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.
Loopop Generative Music
All the things and even iPad app(s)
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I didn't see him open any iOS apps but still got ideas!
He did mention PolyPhase and show the UI in action.
I love the way Loopop puts his videos together as he overlays desktop and iOS app interfaces as part of his presentation style and whilst the compositing is a simple thing to achieve in After Effects, it's still a lot of extra effort that he goes too.
I don't think we should be so tribal with regards to videos covering non iOS workflows. Especially when they're so lovingly crafted as this one. There's an awful lot to be learnt from desktop and hardware/modular workflows that can easily be applied to iOS with similar apps.
Deff agree with that last part, I think we can learn from all kinda ways! I've watched him for a while and his electribe videos are great!
I skimmed thru it about half way in to look for the ios stuff tho lol probably missed it then 😆 limited time today to YouTube
Polyphase, for about 3 seconds @ around 15:40.
Also Patterning was mentioned.
But the video in general was quite good.
it would be remiss of me to fail to point out that my apps draw on these principles (in case you'd not spotted I'm a massive Eno fan & his work has been a big influence)
Lots of other great stuff in here too. I've become quite a Loopop fan too (not just from this video - been watching him a while)
Woah, love the permanent index on the left of the video.
Super unhealthy channel for my bank account / marriage though.
great video - thanks for sharing
What's the timeline for getting the knob behavior sorted in Cality? I saw you mention that that won't be done until you finish your new app as your going to build that design back into Cality.
I'm in the fortunate position of doing a lot of work with Bryan Ferry at the moment and recently used Audio Damage Enso as part of my remix of 2HB. I can only post a short teaser video at the moment as the record company don't want full length streams until the full digital distribution happens (Apple Music, Spotify etc as well as the digital record stores).
However the Discogs page for the release has some reviews as well as the 60 second YouTube preview.
https://www.discogs.com/Roxy-Music-Roxy-Music/release/13486770
I like where you're heading with Autony and Cality and they or other Abigail Macfarlane tools may end up on other Roxy Material.
Anything that fits into a system of semi random control whilst maintaining musicality really appeals to me too. I'm not a fan of overly glitchy stuff but building layers of softly saturated textures, that's the zone that tickles my ambient musicality most.
The reason I used Audio Damage Enso on 2HB was that 2HB was the first time Eno used tape loop experimentation on a commercial release (recorded in 1971). The audio stems provided to me didn't include the full tape loop laden excursion in the interlude so I had to recreate it using a 21st century equivalent of Eno's original Frippertronic style treatment. That somehow closed the circle in the most apt way for me. I supplied some more contemporary treatments too, but Bryan and the record company preferred the stripped back version that plays out like an instrumental variation on the original theme. It's somehow far more 'Humphrey Bogart' too (seeing as he's the inspiration for the original song). It has a very cosmic lounge feel, and is the sort of track I'd expect to be played in a 21st century 'Rick's Bar'.
Great strategies. Thanks for posting
Many of the Eurorack modules mentioned in the video have equivalents in VCV Rack which is free, although some of the modules you pay for (not many though, the vast majority are free). VCV Rack is available for all desktop platforms Mac, Windows and Linux and the performance is the same for all. It's good to have a decent GPU as VCV Rack offloads as many of it's visual routines to the GPU as is possible. But any CPU above 3Ghz will work reasonably, but the higher the single core performance the better experience your get from VCV Rack. It's easy to host VCV Rack in your desktop DAW (a VSTi version is coming quite soon but this will be $99). Plus it's really easy to sync VCV Rack to hardware (inc modular) and iOS devices.
https://vcvrack.com/
Omri Cohen has an excellent YouTube channel with some ace beginner material if you've never plunged the depths of modular before.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuWKHSHTHMV_nVSeNH4gYAg
There's a huge number of modules available for VCV Rack and I'll make another post later today detailing the ones which IMO are the best and why.
+1 to all of this. I’d also add the the “VCV Rack Official User Group” on Facebook is extremely helpful and welcoming. There is also a Patch Storage Page in which users upload patches as well.
https://patchstorage.com/platform/vcv-rack/
Probably best to take this conversation to the thread about Cality TBH
I can tell!
I just became a Loopop Patreon so I could download his book of tips and tricks. It looks phenomenally good, can’t wait to get stuck in
A few of my favourite people:
loopop: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-RA5BzE_BnZhf5iVdNF1hA,
Hainbach: https://www.youtube.com/user/Hainbach101,
Look Mum no Computer: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCafxR2HWJRmMfSdyZXvZMTw ;
Jakob Haq: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFPiLpzd4cKOsBS9CIu3xg
Sonic State: https://www.youtube.com/user/sonicstate
And of course, the entry drug for all this:
The Sound Test Room: https://www.youtube.com/user/thesoundtestroom
I find I learn as much from the hardware focussed channels here as I do from the software ones. Collectively, they have displaced pretty much all my tv viewing these days.
Becoming a Patreon of Hainbach and Look Mum gets you soundpacks, of Loopop, his manual of tips and tricks... Oh, so many to support, so little cash!
Great list! Yes, I support Hainbach too. The Loopop book looks so good, his tutorial delivery is just top notch too. I just watched his demo of the Lyra-8 @blipson and was blown away. Look mum no computer is a madman, I kind of prefer Hainbach’s vibe, but he is brilliant, no doubt. Haven’t heard of Sonic State, I’ll check that out! Thnx