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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Dude. If you love all of these (plus others you've mentioned) and still feel like youtube synth content is lacking, me thinks you maybe watch too much youtube synth content.
Obligatory xkcd:
I also like Peter Kirn (cdm). You can clearly see which entries are marketing blurb and which instruments were genuinely reviewed, by him or others. I don’t mind clearly marked blurb, a man gotsta eat, after all.
He also has interesting articles on concerts and often obscure music scenes.
Anybody whose face is bigger than the gear they are "reviewing" in their YouTube thumb is out!
Thing is, youtube vlogging/reviewing job is not well payed. So i pretty much understand why most of them invest own time into apps they REALLY like - which leads to enthusiastic and optimistic reviews.
You don't want spend your precious time with something you DON'T like. There is lot of apps which deserve criticism in reviews - but i understand why most of youtube vloggers simply avoid reviewing "bad" apps at all ..
Of course every great app does have weak places - this is something different, i don't feel like most well known vloggers / reviewers have problem with naming also weak places when they are doing reviews. I remember Jakob, Doug and others are also pretty much critic if there is something wrong with app.
What is VERY important, is to distinguish between objective criticism and subjective preferences. It's hard job doing reviews and stay objective, concentrate on facts, put away subjective preferences. That's the issue - if some feature is totally crucial for one, but totally not important (or even bothering) for other. How do you want rate in review such feature ? If you belong to first group, second group of users will not agree with negative review, and vice versa.
So, it's complicated.
The problem with most youtube channels is that most of them start out of a sort of idealism (in most cases not political but more about caring about something ie iOS audio apps). As soon as channels begin to grow and attract more subscribers and traffic the content creator(s) of that channel see that they can make money with it often everything changes, because:
1. YT pays for traffic, you can place (annoying) ads on your movies
2. Some companies signal your growth offer sponsorship and pay for product placements
3. Other companies send review stuff to the channel.
This seems to be a quite natural process. Especially the bigger and/or more clever companies use this young and enthousiast YouTubers to promote their stuff. As viewer you just should aware that. A lot of reviews are not so neutral also because you start to grow a sort of family tie with the channels you follow. Just one example of an audio product that was heavily promote by a huge and so called "neutral" tech channel. Audio Technica M50(x) headphones. They gave this headphone away to amongst others YouTuber Marques Brownlee that had and has a huge following (at the moment over 8.000.000 subscibers) and let him promote the headphones, what better advertising you can have. This review always pops up as first in youtube searches, etc.
Anyway my point is is that as soon as money gets involved it's hard to resist. And let's be fair it's quite a normal process. Just be sceptical when all bigger YouTubers promote the same sort of product if your ie into tech or electronic audio devices
What I missed above puts @dendy very well, besides the commercial bias YouTubers can have there's of course also a subjective bias. That goes today even so far that if people don't like your politic views or even if you lack them reviewers might stress this, destroy your product or won't talk about it.
Yeah he is legit
Gives positive and negative reviews
Also no clickbait
Also talented
Also well spoken
Also real
Thanks for your post!
can you make some suggestions?
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Anyone who makes YouTube Face is immediately ignored.
Tell us what that means to you.....😏😆
For me there's an entire set of rules I apply to Youtube thumbnails to avoid cheap clickbait content. For example, if the thumbnail involves brightly colored arrows pointing at something vague (often accompanied by question marks or exclamation marks) it's a hard pass right away.
Thankfully none of those are techniques I use. That means you watch every video I release, right?!?!
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If a video starts with “yo whaddup YouTube, it’s cha boy....”, it’s probably a piece of shit video. Likely the content you clicked on it for will only be within the last five minutes of a 20 minute video.
They always wanna bullshit around for SEO and watch time, etc so it usually goes like “yeah yeah yeah I’m bout to tell you all about that BUT FIRST...”. No fuck you, tell me all about it NOW.
I’ve been weaning off watching YT review/promos with the exception of mr Haqs occasional comedy episodes which I enjoy from a comrade in crime point of view. Other than that I’m bored to death with watching possibly because I don’t need anything else in my musical life unless it is actually going to shake things up to the point of breaking some porcellane in my cupboard.
Having said that I appreciate content creators for their effort in spreading information albeit I have noticed a massive bias towards the ‘positive news’ which is curiously lacking in actual news reporting. I appreciate it for the folks who are new to the iOS scene but personally I’m not getting goosebumps when another subtractive analogue blah blah synth comes out.
Definitely looking forward to how you shit develops @RUST( i )K