really want 1-3 tracks of midi. When I have a lot of midi tracks I bust out X2
The seven systems guys were pondering creating some sort of Au X2 version in another thread. I saw it a few days ago....
If Atom had midi import, export, more than 40 bars and some bug fixes it would be perfect for my DAW-less workflow.> @reasOne said:
@Poppadocrock ya man it would be sweet to get more random options, the simple/complex option is kinda cool to do poly or mono random but it could get a little more specific, i’ve used it a couple times to get an idea down but hardly ever stick with the results as is.
x2 is a bit big for simple tracks that’s why i like the idea of digikeys, but really they kinda take the same amount of setup steps and time when i think about it but it is using an external app which can be a bit much for a simple setup, i’m hoping he’ll make some kinda au that works just as good tho.
Sounds like we are on the same page about this. Gonna did more into Digikeys and see how it fits in for me.
Now if we could just get @blueveek to chime in with a ballpark idea of when the Atom update will be available and what Will be in it... In lite of recent global events maybe his busy schedule has been somewhat changed. Who knows... @blueveek you around?
What really annoys me about atom is that I undoubtedly use it on my iPhone in Audiobus, where the most useful controls are behind the notch. I therefore have to flip my phone over to press record. Then when it comes to editing the useful controls are on the other side so I have to keep flipping my phone around. Is there a general fix in Audiobus to make apps sit inside the notch or is it per app? Shame this app hasn’t been touched for so long - surprised no other developer has come up with something similar
@blueveek promised a update months ago, but only silence.......
Promised an update - but also said the app had to be entirely re-written and that it would take him quite a while (many months) to complete. Maybe with all the spare time lately he’s getting closer?
What's the status, @blueveek ? Hope all is well?