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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I do recommend trying one if you can. The only thing I don't like about it it the price. Even then, if it were sized like a Digitakt, but with unchanged functionality, I doubt the price would be as big of an issue.
This thread has tickled my interest in the OP-Z. All this talk of a new sequencing paradigm and effectively removing the reliance on screens from the equation has made me really curious
I've also been really impressed by the things people like Echoopera and Perplex On have been posting on Twitter.
Indeed, its appearance not unlike a $5 TV remote or a vintage pocket calculator certainly plays an important role in provoking split opinions.
Do it!
Wouldn't Mozaic be the perfect platform for building such a creative sequencer?
And control its functions by MIDI CC? Or an old TV remote coupled with the electronics of a Bluetooth HID keyboard?
but it’s actually mostly the features and functionality that puts me off it.....
Have you used one?
Here we go again.
Definitely interested I've heard quite a varied amount of styles people have posted using this. The size is ideal if you travel a lot.
Great post.
I’ve mentioned a couple of times about it being ‘screen-free’ as a negative for me. But I guess this does make the user concentrate on what they’re hearing.
Minimal connectivity and limited polyphony are also a bit of an issue for me. The Squarp Pyramid has unlimited polyphony/tracks and awesome connectivity options. Which is why I went that direction.
I’m intrigued by the OP-Z. That’s why I’m still watching all the videos.
I want to understand it’s appeal. Probably need to get my hands on one in future.
@mistercharlie ;That was genius.Sold. And thanks for the key step tip.
Yeah.. that's why I'm intrigued; apparently their workflow is both really appealing and designed around an extremely minimalistic UI.
I was triggered by the post from @mistercharlie .. "new ideas" are exactly what gives me the warm fuzzies, and if those ideas contribute to 'getting technology out of the way' I'm already a fan.
I can already see the custom sequencer function symbols digital-printed on the 64 pads of my Launchpad Mini
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For those that don't realize it:
"X sucks" communicates something very different from"I don't like x" or "x doesn't appeal to me" or "I don't get why x is so popular.
Even though "x sucks" is just your opinion, it strongly implies (whether you realize it or not) that it is an objective fact. It implies that it is more than just a personal preference. It implies that people that disagree are mistaken or deficient in their perception.
"The stuff I hear from OP-Z doesn't appeal to me" is simply radically different from saying that it is bad or unserious or lacking in quality.
Nothing is universally loved. just because we like or dislike something doesn't make it good or bad. We can express our opinions in such a way that doesn't imply disrespect or condescension of people that have a different view.
One can be both opinionated and respectful.
https://www.musictech.net/reviews/hardware-instruments/teenage-engineering-op-z/
Very good.
Very, very good.
It’s English wordplay. Cheap has several meanings, including both inexpensive and poorly constructed (and also promiscuous).
I'm kind of fascinated by this from a UI POV - they clearly have made it work given the number of people raving about it and making this kind of comment.
Do you find that you need to 'brush up' on your chops if you haven't touched it for a while? or does it stick with you?
The whole idea of "you have to put effort into to learn this instrument/device" also seems very odd sometimes. It's mad that music software and hardware people need to make things immediate despite the fact that all your long term users will explore and learn your software or hardware. This 'immediate' consumer culture we seem to have is really at odds with how we actually work with our stuff. Nothing to be done about it just amuses me I guess.
I read this... Oh yeah.... > @Jumpercollins said:
@JohnnyGoodyear :”As for lack of a screen”.. Dude ... iPad/iPhone.. They integrate perfectly !
I want one of these:
And this:
The main UI is quick to learn, and sticks with you. What I need to brush up on is stuff like "which is the knob for LFO speed, and which is depth?" Actually, I can remember both of those, but you get the point!
I also prefer to use the app when I'm changing MIDI settings.
The UI has some lovely touches. If you hold the metronome button down, then the number keys flash to spell out the BPM. 1, then 2, then 0 for 120. You can use a dial to change the tempo, or just hold the metronome button and type it on the number keys.
New firmware update. Now you can select audio inputs, and it works with headset splitters. Really solid update.
Cool. Just keeps getting better and better
Current state:
I really, really love mine. And now I love it even more.